Youth and Opera

A very interesting Vancouver Sun article this week about attracting youth to opera, orchestras, ballet and the like. Not a ton of new ideas in the article but a really interesting overview of some of the local Vancouver efforts including talking about the very, very cool new art for Vancouver Opera's season.

Well, hello there Vancouver Opera people!

I'm just packing up to head out of town for a little auditioning in the U.S. next week and I decide to check in on the 'ol opera blog. Imagine my surprise to find a whole bunch of Vancouver Opera people waiting here for me via the wonderful and amazing VO Operagator newsletter- Welcome!

This little blog is just a hodgepodge of Canadian opera goings on, including a number of posts involving your very own Vancouver Opera. Since you're here, I hope that you'll look around - here are this month's most popular posts so far:

1. All The Scores You Could Want! Free! (Pretty much the most read post every month, if only because it's a big draw to the blog.)

2. Apples and Singing - Well, you know about this one already - I'm pretty sure that the results are a little skewed tonight! Use the comments page on the post to add your suggestions.

3. Video of ENO auditions - Because who doesn't like to peek behind the curtain once in a while.

4. Best Free Options For Listening To Opera Online - There's that "F" word again. I do love it so.

5. 100 Posts For Canadian Opera Blog - The first milestone for this new blog.

I hope you'll hit the bookmark button, or click the RSS feeds. I occasionally come out with something intelligent, funny, or worthwhile so please stick around!

Thanks Selina!

For the second week in a row: who wants to be an opera admin?

For the second time in two weeks a Canadian opera company is advertising for an outreach staff member. After the Vancouver Opera posting, this week brings a vacancy at Pacific Opera Victoria for an Education and Outreach Coordinator. The position is a new one for POV and so I imagine that there will be a lot of room for someone to build a program almost from the ground up. Applications are starting to be reviewed today so if you want to run an opera company someday (a job I could never envy!) get your start here!

Edmonton Opera's "Encore" looking for subcommittee members

"Encore!", Edmonton Opera's youth (25-40. Hey, in opera audiences that's youth!) outreach group has selected a board to fill two year positions. They're still looking for people to help out though in the areas of communications, membership, events, and others. The group is responsible for some pretty cool events related to opera in Edmonton so if you're an opera lover in "The City of Champions," get in touch with them.