Through the sets designed by Rufus Didwiszus and the rich costumes by Victoria Behr, Kosky takes the spectators to a surreal fantasy world having elements of different time periods. "We are not doing a 19th-century reconstruction," says Kosky, "and we are not doing a contemporary production. We are mixing – the world is a hallucination of elements of Offenbach’s world seen through the eyes of the 21st century. Like all operetta, it must have opulence. It’s a Kosky production, so we’re using silent film techniques and gender-bending and varieté. It’s an Offenbach Panopticon." The production was son stage at the Salzburg Festival.