Find concerts from June 16th, 2013

The excursion ends with an organ concert in the Church of St. Mary in Wittstock. Gunnar Idenstam (Sweden) is a master of improvisation and one of the most important contemporary Scandinavian artists.

Tour guide: Axel Blum
One of the oldest cities of Brandenburg is idyllically located in the rural landscapes of the Nordprignitz region: Wittstock. In 1636 one of the Thirty Years’ War’s bloodiest battles was fought here between 16,000 Swedes and 22,000 imperial soldiers. Hardly any place in the whole of Brandenburg escaped the war horrors. Only 40 of Rathenow’s previous 3,000 inhabitants survived. Not even thirty years had passed when treaties forced Sweden and Brandenburg to enter a new war and the nightmare started again. The Swedes were finally beaten near Rathenow and Fehrbellin in 1675 by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and driven from Brandenburg for good. Statues were built to commemorate this "achievement" and he was referred to as "the Great".

Concept, production & directed by: Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren
Music: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Design: Christina Lindgren

The first sense that is fully developed in an unborn baby is listening: the inner ear with the listening organs reaches its final size in the fifth month of the pregnancy! So a child has already listened to and experienced a multitude of sounds, tones and rhythms before it is born. "Why not continue straight away?" thought Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren. They got together with Maja Ratkje and invented a baby opera truly any child can understand. Using their voices and an array of fantastical musical instruments the two performers unfold a mystical underwater world filled with dreamily soft sounds in the intimate atmosphere of a shell-shaped tent. The playing lasts for 20 minutes and afterwards small and large members of the audience are welcome to discover the space and the instruments. Early musical education really can be this magical.

Tickets 20,- inkl. 1 Erw.* * Ticket price is for a child and an adult

Concept, production & directed by: Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren
Music: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Design: Christina Lindgren

The first sense that is fully developed in an unborn baby is listening: the inner ear with the listening organs reaches its final size in the fifth month of the pregnancy! So a child has already listened to and experienced a multitude of sounds, tones and rhythms before it is born. "Why not continue straight away?" thought Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren. They got together with Maja Ratkje and invented a baby opera truly any child can understand. Using their voices and an array of fantastical musical instruments the two performers unfold a mystical underwater world filled with dreamily soft sounds in the intimate atmosphere of a shell-shaped tent. The playing lasts for 20 minutes and afterwards small and large members of the audience are welcome to discover the space and the instruments. Early musical education really can be this magical.

Tickets 20,- inkl. 1 Erw.* * Ticket price is for a child and an adult

Concept, production & directed by: Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren
Music: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Design: Christina Lindgren

The first sense that is fully developed in an unborn baby is listening: the inner ear with the listening organs reaches its final size in the fifth month of the pregnancy! So a child has already listened to and experienced a multitude of sounds, tones and rhythms before it is born. "Why not continue straight away?" thought Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren. They got together with Maja Ratkje and invented a baby opera truly any child can understand. Using their voices and an array of fantastical musical instruments the two performers unfold a mystical underwater world filled with dreamily soft sounds in the intimate atmosphere of a shell-shaped tent. The playing lasts for 20 minutes and afterwards small and large members of the audience are welcome to discover the space and the instruments. Early musical education really can be this magical.

Tickets 20,- inkl. 1 Erw.* * Ticket price is for a child and an adult

From 14.00 h in the courtyard & in the foyer: The Vikings, handicraft work and games
For children from 6

The Swedish writer Runer Jonsson invented him. At first he lived on the pages of a book, then he moved to the small screen as a cartoon, then he made it to the big screen and now everybody knows him: Wickie, the small Viking boy with the big flashes of inspiration. Wickie has to face his greatest challenge when pirates attack his home village of Flake and abduct all the children – all but him. The whole village is devastated, his father Halvar and the other men are totally at a loss. But Wickie sees through the kidnapper’s game and comes up with a cunning plan… Millions of people have already watched director Bully Herbig’s funny and exciting cinema adventure – but never like this: this time the music is not just part of the soundtrack, it is performed live by Filmorchester Babelsberg who did record it for the movie. Before the screening starts you can put together everything a real Viking needs like a helmet for example. And in the courtyard you can pit your strength against each other when you take part in "the battle of the whales" and other games. But remember: Wickie is proof that sheer muscle power isn’t everything!

Tickets € 12,- / 6,- (children up to 14)

Concept, production & directed by: Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren
Music: Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Design: Christina Lindgren

The first sense that is fully developed in an unborn baby is listening: the inner ear with the listening organs reaches its final size in the fifth month of the pregnancy! So a child has already listened to and experienced a multitude of sounds, tones and rhythms before it is born. "Why not continue straight away?" thought Hanne Dieserud and Christina Lindgren. They got together with Maja Ratkje and invented a baby opera truly any child can understand. Using their voices and an array of fantastical musical instruments the two performers unfold a mystical underwater world filled with dreamily soft sounds in the intimate atmosphere of a shell-shaped tent. The playing lasts for 20 minutes and afterwards small and large members of the audience are welcome to discover the space and the instruments. Early musical education really can be this magical.

Tickets 20,- inkl. 1 Erw.* * Ticket price is for a child and an adult

Tickets € 30,- / 25,- / 10,-* *Some seats with restricted viewing!

Tangent piano by Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, Regensburg 1790 Fortepiano by Johann Hinlle, Vienna about 1812