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s Greensboro a large providing opportunities for talented young Opera sponsors an annual Write Your people, Greensboro Opera engages interna- Own Opera! contest to Guilford County enough city to sup- tionally known artists in its main-stage fourth-graders. The winning entry is port and sustain a productions. Operatic icons such as premiered alongside a pocket-sized quality opera com- June Anderson, Thomas Allen, and version of a standard opera in Greens- soprano Kathleen Battle have performed on boro’s downtown Carolina Theatre. Also, pany? The answer Greensboro Opera’s stage. young people’s artwork depicting is a resounding yes! Interaction with the local community is a Greensboro Opera’s annual main-stage key component of Greensboro Opera’s production is displayed opening night in I mission. Programs include Opera After the lobby of Greensboro’s War Memorial Greensboro Opera celebrates its School, which features show-and-tell opera Auditorium. 30th anniversary this year. The demonstrations for local middle-school A Speaker’s Bureau brings opera and community-based company students. Collaborations with Guilford opera-related topics to Greensboro’s civic stages professional and County Schools and UNC-Greensboro organizations in lively presentations by opera education programs that Opera Theatre bring the opera experience to opera professionals, and Greensboro reach out not only to Greensboro 6,000 fifth-graders annually. Greensboro Opera is proud to partner with The but also to other towns and to bring all of the counties in the Piedmont Triad. Met’s Live HD Broadcast transmissions In collaboration with the to Greensboro. Greensboro , Greens- Another local music-performance boro Opera produces a main- endeavor that draws national attention is stage performance from the the renowned Eastern Musical Festival, standard operatic repertoire an annual Greensboro event that spans six From left: The Face on the Barroom every fall. For 2011, Greensboro weeks every June through July. Greens- Floor and Write Opera collaborates with the Greensboro boro Opera collaborates annually with Your Own Opera contest winner Symphony in Puccini’s La Bohème on Eastern Music Festival to present Chicks November 5. cabaret-style performances that draw In addition to showcasing local talent and from the popular American songbook. photos courtesy of greensboro opera Clockwise from top left: Le nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, and L’elisir d’amore

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