Nina Vogel’s Peter & the Wolf | Pedro e o Lobo

Peter and the Wolf, the classic story and music by Sergei Prokofiev, bursts to life with glorious puppets crafted in ateliers in Brazil. Created by master craftsmen and artist Nina Vogel, from the very musical instruments featured in the symphony, the visually stunning costume from which the puppets appear and disappear delights children with an unforgettable performance as they experience the fable for the first time. Supported by Toronto’s Euphonia Chamber Ensemble with Musical Direction by award-winning Conductor, Composer and Pianist Maziar Heidari, Nina Vogel presents this ingenious and beautiful spectacle with an accompanying short film, ANIMA, which takes the audience on the fantastical journey that Nina Vogel followed to create this contemporary interpretation of Peter & the Wolf.

Presented with Theatre Direct

October 8, 2022 at 3:00 PM
October 9, 2022 at 3:00 PM

“A fantastical world where parts of musical instruments come to life in a one-woman contemporary puppet show, it’s Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf as you’ve never seen it before.” – Academia da OSESP na Sala São Paulo

About the artist

Nina Vogel is an award-winning Brazilian multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, singer, actress and director. Her approach to puppetry and art has a strong spiritual influence inherited from both her indigenous Guarani and Tikuna ancestry. Her work has been performed all over the world. In 2021 she was awarded the Lisa Simon Scholarship, presented to a female director whose work is currently growing in the field of puppet arts. She was also awarded the Founders Award Scholarship by the O’Neill Theater Center in the USA. Her Lambe-Lambe creation, ConCordis – the Heart, premiered in Montréal in 2019 on a tour through Québec and France. In 2020 she delivered more than 100 virtual performances of ConCordis worldwide. That same year she received an Outstanding Work Award at the 2020 Chuncheon International Puppet Film Festival, for her adaptation of ConCordis – the Heart into a stop motion film and ConCordis will be featured at the Prague Quadrennial 2023 for the Rare Performances. Nina dedicated five years researching the life and work of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, creating a human scale puppet of the painter. In 2017 she was awarded two major scholarships by the government of Québec and the École Supérieure des Arts at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), to further her skills in Contemporary Puppet Theatre performance. Nina is a member of UNIMA International and was elected Independent Counselor, representing UNIMA 3 Americas at the last UNIMA’s World Congress.

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