THE CITIZEN is the world’s first tabloid opera, and in 2003 it received the Danish Reumert Award for Best Music Performance.
The story begins at the time where the rich and powerful newspaper tycoon Hearst, is going through his worst nightmare; suddenly being the victim, in own person, of the tabloids eternal search for personal tragedy. Soon he is haunted by the endless list of people who, against their own free will, have appeared in his articles over the years. People, who have been subject to the kind of paparazzi journalism that most often leads to the ruin of families, of economic stability as well as of good reputations. So now he gets a real taste of his own medicine! What hurts the most though, is the fact that the newspaper bringing the stories on him is the newspaper he was given by his father: The Citizen!
