The Singing City

A vocal, interactive multimedia artwork

Listening to and leaving singing-tracks in the city. Opera on the street.

Yo! Opera FestivalWith special projects and a biennial International Youth opera festival the Yo! Opera Festival puts opera in a completely new light. Yo! Opera builds bridges between opera and a very broad, young audience. She wants to introduce this audience to an exceptional form of opera that really speaks to them.The Singing CityDuring the Yo! Opera festival in 2007, visitors were allowed to see a first preview of a new project; The Singing City, a collaboration between Yo-opera and us. The Singing City is a vocal, interactive multimedia artwork. A programme with which children, their parents, teenagers, tourists -virtually anyone- can sing in their everyday environment.  PilotYo-opera and Creative Learning Lab already performed a Singing City pilot in 2007, and will continued to develop this project in 2008. For the pilot in 2007 students of a Dutch primary school were called in to help. Students as well as teachers explored the creative possibilities of the Singing City together with singers, composers, educational assistants and IT-employees. Children of year 3 and 4 recorded the way home from school and left so-called ‘ singing-tracks’ . Singing-tracksChildren make singing-tracks with a mobile phone or behind a personal computer. On the Singing City website these tracks were collected, enabling people to look them up an watch them there.About Yo! OperaYo! Opera feels that music and singing are more than just an art discipline: they stimulate the development of social en communicative skills. This is why Yo! Opera thinks music should play a bigger part in our educational system.