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opera
KIDS
A SHORT DOCUMENTARY
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A celebration of "Creating Original Opera" — the Metropolitan Opera Guild program founded in 1979 — OPERA KIDS follows the journey of a fifth grade class creating an opera from scratch.
Behind the scenes, the stakes could not feel higher, as students take their first collaborative steps — writing, composing, designing, staging, and acting out their own dramatic musical creation. Their hard work leads to a culminating performance and lessons for a lifetime. Simultaneously, the founding members of "Creating Original Opera" recall the program’s groundbreaking past and its legacy that continues to this day.

FILMMAKERS
sound supervisor
& sound design
Jesse Ehredt
post-production sound
Colette Dahanne
Chase Goodings
Jennifer Seip
colorist
Derrick Woodyard
archival photography
60.46 Productions
Foundation SaludArte
Christoph Gelfand
Mary Heveran
Peter Hoyle
Judith Lane
LÓVA
John McCabe
Mary Ruth McGinn
Juan Olcina Molina
Diane Englander Peyser
Debbie Scesa
Gene Searchinger
The Children's School, PS 372
The John F. Kennedy Center
The Metropolitan Opera Guild
a film by
Joseph Alessi
Max Sturm
produced by
Max Sturm
associate produced by
John Monton
edited by
Max Sturm
photography
Joseph Alessi
Rachael Kliman
John Monton
Samuel Newman
Matthew Strother
Max Sturm
production sound
Tim Cosman
Bob Fivehouse
John Monton
original music
& arrangements
Greg Pliska
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