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Wanda Walfisch
Children's opera | 5+
Translation by Claudia Steiner and adaptation by Anna Wenzel after the picture book of the same name by Davide Calì and Sonja Bougaeva
Production of the Upper Austrian Opera Studio
Kinderoper
Austrian Premiere 22.01.2023
Location BlackBox Musiktheater
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Austrian Premiere 22.01.2023
Location BlackBox Musiktheater
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Every Wednesday, Wanda drags herself sullenly to the swimming pool. She doesn't feel comfortable there because the other children make fun of her corpulence and call her "Wanda Whale". When the swimming instructor notices that Wanda is losing all joy in swimming, he opens up to her that the real problem is not the others at all, and even less her body. It is much more a question of her attitude towards herself and her imagination. If she imagines herself to be light as a feather, then she is. Equipped with this idea, Wanda faces her fears and the world, and becomes more and more a self-confident girl, who in the end convinces the other children in the swimming pool that she can be happy in the water like a fish - and swims like one.
Anna Wenzel adapted this picture book by Davide Calì and Sonja Bougaeva with 15 pieces of music by old masters from the Renaissance into a children's opera about the power of one's own thoughts and imagination.
Anna Wenzel adapted this picture book by Davide Calì and Sonja Bougaeva with 15 pieces of music by old masters from the Renaissance into a children's opera about the power of one's own thoughts and imagination.
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Credits
Music supervisionBenedikt Ofner
Director
Gregor Horres
Stage design
Elisabeth Pedross
Costume design
Mariangela Mazzeo
Dramaturgy
Martin Schönbauer
Cast
Wanda
Sophie Kidwell
Schwimmlehrer / Mann mit Hund / Freiheitsstatue
Gregorio Changhyun Yun
Betty
Hanyi Jang
Artur
Maxim Jurik
Blockflöte
Elisabeth Tomani
Barockcello
Mathias Roller
Barockgitarre
Thomas Adam
Sophie Kidwell
Schwimmlehrer / Mann mit Hund / Freiheitsstatue
Gregorio Changhyun Yun
Betty
Hanyi Jang
Artur
Maxim Jurik
Blockflöte
Elisabeth Tomani
Barockcello
Mathias Roller
Barockgitarre
Thomas Adam