Get involved! Workshops & Clubs

For limelight junkies, thinkers and the inquisitive: Young Opera gives you all a stage! Your stories, ideas, opinions and experiences are needed for projects and productions - both onstage and backstage.

Contact: schmidt@deutscheoperberlin.de / Tel.: +49 [30]-343 84 534

Opera Mice (6 – 10)

Rolando Villazón zu Gast bei den Opernmäusen © Stephan Bögel

Opera Mice (6+)

The Opernmäuse ('opera mice') are back and they're taking over the opera house! Looking, listening, learning..., they're peeking behind the scenes, taking tours and workshops, being asked for their impressions at rehearsals of our children's productions and generally peering and probing into every nook and cranny of the Opera. All we can say is: Go for it!

Opernmäuse membership covers a whole season. Mäuse meetings are held around once a month, on different weekdays, from 14 September 2018 onwards.
One-off fee of € 20,- [Places are limited.]
Registrations via Ticket Service of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Tel.: +49 [30] 343 84 343
Autumn Holidays Project (8 – 14)

Impressionens from a Workshop: Making-Of-Video

Radio show featuring Berlin children and teenagers (8 - 14)

Register now with this PDF-Document

For one whole week we will be moving around Berlin collecting sounds and trying to learn more about the various thoroughfares of the city and its inhabitants. ‘We’ are the 50 children and teenagers aged 8 to 14 taking part in the winter-holiday music lab organised by Young Opera. The aim of a number of workshops is for kids to record the sounds of our environment. We will be conducting interviews with Berliners and working the material into creative performances. Together with our workshop leader we will present the results of our research in an audio show.

Workshop-Period: 22 – 28 October 2018
Presentation: 28 October 2018, 15.00h [Tischlerei]
Fee: € 45,– / red. € 15,–
If you are interested, please contact jungedeutscheoper@deutscheoperberlin.de
Children’s Club (9 – 12)

Children's Club © Stephan Bögel

The Children’s Club is two years old! Following on from the success of its first season, the musical theatre club is heading into the next round in a more streamlined form: we meet on non-school days over the Ascension Day and Whitsun holidays and work with you to create a musical play to be performed in early July in the Tischlerei. You will have a chance to rehearse musical theatre, learning by doing. No prior experience is required, but you should enjoy experimenting with music and drama. - Still at planning stage.

Rehearsals: Thursdays from February 2019 [15.30 – 17.30h]; 26 – 27 January; 26 – 27 April; 1 – 2 June; 20 – 21 June 2019
Presentations: 22, 23 June 2019 [Tischlerei]
If you are interested, please contact schmidt@deutscheoperberlin.de
Youth Club (14 – 18)

Youth Club © Stephan Bögel

What effect do I have on people? What makes me an individual? What things separate me from the rest of humanity and what things do I do that everyone else does? We turn the magnifying glass on ourselves and the rest of the world and set about developing a musical drama that treads a line between individual and group. - Still at planning stage

Rehearsals: Wednesdays from November 2018 [17.30 – 20.00h]; 26 – 28 April; 30 May – 2 June; 14 – 23 June 2019
Representations: 22, 23 Juni 2019 [Tischlerei]
If you are interested, please contact jungedeutscheoper@deutscheoperberlin.de
Common Sound-Kickoff (15+)
Common Sound mini festival (15+)

Oud meets violin, chorus meets santur, Persian rap meets electro beats: in the winter holidays of 2019 young musicians will be taking the Tischlerei by storm, bringing their music, their instruments, their songs and their stories with them. The common thread that binds them? They all live in Berlin and will be spending a week working together at the Common Sound Camp to produce new music – guided and led by Arab, Persian and European artists. The camp will culminate in the Common Sound mini festival held in the Tischlerei and consisting of concerts, workshops and a party.

16, 17 February 2019, 7pm [Tischlerei]

Transcultural music project have a long tradition at the Deutsche Oper Berlin © Stephan Bögel

Would you like to be part of the Common Sound Workshop Week?

We are seeking young people aged 15 and upwards who either sing or play a musical instrument or are simply interested in music. We’ll spend the daytime hours making music in separate workshop groups and in the evenings will be jamming, chilling, playing and eating. At the end of the week we’ll perform the results of our labours at the COMMON SOUND Mini Festival. Register for the kick-off!

Kick-off: 12 and 13 January 2019, 11am – 5pm
Rehearsals: 4-10 February [winter holidays]; 11-17 February 2019
Mini festival: 16, 17 February 2019 [Tischlerei]

Registration for kick-off: schmidt@deutscheoperberlin.de
In planning
Berlin Mondiale
Since the opening of the current season the Deutsche Oper Berlin has been partnered by “Berlin Mondiale - Working with Refugees in the Arts”. As part of this network we are working closely with the residents of a refugee centre and co-hosting a range of projects and programmes that provide refugees with access to the musical-theatre art form and to the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

A collaboration with Berlin Mondiale
Young Friends / Patrons of the Opera (15+)
The „Junge Freunde im Förderkreis“ were founded in April 2009. The Young Friends can join other fans of the opera in order to enjoy the opera together, to get to know each other and to further the philantrophic ideas. They organize events and get-togethers in and revolving around the opera and serve as "Young Persons' Guide to the Opera".

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Philipp Semmer
per year € 50,–
info@jungefreunde.org / Tel. 030-34384-240