Opera Mainstage Season: Members of the Youth Opera are selected to join Sarasota Opera’s Winter Festival season, appearing in the mainstage children’s chorus, as supernumeraries (extras who perform non-singing roles) and for special roles written by the composer for children's voices. The choruses perform throughout the community in formal concerts and outreach events. Selections performed are made up of classical music, which includes opera and choral pieces in different languages.

Each chorus provides a setting for everyone to participate and progress at their own level as they gain greater skills and experience. Youth Opera Choruses: Beginning at age 8, singers are placed in one of two chorus levels. As the only program in the United States committed to presenting annual full-scale opera productions for young voices, accepting all who wish to participate regardless of skill level or ability to pay, Sarasota Youth Opera is a national model for opera education. Since 1984, Sarasota Youth Opera has given thousands of young people an opportunity to experience opera first-hand through participation in after-school choruses, Sarasota Opera mainstage productions, summer workshops, and fully staged Youth Opera productions.

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