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Posted: Wednesday 9 March 2011

Scotland, our Scotland!

 

P6 Scottish Opera WorkshopScotland, our Scotland! is a new commission by Scottish Opera that looks at issues of Scottish identity against a backdrop of Scotland's geographical, cultural and social landscape. The work takes pupils on a journey that explores the past, present and future of Scotland.

P6 pupils Ben Spilg and Gaurav Rajmohan report on the day Scottish Opera came to Kingarth Street and helped them stage in an opera from scratch.

Yesterday at Hutchesons' Grammar School the P6 pupils were visited by the Scottish Opera team. The P6 pupils here very excited as they had been practicing for MONTHS and 28 February was the day they've been practising for in all their music lessons with Mrs Stevenson and Mr MacLeod. This was an amazing opportunity

The show was called 'Scotland, our Scotland!'. The whole opera was based on the Commonwealth Games coming to Scotland. Some pupils got to be guides, some visitors and some athletes.The Stone of Destiny fell into the loch and they all helped to get it back.      

P6 Scottish Opera WorkshopWhen the time came, they got costumes for their role. The staff who helped from the team are Lisa, who put some bits and bobs in but worked with sound, and Michelle, who mainly worked the visitors and their lovely clothes. After a break the groups were split up: Guides in the Main Hall, Visitors in the Music Room and Athletes in the Infant Hall.

 

I thought they were fantastic and very helpful, not strict and reasonable. (Adil)

After lunch all the students got their costumes and did the show. It was fantastic. Pupils in Primary 4 and Primary 5 and the P6 teachers saw the AMAZING show.                                                                                                                                                                                                 

"An opera rehearsed and performed in one day was a most impressive event," says Mrs Haughney, Head of Primary. "Primary 6 worked very hard, but the smiles and pride in their achievement at the end of the performance shone out of their faces."

Tags: Primary, Primary Music

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