Opera Kids (2021)

A celebration of "Creating Original Opera" - the Metropolitan Opera 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.