Little Opera at Grace in San Francisco, California will kick off a virtual opera after-school program starting on Sept. 21, 2020. The program will provide children grades K-8 with the opportunity to write, composer, act, sing, design, and perform their own three-act mini-operas. Each act will be composed over the course of the year with Act one set to be {…}
Little Opera has announced that it will be bringing youth arts programming to the Grace Cathedral starting this fall. Per a press release, the company, which is based in San Francisco, will offer students grades K-8 the opportunity to go to the Grace Cathedral after school to write and perform their own original opera. This new partnership will kick off {…}
The Little Opera is set to showcase a year-end concert featuring the original operatic works of students from elementary and middle school. The performances are set for May 4-6 at the Children’s Creativity Center in California. Per a press, the performances will feature four mini-operas with unique plots. One will feature a snail attacked by wolves, while another will emphasize {…}
Little Opera and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music are collaborating to showcase the operas of elementary school students in San Francisco at a Benefit Concert on April 7, 2019. The performance starts at 3:30 p.m. local time. Per a press release, the young students have been working on these operas since the beginning of the school year and will {…}
Little Opera is giving elementary students the ultimate opera challenge. Twenty-nine elementary school-aged students in San Francisco were challenged to listen to all 15 hours of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Little Opera students in grades K-5 started the 20-day listen-a-thon challenge last week, led by Little Opera student advisory board members Solveig Libicki and Danah Aroonchaipirom. According to the student Advisors, {…}