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I can do it on my own! Kindergarten children can already do quite a lot. But sometimes that can be scary. Sophiemarie Won, who will be the director of the Hamburg State Opera from the 2025/26 season, will be staging a new project for children from the age of three in the foyer of the Hamburg State Opera in November 2025. This continues the opera house's tradition of offering music theater for the youngest.

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?Alleine!

Staatsoper Hamburg

Iris ter Schiphorst's opera for children was premiered in Vienna in 2010. Together with her librettist Helga Utz, the Hamburg-born composer created a touching and captivatingly imaginative work of music theater from the Grimm fairy tale. A princess, accompanied by her maid, sets off from the protection of her parental home to meet her bridegroom. Despite a difficult journey and numerous obstacles, everything turns out well in the end and she is able to marry her prince. Tobias Kratzer is staging Die Gänsemagd as part of the opening of the opera stabile's artistic direction and season one day after Das Paradies und die Peri, the opening production on the main stage. Musical theater for the youngest generations is not a niche product for him, but a top priority. Here, young audiences experience it at close quarters: As a flock of geese, the children become part of the action, immersing themselves in the story together with the musicians and ensemble singers - opera as a lively, accessible art form full of enchanting melodies that shows how valuable resilience, self-confidence and trust in others are on the journey through life.

Dramaturge

Michelle Stoop

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20 - 29 Nov, 2025

?Alleine! · Staatsoper Hamburg

Sep 28 - Oct 15, 2025

The Goose Girl · Staatsoper Hamburg

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