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Category: Opera

‘HerStory’ – A co-created opera for World Parkinson’s Day

In May 2021, as part of our research into opera co-creation, I arranged a meeting between some of the Traction … More

Arts and older people, Co-creation, Cohere Arts, opera, Parkinson's

Principles of co-creation?

Three years after it began, the Traction project is finally complete. A review meeting with the European Commission two weeks … More

Art work with people, Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Participatory art, Traction

Research on participatory opera and music theatre

SIMM (Social Impact of Music Making) is a platform linking academic researchers with practitioners committed to music as a path … More

Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project

Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Participatory art, Traction

There is another way

A guest post by Richard Willacy, General Director, Birmingham Opera Company I’m arriving at a foyer buzzing with excitement; youth, … More

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Traction

Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’

Reading about ‘La Gata Perduda‘ in these posts must be a somewhat frustrating experience. After all, it has often been … More

Community art, opera, Traction

Traction – an EU research project

An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital … More

opera, Participatory art, Traction

Virtual Realities, Part One

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three … More

Community opera, opera, Traction, Virtual Reality, VR

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us … More

Art in Prisons, Community art, opera, Traction

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert … More

Community art, Portugal, SAMP, Traction

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