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Armide or When Pigs Fly!

Children’s opera by Johann Casimir Eule and Wiebke Hetmanek

Wednesday, 07/05/2025

09.30 AM - 10.30 AM

Performance

Schulvorstellung

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Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Reworked for chamber ensemble by Samuel Bächli

Recommended age: 5–10 years

Armide is a powerful sorceress – yet virtually nobody knows, because she lives by herself on a lonely island. Only Willibald the dwarf and Lully the fairy have been spared Armide’s spell of turning everyone and everything into pigs. This may be about to change: When Armide proceeds to enchant someone from the audience, a dangerous row breaks out on the island.

With music from various works by Christoph Willibald Gluck, this children’s opera tells an absurd tale in which the magic of theatre not only enchants the people on the stage, but the younger viewers in the audience as well.

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Der Opernfreund

„Das Gejohle ist nicht allein vor der „Show“ ohrenbetäubend – auch während der Aufführung kreischen und rufen und interagieren die Kleinen fleißig mit. Ein paar Jungs tauchen sogar ängstlich ab, als sich die Titeldame daran macht, das Publikum zu verhexen. Ist das ein gutes Zeichen? Sicher! Denn wo wird Oper sonst noch so ernst genommen?“

Frank Piontek, Der Opernfreund

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