YDO for school classes - Deutsche Oper Berlin
We offer workshops, tours and customised talks to accompany your group’s attendance at a particular event. We are also involved in partnerships and long-term projects as an art intermediary. We present our activities and events in these pages. Please contact us if you have proposals or require additional information. All performances will be announced in due course in the newsletter and on our website.
All dates and additional offers will be announced via our newsletter "School" and here on our website.
With musicians of the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
How should we deal with the stories that have been told to us for centuries? On the one hand, we want to keep them alive and pass them on, but on the other hand, they sometimes seem dusty and outdated. Perhaps both approaches are possible: we tell each other stories and exchange ideas about them! We delve into old stories, both in fairy tales and in opera, and question role models together.
Rosa is awake (7+)
What do Sleeping Beauty and Pamina from The Magic Flute have in common? What stories can be told with music? And how many instruments can a single percussionist actually play? We will search for answers together with the help of music by Maurice Ravel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Georges Bizet, as well as retold fairy tale classics.
Dates 5, 6 May 2025, 10:30 a.m. each day, foyer
Role Models (12+)
Who is actually a hero or a heroine? The old stories told in fairy tale books or on the opera stage are teeming with them. There, heroic men pass difficult tests and virtuous women sacrifice themselves for love. But are these traditional gender roles still relevant to us today? We critically examine operas and fairy tales with music by Maurice Ravel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet and Astor Piazzolla.
Dates 28 April 2025, 10:30 a.m. each day, foyer
Both programmes
Duration approx. 70 minutes / Price €5.00 per person
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is an exciting microcosm: 600 people work here! They are all needed to ensure that the performances run smoothly. The school or day-care groups get a glimpse behind the scenes and learn, for example, what it looks like in the orchestra pit and what processes take place in preparation for a performance.
Duration for day-care groups approx. 30 minutes
Duration for 1st to 6th grade approx. 60 minutes
Duration for classes from grade 7 approx. 90 minutes
For all classes and daycare groups
Free of charge in connection with a performance visit
otherwise € 3,- per person
Contact us, we will find a suitable date together.
We want to support teachers in making a visit to the opera with their school class an exciting and enriching excursion for everyone involved. For almost all performances on the main stage and in the Tischlerei, we therefore offer preparatory workshops for school classes that you can book in conjunction with an opera visit. In preparation for the performance, school groups not only learn about the plot of the opera, but at the same time playfully engage with the respective theatre language, the production and the music.
The workshops usually take place at the opera, but it is also possible to visit the school.
Duration 90 minutes
Free of charge
with the exception of the performance
[€ 8,– per ticket]
Sponsorship classes accompany a new production on the main stage or in the Tischlerei. During rehearsal visits, workshops and discussions and, of course, during the performance visit, pupils gain insights into the respective work and the creation of a production during rehearsal visits, workshops and discussions with artists of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Feel free to contact us if you would like to become a sponsor class for a production.
All suitable new productions for the sponsor class project can be found here with age recommendations:
La fiamma | from 16 years old
Registration until 6 September 2024
Macbeth | from 15 years old
Registration until 15 October 2024
Die Frau ohne Schatten | from 16 years old
Registration until 16 December 2024
Lash | from 16 years old
Registration until 10 June 2025
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | from 16 years
Registration until 2 June 2025
Before attending a concert or performance, classes with a particular interest in music are given an insight into the rehearsal work of the orchestra. In conversation with the musicians, they learn more about the special features and challenges of their work with music.
In our "Four Wins" instrument presentations, the children get to know four different orchestra instruments up close and can also try them out themselves.
The format "Krawumm" presents the various instruments of the percussion group.
Orchestra rehearsal attendance free of charge
with the exception of the performance
[€ 8,– per ticket]
Instrument performances
"Four wins" and
"Krawumm"
€ 3,- per person from class 1
In cooperation with "Rhapsody in School", singers visit classes at school and introduce themselves and their art. The class then attends a rehearsal and finally a performance.
Grades 7 and upwards
Free of charge
with the exception of the performance
[€ 8,– per ticket]
We are in our third TUSCH year with the Brüder Grimm primary school in Berlin Wedding. This year, theatre pedagogue Elly Jarvis and the pupils of a Year 5 class will be exploring the topic of "names". Every person, every thing, every place has one. It provides information about identity and belonging, it defines, but can also mislead. Everything becomes more real as soon as it is given a name. Names of all kinds should be explored sonically and musically. Songs with their own names will be created, things will be named and perhaps brought into being in the first place, existing names will be questioned and, of course, new names will be invented and found.
The artistic project will be performed at the school, in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the TUSCH festival in Podewil 2025.
Theatre teacher Elly Jarvis
Partner school Brüder-Grimm-Grundschule
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