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.
Current announcements, dates, offers and recommendations are announced via our website, the regularly published newsletters "Family" and "Youth" and via Instagram. Stay informed!
Our opera family project is aimed at families with children who have not yet experienced opera. Children, parents, grandparents - and whoever else is part of the family - have the opportunity to experience rehearsal visits, musical workshops and musical productions together free of charge. In cooperation with your family centre, you will get to know the opera for children in front of and behind the stage.
The programme is aimed at families with children up to 6 years of age.
Participation is free of charge
Supported by the Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation
Project management Carolin Eichhorst
Music education workshops Christina von Nell and Letizia Massetti
If you are interested and would like to make an appointment, please send us an email!
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!
10 dates [October 2023 - July 2024].
The children must already be 6 or a maximum of 10 years old by 1 September, the programme takes place without the accompaniment of parents.
Applications will be possible again from September 2024.
One-time costs for the entire season:
€ 50,- normal price / € 10,- reduced price.
for families with proof of eligibility ("berlinpass")
In our children's club, the participating children become researchers who explore the mini-verse of opera and its surroundings. What is that big opera spaceship hovering in Charlottenburg's neighbourhood? Who are the people who work in this spaceship or live next to it? We will collect stories, sounds and melodies and use them to create a listening experience that we will present before the summer break.
Dates from September
Wednesdays from 16.30-18.30.
Participation is free of charge.
The children's club is supported by Arend and Brigitte Oetker.
In cooperation with the RambaZamba Theatre, 22 Berlin young people aged 13-18 with and without disabilities will spend eight months exploring the theme of feelings in the context of opera together with teachers and artists. The young people will present the results of their work in the form of their own musical theatre production in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin in early April 2024.
Artistic-pedagogical direction Kirsten Burger
Music workshops Misha Cvijović
Movement workshops Fernando Balsera Pita
Stage design workshops Julia Krenz
Costume workshops Carlotta Dering and Marlene van Dieken
Rehearsals take place on Tuesdays
always from 16.30- 19.00 hrs .
Participation is free of charge.
"Feelings - Now" is funded by "Zur Bühne", the support programme of the German Stage Association within the framework of "Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education".
