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Stephan Bögel
Welcome!
Being right at the centre of events, listening to music, getting off on some pretty ‘sick’ stories, singing along, acting along… All that and more is possible at Young Opera. We get up on the main stage and huddle down in the Tischlerei, we visit kindergartens and schools, refugee centres and youth centres. Our programme ranges from concerts for babies to transcultural performances, from family workshops to composition labs, from further training for kindergarten teachers to performances that complement school curricula.
We look forward to meeting you!
Tamara Schmidt, Head of Young Opera
We look forward to meeting you!
Tamara Schmidt, Head of Young Opera
Young Opera's performances
Schedule
Live in our Foyer on 24 May 2019
Fontane Writing Workshop
In the break of the performance, a sound installation will be heard in the parquet foyer, developed by pupils of the Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule and the Peter-Ustinov-Schule based on OCEANE. The project was led by slam poet Bas Böttcher and composer Nora Krahl and took place in cooperation between the Junge Deutsche Oper and the Junge Literaturhaus.
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The children's chorus is 10!
There are many ways at the Deutsche Oper Berlin for budding singers to get actively involved in opera and concerts. With a roll of approx. 150 active singers, the Children’s and Youth Chorus is an important constituent of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Chorus master Christian Lindhorst is the contact person for queries and registrations.
based onWolfgang Amadeus Mozart - again from 9 December 2019
The Tale of the Magic Flute
Prince Tamino falls head over heels in love with Princess Pamina when he receives her picture as a gift. Pamina's love for the Prince is awakened when she hears the tales of Papageno, the bird catcher, with whom she then sings a love duet, Papageno standing in for Tamino. However, these two children of royal blood have a few obstacles to surmount before they can be united.
World premiere on 22 November 2019
Samuel Penderbayne: The Snow Queen
With humour and awe Brigitte Dethier (photo) and Samuel Penderbayne will tell a road-trip movie together: musical flowers, a croaking clarinet, a tuba reindeer and the eerily beautiful synthesiser world of the Snow Queen are just a few ingredients in this musical theatre in which the children experience the story up close.
Amateur opera: free time, family and friends
We throw the stage open to exhibitionists, thinkers and the curious! Be it a project or a production: we want your ideas, opinions, stories and experiences … onstage and backstage.
Classroom outing to the opera
We can help attune your pupils to opera and will make sure that every outing has a lasting effect on your youngsters. Be a school class sponsor for a premiere or get to know us and what we do by attending workshops, tours or one of our performances.
A partner for teachers
What do school children need to know? And what does theatre involve? What ways of conveying information should you be using in class and which works are suitable for your pupils? How can musical theatre, as aesthetic and didactic creative principles, be woven into the school curriculum?
Tickets for children and teenagers for €10.00
Jules Massenet: Don Quichotte
Don Quixote is the man who tilts at windmills. He who takes up with a horde of bandits. And whose love is returned by the beautiful Dulcinea. Yet the "knight of the sorrowful countenance" must come to realise that his dreams have no place in the reality of others. Jules Manneset's Don Quichotte is a "comédie heroique" about aging, about the past, and about the extent to which life can become a dream and a dream can come to life ... 7. Juni 2019
A performance by the Children’s Club – 22, 23 June 2019
Songs you can’t get out of your head
In recent months members of the Children’s Club have been hard at work in the Catchy Song tailor’s workshop cutting up tunes, cropping texts, triggering memories and ranking beats on the catchiness scale.
A performance by the Youth Club – 22, 23 June 2019
Quality Time
In the youth club we talk about our lives. We’re doing this work-experience project studying other people’s lives - in Berlin and on another continent. We learning about the kind of things that affect their daily routine. What are their options?
Part of our day-to-day activities
“Rhapsody in School”
Donald Runnicles, our General Music Director, opted for some hands-on involvement with this project, visiting the John F. Kennedy School on 6th September to offer pupils from the 11th and 12th grade some insights into rehearsal work and to work on Alban Berg’s WOZZECK. The pupils were then invited to observe a rehearsal at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and later attend a performance of the finished product.
Part of our day-to-day activities
“Real Dreams”
In the autumn of 2018 pupils associated with our ‘school class sponsor’ project, i.e. Classes 1 and 2 from Lietzensee Primary School, were involved in the musical-theatre production NACHT BIS ACHT. Everyday objects were transformed into absurd characters, weird and wonderful spatial entities and acoustic gadgets. They then put the objects on display at their school in mid-October 2018 and in the Deutsche Oper Berlin as part of the NACHT BIS ACHT performances.
Part of our day-to-day activities
Music lab in the autumn holidays
Which people would I do anything for and which people do I prefer to avoid? What unites us and who do I want in my gang? Over 50 children and teenagers spent a week (22nd and 28th October) exploring the notions of friendship and trust, exclusion and belonging, Them versus Us. The youngsters sallied forth into the city, researching sounds, meeting experts, developing sets of questions, looking for answers. And they found …yet more questions.