OPC Opera Academy was a huge success!

Congratulations to Owen Miller, cellist and Senior at Grove City High School, for being selected from the OPC Opera Academy to fill a seat in our Don Pasquale pit orchestra for the June 10 & 12 performances.

On April 30 & May 1, Opera Project Columbus held its inaugural session of its Opera Academy to teach high school students and exceptional middle school students how to play in an opera pit orchestra. Taught by Dr. Marc Heeg, headmaster; Aaron Schwartz, OPC concertmaster; and Pavana Stetzik, OPC Orchestra Manager, the students learned to play the Overture to Don Giovanni by Mozart and Norina's aria "So anch'io la virtu magica" from Don Pasquale by Donizetti.

One student from the Opera Academy session was promised a space in the pit orchestra for the June performances of OPC’s Don Pasquale at the Southern Theater.

The Opera Academy session had 13 students representing 11 different Central Ohio schools, including Grove City High School, Wellington, Dominion Middle School, Dublin Coffman High School, Finland Middle School, Westerville Central High School, Home School, Edison High School, Olentangy High School, Marysville High School.

The talent of those in attendance was superb and we thoroughly enjoyed working with each of them.