Oper quicklebendig (Opera live)
Young People and the Salzburg Easter Festival
The life of young people in the 21st century is constantly accompanied by music. Personal triumphs, the trials and tribulations of becoming an adult have their own soundtrack, and all too often there is no room for opera as a genre. And yet opera is perhaps the music genre that opens itself up to us most of all because through the music we can find life situations we have ourselves experienced. Over the centuries the subjects of classical operas have lost none of their explosive power: love, fidelity, jealousy and revenge are also relevant for young people in the 21st century.
The project Opera Live - Young People and the Salzburg Easter Festival makes opera accessible for young people by appealing to all the senses as something they can listen to, watch, understand, and through which they can experience and share emotions. Once the door to opera has been opened - and this happens quite literally during the project “Young People and Opera Festivals”, it opens up a completely new and increasingly exciting world which the project participants can explore individually.
For sixteen years now, between 700 and 1000 young people from the city and province of Salzburg have taken the opportunity in the context of a variety of workshops to become better acquainted with the current opera production of the Salzburg Easter Festival.
The aim of the project is to help them to understand complex stories, to become absorbed by the emotionality of the music and to create a reference to their own world of experience.
The basic condition for the success of the project Young People and the Easter Festival is curiosity and openness of the participants. In some cases many teachers and pupils even give up their free time and are fully committed to the project. Flexibility and creativity on the part of all participants are required so that they can become involved in such a complex subject which for some is completely foreign to the normal curriculum.
Oper quicklebendig
Young People & the Salzburg Easter Festival
A joint project of the Salzburg Easter Festival and Akzente/Theater der Jugend under the auspices of Eliette von Karajan.
