Opera Heroes 2025
Dutch National Opera & Ballet is organising another Opera Heroes course from 12 April to 2 May 2025 (partly in the May holiday). For all children aged 6 to 13 who enjoy singing, playing, dancing and creating.
“On my plate is the world [...]”
Whether you are preparing a opera or preparing a meal, in both cases it is important to use all your senses. You cannot taste an opera and you cannot hear a meal, though... If you open your senses, there is more to experience than you might think. Eating together and singing together, both work to connect. ‘On my plate is the world [...]"* That's what the mini-opera you will be working on as an opera hero in 2025 is about.
We rehearse a specially composed song: De wereld in een pan (Children’s Chorus Festival 2018). You will work as an opera hero with a conductor, director, soloist and pianist to create a short performance with the Opera Heroes. Then you will join the Children's Chorus Festival and sing this song together with 250 children from children's choirs from all over the Netherlands on the big stage of Dutch National Opera & Ballet.
*De wereld in een pan
Composition N. Kaori Fornós Ohnuma
Libretto Daphne de Bruin
Artistic coordination & musical direction Hanne van de Vrie
Directed by Eric Robillard
Pianist/repetitor Charlie Bo Meijering
Soloist (baritone) n.t.b.
Opera Heroes
Location
Opera Heroes is at Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Waterlooplein 22, Amsterdam. And on 1 and 2 May 2025, we will again be at the Uilenburgersjoel (Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, Amsterdam). Children will need to come to the theatre by their own transport. They will be looked after and accompanied during the workshops.
Photo: Michel Schnater
Dates 2025
- Sat (kick-off) 12 April 2025 10:00-13:00
- Sat 19 April 2025 10:00-15:00
- Mon 28 April 2025 10:00-15:00
- Tue 29 April 2025 10:00-15:00
- Thu 1 May 2025 10:00-15:00
- Fri 2 May 2025 10:00-15:00
Including participation in the Children's Chorus Festival:
- Sun 11 May 2025 11.00 -17.00
Costs and registration
The participation fee per opera hero for the whole project is € 45, including participation in the Children's Choir Festival.
Will you participate?
Attendance
Children who participate in Opera Heroes embark on an educational and entertaining journey. It is important that the children attend all rehearsals.
If you have any questions, please contact the Education, Participation, and Programming Department of Dutch National Opera & Ballet at zingen@operaballet.nl.