Real Opera for Kids
Posted on December 3, 2004
Filed Under Music |
In a city where black-tie opera patrons have paid as much as $12,000 a seat for performances celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, squirming schoolkids received Lyric performances of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” for free in their school auditoriums.
In Chicago, the Lyric Opera produces opera performances which are presented for free to elementary school kids in their own auditoriums. The performers are young professional opera singers, in their 20s and 30s, and the students have responded well to the performances.
An article on CNN brought this production to my attention. An interesting feature for the kids is their ability to ask the performers questions about what they do.
Aida, 9, said she knew her name came from opera, but she had never seen one before. “I liked it when they all celebrated, and I liked it when the queen went up in the air,” she said. “But it was a little hard to understand.”
She and her classmates were enjoying Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
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