The Little Sweep
Description
Age category: 0+
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
Opera for children in two acts
Libretto by Eric Crozier, Russian text by Irina Maslennikova, dialogue text by Olga Enns
The opera was written in 1949. This version was first performed in Perm in 2012.
This was the first production of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre’s Children’s Studio 25 years ago. In the run-up to Britten’s centenary, The Little Sweep returned to the Perm stage in a new guise. According to the producers’ concept, the young artists decide to stage, without the help of adults, an opera about eight-year-old Sam, who is slighted by lazy, cruel adult sweeps. The classic ‘theatre within a theatre’ device makes it possible to create the sensation of an old picture set in a modern frame: the children dream up the opera about the rescue of the little sweep in old England at one of the studio’s rehearsals.
Age category: 6+
directors
Conductor:
Damir Maxutov
Children’s Studio Chorus Master:
Tatiana Stepanova
Director–Producer - Olga Enns
Set Designer - Fagilya Selskaya
Lighting Designer - Sergey Martynov
Children’s Studio Choreographer - Tatiana Shilkova
Set Designer - Fagilya Selskaya
Lighting Designer - Sergey Martynov
Children’s Studio Choreographer - Tatiana Shilkova
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