Organization

Costume designer

Luca Dall'Alpi

Set designer

Pier Francesco Maestrini

Dramaturge

Eva Bunzel

Judith Lebiez

Translator

Ulrich Frey

Conductor

Sergi Roca Bru

Lighting designer

Falk Hampel

Singer

Baritone

Christoph Schweizer

Balu

Paul Willot-Förster

Andreas Lettowsky

Laurence Kalaidjian

Gurilla

Soprano

Natalia Willot

Mowgli

Mezzo-soprano

Milena Juhl

Bagheera

Tenor

Noah Schaul

Akela

Clara Brauer

Macaques

Caroline Klein

Beomseok Choi

Shir-Khan

Jan-Michael Krüger

Stage director

Theater Kiel

Theater Lübeck

Teatro Coccia

Others

Chor des Theater Lübeck

Orchestra

Philharmonisches Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck

Teatro Regio di Parma

German

Das Dschungelbuch -  (The Jungle Book)

Lübeck

Germany

Großes Haus

Das Dschungelbuch Sollima

Public

Private

The Jungle Book

Approved

The human boy Mowgli loses his parents and grows up with wolves in the jungle, who save him from the tiger Shere Khan. Baloo the bear becomes his teacher and initiates him into the laws of the jungle, aided by Bagheera the panther. But Shere Khan doesn't tolerate people in the jungle. He convinces the wolves that Mowgli is not one of them and they must expel him from their community. Will Mowgli leave the jungle and find his place among humans?
The Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima is a musically free-spirited crosser between all styles and a versatile composer for all genres, from chamber music to large orchestral and theater works. With »Il libro della giungla«/»The Jungle Book« he is writing an opera for the whole family based on one of the most famous classics of colonial British literature, »The Jungle Book« by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Not least thanks to the Disney film from 1967, the story of a foundling growing up in a completely strange, exotic world and finding his or her identity has become immortal.

The celebrated team around the Italian opera director Pier Francesco Maestrini and his congenial cartoonist colleague Joshua Held (»The Journey to Reims«, »The Barber of Seville«) ventures a completely new and completely different view of the well-known and popular story.

The unique format not only appeals to young and young-at-heart fans of the story from the jungle. Lovers of different genres are invited to join the young Mowgli on an adventure that will take them to new musical worlds of theatre.

English

The Jungle Book by Sollima, From (2021/2022), Directed by Pier Francesco Maestrini,, Conductor Sergi Roca Bru, Paul Willot-Förster, Jan-Michael Krüger, Theater Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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