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.