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Our Mission: We provide children and adults the experience of telling stories through song, by performing original, entirely-sung operas and oratorios, with lyrics and music accessible and appealing to audiences of all ages.

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Welcome to our 2011-2012 Season!

2012 Science Festival Chorus

NOW RECRUITING
for our 2012 Science Festival Chorus:

 



Registration extended!
Now register at rehearsals on Wednesdays, February 1 and February 8

QUESTIONS? Contact Carla at
617-661-0479 or Festival2012@FamilyOpera.org

Download a recruiting poster

Read about and hear a performance of Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution
Read about and hear last year's program, Many Voices: The Science of Communication

   

2012 Family Opera: Flying High

Music by Graham Preskett
Book and Lyrics by John Kane

 

PERFORMANCES
Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25, 2012
Saturday and Sunday, March 31 and April 1, 2012
The Peabody School
70 Rindge Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02140

We will be presenting the American premiere of Flying High, with music by Graham Preskett, book and lyrics by John Kane. This is the same team that wrote the family opera Antiphony, which was performed by NCFO in 2002 and 2006.

Flying High was commissioned by the W11 Opera for Young People and performed by them in December 2001. It is a story of a wildly successful but unhappy pop star and a band just starting out, and how they both seek fulfillment in the unscrupulous world of the music industry.

Read the full synopsis and hear the opera.