Through Teen e-oper@;, school classes will actively participate in a collective process of learning and creating. The work brings the teenagers’ thoughts, voices, and inner worlds to the foreground by transforming snapshots from their daily lives into shared artistic experiences. The music and text combine elements of contemporary and experimental opera, body percussion, choral speech, electroacoustic practices, and prerecorded and edited sounds.  These sound levels coexist live on stage with the physical and vocal sounds produced by the students, without the need for prior musical training. Musical technology serves as an active tool of dramaturgy, creating soundscapes and settings that oscillate between realism and imagination, centred on the teenagers’ monologues.

Through weekly meetings as part of the curriculum, and guided by the educational and artistic team, participating classes will learn the core tools, aesthetic principles, and philosophy of opera, and will gradually work together to prepare a performance to be presented both within the school setting and to the wider local community.

The programme Opera in 3 School Grades is designed to transform classrooms into spaces for artistic exploration and expression, cultivating students’ self-reliance, imagination, and active participation, while linking the creative process to teenagers’ contemporary ways of thinking and experiencing.