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Community Engagement
Engage and participate in Australia's national opera company
Opera stories are our stories
Opera expresses deeply emotional stories: Love, joy, jealousy and grief. That’s why we keep coming back to them: because these songs and stories resonate through time; their themes becoming undercurrents of our own 21st Century lives, expressing the feelings that sit just under the surface, always in plain sight.
By taking opera out of the theatre and into school halls and regional arts centres, our hope is that every citizen has an opportunity to experience opera, to feel that opera can tell their story, and increase the visibility and understanding of their community.
Singing the dynamics and diversity of communities.
Our engagement initiatives open the door to opera for new listeners, participants and audiences. People who might have never felt that opera is for them, felt themselves represented in opera, or experienced the powerful immediacy of the live voice or orchestra can participate in the national opera company.
From Far North Queensland to East Gippsland VIC, Albany WA, Katherine NT, Launceston TAS, regional and metro postcodes this is an invitation for local and artists, arts centres and leaders to participate, collaborate and connect with us.
Current projects
Wansalmoana
'One Salt Ocean'
The Pacific Ocean is the vast body of water that connects the nations, people, songs and stories of Oceania.
In collaboration with the Australian Museum Pasifika Collection, Opera Australia celebrates artists and songs from the Pacifika nations in a concert in Hintze Hall at the Australian Museum.
National Regional Tour
Children’s Chorus
Opera Australia engages with children all across Australia through our Regional Children’s Chorus.
Every year more than 500 children take part as the chorus to the National Regional Tour and we’re excited to continue offering this opportunity to children in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and ACT.
features OA's artists, singers and orchestra in a concert supports arts and culture at the grassroots level.
National Regional Tour
Community Concerts and School Engagements
Alongside the National Regional Tour, the Children’s chorus and embodying the spirit of creative collaboration, these workshops, school performances, masterclasses and community concerts support arts and culture at the grassroots level.
BMW Opera for All
BMW Opera for All is OA’s annual free concert in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD at the iconic Federation Square.
Each year we invite our community and supporters to come and be welcomed by Australia’s national opera company, to experience live opera in an open and accessible way, and to experience Opera Australia’s award-winning artists, singers and orchestra live and in the moment.
Life Drawing and Opera
Sydney Opera House
In a collaboration with the Sydney Opera House Centre for Creativity, this open access workshop, led by award winning visual artists invites you to draw and sketch production costumes and one of OA’s artists, all while hearing beautiful arias performed live.
Common tone Project
In music theory, a common tone refers to a note that is shared between two sometimes vastly different chords or keys. It is a note that remains the same when moving from one chord to another, creating a connection between them. Common tones connect distant harmonies, harmonise two melodies, work in counterpoint and connect the music lines creating a harmonic anchoring the two elements provide continuity and help maintain a sense of unity in musical movement.