{"id":185,"date":"2014-11-29T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:49:18","slug":"opera-blocks-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Opera Blocks in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Currently performing 3 weeks of \u00a0“Opera Blocks” workshops with English Pocket Opera Company in South Cambridge schools until December 5. More performances in December in Ealing & Haringey schools and in all Barnet primary schools in February 2015. Plans afoot to take it to schools in many more boroughs and counties next year as well as music festivals. It is a brilliant introduction to opera for children (and adults too!)<\/p>\n

Feedback from last year’s tour of 55 Camden schools:<\/div>\n
\u201cJust want to record somewhere how utterly fantastic they were and how much the children enjoyed the experience.\u00a0Even our Year 6 who announced before hand that \u201cwe hate opera\u201d were converted! This was an exceptional visit. One\u00a0member of staff commented that it was the best external visit she had ever seen.”<\/em><\/div>\n
Rev. Simon Atkinson \u01c0 Headteacher \u01c0 Hampstead Parochial Primary, NW3<\/div>\n
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\u201cA whistle-stop tour of what opera is, how it is put together and how to enjoy it. And we did enjoy it \u2013 enormously!\u00a0Children and staff were united in having a huge amount of fun. We all enjoyed learning about Orpheus and Eurydice and\u00a0were completely hooked when it came to improvising our own off-the-cuff opera: a really enjoyable session. Please\u00a0come again.\u201d<\/em>
\nNick Turpin \u01c0 Asst Headteacher \u01c0 St Patricks Catholic Primary, NW5 3AH<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently performing 3 weeks of \u00a0“Opera Blocks” workshops with English Pocket Opera Company in South Cambridge schools until December 5. More performances in December in Ealing & Haringey schools and in all Barnet primary schools in February 2015. Plans afoot to take it to schools in many more boroughs and counties next year as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}