Future house

With innovative concert formats, the Alte Oper aims to offer audiences new musical experiences, activate listening, seek creative dialogue with other art forms and link classical music to the urban present. 

A whole festival dedicated to the house of the future: Fratopia is an open programme for an open society. The festival is a heartfelt invitation to people - young and old, rooted in Frankfurt or elsewhere, with an affinity for classical music or simply interested and open-minded - to wander between concert halls and genres and experience music in a new way. Five days of a full programme, free for all!

To remember: The next Fratopia Festival will take place from 23 to 27 September 2026.

Starting June 23, you can find the complete program at alteoper.de/fratopia-app

The ‘Alte Oper House of the Future’ is not an aloof temple of music. Rather, all the people of the city, with their different biographies, opportunities and preferences, should find themselves reflected in the programme of our house. Even, and perhaps even more so, those who have only known the Alte Oper from the outside. Come and join us: as a concert newcomer, as a musician, during your lunch break or in the evening.

In the ‘House of the Future’, the Alte Oper is reconnecting with the city, working into the city, reaching out to the people. We are already demonstrating this with projects such as ‘Alte Oper InsideOut’ - the broadcast of a concert from inside onto the opera square -, with our ‘Musik Plus’ format, in which we collaborate with Frankfurt cultural institutions, and with the ‘Auswärtsspiel’ programme. We are intensifying our relationship work with international communities and working closely with the City of Frankfurt's Office for Multicultural Affairs. We are in dialogue with pupils, senior citizens, migrants and volunteers as representatives of the city's pluralistic society.

Young people are the future! That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive programme designed specifically with them in mind. By 'young', we mean right from babyhood, with our new baby concerts in the 2026/27 season. We also want to involve young people in our regular concert programme and, to that end, we’re offering them an attractive deal with our ‘Zehner bis 25’ scheme.

Last but not least, we want to bring young people onto the stage. What motivates young musicians, and how would they like to make a difference? With 'Podium Zukunft', we have launched a new youth orchestra festival. The first edition in April 2026 was a resounding success, with many fresh ideas coming from Frankfurt, Berlin, the Netherlands, South Africa and Brazil.