appeared in high spirits as she attended the opera today in , during day two the King and Queen’s State Visit to .
Camilla, 75, was joined by Germany’s First Lady Elke Budenbender at the Komische Oper opera house to learn more about the company’s outreach projects and community engagement.
The royal beamed as she met with actors dressed in costume from various opera productions including a male dancer in a outfit made entirely of green feathers and a singer performing the role of Areodates in Handel’s opera Xerxes.
Alongside local school children Her Majesty also listened to songs in the opera house auditorium.
The royal was warmly welcomed by the Managing Directors of the Opera Susanne Moser and Philipp Broecking as she arrived at the venue.
The Queen Consort appeared in high spirits as she attended the opera today in Berlin, during day two the King and Queen’s State Visit to Germany (pictured with Managing Directors of the Komische Oper Philipp Broecking (left), Susanne Moser (right) and Lady Elke Budenbender (centre))
As she was shown around the opera house by the co-directors the Queen also met more performers from various opera productions, including one from La Cage aux Folles and a singer playing Parmina in Die Zauberflote.
However it was the children’s choir performing singalongs on stage that really captured her imagination.
As part of its outreach work, the opera house works with children and young people, and also has a project helping people with dementia.
Anna-Kathrin Ostrop, togel online terbaik who was running the choir on stage with the help of two professional singers, told the audience that one of the songs sung by the children, Irgendwo auf der Welt, used to be well known before the Second World War.
But it fell out of use after its composer, Richard Heymann, had to flee the Nazis.
Afterwards the Queen went on stage to meet performers, children and people from the dementia project.She also posed for a group picture with the children’s choir.
The Komische Oper was originally founded in 1892 as Theater Unter den Linden, it was damaged during World War II and rebuilt and reopened in 1947 as the Komische Oper.
Camilla, 75, enjoyed a performance during her visit to Komische Opera in Berlin during her state visit
Camilla was joined by Germany’s first lady Elke Budenbender (left) at the Komische Oper opera house to learn more about the opera company’s outreach projects and community engagement
It works to bring opera and performing arts to all levels of the community, through a diverse range of projects.
Earlier in the day Camilla joined King Charles as he was filmed hilariously trying to get to grips with a .
In an amusing clip, the King can be seen flailing his hands through cheese curd with little success and looking upwards exasperated as the cheese mixture froths.
It is just one of the royal couple’s many engagements on day two of their tour which has seen them visit food markets, inspect military equipment and visit victims of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war.
The pair supported work in the country to care for the 1million-plus Ukrainians who have fled there since Russia’s invasion as well as meeting members of the German and British Amphibious Engineer Battalion to view a static display of some of the Battalion’s key equipment.
Camilla donned a glam makeup which featured a dark pink slick of lipstick and a soft brown eyeshadow
The royal beamed as she met with actors dressed in costume from various opera productions
In interesting scenes, the King watched as troops took part in a static demonstration of the M3 Amphibious Bridge which was erected over the Oder-Havel canal and then driven over by the unit’s BOXER Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (M.I.V.).
The King then walked over the bridge in Finowfurt to meet members of the joint German and British battalion that was formed in 2021.
His Majesty also toured the Tegel Refugee Centre in Berlin where he met some of the residents and heard their heartbreaking stories just an hour after telling the Bundestag of the ‘unimaginable suffering’ in their homeland.
The King told Ukrainian families fleeing Putin’s war ‘I’m praying for you’ as he visited a refugee centre – where thousands now live in tents and marquees.They are also battling a chicken pox outbreak.
The Queen spoke to a Komische Oper Berlin performer next to Germany’s first lady Elke Buedenbender
Camilla and the First Lady Elke Budenbender (second left) met opera singers from the Komische Opera
Separately the Queen Consort was visiting the Refugio House community centre, a meeting place for locals and new Berlin residents, including refugees.
Charles, 74, surprised refugees who had only just arrived to register at Berlin’s old Tegel Airport.He laughed as he lost a Game Casino Onlline of table football in the centre’s play area and paused to shake hands and hear stories of refugees who had fled the war zone.
He was given a tour of the Ukraine Arrival Centre by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
On several occasions Charles clasped his hands together and told refugees ‘I’m praying for you.’
Speaking afterwards through a translator pre-school Olena Ochkiviska, 40, said: ‘I told him everyone was caring after us and they are working on the negatives.
‘He said that he was praying for us all.I’m the luckiest lady in the world.’
Alongside local school children Her Majesty also listened to songs in the opera house auditorium
The royal posed for a photo with a group of school children following their performance in the auditorium
The Queen Consort spoke to a very glamorous actor during her visit to the Komische in Berlin
Stopping to speak to families registering after just arriving, Charles said: ‘Are you sleeping here?’
He also asked: ‘Was it very difficult to get out of Ukraine?Are you pleased to be here?’
He also played table football in the refugee centre’s games room.
He said: ‘I remember trying this when I was younger.’
But when he conceded a goal, he replied: ‘Amazing, two hands you are the experts.’
Kleopatra Tummler, operations manager of the refugee centre, who also worked 15 years as Take That’s tour manager, said afterwards: ‘He really showed interest in everyone’s stories.