Opera in one act

Libretto by Paolo Madron after the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

German version by Hanna Francesconi

Austrian premiere

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” Many of the wise and poetic sayings in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry stay with those who have read it all their lives – an “education of the heart”, for young & all. The story of the little prince who travels from planet to planet having many curious encounters and the pilot in search of his inner child is a classic of young people’s literature. And the theatre that commissioned a family opera based on the tale, titled Il piccolo principe, was none other than La Scala in Milan. The Italian composer Pierangelo Valtinoni transformed the tale into a roughly hour-long work, providing the humorous magic of the source material with romantic music reminiscent of Puccini. At the MusikTheater an der Wien, the American-Austrian director Louisa Muller stages the opera as a production full of charm and imagination.

Over the past two and a half years, the Theater an der Wien, including its building fabric, has been thoroughly and sustainably renovated. In order to guarantee smooth interaction between the complex stage technology and all technical areas, a large number of training courses, familiarisation sessions, test runs, stress tests and safety checks are necessary. This intensive process will take several weeks and will unfortunately affect theatre operations in the first few months. This will result in the following changes to the programme:

Unfortunately, the staged performance of Pierangelo Valtinoni's Der kleine Prinz cannot take place as planned this season. All information and tickets for the new semiconcertant family project Der herzlose Riesehere.