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Monthly Opera Clubs starting!

We’re gearing up for an exciting few months with projects starting in March with two of our longterm partners in the run up to our street opera production of The Elixir of Love this summer. Over the next few months we will be running monthly sessions at both Roehampton Base Youth Club and the Commonside Trust Elders Lunchclub!  Both groups will learn about the story and characters in The Elixir of Love in our new version; hear an opera singer sing live and up close; learn to sing a section of the opera themselves and other fun activities! We’ll also be listening to the groups to find out what sort of things they’d like to get up to in the sessions and which artists working in opera they’d like to meet and learn from. We can’t wait to get started!!

If you’re local to Roehampton aged 6-18 or local to Pollards Hill aged over 55 and would like to get involved please do get in touch for further information.

Hugest thanks to our funders for supporting this work!

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Care home Carpark Opera!

Thanks to the generosity of Merton Giving and Wimbledon Foundation we are thrilled to be offering Merton & Wandsworth care homes an opera performance session in their garden or car park this autumn. Based on the successful format we have previously provided to older people’s lunch clubs at community organisations including Age UK, Commonside Trust and Wimbledon Guild we wanted to offer a musical session to help improve older people’s mental well-being during this difficult time. A professional opera singer and pianist will perform several songs and talk about their freelance careers and the work of Baseless Fabric in the garden or car park socially distanced from residents and staff.

If you know a local care home that would be interested and whose restrictions will allow for outdoor visitors this Sept please get in touch!

Meanwhile, we are also intending to offer care homes a full performance of our acclaimed modern English Die Fledermaus next year so that residents and staff can experience the joy of a full operatic story (and a very funny one with hilarious characters and super catchy tunes)! We currently have a fundraising target of £9k to give 6 care homes this opportunity (as well as providing work for 12 freelance professional artists who have all seen their income disappear during this crisis). We have various funding applications into trusts and foundations but if you are able to donate towards this joyful experience for local elderly please donate here!

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