Όρνιθες

Two disaffected city-dwellers, weary of civic corruption and sacrificial abuses, abandon their metropolis and persuade a chorus of birds to help them build a new commonwealth in the sky. They negotiate with the avian community to bar gods and humans from free passage, claim political authority, and arrange ceremonial roles that invert traditional worship. The piece mixes sharp social and religious satire with exuberant choral songs and comic set pieces about bargaining, law, and appetite, staging imaginative speeches and musical interludes. It concludes with a farcical settlement in which human ambition, birdly self-interest, and divine prerogatives collide, leaving the success of the proposed utopia provocatively uncertain.