YOUTH
OPERA THEATRE
PROGRAMME CONTENT
In keeping with other SMG programmes and objectives, the SMG Youth
Opera
Theatre programme always includes principal roles for a number
of young people and a few pre-professional young adults plus a
large children’s chorus, thus providing opportunities for children
to perform along with experienced singers.
Each day, participants in the Opera course will be organized into
groups for classes in Acting, Movement and Art (set & costumes,
design and preparation).
This year’s children’s opera, Deep Waters,
by Composer Cecilia McDowall and Librettist Christie Dickson,
begins in a wild, raging storm when a group of children fall overboard
from a sailing yacht to the bottom of the sea. In this supernatural,
aquatic world, the fish play havoc with each other in a bid to
survive. Angel, the leader of the Reefers, revives the children
with the sea magic of the Silkies and the children find that they
can now breathe. Angel pleads with the children that the Reefers
desperately need their help in order to survive the attacks of
the Predators. With a ghastly sense of impending doom, the children
realize that they have a dangerous task to perform; they must
negotiate for the release of Reefer hostages eventually convinced
that they must swim back to the surface and use their new knowledge
to help stop the devastation, which will be inevitable, if things
go on as they have and all sea life has been destroyed. The Silkies
again use their sea magic and the children swim back to the surface
to begin their task.
PROGRAMME DATES, YOUTH OPERA THEATRE
Monday, July 25th - Sunday, August 14th
CLASS & REHEARSAL TIMES
Opera classes and rehearsals will be scheduled on week days, from
10.00am to 4.30pm. In order to make this programme accessible
for students from Galway, Limerick and Ennis, most classes will
be held in Ennis, Co. Clare and supervised transportation will
be arranged from and to all three centres for rehearsals and performances.
ADMISSION
No previous singing or acting experience and no audition is required
for admission to the Youth Opera Theatre. Auditions, in person
or by tape, will be arranged for those students wishing to be
assigned a principal role. Please check appropriate box on the
Application
Form
Registration: All principals and chorus. Between 10 and 11.30am,
Monday, July 25th.
