FRANK UND BERT

Richard Whilds, répétiteur at the Bayerische Staatsoper, has already created numerous compositions and arrangements for musical theatre. In the 2021/2022 season, he composed Der Mondbär, a production for children aged four and over. The next production for young audiences now follows with the musical theatre, Frank and Bert. Based on the picture book by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, he creates the concept and libretto together with the young director Friederike Blum (performance manager at the Bayerische Staatsoper since the 2019/2020 season) and Laura Schmidt, dramaturgist at the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Chris Naylor-Ballesteros’s picture book tells the story of the magic of true friendship, empathy and the joy of playing together, whereby it’s not actually important exactly what the rules are: Frank and Bert are best friends and love to play hide and seek. But Bert just isn’t very good at it. So Frank always wins. Every single time. But what if winning just wasn’t everything? Or we let the other person win, so they are happy?