Community Opera 2025

€ 29,00 (conc. € 19,00*)
School pupils and students € 9,00
Community € 5,00

*Concessionary rates apply to federal civilian service volunteers, unemployed individuals and persons with a certified disability of at least 50% disability according to the German »GdB« scale.

Would you like to support the project even further? Every donation makes a difference – thank you!

Account for donations:

Die Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen
Die Sparkasse Bremen
IBAN: DE48 2905 0101 0001 6303 26
BIC: SBREDEDE22

The view of the high-rise backdrop remains but due to construction work on the ›Grüner Hügel‹ (Green Hill), the opera tent will be located this year a few metres further along towards the meadow on Pfälzer Weg. We would like to thank our hosts, the school (OSK) on Koblenzer Straße.

Directions

As parking spaces around the opera house are limited, we recommend using public transport wherever possible. The opera house is within walking distance of stops ›Tenever Zentrum‹ and ›Neuwieder Straße‹ on tram line 1 (see map).

You can also park at Weserpark (please note: avoid the multi-storey car park and the parking deck as these close at 9.30 pm). From Weserpark, you can easily reach the opera house by taking tram (line 1) towards Huchting and getting off at the stop ›Tenever Zentrum‹ (see map).

This world-class orchestra and the local community, alongside professionals brought in for the occasion, take care of providing the scenery, costumes, make-up and the unmistakable sound of opera. Months ago, a group of schoolchildren went round OTe with recording devices and collected atmospheric sounds from the local community. From the resulting beat-enriched soundscapes, the GSO instrumental classes developed musical motifs which were then edited by an arranger and composer and combined into a complete score. The results of the acoustic search for local sounds and the improvisations of the GSO classes are complemented by classical works, including pieces by Prokofiev, Elgar and Mendelssohn. Around 230 people from the community, including two choirs, will ultimately perform on stage together with the Kammer­philharmonie. Not to be overlooked, the fantastic staging and scenery, also made in OTe. Over a hundred children and young people in tailor-made costumes perform alongside the professionals, making this mammoth spectacle, with a total of 600 participants, a fascinating artistic masterpiece. One thing is certain: this 10th community opera will amaze everyone, showing once again that the power of community is much more than just a dream!

€ 29,00 (conc. € 19,00*)
School pupils and students € 9,00
Community € 5,00

*Concessionary rates apply to federal civilian service volunteers, unemployed individuals and persons with a certified disability of at least 50% disability according to the German »GdB« scale.

Would you like to support the project even further? Every donation makes a difference – thank you!

Account for donations:

Die Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen
Die Sparkasse Bremen
IBAN: DE48 2905 0101 0001 6303 26
BIC: SBREDEDE22

The view of the high-rise backdrop remains but due to construction work on the ›Grüner Hügel‹ (Green Hill), the opera tent will be located this year a few metres further along towards the meadow on Pfälzer Weg. We would like to thank our hosts, the school (OSK) on Koblenzer Straße.

Directions

As parking spaces around the opera house are limited, we recommend using public transport wherever possible. The opera house is within walking distance of stops ›Tenever Zentrum‹ and ›Neuwieder Straße‹ on tram line 1 (see map).

You can also park at Weserpark (please note: avoid the multi-storey car park and the parking deck as these close at 9.30 pm). From Weserpark, you can easily reach the opera house by taking tram (line 1) towards Huchting and getting off at the stop ›Tenever Zentrum‹ (see map).

This world-class orchestra and the local community, alongside professionals brought in for the occasion, take care of providing the scenery, costumes, make-up and the unmistakable sound of opera. Months ago, a group of schoolchildren went round OTe with recording devices and collected atmospheric sounds from the local community. From the resulting beat-enriched soundscapes, the GSO instrumental classes developed musical motifs which were then edited by an arranger and composer and combined into a complete score. The results of the acoustic search for local sounds and the improvisations of the GSO classes are complemented by classical works, including pieces by Prokofiev, Elgar and Mendelssohn. Around 230 people from the community, including two choirs, will ultimately perform on stage together with the Kammer­philharmonie. Not to be overlooked, the fantastic staging and scenery, also made in OTe. Over a hundred children and young people in tailor-made costumes perform alongside the professionals, making this mammoth spectacle, with a total of 600 participants, a fascinating artistic masterpiece. One thing is certain: this 10th community opera will amaze everyone, showing once again that the power of community is much more than just a dream!

More than 50 years after the dream of a large, future-orientated housing estate, this year’s Community Opera focuses on the vision of a better world and the longing for a city that seems to be made of dreams. What exactly should this city look like and how should people live together in it? These were the research questions that a team from the Future Lab discussed with a wide variety of people in the district in May 2024, including at youth clubs, the mothers‘ centre and district festivals. The research into longing continued in the comprehensive school’s lessons where a basic framework for the opera story was developed and the research results were finally translated and dramatised by a professional librettist: a story set in a perhaps not too distant future and whose characters dream of their very own Utopia.

More than 50 years after the dream of a large, future-orientated housing estate, this year’s Community Opera focuses on the vision of a better world and the longing for a city that seems to be made of dreams. What exactly should this city look like and how should people live together in it? These were the research questions that a team from the Future Lab discussed with a wide variety of people in the district in May 2024, including at youth clubs, the mothers‘ centre and district festivals. The research into longing continued in the comprehensive school’s lessons where a basic framework for the opera story was developed and the research results were finally translated and dramatised by a professional librettist: a story set in a perhaps not too distant future and whose characters dream of their very own Utopia.