Peter und der Wolf

Martin Schläpfer

Peter und der Wolf

Performance exclusively for school classes. No regular tickets for sale.

Performance exclusively for school classes. No regular tickets for sale.

Ballett

Wednesday 29. January 2025 10:30 – 11:30 No intermissions

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Cast at
29. January 2025

Sprecher

Hans Peter Kammerer

Musikalische Leitung

Stephen Hopkins

Choreographie

Martin Schläpfer

Bühne & Kostüme

Thomas Ziegler

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Peter und der Wolf

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Sun
26 Jan
11:00 — 12:00

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Tue
28 Jan
10:30 — 11:30
Tue
28 Jan
18:00 — 19:00

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Thu
30 Jan
10:30 — 11:30
Fri
31 Jan
19:00 — 20:00

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Sun
02 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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Sun
02 Feb
14:00 — 15:00

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Wed
05 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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Wed
05 Feb
14:00 — 15:00

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Thu
06 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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Thu
06 Feb
18:00 — 19:00

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Fri
07 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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Sat
08 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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Sat
08 Feb
14:00 — 15:00

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Sun
09 Feb
11:00 — 12:00

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About the Performance

Young Peter has lots of fun with his animal friends and is not at all afraid of the big wolf that wanders around in the woods.

This is despite the fact that his grandfather always warns him to be careful. One day, however, the wolf manages to eat the little duck. Even before the hunters intervene, brave and clever Peter and his friend, the little bird, devise a plan to catch the wolf...

“When he saw the duck, the bird flew down onto the grass, sat down next to the duck, shrugged his shoulders and said:
'What kind of bird are you that you can't fly?'”

Duration 40 min, no intermission

Martin Schläpfer, Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer of the Vienna State Ballet, is creating a piece for the Youth Company of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy for the second time. With his choreography to Peter and the Wolf, he adds a new level to the musical fairy tale - that of movement. A visual world is created on stage from the sound images of the orchestra using the language of ballet. The dancers of the Youth Company follow the choreographer into the forest in his own version of Prokofiev’s classic, in which the story of Peter and the Wolf is told as a story about humans and animals full of humor and magic, but also as an exploration of our interaction with nature and other living creatures.

With his composition Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev created a true masterpiece in 1936 that was able to creatively familiarize children with classical music. The work was commissioned by Natalija Saz, the director of the Central Children's Theater in Moscow at the time, who wanted a musical fairy tale that not only told a story accompanied by music, but also explained the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Prokofiev, who also wrote the text for the narrator of the story, assigned the characters their own leitmotifs and instruments, which recur throughout the piece. Peter, for example, sounds cheerful and adventurous through the violins, the bird through the chirping flute, the thoughtful and grumpy grandfather through the low bassoon... To this day, Peter and the Wolf has lost none of its popularity, is played with enthusiasm by the greatest theaters and orchestras and is equally well received by audiences.

It all began with a simple idea: in 1936, Natalija Saz, the director of the Central Children's Theater in Moscow, asked Sergei Prokofiev for a musical fairy tale that not only told a story, but also explained the instruments of a symphony orchestra. The rest is (musical) history: Peter and the Wolf is still one of the most popular programs used by orchestras and theaters around the world to creatively familiarize children with classical music. At NEST, the classic can now be experienced as a ballet in a new choreography by Martin Schläpfer.