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Theater an der Wien

MusikTheater an der Wien

Conductor

Gábor Káli

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Louisa Muller

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Madeleine Boyd

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Malcolm Rippeth

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+1)

Christian Schröder

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Emilie Renard

Der kleine Prinz

Bass (+6)

Wilhelm Schwinghammer

The Pilot

Nina van Essen

The Fox

Passant 1

Bass-baritone (+2)

Zoltán Nagy

Passant 2

Schlange

König

Soprano (+1)

Carina Schmieger

Mutter

Die Eitle

Rose

Tenor (+3)

Alexander Kaimbacher

Vater

Geschäftsmann

Orchestra

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Chorus

Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” Many of the wise and poetic sayings in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry stay with those who have read it all their lives – an “education of the heart”, for young & all. The story of the little prince who travels from planet to planet having many curious encounters and the pilot in search of his inner child is a classic of young people’s literature. And the theatre that commissioned a family opera based on the tale, titled Il piccolo principe, was none other than La Scala in Milan. The Italian composer Pierangelo Valtinoni transformed the tale into a roughly hour-long work, providing the humorous magic of the source material with romantic music reminiscent of Puccini. At the MusikTheater an der Wien, the American-Austrian director Louisa Muller stages the opera as a production full of charm and imagination.

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