Opera for beginners, children and adolescents

If you want to introduce your children to a later life, which is to be relaxed through frequent music enjoyment, a wide-ranging musical taste than the geding of the casting bands compiled from a marketing point of view, you will bring you up to many music styles at a young age.

The adolescents should then get to know the different forms of entertainment music as well as the different faces of classical music, and that includes being introduced “opera”

Even if this project is considered by quite a few parents with mixed feelings, opera and youth initially seem to be a very bulky topic.

However, the lively interest of the adults in the visit of a music theater (as the opera venues are called “cultural theory”) is often underestimated by these parents: the opera is very present in our country, a third of the population once a year, 5 percent more than in folk music or hit performance.

Center for Center for Culture Research, the parents in our country are decisively interested in inspiring their children for classical music and our musical heritage.

In recent years, the music theater has prepared for these encouraging results of the evaluation of visitor numbers and surveys with growing enthusiasm, there are more and more offers for children and adolescents who free the start of our great cultural heritage from every inappropriate awe and simply in mood.

As an example, we take one of our capital operas: With the “Junge Deutsche Opera”, developed its own children and youth field, in which there is a lot going on: there is a concert series for the very smallest, the so-called “baby concerts”, Advent singing for children and in spring Max and Moritz as a scenic seating concert, suitable for children from 4 years.

Various pieces were specially staged for children and adolescents, so there is Peter I. Tschaikowskijs “Nusscracker” as a performance under the motto “Children dancing for children” , after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's motifs, the fairy tale of the magic flute for kids from 5 years, and the teenagers from 14 years were able to go to a youth project on Wagner's “Ring des Nibelungen” by spring 2013 Name “The Ring: Next Generation” actively participate.

This unique project gave up to 80 young people the opportunity to get to know the stage of the German Opera themselves and to develop a new and experimental music theater evening together with a company team, musicians and singers.

The “Next Generation” is not only represented here as a subsequent generation, which, as in the original from Wagner, is supposed to put the world in order for the parents, and dj Alexandra Holtsch and DJ Panacea electronics and sound from the plate against the Wagner music from the orchestra ditch.

Other pieces were wrote new to children, for example the play “somehow different”, a music theater by Juliane Klein and “Oh, how beautiful is Panama”, music theater from Lin Wang according to motives by Janosch, which premiered in January 2013. Both performances are suitable for small visitors from 5 years.

For children between the ages of 5 and 9, there are still the opera mice that their curiosity can live behind the scenes in the discovery of the opera in tours and in workshops, the Deutsche Oper Berlin has its own children's choir, and for older young people from 15 to 30 years there are backstage- backstage with which the teenagers can take part in opera performances, orchestral and stage samples and tours.

The youth club's opera round table conveys encounters with artists and employees, members of the umbrella organization "Juvenilia" can exchange ideas with the youth clubs of other European opera houses.

For interested parties in active participation, the youth club-onstage intended to play a game club for music theater enthusiasts with the “music theater laboratory” in which research, tried and experimented. The young people get to know the entire development process of an opera project and at the end are allowed to go to the “boards that mean the world”.

At least in Berlin it is not at least difficult to impressively close the world of the opera of the opera of the opera, all information about the children's and youth projects can be found on the website www.deutscheoperlin.de under the link “Junge Deutsche Oper” .

However, there are such projects around the opera in many cities in Germany, as inquire in your home opera house. Or you are looking for offers for young people on the website of Juvenilia, the European Association of Young Opera Freunde, you can reach the (only English -language) page at www.juvenilia.org .

In the following article by Christoph Hölscher, you also get exciting insights into working with children in relation to opera. He rehearses the high art of the opera with children. Here, adult musicians and actors prepare the genre opera child -friendly:

Maybe on this occasion you will feel like treating to an exciting opera evening Or do you just start as an adult to be interested in the opera?

Then you also have the choice under various operas that are recommended for adults “opera beginners”, soon you will also find an article here for these “operas for beginners”.