Opera Start Educational Workshops
Opera Start has been running since 1999 and has been hugely successful in engaging young people in a creative learning process.
The Opera Start workshops introduce young people to many aspects of vocal, basic compositional and performance techniques, enabling them to create their own pieces, which they perform in staged operatic excerpts alongside professional singers and musicians.
Based on a model that has been used in different settings over the years, each programme is designed uniquely to best meet the needs of the participants involved.
Opera Start has proved highly effective both educationally and socially. The principal education aims are to help the young people realise their own creativity, develop their voices and perceive the link between what they are able to create themselves and the established masterpieces of opera.
Opera Start Workshops:-
- Encourage creativity and learning through music
- Engage and motivate young people from all backgrounds
- Use the power of performance to unlock potential
- Help to increase confidence and self-esteem
Quotes
"I want to tell everyone how cool the opera workshops were. The performance was so good; I was surprised at how brill we all were. I have never done anything like this before. You're cool Magdala, thank you". Lucy Palethorpe, Year 8
"I know the students who took part in th eopera will remeber the experience for a lifetime, as indeed I will. The commitment and enthusiasm of the company was second to none and a real inspiration to our students". Lynn Parkes, Head Teacher
"Magdala teaching can be seen as modeling process. The students are apprentices who are gradually inducted into a new community in which they too can become expert". Quote from Nottingham Trent University Research Paper
