Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the robber's daughter

Videos from the musical "Ronja, the robber's daughter", in the big stage version for choir, children choir and orchestra, which had premiere in 1994 at the State Opera Szczecin, Poland. (Music Axel Bergstedt , staging Eva Kologórska). (Recordings from the performance in the CCH Hamburg, August 1994.)
Beginning: The robbers and her chief Matt sing about the life in the forests and their "work".

Second scene: While the robbers are celebrating yet, a storm begins. In the midst of the confusion Ronia is born.

Lovis sings the famous "Song of the wolf" for her Baby:

Ronia is going alone into the Matt's forest, for the first time. She will meet witchbirds (wild harpies) and greygnomes.

Ronja and Birk wander around in the fog and ghosts attract Ronja. Birk tries to prevent her:

The wild harpies (witchbirds) atack Ronia and Birk:

The song of Matt's Forest is also the final of the musical.

Astrids Lindgrens favorite film Ronia Robbery daughter from 1984. Most exported Astrid Lindgren movie. Hanna Zetterberg born 1973 in Stockholm, play Ronia in the movie

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Plot summary

Ronia, the main character, is a girl growing up in a castle in the wood in a clan of robbers. As she is the only child of Mattis, the chief, she is expected to become the leader of the clan someday. Their castle, Matt's Fort, is split in two parts by a lightning bolt on the day of Ronia's birth. Soon afterwards, a different clan of robbers, the "Borkas", settles the other side of the mountain, resulting in much strife between the two clans. Ronia grows up with Matt's clan of robbers as her only company. One day, Ronia sees Birk Borkason, the only son of the enemy chieftain, Borka, idling by the chasm that splits the two parts of the castle. He is the only other child she has ever met, and so she is sorry that he is a Borka. He engages her in a game of jumping across, which does not end until Birk almost falls down. Ronia saves him and they become friends.

The following winter is long and cold and although Matt's robbers are well fed, their counterparts are suffering on the other side of the chasm. Ronia brings food to Birk through a secret passageway. They get very close but both know that they cannot tell their families. Later that year Birk saves Ronia from being captured by the witchbirds, half part faeries, half part wild harpies,or by the greygnomes, only to be captured himself by Ronia's father. Ronia gives herself to the Borkas so she must be exchanged, but as a result her father disowns her and refuses to let her be his daughter. Birk and Ronia run away to the woods. Ultimately their families repent of their feuding, and everyone is reunited.

Musical Ronia, the robber's daughter