We were a very lucky group this spring. Artists from Vancouver Opera worked with us (and another class at our school) twice each week for about five weeks. They introduced us to opera and performed for us but spent most of their time helping us write and perform our own (short) opera. They read a novel we had already studied (Wonder, by RJ Palacio); helped us choose an event in the story to use; let us write the words for two arias; arranged parts of the music we could play on school instrument; and helped us rehearse & perform our opera for our school on stage in our gym. It was a great experience and an absolutely WONDERful way to wrap up our last Friday before spring break. Thank you very much Colleen, Katrin, Ali, Rory, & Russel for this inspiring introduction to opera!
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thank you Russel for helping the music group for practice because Rory was playing the piano and you played the tambourine. with out Rory and you, our group wouldn’t ever have gotten the melody.
thank you very much
by Hasnain
I want to say thankyou to Ali who was one of the people whohad come from vancouverf opera tro help out our class to make our own opera from scratch. I also want to thank Ali for helping out the recit group to help creat our diolgues for the opera and for singing ” Poular” from ” wicked” so beutifully and last but not least I want to than Ali, Rory, katrin, and Russel for giving us the time we have ever had.
Working with the opera guests was a great experience. I enjoyed the rehearsals very much. Unfortunately I could not make it to the performance, but I am proud to help out. I would like to thank Katrin especially for always making me feel included and giving me the roll of the director for a while. I hope in the future I get this experience again.
Something I learned in opera was how to sing aria’s and what are aria’s. I would like to thank Katrin for teaching us the aria’s and singing a real aria for us. and I’d like to thank everybody in the opera for teaching us more about opera.
I liked that we can make our own opera and we were fortunate to have vancouver opera artists come teach us opera!!!!!
Thank you so much for choosing our school and our class for the opera. Thank you all, but thank you Rory for helping the orchestra for our play and for teaching us how to play the instruments. I’m sure that the group members of the orchestra all enjoyed having you. Thank you all for teaching us opera. Now our class knows a lot about it. also, thanks for the ring pops and we all hope to see you all again.Good luck whenever you guys are doing another opera play.
thank you Vancouver opera! the best part of opera to me was, when you taught us what overtures, arias, supers, and I forgot the rest, I’d like to recognize Katrin for teaching the recit group(I was in it)
Thank Vancouver Opera for picking our school and specifically our class, we were so lucky to have you guys. Most importantly Rory, thank you so much for being in our band group and for teaching us how to play xylophones and for teaching us how to make rhythms I had so much fun๏ผI really liked how you played on the piano for us so perfectly, it was really kind of you. See you next time๏ผ
Thank you Vancouver Opera! Our Project Opera was such a great experience! Katrin and Ali, you guys are great singers and instructors! Rory your such an amazing Pianist! Colleen thanks so much for introducing this to us! We had such a great time! You all made our class feel like a community of singers, actors, and music players! All of us had so much fun! ๐ ๐ I’ll never forget this moment of something so very amazing! Thank you so much for this! I hope you all visit soon! Thank you!
thank you soooooo! much we wood not do this with out you
thank you so much we wood not do this with out you!
Thank you for teaching us what opera is all about like you don’t have to sing sometimes. Thank you Ali for helping the receit and the art group. You were a big help for making this opera FANTASTIC.
-Sarahxoxo
thank so much for giving us the opportunity to work with project opera. thank so much to colleen for making this happen and picking this school. and thank you ali,katrin,rory for teaching us. THANK YOU
Thank everyone at Vancouver opera for picking our school I really enjoyed working with everyone I would like to thank Ali Rory Katrin and Colleen you guys made me more comfortable singing opera. I had so much fun performing I hope we can do it again.
when we were doing operai really enjoyed it.i hope we get to see you again soon. It was really fun working together.thank you to Colleen,Ali,Katrin,Rory and Russull. Katrin you have a lovely voice,Ali you also have a beautiful voice ๐ ๐ and Rory you are very good at playing piano ,thank you to Colleen forb getting us started. and Russel forcomingin and helping I REALLY ENJOYED OPERA THANK YOU :):):):):):):):)
thank you for inviting us to Opera and letting our class perform,Rory,Katrin,Ali,and Russel for coming to see how were doing and giving tips.Hope you come back good luck with the other classes,have fun!
I would like to say thank you to Rory who helped the band write songs and play songs. I hope you all would come back someday so we could learn more about opera.
Thank you opera and a big thank you to Coleen ๐