The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a serial killer (Michael Sturminger)

Purportedly premised on the memoirs of Jack Unterweger, a late-20th-century Austrian serial killer, the production combines the grotesquery of the criminal's clever justifications for his crimes with the lush beauty of late-18th tragic opera.   Why the two are combined is never made fully clear.  Visually, the two are connected when Unterweger attacks and strangles the two singers.  Conceptually, the second seems to be fantasy of his life as a tragic work of art in which some are doomed (through no fault of the artist) to die.
With John Malkovich as Unterweger.
Outrageous, yes. Yet, I'm still not certain this production lives up to its hype.