Babyopera: Christina Lindgren & Maja S. K. Ratkje (Sold out)

Babyopera: Christina Lindgren & Maja S. K. Ratkje
Maja S.K. Ratkje: Orpheus’ Comfort, opera for babies (2020, WP)
Den Norske Opera & Ballett / Foajeen
10/9 – 16/9
50 – 100 NOK

Babyopera gives children a taste of the strong emotions adults experience through the medium of opera.

For Ultima, Babyopera will develop two baroque-flavoured performances, adapted by composers Maja S.K. Ratkje and Eivind Buene, and featuring sopranos Silje Aker Johnsen (Norway) and Elisabeth Holmertz (Sweden).

These two new works for very young children (0-3) are presented as performances with a total duration of 30 minutes and are designed to put the children in touch with emotions of loss, grief, pain, comfort, courage and hope.

Maja S.K. Ratkje: Orpheus’ Comfort, opera for babies (2020, WP)
Maja S.K. Ratkje’s contribution includes a fragment from Gluck’s Orfeo and Euridice (1762), and the aria ‘Che Faro senza Euridice’. Orfeo sings of his grief for the loss of his beloved. Toddlers can also feel abandoned when their parents leave them at kindergarten.

Christina Lindgren – libretto
Music and lyrics – Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (aria from Orphée et Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck/ Ranieri de´ Calzabigi/ Pierre-Louis Moline)

With Elisabeth Holmertz, Silje Aker Johnsen, Marie Delna

Christina Lindgren – director
Tormod Lindgren – scenography
Christina Lindgren – costume
Elizabeth Svarstad – choreography
Svante Aulis Löwenborg – dramaturgy
Camilla Svingen / Syv Mil – producer Babyopera
Karstein Solli – consultant

Produced by Babyopera and Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Supported by Kulturrådet.