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Der herzlose Riese
(The Heartless Giant/Le Géant sans cœur) (2020-21)Libretto by Susanne Felicitas Wolf; French version by Béatrice Lachaussée (G,F)
S,M,2T,3Bar; children's choir;
1.1.1.1(=dbn)-1.1.1.1-perc(2)-cel-strings(3.3.3.3.2)
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Bote & Bock
Philharmonie (10am) (Pre-opening for schools), Luxembourg
Wolfgang Nägele, director
Conductor: David Niemann
Company: Pueri Cantores / Orchestre Philharmonie du Luxembourg
| LENE DAHL, a young girl | Soprano |
| KING HENRIK THE HELPLESS, the narrator | high Baritone |
| LIV, a stout-hearted she-wolf | Mezzo-Soprano |
| DAPPERT DAPP, the heartless giant | Bass-Baritone |
| The Princes’ Trio (sons of Henrik): | |
| HANNO | high Tenor |
| FRODE | Tenor |
| BJÖRN | Baritone |
| The woods, and petrified children | boys' chorus |
King Henrik the Helpless of Fairyland is desperate, his three sons have disappeared without a trace. Apparently they are in the Dark Forest, where nobody wants to search because the evil, heartless giant lives there. The only one who wants to help Henrik is Lene Dahl, a girl from today.
Lene has found her grandfather's "I-see-through-space-and-time-telescope-and-talking-tube" and uses it to watch out into fairyland. She hurries there on a time spiral, goes in search of the princes and makes new friends, such as the clever she-wolf Liv. Together with Liv, Lene ventures into the castle of the giant Dappert Dapp, where the princes are said to be. And there, Lene makes a proposal to the heartless giant...
Poetic