It's not always easy being a child. No one knows this better than Nils Holgersson. His parents are unhappy, there are constant arguments, and he doesn't really know what to do with his own bad mood. But things only get really annoying when Nils takes his anger out on a gnome. The gnome punishes the cheeky boy by shrinking him to the size of a thumb. When Marten, the Holgerssons' domestic goose, also wants to run away from the farm, the now very small Nils throws himself at Marten's neck – and suddenly finds himself in the middle of an adventure and surrounded by a flock of wild geese! In the children's opera version by Elena Kats-Chernin and Susanne Felicitas Wolf, Nils has to overcome all kinds of adventures, earn the trust of the wild geese, and find out what being the size of a gnome can be good for.
Children’s opera in two acts [2023] Libretto by Susanne Felicitas Wolf, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf