Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer by Rokahr, st 21 čvc 2021, Od (2021/2021), Režie Stephanie Kuhlmann, Dirigent Chanmin Chung, Domstufen, Erfurt, Germany

The tiny island of Lummerland is home to Lukas the engine driver and his trusty engine Emma. And of course Jim Button, who landed on the island as a baby in a postal parcel. Jim and Lukas are the very best of friends. Together with the locomotive Emma, ​​they drive their rounds around the tiny island with two mountains. When things suddenly get too cramped on Lummerland, they set off together with their locomotive in search of a new home. On their journey, they experience exciting adventures with pseudo-giants and other extraordinary beings and finally rescue Princess Li Si from the dragon city. Michael Ende 's Jim Button - a multi-award-winning classic children's book translated into thirty languages ​​- and now, after radio plays, marionette theatre, drama adaptations, musicals and films, also as an opera? But yes, definitely! Like no other art form, opera masters the balance between the comic and the sublime, entertainment and the deep meaning, the opulence and the simplicity of timeless truths. The colorful and imaginative adventure scenarios open up extraordinarily attractive sonic landscapes - the heat of the desert with its mirages of the mirage, the underwater world with its play of light and dark, the multiplying echoes in the twilight valley. Jim Buttonhas the dramaturgical qualities of great opera material, which is able to captivate both children of primary school age and their parents, who either know the story from their own childhood or can now discover it together with the children.