Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch
nach Carsten Brandau
Kinderoper
6–10 years
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1. January 2025
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In this newly composed opera, children and adults immerse themselves together in the magical universe of I, YOU and NOE.
The two beings YOU and ME discover their affection for each other in a playful exchange. But then it starts to rain heavily and a spaceship lands, whose captain NOE announces a deluge. YOU and I can't swim, but NOE only takes musicians on board his intergalactic rescue spaceship: "Two of each instrument." Only when YOU makes him laugh with the joke "Says the whale to the tuna..." is NOE prepared to let YOU on board. ME, who fails to do so, is left behind alone. Will DU leave it out in the rain?
»Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch: Was soll ich tun? Fisch? Sagt der Thunfisch zum Walfisch: Du hast die Wahl! Fisch!«
Numerous theaters have developed the play, and now it can be experienced as an opera for the first time. Carsten Brandau worked closely with the composer Thierry Tidrow on the text version. The often naively loving, then sarcastic, but always humorously poetic dialogues between the three characters are transformed into vocal and instrumental sound magic. In the delicate dialogical interplay between YOU and ME, a duet of harmonies, melodies and rhythms unfolds from childlike beginnings, combining with the woodwind, percussion and string sounds of the orchestra.
"Music is already a major theme in the original play. In the delicate dialogical interplay between YOU and ME, a duet of harmonies, melodies and rhythms unfolds from childlike beginnings, combining with the woodwind, percussion and string sounds of the pit orchestra. With the landing of NOE and his band, a second small orchestra with its own bombastic and contrasting soundscape breaks into the action. Instead of animals, NOE collects musicians in his intergalactic spaceship: "Two of each instrument." He wants to "make the stars dance" with his band. But ME and YOU are not musicians and what's more: "The band is complete and the dry boat is full." Here, music becomes a privilege and leaves the two heroes ICH and DU in the lurch. Will they manage to save and maintain their harmony?" (Thierry Tidrow)
In Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch, Carsten Brandau poses central questions on which coexistence on our endangered planet is based: What makes us afraid? And how can we overcome and conquer this fear together and by being together? The author himself says about his play: "Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch is a play about belonging and exclusion, about the power of a joke and the necessity of love. About the future of music and the power of theater. Because Sagt der Walfisch zum Thunfisch is a play about you and me - and if we don't give the rain a voice, the deluge will fail."