Audio description with tactile course

See with your ears: Music theatre for all

Audio description

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.’ 

Performances of the 2024/2025 season with audio description and tactile course

    • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma

    Oper Sun 02.11.2025 | 17:00 | Opernhaus

    Performance with audio description and tactile tour

    • Albert Lortzing

    Zar und Zimmermann

    Musikalische Komödie Fri 01.05.2026 | 15:00 | Musikalische Komödie

    Performance with audio description and tactile tour | as part of »LORTZING 26«

  • Evita

    Musikalische Komödie Sun 17.05.2026 | 15:00 | Musikalische Komödie

    Performance with audio description and tactile tour

‘For me, offering audio description means inclusion. With my live descriptions of musical theatre performances, blind and visually impaired visitors experience cultural and social participation. I am an aid, so to speak, and make the opera, the production, visible to the ear.’

Anke Nicolai
Anke Nicolai
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.