Lübeck Pocket Opera

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The Taschenoper Lübeck is a children's and youth music theater based in Lübeck .

Performances

The Lübeck Pocket Opera performs new children's and youth operas as well as operas from the classical repertoire in self-made versions for children. Workshop formats are also offered. Since 2006 there has been a cooperation with the Theater Lübeck , in whose house the performances are mainly shown. The Lübeck Pocket Opera also plays as a mobile theater in schools and daycare centers as well as at festivals. She performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Leipzig Bach Festival , the Potsdam-Sanssouci Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Music Festivalon. In 2017 she is represented for the first time at the Innsbruck Festival of Ancient Music. Since 2011, the Lübeck Pocket Opera has received institutional funding from the State of Schleswig-Holstein . Most of the opera arrangements of the Taschenoper Lübeck are published by the Ricordi music publisher .

history

The Lübeck Pocket Opera was founded in 2004 by Margrit Dürr and Julian Metzger and is now legally organized as a registered non-profit association. She initially worked as a touring theater, but since 2006 has been using the rooms of the Lübeck Theater for her productions. From the 2020/21 season she will use the theater in Lübeck's Königstraße as a permanent home. In 2010 the Lübeck Pocket Opera received the Rheingau Music Prize endowed with € 10,000 ;

ensemble

The ensemble consists of a pool of professional singers and instrumental musicians. Above all, freelance professional musicians can be found among the participants, but there are also diverse connections to the artistic staff of the Theater Lübeck. Since the foundation, the singer and librettist Margrit Dürr has been in charge as the "bag manager".

Projects

World premieres

  • 2012 Der Drachentöter (from 3 years) with music by Richard Wagner and from the Middle Ages
  • 2014 kitchen opera (from 3 years) with music by Frank Schwemmer , who himself belongs to the ensemble. This piece was published by Boosey & Hawkes
  • 2017 Who am I (from 3 years) with music by Julian Metzger

Opera construction site

The opera construction site is a three-hour workshop in which young people create their own opera for four given pieces of music from a current piece on the program. The Lübeck Pocket Opera was nominated for the Young Ears Prize in 2012 for the newly developed format . In 2014 she showed the opera construction site in the education program of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2017 she was u. a. shown at the Dresden Music Festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2016
  2. ↑ http://www.altemusik.at/nocache/programm/kalendarium/detail/?tx_eventcalendarfw_pi1%5Bitem%5D=1680
  3. ↑ Cultural funding SH
  4. ↑ http://www.ricordi.com/de-DE/News/2016/11/Luebecker-Taschenoper
  5. ↑ Rheingau Music Prize on the Rheingau Music Festival website
  6. ^ Cooperation Lautten Compagney
  7. ↑ http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?site-lang=de&musicid=102827&langid=1
  8. ↑ http://www.kulturkalender-dresden.de/veranstaltung/opernbaustelle