Opera workshop on the Rhine

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The opera workshop on the Rhine , based in Hürth, designs children's operas and music theater for adults. The productions combine opera , cabaret and improvisational theater . As a non-profit association, the Opernwerkstatt is on the one hand dedicated to promoting young artists, on the other hand it pursues social projects for the integration of socially disadvantaged groups.

financing

The opera workshop is financed through the sale of guest performances. Individual projects received funding from Aktion Mensch , the Socioculture Fund, the City of Cologne and many other institutions.

Repertoire (excerpt)

  • "Hamlet", rock musical based on W. Shakespeare
  • "Ancient heroes - consider them armed and dangerous", scenic radio play with sand painting
  • "The Snow Maiden Snegurochka", children's play
  • "4 New Testaments", stage 4 people with different disabilities
  • " Carmen ", opera by Georges Bizet
  • "Some like Mozart - all 22 Mozart operas in 90 minutes" by Tracy E. Lord
  • "3 Divas", shrill ladies' cabaret
  • "Germany´s next superstar" including a parody of Germany's most popular casting shows
  • "The Little Magic Flute" based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • "Hoffmännchen" after Jacques Offenbach
  • " Reineke Fuchs " based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , music: Ulrike Haage
  • "Mozart's Magic Box"
  • "Rumpelstilzchen", children's opera based on Brothers Grimm , music: Andreas Winkler, libretto: Martin Brenne

Prices

With the integrative radio play "20 Emotions", the Opernwerkstatt am Rhein won 1st prize in the category "Radio Play / Feature" and the audience award at the NRW Citizen Media Prize 2011 of the State Agency for Media.

The children's opera "Die Kleine Zauberflöte" won first prize at the Rheinerft Festival in 2012 as the festival's best production and Mauricio Virgens received the Erftlandring as best male performer. The "Children's Opera in the Region" series received an award from Federal President Joachim Gauck . (Land of Ideas 2015)

The ensemble

The ensemble under the artistic direction of Sascha von Donat consists of around 70 freelance musicians and singers.

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