Nils Holgerssons wundersame Abenteuer (Uraufführung)
About the Event
Immerse yourself in the stunning architecture of Berlin's breathtaking Komische Oper Berlin for the new Children's opera.
Nils Holgersson flies away with the geese! In the new children's opera by Elena Kats‐Chernin and Susanne Felicitas Wolf, the diminutive hero plunges through numerous adventures at the side of his friend Marten, the pet goose — and is still quite big in the end!
It's not always easy being a child. No one knows that better than Nils Holgersson. His parents are unhappy, there are constant arguments, and he doesn't really know where to put his own bad mood. But things only get really annoying when Nils takes his anger out on an elf.
As punishment, he reduces the cheeky boy to the size of a thumb. When Marten, the goose of the house, wants to run away from the Holgersson's farm, the now very small Nils throws himself at Marten's neck — and suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure and in a flock of wild geese! The fairy tale of the boy who suddenly looks at the world from the air — and does so with the body of a gnome — is a classic of children's literature. Conceived as an entertaining geography lesson about her Swedish homeland, Selma Lagerlöf's novel has lost none of its relevance. In a new version by Elena Kats‐Chernin and Susanne Felicitas Wolf (Snow White and the 77 Dwarfs, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Locomotive Driver), Nils has to go through all kinds of adventures, earn the trust of the wild geese and find out what such a pixie size can be good for. A story about courage, friendship and self‐confidence.
Practical Information
- From 6 years
- Sung in German
Cast / Production
Musical direction: Erina Yashima
Production: Ruth Brauer‐Kvam
Stage design: Alfred Peter
Costumes: Alfred Mayerhofer
Choreography: Martina Borroni
Dramaturgy: Maximilian Hagemeyer
Choirs: Jean‐Christophe Charron
Children's choir: Dagmar Barbara Fiebach
Lighting: Johannes Scherfling
Nils Holgersson: Caspar Krieger
Marten: Ferdinand Keller
Akka, leader of the bird migration: Sylvia Rena Ziegler
Smirre, fox: Johannes Dunz
Down fine: Alma Sadé
Ysätters‐Kajsa / farmer's wife: Elisabeth Wrede
Karen Nilsson / Lillemor: Mirka Wagner
Ville Vätte / Olle: Philipp Meierhöfer
Holger Nilsson: Carsten Sabrowski
Goose family: Alexander Lust, Simon Wallfisch
Choir of the Rats / Choir of the Seabird Children
Children's Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin
