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Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
Anton v. Bredow, Can you whistle, Johanna, Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25, © Niklas Marc Heinecke
© Niklas Marc Heinecke

Can you whistle, Johanna

Gordon Kampe

Hamburg State Opera, season 23/24/25

Ulf has a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a tadpole in a jar, two euros, four golf balls, a friend and a grandad. A grandad is great! It's just unfair that his best friend Berra doesn't have one.
So the two boys decide: ‘We'll find one!’ But where do lots of grandpas and grandmas walk around? Of course, in old people's homes. So Berra and Ulf set off and meet Nils, a real grandad.

A grandad who listens to pop songs - ‘Can you whistle, Johanna ...’ With him, Berra can finally build kites, celebrate birthdays, steal cherries and learn to whistle. But how much time do they have left together?

With a tango, car horns, a cactus as a percussion instrument and a Handel-style aria, Gordon Kampe's children's opera tells the story of an intergenerational friendship in an onomatopoeic and melancholy-humorous way and of the fact that getting older and saying goodbye are part of life.

Musical direction

Luiz de Godoy

Director

Maike Schuster

Stage- and Costume Design

Lea Burkhalter & Anton v. Bredow

Dramaturgy

Michael Sangkuhl

Music Pedagogy

Eva Binkle