We welcome you 90 minutes before the performance in the stalls foyer (for performances in the opera house) or in the entrance foyer (for performances in the Musikalische Komödie) and then we take you on a tactile tour of the stage for a guided tour or feel through the world of fabrics, costumes, wigs, props and stage design elements.
We then offer opera with live audio description for blind and visually impaired people. Guests are given precise descriptions of everything that happens on stage via a headset. Speaker Anke Nicolai says: ‘The art is to reproduce the events in the short gaps where there is no singing, to fill the gaps precisely and with the essentials so that the production comes to new, colourful life.’
Audio description with tactile course
See with your ears: Music theatre for all
Audio descriptionPerformances of the 2024/2025 season with audio description and tactile course
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute
Oper Sat 12.10.2024 | 19:00 | OpernhausEinführung 30 Min. vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Konzertfoyer. Live-Audiodeskription mit Tastparcours
Evita
Musikalische Komödie Sun 04.05.2025 | 15:00 | Musikalische KomödieEinführung 30 Min. vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Venussaal. Live-Audiodeskription mit Tastparcours
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‘Forme,offeringaudiodescriptionmeansinclusion.Withmylivedescriptionsofmusicaltheatreperformances,blindandvisuallyimpairedvisitorsexperienceculturalandsocialparticipation.Iamanaid,sotospeak,andmaketheopera,theproduction,visibletotheear.’Anke Nicolai
Anke Nicolai
- has been an audio film author, editor, sound director for audio descriptions in cinema and television as well as a live describer in the theatre since 1997.
- She has already won the German Audio Film Award several times.