Organization

Singer

Soprano

Mengqi Zhang

Mowgli

Mezzo-soprano

Maria Gulik

Bagheera

Tenor

Michael Müller-Kasztelan

Akela

Baritone

Jörg Sabrowski

Shir-Khan

Matteo Maria Ferretti

Balu

Samuel Chan

Gurilla

Clara Brauer

Makaken

Caroline Klein

Stage director

Pier Francesco Maestrini

Conductor

Sergi Roca Bru

Costume designer

Luca Dall'Alpi

Theater Kiel

Teatro Coccia

Teatro Regio di Parma

Das Dschungelbuch -  (The Jungle Book)

Kiel

Germany

Opernhaus Kiel

Das Dschungelbuch Sollima

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The Jungle Book

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With »Il libro della giungla«, Giovanni Sollima wrote an opera for the whole family based on one of the most famous classics of colonial British literature, »The Jungle Book« by Rudyard Kipling. The celebrated team around the Italian opera director Pier Francesco Maestrini and his congenial

The human boy Mowgli loses his parents and grows up with wolves in the jungle, who save him from the tiger Shere Khan. Baloo the bear becomes his teacher and initiates him into the laws of the jungle, aided by Bagheera the panther. But Shere Khan doesn't tolerate people in the jungle. He wants to convince the wolves that Mowgli isn't one of them and they need to expel him from their community. Will Mowgli leave the jungle and find his place among humans?

The Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima is a musically free-spirited crosser between all styles and a versatile composer for all genres, from chamber music to large orchestral and theater works. With »Il libro della giungla« he is writing an opera for the whole family based on one of the most famous classics of colonial British literature, »The Jungle Book« by Rudyard Kipling. Not least because of the Disney film from 1967, the story of a foundling growing up in a completely strange, exotic world and finding his or her identity has become immortal. The celebrated team around the Italian opera director Pier Francesco Maestrini and his congenial cartoonist colleague Joshua Held ("The Journey to Reims",

English

The Jungle Book by Sollima, From (2021/2021), Directed by Pier Francesco Maestrini,, Conductor Sergi Roca Bru, Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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