ACT TOO STUDIO

Act Too Studio Opera Workshop is an ongoing, student-driven educational arts project with performances throughout the year, including a fully-staged opera each summer. Our workshop includes students between the ages of 13-19 at varying levels of vocal development, musical skill, and experience. Works are chosen with those factors in mind, and though this work is intended to be performed for the community, the focus of the workshop itself is very process-heavy. In order to bring their work to performance level, students are guided through deep musical and theatrical analysis of everything they do, along with study of the work's cultural and historical context. More importantly, however, they are tasked with making it their own. Our students work together with professional staff to adapt, promote, and fund these projects from the ground up, taking old works and reimagining them to better reflect their sensibilities, their politics, and their vision of the future. We are inspiring teens..