There are countless books about her and her diary, films, podcasts, museums. The inner states of Anne Frank can hardly be adequately conveyed by all the words and facts – but certainly by the music. With his composition from 1969, the Soviet composer Grigori Frid makes the longings and fears of Anne Frank palpable – thereby creating a new level of understanding for today’s younger generation.

Grigori Frid was also a writer and painter. Thus, it seems fitting that his opera is now being presented in an extraordinary format: as a Graphic Opera. The stage design: like a pop-up card. One single person is present on stage; projections make the narrated content vivid – digitally and handmade, documentary and fantastic, with comic, film, gore, and poetry.

Olivia Warburton (Anne Frank), Maura Kopschitz (music theater pedagogy), Michael Sangkuhl, Janina Zell, (dramaturgy), Falko Herold (video), Patrick Bannwart (stage, equipment), David Bösch (direction), Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Volker Krafft (musical direction)

Age recommendation: From 14 years/grade 9

German translation by Ulrike Patow

A production of the Staatsoper Hamburg in cooperation with the Anne Frank Fonds Basel

Free registration for schools via christoph.boehmke@bayer.com