… FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM 6 YEARS UP

FAMILY GUIDED TOUR

A journey of discovery: treading unfamiliar paths, getting to know new places, being transported into another world …

On Sunday mornings families may explore Düsseldorf’s opera house or the theatre in Duisburg. You get to know parts of the building closed to the public – the backstage area, the costume depot, the make-up studio. And then it’s do it yourself! Stage-acting and musicmaking let you conjure up a new world in the rehearsal rooms and discover the important facts about the imminent children’s production. Make sure of your tickets in good time!

Tickets available only in advance: 5,00 € / reduced rate 3,00 €
Duration: about 1 ½ hours

Family Opera Workshop

Before the première of Ernst Toch’s fairy-tale opera “The Princess and the Pea” families can be interactively involved in story, music and staging.

NEW: after the workshop the public can sample a stage rehearsal.
Admission free!

Patronage projects

Become patrons of our operas and ballets! You can peep behind the scenes of Deutsche Oper am Rhein und take stock of current new productions through practical workshops. You can of course get to know the artists, who with a bit of luck might take you into their rehearsals. As a culmination you can attend the final dress-rehearsal.
Before the première we meet every week. For information on exact dates and times we are available at the phone number 0211.89 25-457 or E-mail schule@operamrhein.de

FROM 6 UP
Zauberflöte for children
April / May 2013 – Duisburg

Figaro
December 2012 / January 2013 –Düsseldorf

FROM 8 UP
Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
December 2012 / January 2013 – Duisburg
February / March 2013 - Düsseldorf

Der gestiefelte Kater (Puss in Boots)
September / October 2012 – Düsseldorf
November / December 2012 - Duisburg

Die Nachtigall
November / December 2012 – Düsseldorf


Briefing on Children’s Operas

Half an hour before any family or school class performance of “Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse”, “Die Nachtigall” or “Der gestiefelte Kater”, the public can attend a lecture talk in the foyer to learn the salient points about the piece in question.


Family Info Letter

All who desire information about current pieces for families or our patronage and other such special projects can join the mailing list for postal or E-mail information (at present only in German): schule@operamrhein.de

… YOUNGSTERS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Opera and Ballet Testers

If you are curious about opera or ballet, you can test our performances free of charge. We can get up a small group to go to a performance together. We then await your opinion: fill up a questionnaire to tell us what you thought was good and what was less good. If you are between 16 and 28, join our E-mailing list at: schule@operamrhein.de


Open Workshops

All those interested from 16 up are invited to discover our new productions in practical workshops. In the rehearsal rooms of the Düsseldorf opera house there is no lecturing: taking part is everything!

Participation free of charge, booking by E-mail essential: Schule@operamrhein.de
Meeting point: Stage Door, always from 19:00 to 20:30 h.


Patronage Projects

If you want to become especially closely involved in one of our productions, you can become a patron of “Ballett am Rhein – b.13” or of the world première “SehnSuchtMEER oder Vom fliegenden Holländer”. Through practical workshops, rehearsal attendance, peeps behind the scenes and contact with the artists, you can obtain exclusive inside knowledge of the progress of the production concerned. As a culmination you can attend the final dress rehearsal.

We will meet about once a week up to the première. For exact dates and times please enquire at phone 0211.89 25-457 or E-mail schule@operamrhein.de

FROM 16 UP

Ballett am Rhein – b.13
October / November 2012 – Düsseldorf

SehnSuchtMEER
February / March 2013 – Düsseldorf


Easter Holidays Project

During the 2013 Easter holidays the costume depot of Düsseldorf Opernhaus is entirely in the hands of especially creative youngsters and adults from 16 up! For a whole week you can occupy the underground passages in which thousands of costumes tell stories about every time and every country. Together you can work on a strategy to use the armoury of music-theatre in giving life of a special sort to a conducted tour of the vaults. On Saturday, 30 March you will present the results of your brainstorming.
If the project is to succeed, it is important that all of you are without exception available every day from 11:00 to 18:00 h from Monday 25 March to Saturday 30 March so that the operation can run smoothly.
Interested? Then please call soon, phone number 0211.89 25457!

… TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS

Presentation of the Season

Not only for music teachers: before the season starts we invite you to a presentation of the performance schedules and of the feature offers surrounding our opera and ballet season. Afterwards you have the chance to attend the dress-rehearsal of the forthcoming première! Teachers from Düsseldorf desirous of attending the presentation more in advance of the first night are welcome to come to the earlier Duisburg presentation.
Participation free, booking by E-mail essential: schule@operamrhein.de

Theater Duisburg: Thur. 13.9.2012, 18:00 h, afterwards attendance at dress-rehearsal of “Ballett am Rhein – b.09”

Opernhaus Düsseldorf: Wed. 19.9.2012, 17:00 h, afterwards attendance at dress-rehearsal of “Elektra”


Dress-rehearsal Attendance with Introduction

After introduction to a new production and its concomitant events it is possible to attend the dress-rehearsal of each production in the opera and ballet sectors. Details will be given in due course in our teacher circulars.
Participation free of charge, booking by E-mail essential: schule@operamrhein.de


Teacher Folders

For many of our currently scheduled opera and ballet evenings a folder is available that contains a theory section offering information about the works and a practical section with suggestions for the presentation of the music, the content and the staging or choreography respectively. The folder is given away with each group reservation at no extra cost (at present in German only).


Teacher Info Letter

Four times per season we distribute information on current opera and ballet programmes of interest for a young public. We include reports on highlights, advance information on special projects, and invitations to attend dress rehearsals. Join our mailing list for post and E-mails. This service is in German only: schule@operamrhein.de


Advanced Workshops

There is no need to be shy of opera and ballet. In advanced workshops for teachers and instructors one can get to know an imminent new production and with it to feel at home in the genre. One is advised how to discuss the theme with pupils and is familiarized with activities behind the scenes in Opernhaus Düsseldorf or Theater Duisburg.
Participation free of charge, fixtures made ad hoc.

… SCHOOL CLASSES

Preparation and Recapitulation

A visit to the opera or the ballet is always an event. But it is not always easy to find access to the music, content and staging or choreography respectively. In a practical workshop at school, pupils work out by means of their own creativity what the various facets of the piece they are to visit mean to them. After the performance we like to recapitulate with the pupils what struck them about the experience.
When connected to the visit of a school class to a performance, such preparation and recapitulation are service offers free of charge.


Conducted Tours for School Classes

Opernhaus Düsseldorf
The costume depot and the exciting technical functions of the stage are highlights of any tour of the Düsseldorf opera house building. If a school class is attending a performance, a backstage tour is offered as a bonus free of charge. If no performance is attended, a charge of 45,00 € per class is made.
Contact: Wilfried Schmerbach
Phone + 49 (0) 211 . 89 25-603
w.schmerbach@operamrhein.de

Theater Duisburg
A tour of the Theater Duisburg building is free of charge for school classes. Please contact our colleague there.
Britta Fehlberg
Phone + 49 (0) 203 . 30 09-242


Professional Information

Running an opera house involves more than fifty professions. On certain appointed days we are glad to inform those interested in careers ranging from singing to marketing, and how to train for them and to study the material.
Advice is free of charge, please ask for an appointment.

TICKETS FOR SCHOOL CLASSES

For almost all performances of Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Ballett am Rhein there are reduced ticket prices for members of school classes, applying to available tickets.

OPERNHAUS DÜSSELDORF: 6,50 € per schoolchild
THEATER DUISBURG: 5,50 € per schoolchild
FOYER PRODUCTIONS: 4,00 € per schoolchild

Booking
Vera Jokel
Phone + 49 (0) 211 . 89 25-328,
Fax + 49 (0) 211 . 89 25-365
E-Mail: gruppen@operamrhein.de