For schools and educators
Because there’s not always enough time for creativity and artistic pursuits in the normal school day, the Festspielhaus has joined partners and sponsors in developing programs for school classes and educators. Summer School and Columbus – Discovering Classical Music! respond directly to students' learning needs; with Teach the Teachers, educators discover how music and dance can inspire math or language lessons, while with Diggin’ Opera and IM.PULS, it’s show time for the students!
Teach the Teachers
Inspired by artists
Tools for teachingMaking music and dancing enrich the personality, something that educators can witness and realize for themselves in our wide variety of training courses – and then test out what they have learned with their students straight away the next day. This offering is based on the educational standards of the state of Baden-Württemberg and is supported by the Hanns A. Pielenz Foundation.
Columbus school project
Well prepared to encounter the stars
This school project is a perennial favorite. Since 2011, GRENKE AG and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden have been cooperating to promote dynamic music education in the region. The Festspielhaus provides students with reduced-price admission tickets. To prepare for their visit to the concert together, the teachers receive teaching materials. Simply register and experience the stars of classical music live – for school classes at the price of a movie ticket! www.festspielhaus.de/partizipation/fuer-schulen-und-paedagogen/kolumbus Tel. +49(0)7221 3013 - 169
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Music theater by and for young people
Diggin' Opera
What role do new media play in imparting knowledge of music and opera? This is the question that is explored in the multi-year project Diggin’ Opera. In cooperation with the felicitas and werner egerland foundation, artists work together with young people to create music theater using digital tools. In 2021, the project received a Young Ears award.
IM.PULS
The music education program for students
What role can music play in my life as an adult? What does it mean to turn one’s love of music into a profession? Launched in 2021, this music education program brings internationally successful artists together with high school students who have chosen the subject of music as their focus. In the 2024/25 school year, students from Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden will meet the Ensemble Recherche. This time around they will be composing together – inspired by Pierre Boulez, who would have turned one hundred in 2025. The result of the young people's creative exchange with artists can be enjoyed on the Festspielhaus stage on July 24, 2025. IM.PULS is made possible by the T. von Zastrow Foundation.
Summer School
In the Baden-Württemberg Summer School, artists and educators motivate third graders as they are about to enter fourth grade. The idea: outside of school, previous learning material is combined with an exciting topic in the last week of the summer holidays and thus repeated in a creative way. In the Festspielhaus, children will invent their own music theater and present it to their proud relatives and friends at the end of the project week.
