10-14 June 2024

Northern Ireland Opera invites your senior music students to participate in an outreach week at the Grand Opera House. This unique educational experience is tailored for senior music students and repertoire will include works by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Humperdinck, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi and Britten.

Join us as we deliver a week of educational exploration, where students will have the opportunity to deepen their musical understanding and gain insights from industry professionals in the collaborative art form of opera.

What to Expect:

Monday to Thursday: Immersive Workshops

• A daily timetable of different music and theatre skills workshop activities from Monday to Thursday where students can explore acting, staging, directing, and linguistics, unveiling the multifaceted world of opera.
• Each session lasts the full day, but schools are welcome to attend as many workshops as they wish and to participate in the shared performance on the Friday.
• Delve into repertoire and enhance performance skills working with music and theatre professionals from Northern Ireland Opera in The Studio of the Grand Opera House.

Friday: Collaborative Performance Day

• Expert-led workshops where participants can showcase their new-found skills, working together with students from other schools.
• Participants from across the week come together in The Studio at the Grand Opera House to perform in front of an invited audience of friends and family.

MONDAY 10 JUNE: Workshop Day 1

• 09.45 – 10.30 Welcome and Warm-up
• 10.30 – 11.15 Introduction to Repertoire including composers, eras, connections with the GCSE or A ‘Level Music syllabus
• 11.15 – 11.30 Break
• 11.30 – 12.30 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
• 13.15 – 14.00 Linguistics Workshop
• 14.00 – 14.45 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 14.45 Home

TUESDAY 11 JUNE: Workshop Day 2

• 09.45 – 10.30 Welcome and Warm-up
• 10.30 – 11.15 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 10.15 – 11.30 Break
• 11.30 – 12.30 Vocal Health Workshop
• 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
• 13.15 – 14.00 Stage and Set Design Workshop
• 14.00 – 14.45 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 14.45 Home

WEDNESDAY 12 JUNE: Workshop Day 3

• 09.45 – 10.30 Welcome and Warm-up
• 10.30 – 11.15 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 11.15 – 11.30 Break
• 11.30 – 12.30 Theatre and Effects Make-Up Workshop
• 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
• 13.15 – 14.00 Acting Workshop
• 14.00 – 14.45 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 14.45 Home

THURSDAY 13 JUNE: Workshop Day 4

• 09.45 – 10.30 Welcome and Warm-up
• 10.30 – 11.15 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 11.15 – 11.30 Break
• 11.30 – 12.30 Theatre and Effects Make-Up Workshop
• 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
• 13.15 – 14.00 Acting Workshop
• 14.00 – 14.45 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 14.45 Home

FRIDAY 14 JUNE: Performance Day

• 09.45 – 10.00 Warm-up
• 10.00 – 11.30 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 11.30 – 11.45 Break
• 11.45 – 12.15 Performance
• 12.15 – 12.45 Lunch
• 12.45 – 13.00 Warm-up
• 13.00 – 14.30 Repertoire Rehearsal
• 14.30 – 14.45 Break
• 14.45 – 15.15 Concert for schools, friends and family

HOW TO BOOK

If you would like to book a place for your class, contact Lucy Walton, Creative Learning Assistant, Grand Opera House at lwalton@goh.co.uk

Please note: there is a maximum capacity of 45 students per day.

This series of workshops are made available by Northern Ireland Opera through funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation and are provided at no cost to participating schools.