current & upcoming projects
McOpera Outreach
We offer bespoke educational packages to schools and community groups, with both ‘off-the-peg’ programmes and projects designed in collaboration with you.
Three Billy Goats Gruff
A 35-minute workshop suitable for Early Years, Primary 1-3 or SEN groups including:
• Fully interactive sessions with our team of musicians
• Based on Three Billy Goats Gruff (music by Ruth Gipps / illustrations by Elly Strigner)
• Using music, movement, visual art and storytelling: the basis of ‘opera’
• Featuring voice, oboe, bassoon and french horn
• Classes of up to c.30 children, and 2-4 sessions per day
Learning outcomes:
• Participation in live music performance
• Development of communication, movement, co-ordination, rhythm and listening skills
• Exploration of story and plot through music, movement and image
“Very well organised, delivered with the children's age and stage in mind and maintaining excellent child engagement throughout”
Nairn Junior World, Care and Learning Alliance
McOpera Outreach
We offer bespoke educational packages to schools and community groups, with both ‘off-the-peg’ programmes and projects designed in collaboration with you.
Let’s Make an Opera
A 3-day programme for Primary 4-7 using performance, composition, text and movement to create ‘mini-operas’
Delivered by team of vocal animateur, composer, director and musician
Based on relevant themes - climate change, the environment, diversity, identity or your current class topics
Devised with the pupils to create a ‘mini-opera’ with
• Composers and librettists
• Singers and actors
• An orchestra of pupils
• A final performance or informal sharing
Devised with the pupils to create a ‘mini-opera’ with
• Composers and librettists
• Singers and actors
• An orchestra of pupils
• A final performance or informal sharing
Learning outcomes:
• Access and tackling inequalities – development of creativity and confidence
• Opening up opportunities to participate in music making
• Developing music-making skills via an interactive process, performed as ‘play’ (fun)
• Developing skills for life – social skills, communication, expression, teamwork
• Using music and the creative arts to articulate and explore broader issues
• Access and tackling inequalities – development of creativity and confidence
• Opening up opportunities to participate in music making
• Developing music-making skills via an interactive process, performed as ‘play’ (fun)
• Developing skills for life – social skills, communication, expression, teamwork
• Using music and the creative arts to articulate and explore broader issues
“I was impressed by how skillfully the project was organised and managed, by how responsive the organisers were in adapting to the children’s needs. A really impressive three days.”
P5 Teacher, Linlithgow Primary School
P5 Teacher, Linlithgow Primary School
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