Welcome to Utah Festival Opera and Opera by Children

Michael Ballam had a vision in 1997 that, children given the power to create their own operas : write them, produce them, own them, could become a new generation of children who would trust themselves; think for themselves; children who would learn how to learn; children who, as adults, would be able to contribute original thought and leadership to society.It takes a visionary to show us a new direction. It takes the rest of us to put it to the test and see if it works. As we enter our 15th year of that working and testing, we can say that it is a true principle: children who learn to trust themselves and those around them will succeed - not only in an original opera but also in countless other ways.



So as Dr. Seuss once said "Try it. You may like it"




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Pamela Gee, Vanessa Ballam and Nellie Horrocks are always here and thrilled to know someone "out there" wants to know what we do and why! Email us at: pamgee@ufomt.org ; vanessa@ufomt.org ; and nellieg@ufomt.org




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Monday, November 28, 2011

Music Time



Discover the Melodies micro bite:
It may be that your class sings while they write the libretto!!  That is wonderful and it does happen!  I am sure you will find this to be the case in your class.  Do you have a digital recorder?  If you do, take time to record the class as they create!  The music mentor will find these gems to be more authentic than what they might be on a scheduled singing day as they retrieve the students’ melodies.
It takes at least two weeks for the music to be generated once the melodies the students create are recorded by the music mentor. It may take more depending on how many operas she is working on at the time your students’ melodies are collected.  Please plan your performances with that in mind.  There still needs to be time for the casting and staging micro bites!
Posted by Susan Ames at 2:16 PM
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