Sensory O, opera initiative

Calming the savage [little] beasts?

While you're practising your arias, you may wonder if the fruits of your labour could have anything pertinent to parents with toddlers.  (Screams, tantrums, trainer pants - ah, the happy memories!)

According to the Sensory O initiative, it might be more relevant than you think.  Here's a BBC report about it:- click here.  (Feature by Pauline McLean.)

• Scottish Opera Sensory O website (Rachel Drury, composer to the project, is also a doctoral student and member of staff at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.)
• Opera Scotland website - details of the Sensory O Tour.
• Last year's Tete a Tete, the earlier Baby O project, again featuring our own Rachel Drury.

You might also be interested in the work of another of our students, Ben Fletcher-Watson, Theatre for Babies.  (This link tells you about Oily Cart's latest production: 'Oily Cart: how to prepare your toddler for a trip to the theatre')

Scottish Opera Composer in Residence Gareth Williams talks

Gareth Williams talks about his new work for Scottish Opera's Opera Highlights 2012 - Audiofile.

For more info, see below:-

• Scottish Opera News
• STV page about Scottish Opera's appointment of Gareth Williams as first composer in residence.
• See our Scottish Ephemera file for the recent Classical Music magazine article about Gareth's work (14 January 2012).

RSAMD student Gareth Williams and Scottish Opera

Gareth is one of the five composers involved in the Scottish Opera project, "Five first nights in an hour and a quarter". Read Michael Tumelty's interview with Derek Clark today in The Herald. (Weds. 13 February 2008). All power to your elbow, Gareth!