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A Full-On Kids' Introduction to Opera: an Opera Australia OperaEd program
OperaEd is a special program of Opera
Australia in Sydney. It is intended for students who would be unlikely
to attend the opera due to geographic distance from the centre of Sydney
or for socio-economic and cultural reasons. Working closely with
district creative arts consultants, the program has evolved to focus on
students who have a demonstrated interest in the arts - specifically
music and drama students.
It is a three-step program based on a work which is included in Opera Australia's subscription program - in this case La boheme. The first stage is an hour and a half workshop at individual the schools to introduce the students to the opera: it's plot, the characters, aspects of the music and singing, orchestration and so on. The workshops are interactive and hands-on, with students miming and improvising dramatic scenes in costume. A week later, students from the schools currently involved in the program - most recently Windsor, Seven Hills, Quakers Hill and Hawkesbury High Schools - attend a behind-the-scenes tour of The Opera Centre, including an opportunity to try on more exotic costumes from the opera, check out rehearsal spaces, and see where the milliners, wig makers, cobblers, set designers and manufacturers work. Later in the day they travel to the Opera House where the see the mechanists in action setting the production on stage for the performance that night and meet the stage management team. A couple of performers answer questions about life in the performing arts. After dinner the highlight of the day is sitting in the best seats to enjoy the opera performance... Click here for the full story
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