Welcome to our first interactive online opera for kids!
There are 5 songs in Fever! Each Monday, we’ll be posting a new set of exciting activities that work through them, song by song, including:
- lyrics and teaching guides to learn each song
- videos that teach some moves to go with them
- creative writing and science tasks to try
- tips to make simple props and costumes
Over the 5 weeks, you’ll learn the whole thing! Then, you have a special invitation to join us in a nationwide virtual performance from your own home.
Fever!
Music Alan Penman Words Allan Dunn
Illustrations Iain Piercy
Some people think opera is only about things that happened a long time ago. Well, this opera is all about a young boy who is struck down by a mystery illness and rushed to hospital. Sound familiar? Outside, the paparazzi demand answers. What is this disease? How is it transmitted and how can it be cured? But the busy medics have no time to talk; they need to get on with finding a vaccine.
Meanwhile, an epic battle is taking place inside the boy’s body as the opposing forces of Good and Bad Bacteria fight to gain control of his immune system… Will he find the strength to overcome his internal enemy? Will the medics find a cure? And will the media folks make it all up anyway, just to get a good headline?
You can join us in making this funny and fast moving story come to life.
https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/fever-online/
https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/fever-online/
I’ll post a new song every Monday. It will be great fun!
