The children's opera

The Brontë Parsonage blog publishes the outcome of what we already posted about last September.

Primary school children from four Bradford schools are gearing up for the performance of a lifetime when they perform their very own Brontë Opera at Haworth church on Thursday 30 March 2006 at 1.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. in front of an invited audience.

The opera, entitled 'The Wind on the Moor' is the result of a nine month project managed by the Brontë Parsonage Museum in partnership with Operahouse, an organisation comprising a team of established professionals who offer music based creative projects for primary schools across the country.

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The team of professionals who have guided the children throughout the project with Andrew McCarthy are:

• Alison Prince - renowned author who created Trumpton and The Sherwood Hero and who has won many children’s literary awards for her work on over 40 books
• Virginia Rushton – Project Director and the founder of the Operahouse organisation in London
• Mark Robinson - Musical Director who has worked extensively with the Northern Sinfonia, London Festival Orchestra and is a Fellow in Music at the University of Bradford
• Andrew Keeling - composer who has worked with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropole Orchestra of Amsterdam and whose work has been performed and broadcast throughout the world.

Read more about it here.

We stand and applause these cute, cute children :)

Categories: Opera, Music