Gold!

Jakob catches something impossible out at sea: a fish that will grant him any wish, if he lets it go. He lets it go, and the wishes start coming true. Then he tells his family, who are poor, and they would like to live in wealth as well — and the question of the evening is whether the fish can keep pace with wishes that keep getting bigger. Leonard Evers set the Grimm tale »The Fisherman and His Wife« as a pared-down opera, with a sound world that moves between marimba in waltz time and a rising sea.