Organization

Singer

Soprano

Anke Krabbe

Birk

Heidi Elisabeth Meier

Spoken

Florian Simson

Borka

Cornel Frey

Stefan Wilkening

Glatzen-Per

Mezzo-soprano

Katerziana Kunzio

Lovis

Sarah Ferede

Bass

Torben Jürgens

Mattis

Stefan Heidemann

Kimberley Boettger-Soller

Ronja

Valerie Eickhoff

Romana Noack

Undis

Wilddrude

Bohyeon Mun

Klein-Klipp

Dong-Hoon Kim

Dong-Jin Choi

Tjegge

Stage director

Johannes Schmid

Conductor

Christoph Stöcker

Lighting designer

Volker Weinhart

Costume designer

Tatjana Ivschina

Set designer

Video designer

Choreographer

Anna Holter

Dramaturge

Bernhard F Loges

Chorus master

Gerhard Michalski

Spielleitung

Volker Böhm

Elena Fink

David Jerusalem

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Others

Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein

Orchestra

Duisburger Philharmoniker

Herrenchor der Deutschen Oper

German

Ronja Räubertochter

Duisburg

Germany

Theater Duisburg

Ronja Räubertochter Arnecke

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With “Junge Opern Rhein-Ruhr”, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and its two cooperation partners - Theater Dortmund and Theater Bonn - are pursuing the goal of awarding joint composition commissions for children's operas on the big stage. After the successful start with Marius Felix Lange's “Vom Mädchen Who Didn't Want to Sleep” in the 2013/14 season, the second commissioned opera has now succeeded in gaining the coveted rights to set Astrid Lindgren's “Ronja the robber's daughter” to music for the first time. “The night Ronja was born, thunder rolled over the mountains. Yes, it was a thunderstorm night that even all the fiends who lived in the Mattis Forest crawled away in fright ... ”- Ronja, daughter of the robber chief Mattis, grows up in the middle of the forest. One day she meets Birk on her forays the robber's son from the warring clan of Borka. When their parents forbid them to be friends, Ronja and Birk flee into the woods ... Editing Astrid Lindgren's book for the opera, which is still popular with young and old, requires an experienced and committed team. The libretto was written by Holger Potocki, who has already written numerous texts for contemporary children's operas. He partially changed the chronology of the book and interwoven various scenes into one, thereby creating the atmospheric and dramatic compression that is so important for music theater. As the composer of the family opera, Jörn Arnecke, one of the most important composers of his generation, was won over with “Unter Eis” based on a text by Falk Richter at the RuhrTriennale 2007 and has held a professorship at the Weimar University of Music Franz Liszt since 2009. "Ronja the robber's daughter" will be staged by Johannes Schmid, who already directed "Vom Mädchen Who Didn't Want to Sleep" and whose film "Winter Daughter" was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2014 after winning the Golden Lola in 2012 at the German Film Prize was awarded for the best children's film.

“The night Ronja was born, thunder rolled over the mountains. Yes, it was a thunderstorm night that even all the fiends who lived in the Mattiswald crawled away frightened ... ". "Ronja the robber's daughter", the fantastic story by Astrid Lindgren, returns in the musical arrangement by Jörn Arnecke. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the work, which was created as part of the Junge Oper Rhein Ruhr 2014 cooperation, as “a brilliant opera for the whole family, and was enthusiastically received by the young visitors”.


In order to protect our young audience, we place both daycare groups and school classes at an appropriate distance from one another.

English

Ronja Räubertochter by Arnecke, From (2022/2022), Directed by Johannes Schmid,, Conductor Christoph Stöcker, Theater Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

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