Opera Australia’s OzOpera Touring Program brings a first taste of real opera to 80,000 primary school students every year. In 2005/06 students experienced Mozart’s Magic Flute or Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in their own school, thanks to Australia Post’s sponsorship. We have sponsored the schools tour since 2004, and we also sponsor OzOpera’s annual regional tour of fully staged performances for communities across Australia. This year the company performed Bizet’s Carmen 36 times in 22 regional towns in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania and took its educational music program to secondary schools in some of these towns. This photo shows the children at Comet Hill Primary School in Bendigo, Victoria, enjoying the company’s performance of The Magic Flute on Friday 14 July 2006.

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