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Our afternoon, weekend and holiday offerings give children, teenagers and families an opportunity to try stuff out and pursue their own creative ideas. We provide you with almost boundless scope to discover new skills, develop existing talents, probe new realms of self-identity and find a platform from which to express your own art! In our workshops artists and drama teachers go about the task of reinventing, with you, the world of musical theatre. The resulting performances make up an important part of our calendar. Everyone is welcome and all are invited!
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A year of discovering opera
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!
Dates from autumn 2020 / Costs € 20,00 for the whole season
Songs and Poets for children / Tischlerei
For children aged 8 and over
The end of October is the time of the year when it starts trying to stay gloomy all day. And this concert is an ode to the spooky. Singers deliver songs of eerie beauty, an author reads scary poems for kids, and children read dark poetry that they’ve written themselves.
Concept John Parr, Tamara Schmidt, Karla Montasser [Haus für Poesie] With Arne Rautenberg [author and graphic artist], singers and musicians of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and children from the autumn-holiday workshop
Duration 60 minutes / no interval
Autumn-holiday project with the Haus für Poesie
For children aged 8 to 12
During the autumn holiday we celebrate spooky stuff. In a project organised jointly with the Haus für Poesie we invite children to come up with their own monsters and other scary characters. The resulting poetry will then be performed during the »Spooky« concert alongside offerings by a poet and singers of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Facilitators Bas Böttcher, Karla Montasser
Autumn holiday 2020
Grand Finale of the Winter Holiday Music Lab / Tischlerei
For children aged 6 and over
What are you allowed to do – and what’s banned? And who checks up on you, anyway? Are you going to be the one who decides, from this day onwards? In this project, kids spend the winter holidays making music together, helped by artists. The children take the audience off to their own worlds, using any available instruments, or instruments they’ve made themselves, and using voice or electronic equipment and film, drama and creative writing.
With 60 children and artists
Duration 60 minutes / no interval
Winter Holiday Music Lab
For children and teenagers aged 8 to 12
In the Winter Holiday Music Lab children and artists spend a week together, acting, making music and experimenting with sounds and stories in a number of different groups. The results are performed in front of an audience at the end of the week.
Winter holiday 2021 /// Cost €45 / concessions €15
Performances by the Children’s Club and Youth Club / Tischlerei
For children aged 9+ / For teens aged 14+
Who do you feel close to and why? What is your greatest wish? In our Children’s and Youth Clubs we celebrate community. Drama teachers and musicians work with a group of children and a group of teens and create two separate productions of musical theatre, to be performed in the Tischlerei.
With children, teenagers and artists
Duration 45 minutes / no interval / In planning
Get involved in the Children’s Club
For children and teenagers aged 9 to 12
You don’t need to be a professional to make musical theatre! You just need to have something to say, to have an ear for music and some ideas that you’d like to express onstage. With this raw material, and guided by a drama teacher and a musician, a group of youngsters meet regularly to create a work to be performed in the Tischlerei.
In planning
Get involved in the Youth Club
For teenagers aged 14 to 18
Do you like listening to, or making, music? Do you act, write your own texts or make videos? This is the place for anyone who likes the idea of meeting up regularly with other youngsters to create a work for the stage. With professional guidance, you will come up with a piece of musical theatre to be aired in two performances in the Tischlerei.
In planning
For teenagers aged 13 and over
Wann wirst du laut? Wofür erhebst du deine Stimme? Was hast du zu sagen? Mit When do you shout out loud? In what situations do you raise your voice? What do you have to say? Who do you argue with? Who doesn’t get listened to? Be LOUD! Our big new youth production, featuring 40 performers aged 14+, gets its world premiere in the Tischlerei in late October. Assisted by professionals, the youngsters have been writing music, texts and scenes and making videos.
Director Jonas Egloff Music coach Misha Cvijovic Video Kalma Sets Cleo Niemeyer Vocal coaching Ganna Gryniva Dramaturgy Jörg Königsdorf, Tamara Schmidt With 40 teenagers
Duration 90 minutes / no interval
LAUT! receives assistance from »Zur Bühne«, the funding programme of the Deutscher Bühnenverein as part of the »Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung« programme.
Here is our video feature for the project 2019
