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Young Opera - Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Opera is for everyone!

Opera is a place of music and theatre, of sounds and images and great emotions, a place that makes many discoveries possible. Regardless of where you come from, how you define yourself, what you know and what experiences you bring with you: You are welcome here - children, young people, babies, young adults and their companions. We at Junge Deutsche Oper want to give young people access to the world of music theatre and open up a world for you in which there is something for everyone to discover. Concert formats, opera and music theatre can be experienced on the main stage, in the Tischlerei and in the foyer as part of school and daycare or in your free time with your family. We look forward to the 2024/25 season with you, your Fanny Frohnmeyer, Director of Junge Deutsche Oper
Opera is for everyone!
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From 9 years old – Premiere on 11 October 2025

The Three Riddles (9+)

In a wild mixture of fairy tale and social drama, road movie and grand opera, Detlev Glanert tells a funny, bizarre and slightly creepy story about two very different children who ultimately come together to stand up to the adult world and go their own way ... A musical theatre work for everyone aged 9 and above by Detlev Glanert, for and with children, also on stage and in the orchestra pit.
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From 5 years old – World premiere on 31 October 2025

Octopus Lady (5+)

Six-year-old Elli is supposed to sleep alone for the first time. As soon as her mother leaves the room, the door handle starts talking and suddenly the octopus lady appears and kidnaps Elli's brother. Together with the singing goldfish Mr Puddles, Elli embarks on an adventurous rescue mission and not only faces her fears, but even befriends the octopus lady in the end. A children's opera for everyone aged 5 and above by Sidney and Chiara Corbett.
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From 3 years old – 26, 27, 28 March 2026

Concerts for toddlers (3+)

All little explorers are welcome! In a cosy setting, children aged 3 to 4 are invited to experience new worlds of sound, join in, move around and be enchanted by the sounds of the musicians.
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0–1 years – 17, 18 March 2026

Baby concerts (0+)

In a pleasant atmosphere, we offer a concert format that gives babies and toddlers space to move around and gives them the opportunity to experience live music for the first time. We invite parents to observe their children's perceptions and support them.
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from 10 years - 17 Nov; 15 Dec 2024; 3, 28 Jan; 9 Feb; 4 March; 4 April; 1, 16 May; 28 June; 12 July 2025

The Magic Flute (10+)

The unequal friends Tamino and Papageno move between the realms of the night and the temple of the sun in their search for love. Tamino is in search of Pamina and Papageno finds Papagena. A fairytale-like story in a world marked by contrasts. Colourful and pictorially strong staging by Günther Krämer.
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For all from 12 years old

Sing along! ... The Intergenerational Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is looking for choristers

Our intergenerational chorus is open to everyone aged 12 and over. People of different ages and backgrounds sing together here. This season, songs will be sung on the theme of ‘People in Nature’, with a performance at our spring concert. This year, the intergenerational chorus will also be singing ‘labour songs and protest songs’. In addition, interested members of the Intergenerational Chorus have the opportunity to become part of the performances of RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY in the main theatre in July 2025 as the ‘Working People's Chorus’. The chorus will be led by Senta Aue, a long-standing member of our opera chorus ... Rehearsals take place on Mondays from 4-5.30 pm at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. If you are interested, please contact jungedeutscheoper@deutscheoperberlin.de
Sing along! ... The Intergenerational Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is looking for choristers
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A school trip to the opera

Group booking form

Would you like to attend our performances with a school class? Then select them using our group booking form: the price per pupil is €10.00, as it is for accompanying adults at a ratio of 1:10. Further accompanying adults receive a 25% discount. If you have pupils in your class whose families cannot afford to visit the opera, please contact us with the keyword ‘opera experience’. We enable these pupils (maximum 10% of the pupils per school class) to attend the performance free of charge as part of a class booking.
The group booking form is available here.
For families with children up to 6 years

Opera Families

The programme is aimed at families who are not yet familiar with the opera. Young children and their families have the opportunity to get to know the opera house in an age-appropriate way and free of charge, take part in musical workshops and experience rehearsal visits and musical theatre productions for children. In cooperation with family centres, daycare centres and the music school in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, children and adults get their first glimpse of opera in front of and behind the stage. Dates from autumn 2024.
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New in our 2025/26 season

‘Opera days’ & ‘Coming up!’

We are offering our new opera day 21 times during the 2025/26 season. On these dates, tickets for children and young people up to the age of 18 cost €10.00, and €34.00 for everyone else, regardless of seat selection. All our opera days can be found behind the link and, of course, in the respective monthly calendars. >>> For five of these performances, we have adapted our popular ‘Opera Workshop’ format, which allows you to attend a rehearsal before the performance, after our dramaturgs have provided you with interesting information about the work in an introduction. After the rehearsal, you will have the opportunity to discuss what you have seen with selected guests. The title of this series is ‘Coming up: ...!’
Our opera days
For school classes and day care centres

Opera from a different perspective: backstage tour and workshops

During the behind-the-scenes tours, the pupils can get to grips with opera in a variety of ways and gain an insight into the interaction between the diverse and numerous professions and departments. They get to know the stage, the orchestra pit and also the stage magazine from very close up and one or two hidden corners of this great opera house. In preparation for a visit to the opera, we offer school classes a wide range of workshops on all operas, which bring children and young people closer to musical theatre in a playful way.
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Musicians close by for school groups

Orchestral music

An opera without an orchestra? Unthinkable! The musicians from the Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra usually disappear into the orchestra pit during performances, but otherwise they are very happy to make contact with their audience. Pupils can visit rehearsals and talk to musicians. Instrument presentations give a closer look and present the instruments up close and also for trying out.
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Class 10-13 | School lessons at the opera!

Wagner's wild worlds

In addition to DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, five other operas by Richard Wagner can be enjoyed here this season: DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER, LOHENGRIN, PARSIFAL (pictured), TANNHÄUSER and TRISTAN UND ISOLDE. We want to give young people the opportunity to gain an initial insight into Wagner's productions and offer selected rehearsal visits in the orchestra rehearsal hall or on stage, where they can experience first-hand how Wagner's music sounds and how these works are brought to life on stage. The rehearsal visits are free of charge. Please contact us for dates.
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Do you know the Junge Deutsche Oper on Youtube and Instagram?

Take a look behind the scenes, watch rehearsals, experience the journey from conception to premiere: The new YouTube channel of the Junge Deutsche Oper and the Children's Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin is a wonderful place to browse through numerous trailers and documentaries of projects from recent years. Have fun!
Go to Youtube here!
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TUSCH - Theatre and School

This year, our theatre teacher Elly Jarvis is exploring the question of money, work and value with the pupils and teachers of our TUSCH partner school Gebrüder Grimm Primary School. In addition, the children learn about opera and what makes it tick and how much work goes into it: the big stage as well as impressive sets and costumes, music and a big orchestra, opera singers, big emotions and drama and everything else that belongs to a house like the opera.
www.tusch-berlin.de

TUKI - Theatre and Daycare

From autumn 2023, Junge Deutsche Oper will once again enter into a partnership with a TUKI day-care centre and discover the world of music theatre together with a music theatre teacher. The nursery teachers will also be taken along and given music theatre pedagogical methods to help them make further musical and theatrical discoveries with the children in the nursery.
www.tuki-berlin.de

Workshops for teachers

For all those who would like to integrate music and theatre in school and day care centres, we offer workshops in which we present music theatre pedagogical methods and try them out together. We will discuss how these can be implemented for your age group and how you can integrate music theatre as an aesthetic and pedagogical design principle into everyday school life. In addition to open workshops, we also offer dates for closed groups such as colleges, specialist seminars and kindergarten teams.
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