‘Premiers pas à l’Opéra: The Opera Fairy’

"Premiers pas à l'Opéra" is a series of participatory concert-shows for children and their parents, which combines great opera arias, stories and playful activities around opera singing.

"The Opera Fairy", a musical tale from the "First Steps to the Opera" project, is designed for children from 4 to 9 years old, with arias by Handel, Verdi and Puccini performed by a soprano and a string quintet. A poetic story gives a new context to well-known opera arias while keeping the meaning and emotions of each aria. During the performance, children are invited to accompany the heroine in the preparations for her concert.

Cast :
Creation, singing (soprano) and narration: Olga Dubois
Singing (tenor): Alfonso Giuliani
String quintet: Simonyan Quintet: Arman Simonyan (first violin), Irina Baudewyns (second violin), Giulia Barbero (viola), Aleksandra Maria Czarnocka (cello), Simon Luce (double bass) 
Assistant director and writer: Vincent Raoult
Lyric art advisor: Alexandre Maslennikov-Swistounoff (Centre Lyrique Giacomo Puccini)
Lighting design and technical assistance: Astrid Howard

Supported by La Maison Qui Chante and the Commune of Uccle