The opera house becomes a logistics center. Jay and Joe work here, driving boxes back and forth with their forklift truck without stopping. Each box contains a part of the score that tells a story. Joe sorts the stories, Jay mixes them up. This constantly creates new patterns on stage. But the audience also has the opportunity to influence the movements on stage by sorting the boxes before the play begins. In this way, they interactively create chaos or structure and help to shape a scenic evening. Through the resulting order and disorder, arias, stories, musical scenes and video projections are randomly combined. Times, places and levels of reality are constantly shifting. The organizing principles of the naturalist Carl von Linné meet the chaos of the Vietnam War and the history of the ocean container. The musical material in CHAOSMOS consists of a mixture of original compositions, traditional repertoire and free improvisation, which also involves the audience. This new way of exploring musical interaction extends over three seasons in three venues in Wuppertal, Halle and Bremen. Under the label “NOperas!”, different performance situations will develop in each of the three venues, providing impetus for research into music theater in the 21st century and new forms of collaboration.