Let’s make an opera…. something for your kids to do
mainThere’s a cute new click-and-point game from Bergen National Opera in Norway, showing who does what and how art gets done.
It’s free and it starts today.
Click here to run the program.
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SURE WHY NOT, till by brother shows up and they’re all topless.!
While Daddy goes golfing.
That well-known Norwegian passion?
Sorry but opera is not suitable for kids until they’re teenagers.
I completely disagree with JussiB – our sons have been listening to opera since they were in Junior School – both were Oxbridge Choral Scholars and one is now a professional singer. Suitable Rep is important of course – I would not start a nine year old off with ‘Parsifal’ but ‘Die Zauberflote’ is perfect. The Bergen idea looks lovely.
I agree. I was learning Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Rossini arias from childhood. And Wagner overtures, an easy intro.
By then you’ve lost them!! Far from ‘cool’ to go to the opera as a teenager if not had some kind of introduction. But equally you have to be careful too that you don’t put them off as well – seen enough of that in my time. There are ways and means to introduce kids into all sorts of things but important to meet kids where they are and on their terms. Also bear in mind the audience and not having fidgety and noisey kids around with well-meaning parents, disturbing both audience and the performers.
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