Premiere 21/12/2024 Subsequent performances: 23, 24, 27, 27*, 28, 29, 29*, 30, 30* December 2024 and 5, 5* January 2025 | Curtain-up: 13:30 / *16:00 | Ticket sales start on: 7 May 2024 | Prices: € 15,00 (adults), € 12,50 (children aged 16 and under) | Location: Studio Boekman, Dutch National Opera & Ballet Family performance Sung in Dutch Libretto Mathilde Wantenaar and Willem Bruls Based on the book by Toon Tellegen Stage direction Béatrice Lachaussée Set and costume design Nele Ellegiers Video design Coen Bouman Lighting design Cor van den Brink Dramaturgy Willem Bruls Musical coach Leonard Evers Mole Vera Fiselier Fieldmouse / Moon / Forest (ensemble) Ginette Puylaert Dormousse / Cricket / Forest (ensemble) Eline Welle Frog / Forest (ensemble) Jan-Willem Schaafsma Grasshopper / Earthworm / Forest (ensemble) Berend Eijkhout Shrew Mirna Ackers Nationaal Jeugdorkest (National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands) Commission and co-production of Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie/De Munt (Brussel), Festival d’Aixen-Provence, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Madrid), Opera Zuid (Maastricht) The original book A Song for the Moon by Toon Tellegen was published by Em. Querido’s Uitgeverij, Amsterdam, 2012. Performances for schools We offer exclusive school matinees for primary school students. See: operaballet.nl/en/ school-performances Made possible by Founding partner programming Studio Boekman The lonely Mole decides to write a song to cheer up the Moon. The Grasshopper rehearses with his orchestra until they have mastered the song and then one night they give an amazing concert. But why does the Moon look so sad afterwards...? ‘My first opera’ A Song for the Moon is based on Toon Tellegen’s book of the same name, a fable about the power of music. Composer Mathilde Wantenaar has turned the story into a lovely ‘My first opera’ for a young audience and their parents. It is an accessible yet multi-layered production that does just what the story says: it moves people through its music. Making contact When Mathilde Wantenaar read Toon Tellegen’s book A Song for the Moon, she was captivated. “The story appealed to my musical imagination. It deals with important topics such as loneliness, identity, disappointment and friendship. It is also about the power of music and the ability to make contact with one another.” Wantenaar got to know stage director Béatrice Lachaussée and set designer Nele Ellegiers during a workshop organised by ENOA, a European talent development network that DNO is involved in. During their conversations, the idea for this children’s opera was born. Family opera based on the book by Toon Tellegen (6+) “A wonderful production for young and old alike”, wrote the Dutch newspaper NRC after the premiere of A Song for the Moon. Theaterkrant magazine concluded that the production “deserves to become a regular part of the repertoire”. We took those words to heart: following the overwhelming success of this heart-warming family opera, we will be bringing it back to Studio Boekman for the Christmas holidays. 34 Opera
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