Download: Youth Programme 2013
Opera Performances for Children
Two masterworks from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s operatic oeuvre will be presented for our youngest audience members – but also for their accompanying adults – in a readily understood and abridged version of about 70 minutes’ length. The main protagonists – members of the Young Singers Project – tell their intriguing stories in spoken dialogue and sing their most beautiful arias, accompanied by the sound of an orchestra and breathtaking stage effects. An ideal introduction to the great and fascinating world of opera for the entire family!
The performances will be followed by an autograph and Q&A session.
Admission € 35,– / Children & Teenagers € 20,–
Performance space: Main Auditorium of the University
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
In a special new children’s version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s first singspiel, or play with songs, you will experience big emotions and tension-filled moments: a complicated love story in which two men fight for the love of the young woman Konstanze and in which different cultures clash – all this will cast its spell on you and your family.
Die Zauberflöte
The fairy-tale-like story of the most famous German opera takes you to a world caught between good and evil, a fantasy land with enchanted musical instruments and dancing animals. Travel with Prince Tamino and his friend Papageno as they go in search of Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, and witness how Papageno manages to conjure up his Papagena. An adventurous journey awaits you – at its end, Prince Tamino and Papageno finally survive their difficult trials with the help of the magic flute.
“Children Perform Opera!”
Interactive Theatre
Wolfgang A. Mozart • Die Zauberflöte
Felix Mendelssohn/William Shakespeare • Ein Sommernachtstraum
A unique opera and theatre experience for young Festival-goers: kids slip into the costumes and roles of the famous theatre figures themselves, performing their own rendition of the plot together with the young stars of the Young Singers Project. Parents can observe these two and a half hours of cheerful stage action.
Age: from ca. 4 upwards
Language: German
Admission € 20,–
“Children Perform Opera!” • Ein Sommernachtstraum
July 31, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 01, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 03, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 04, 2013 - 11:00 a.m.
August 07, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
“Children Perform Opera!” • Die Zauberflöte
July 26, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
July 28, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
July 30, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 02, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 06, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
August 08, 2013 - 11:00 a.m.
Performance Venue: Kleiner Probesaal der Rainberghalle
“Fun and Games with Amadeus”
Opera Introductions with Staged Accompaniment
The Salzburg Festival offers introductions with staged accompaniment before performances of this year’s two children’s opera productions. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself takes children on a journey into the world of opera, introducing them to the action on stage in a creative and playful manner.
Age: from ca. 4 upwards
Language: German
Admission € 5,–
“Fun and Games with Amadeus” • Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Children
July 27, 2013 - 1:30 p.m.
August 04, 2013 - 3:30 p.m.
August 10, 2013 - 1:30 p.m.
August 14, 2013 - 3:30 p.m.
“Fun and Games with Amadeus” • Die Zauberflöte for Children
August 08, 2013 - 3:30 p.m.
August 09, 2013 - 3:30 p.m.
August 11, 2013 - 1:30 p.m.
August 13, 2013 - 3:30 p.m.
Performance Venue: Lecture Hall 101 (of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Salzburg, Max-Reinhardt-Platz, Entrance via Furtwänglerpark)
Final Performances of the Opera Camps
In cooperation with the Vienna Philharmonic and with financial support from the Salzburg Foundation of the American Austrian Foundation (AAF) and the Friends of the Salzburg Festival
At the week-long opera camps, children aged 9 to 17 have the opportunity to mount their own opera together with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and with the support of an international team of teachers and artists. You are invited to the public final performances of the opera camps Falstaff and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the republic.
Free admission
Final Performances of the Opera Camps Falstaff: July 28, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Final Performances of the Opera Camps Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: August 4, 2013, 3:00 p.m.
Snow White
Once upon a time, there were a king and queen whose greatest wish was to have a child. After a year, they had a daughter: Snow White – her skin white as snow, her lips as red as blood and her hair black as ebony. Stage director Nicolas Liautard creates a poetic re-interpretation of the Brothers Grimm’s fairy-tale, a sequence of living pictures in which body language, light effects and scenery meld into one magical experience, stimulating the imagination of young and old viewers. Snow White, who lives in an eerie and silent world of images, will make an unforgettable impression on children aged 7 and up and adults. There will be no language barriers – this image-rich performance needs no words!
Admission € 35,– / Children & Teenagers € 20,–
Sans Objet
Sans Objet is a very special theatre piece, fascinating viewers of all ages. The performance, which also includes elements of dance and circus, resembles a puppet play. However, where ordinarily objects are moved and manipulated by human hands, Sans Objet features an object which “operates” people. A gigantic robot’s assembly arm from a car factory and its powerful energy fill the entire theatre space. The machine’s body with its complex and precise movements almost outdoes the abilities of its flesh-and-blood colleagues. Intriguing aspects of the relationship between man and machine will be questioned in this piece without words.
Admission € 40,- / Children & Teenagers € 20,-
Children’s Orchestra Rehearsal
Open Rehearsal for Families
The National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela offers children the chance to grow into a functioning social and cultural network. Members of the Venezuelan Children’s Orchestra and the Mozart Children’s Orchestra of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg meet and throw themselves into the orchestra fray with pure enjoyment of playing and interpreting, letting the spirit of communality and the power of music take over. On August 7, families can experience the rehearsal process first-hand.
Age: from ca. 7 upwards
Performance space: Stiftung Mozarteum
Admission € 10,– / Children & Teenagers € 5,–
White Hands Choir – Concerts for Families
The White Hands Choir was founded as part of El Sistema and gives children and teenagers with various handicaps the opportunity of better integration into society by making music together with children without handicaps. The choir consists of two groups. Children with movement, cognitive or visual handicaps sing while the deaf-mute children, wearing white gloves, accompany the songs with wonderful, artistically expressive movements.
Age: from ca. 7 upwards
Performance space: Stiftung Mozarteum
Admission € 15,– / Children & Teenagers € 10,–
Great Superar Choral Festival
Numerous choruses from superar locations in Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Rumania, Bosnia and Turkey will give two choral concerts together with children and teenagers from Salzburg and members of the National Youth Choir of Venezuela, uniting up to 400 choral singers at a time.
Age: from ca. 7 upwards
Performance space: Hangar-7
Admission € 5,–
All links to Program for Children and Teenagers 2013