Enthusiast choir
A joint participatory project by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the European Central Bank in collaboration with the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
The Alte Oper is looking for voices! Enthusiastenchor' is the name of our participatory format, to which we are calling all committed amateur singers from soprano to bass. With professional support, you will work on a major choral work which, after rehearsals, you will perform together on the stage of the 'Grosser Saal'.
ENTHUSIASTENCHOR 2025 - Verdi: Messa da Requiem (24 MAY 2025)
A joint participatory project by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the European Central Bank in collaboration with the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
In the 2025 edition, Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem is one of the most atypical contributions to the genre on the programme, as Verdi formulated the wish for eternal rest in his requiem mass in a surprisingly loud way. Verdi's Requiem is rebellious, powerful, dramatic and highly emotional, the work of a composer who knew how to write for the stage.
Registration for the project is closed, participation is no longer possible.
rehearsal dates
March 21-23, 2025: 1st rehearsal weekend at the HfMDK
May 09-11, 2025: 2nd rehearsal weekend (with university choir) at the HfMDK
May 20, 2025, 18:00 - 22:00: Rehearsal at the Alte Oper
May 23, 2025, 18:00 - 22:00: Main rehearsal at the HfMDK
May 24, 2025 (in the morning): Dress rehearsal at the Alte Oper
May 24, 2025, 19:00: Concert at the Alte Oper
Cooperation Partner
ENTHUSIASTENCHOR 2026 - Brahms: A German Requiem (16 MAY 2026)
A joint participatory project by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
‘I will comfort you as a mother comforts": Johannes Brahms' Requiem in German touches the heart - because it focuses on the bereaved and not on the deceased and their salvation. Brahms himself called his unusual and not at all liturgically bound contribution to the genre ‘funeral music as a beatitude for those who suffer’ and thus created one of his most popular works. The Alte Oper gives amateur singers the opportunity to rehearse this work in the specially formed Enthusiastenchor and perform it together on the stage of the Great Hall - supported by the choir and orchestra of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst.
YOUR TALENT IS NEEDED!
If you love to sing, can read music and ideally have choral experience, we would love to hear from you! The application period for the 2026 edition opens on 1 September 2025 and closes on 8 December 2025. More information, including rehearsal dates, can be found here.