PHOTO: Ms Laura Andrew introducing the Cobar High School Opera – ‘Cancel Culture’, with the cast waiting in the wings [Image: E. Datson]
Not your average school musical – Friday 5 May saw the performance of ‘Cancel Culture’ at Cobar High School, an opera that 24 students wrote in 5 days, with help from staff of Opera Express.
Opera Express started in 2015 and involves groups of up to 30 students, who create their own original opera, during a burst of intensive workshops. The students working together with Opera Express staff come up with characters, plot, script, music, sets, direction, choreography and the actual performance of the opera.
This is the second year that Opera Express has been to Cobar, they first visited in 2021, with thanks to generous sponsorship by Peak Gold Mines, Aurelia Metals – a mine which operates within the Cobar shire.
Murray Dahm, Creative Director at Opera Express told the Western Plains App, “It has been amazing to return to Cobar and see the generosity and camaraderie of the students, even though we’ve got a mix of years from 7 to 10. [Cobar is] a wonderful community”…