Hillary the witch goes to the opera
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| Title: | Hillary the witch goes to the opera |
| Original language: | German |
| Libretto : | Peter Lund |
| Premiere: | March 19, 1997 |
| Place of premiere: | Berlin , Neukölln Opera |
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The witch Hillary goes to the opera is a play for children by Peter Lund and was premiered on March 19, 1997 at the Neukölln Opera .
action
The play is about a little witch Hillary who lives alone with her mouse Wühly and has won free tickets for the opera on the radio. Since she doesn't know what "opera" means, she looks up the dictionary, where she learns that opera means "where people just sing". She interprets this supposed compulsion to sing as an interesting and funny song curse that she would like to be able to use as a witch. So she conjures up the famous witch and singer Maria Bellacanta, who then introduces her to the world of opera by singing a few arias and taking Hillary's fear of opera as an art form.
To the piece
The play with its excerpts from the Magic Flute and other operas - such as Hillary - is intended to introduce children to the opera genre. The curious, all-questioning Hillary serves as a figure of identification for children in the play, while Bellacanta takes on the role of the apparently better-knowing adults. Usually the actresses are accompanied by a pianist. Lund wrote the piece, which was easily written by hand, rather as a text basis for a wide variety of staging options. It can be cast with an actress for Hillary, a singer for Bellacanta and a puppeteer for Wühly or it can come out as a one-person piece , such as B. happened in the 2000/01 season at the Halle Opera House.
effect
Due to the small cast, the low technical effort and the rare cross-disciplinary mixed form (dialogues and singing), the piece has meanwhile been played at almost all German opera and multi-discipline houses and usually stays in the program for a long time. In Austria, Hexe Hillary goes to the opera was played in an extended version by Kay Link at the Landestheater Linz from the 2002 season , in which other musical numbers were added, the character of Wühly ran through the whole piece, including the complex "Hosenrolle" Examples from The Marriage of Figaro and Hansel and Gretel were explained and the children were encouraged to sing along.
premiere
The witch Hillary goes to the opera was premiered on March 19, 1997 with Ilka Sehnert as Maria Bellacanta and Ralf Lücke as the witch Hillary at the Neukölln Opera.
Further productions
In Germany (selection)
- 2001 and 2003: Opernhaus Halle , seasons 2001/2002 and 2003/2004, director: Klaus Froboese
- 2005: Opera house of the State Theater Magdeburg (in cooperation with the Puppet Theater Magdeburg ) , premiere: February 21, 2005, director: Wolfgang Krause Zwieback , with: Susanne Sogaard, Andrea Thelemann; Alexander Szallies
- 2006: Staatstheater Nürnberg , December 2006, production: Rebekka Stanzel, with: Nicoletta Radu, Melanie Hirsch, Katrin Griesser, Bettina Schönenberg, Annemarie Herfurth, Michael Dudek, Anna Buschke
- 2007: Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken , spring 2007 (resumption on January 10, 2008) , staging: Annette Radenheimer, with Sue Lehmann (Hexe Hillary) and Judith Heinen (Maria Bellacanta) ,
- 2008: Chamber Opera Cologne , 2008 to 2010, production: Bianca Sue Henne, with Marlene Zilias and Sabine Laubach (Hexe Hillary) and Denise Seyhan and Franziska Hösli (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2008: Apollo Theater Siegen , premiere: January 27, 2008, staging: Svenja Tiedt, with Désirée Ziechner (the witch Hillary) and Wiebke Huhs (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2008: Opernhaus Düsseldorf / Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg, season 2008/2009, director: Maria Paola Viano
- 2009: Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duisburg (opera foyer) , September 26th to October 10th, 2009, with Merle Hoch as the witch Hillary
- 2010: Landestheater Niederbayern Landshut / Passau / Straubing, 2010/11, production: Sebastian Kerssenbrock
- 2010: Theater Regensburg (Theater am Bismarckplatz) , October 2010 to February 2011, production: Doris Buske, with Bettina Schönenberg (Hexe Hillary) and Ruth Müller (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2011: Theater Vorpommern (Theater mobil) , March / April 2011, production: Henriette Sehmsdorf, with Grian Duesberg (Hexe Hillary) and Doris Hädrich (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2013: Music & Art School Bruchsal (Opera Studio) on Road, September 22nd to October 20th, 2013
- 2013: Theater Erfurt , premiere: March 6, 2013, production: Eva-Maria Abelein
- 2013: Theater Osnabrück (Theater am Domhof / Upper Foyer) , premiere: March 9, 2013, production Elmar Supp, with Lieko Schulze (Maria Bellacanta) and Neele Kramer (the witch Hillary)
- 2013: Volkstheater Rostock (studio theater) , August 7th to September 30th, 2013, production: Babette Bartz, with Theresa Grabner (Maria Bellacanta) and Sonja Dengle (witch Hillary)
- 2014: Landestheater Altenburg , January 28th to February 27th and from April 2014, production: Cornelia Poppe, with Sabine Schramm (Hexe Hillary) and Theresa Dittmar (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2014: Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (workshop stage) , resumption February 8 to May 24, 2014, production: Anna Port, with Annalena Loretta Müller (the witch Hillary) and Monika Hügel (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2014: Children's Opera Cologne , premiere: November 21, 2014, director: Eicke Ecker, with Judith Thielsen (Hexe Hillary) and Karola Pavona (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2015: Wanderoper Brandenburg (June 2015) and in Neuenhagen (September 2015), tour with Marie Theres Schwinns (Hexe Hillary) and Antonia Feuerstein (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2015: Wiesbaden Theater-Studio , premiere: September 20, 2015, directed by Sophie Pompe, with Irina Ries (Hexe Hillary) and Radoslava Vorgic (Maria Bellacanta)
Outside of Germany (selection)
- 2002: Landestheater Linz , production: Kay Link
- 2005: Slovenian National Theater Maribor (as “Čarovnica Hillary gre v opero”) , premiere: September 16, 2005, director: Branka Nikl Klampfer, with Mateja Pucko and Alenka Cilenšek
- 2013: Zurich Opera House (Studiobühne) , October 5, 2013 to May 11, 2014, director: Anja Horst, with Nicole Tobler (the witch Hillary) and Susanne Grosssteiner (Maria Bellacanta)
- 2015: Grand Théâtre de Genève , March 5th to 8th, 2015, director: Maria Paola Viano, with Maureen Béguin (the witch Hillary) and Marion Jacquemet (Maria Bellacanta)
Individual evidence
- ↑ HALLE (SAALE) on Operone ( Memento from December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Theater portal, play description ( accessed April 18, 2013) ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Homepage of Wolfgang Krause Zwieback (accessed April 18, 2013)
- ↑ Homepage of Rebekka Stanzel (accessed April 18, 2013)
- ↑ Staatstheater Saarbrücken ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Chamber Opera Cologne, production archive (accessed March 19, 2013)
- ↑ Apollo Theater Siegen, program 2008 (accessed March 17, 2013) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The witch Hillary goes to the opera in the program of the Düsseldorf Opera House in the German Digital Library (accessed March 18, 2013)
- ↑ rp-online, premiere announcement (accessed March 11, 2013)
- ↑ Homepage Sebastian Kerssenbrock (accessed March 11, 2013) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Theater Regensburg, Lot Description (release 11 March 2013) ( Page no longer available , searching web archives )
- ^ Theater Vorpommern, 2011 program ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ MuKS Bruchsal, Archive ( accessed April 17, 2014) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Theater Erfurt, directing work (accessed March 19, 2013) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Theater Osnabrück, 2013 schedule (accessed March 18, 2013)
- ^ Volkstheater Rostock, New productions 2013 (accessed January 18, 2014) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ events.max event calendar ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Pfalztheater, program (accessed March 19, 2013)
- ↑ Classical Today, Artist Biographies (accessed March 19, 2011)
- ^ Slovenian National Theater, premieres (accessed March 18, 2010)
- ↑ Zurich Opera House, New Pieces, (accessed March 18, 2014) ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Les Archives du Spectacle - La sorcière Hillary va à l'opéra (accessed March 3, 2015)