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Stage„Ronja, the Robbers’s Daughter“ by Jörn Arnecke
after the novel by Astrid Lindgren
Libretto: Holger Potocki
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Conductor: Lukas Beikircher, Christoph Stöcker
Stage Director: Johannes Schmid
Stage and Costume Design: Tatjana Ivschina
Choreography: Anna Holter
Light and Video Design: Volker Weinhart
Dramaturge: Bernhard F. Loges
with: Maria Kataeva/Iryna Vakula, Anke Krabbe/Heidi Elisabeth Meier, Torben Jürgens/David Jerusalem, Marta Marquez/Sara Ferede, Lisa Griffith/Elisabeth Selle, Cornel Frey/Florian Simson und den Tänzern Elisa Marshall, Phaedra Pisimisi, Darwin Diaz, Bernardo Fallas
Choir of Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Duisburger Philharmoniker/altstadtherbstochester
Premiere: 26th of february 2015, Theater Duisburg (World Premiere)
Don’t let yourself be intimidated, be cheeky and wild and wonderful!” – these words of Astrid Lindgren also apply to the heroine of her last novel: Ronja, the daughter of robber baron Matti, grows up in the middle of the forest. One day in her adventures she comes across Birk, the son of the enemy robber tribe of Borka. When their parents each forbid them to be friends, Ronja and Birk escape into the woods…
In 2013 the collaboration Junge Opern Rhein Ruhr was the first institution to be granted the much sought-after rights to set Astrid Lindgren’s popular adventure novel as an opera. With music by Jörn Arnecke a brilliant and imaginative family opera was created which has repeatedly delighted young audiences in Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Dortmund and Bonn.
Oper Dortmund
Conductor: Ingo Stadtmüller
Stage Director: Johannes Schmid
with: Ileana Mateescu, Tamara Weimerich, Karl-Heinz Lehner/Luke Stoker, Maria Hiefinger, Andreas Beck, Ashley Touret, Marvin Zobel among others
Premiere: 22nd of may 2016
Oper Bonn
Conductor: Stefan Zilijas
Stage Director: Johannes Schmid
Assistant Director: Johannes Hebsacker
with: Kathrin Leidig, Marie Heeschen, Martin Tzonev, Ceri Williams, Michael Seeboth, Justyna Samborska, Johannes Mertens among others
Premiere: June 2017
Press Comments
Mit dieser Ronja Räubertochter wird deutlich, was eine Familienoper sein kann!
(Deutschlandfunk)
Regisseur Johannes Schmid und Austatterin Tatjana Ivschina zeigen keine platte Illusion, keinen Versuch mit dem Fantasykino mitzuhalten, sondern den faszinierenden Einsatz ureigener Theatermittel. Die Reaktionen der Kinder waren überwältigend.
(WDR3)