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My daughter is 5 and really likes to sing opera music. Where can I find a place in Metro detroit that teaches ?
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My daughter is 5 and really likes to sing opera music. Where can I find a place in Metro detroit that teaches opera for kids.
I don't know anything about opera music but I would like to get my daughter into some opera classes if there are any.
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have her sing for fun for now. without proper training you will kick yourself later. Wait till shes 10 or 11 to start getting serious.
Five years old is a little young to be singing opera, if you mean singing opera arias. It would be better to start her with some fun classes to explore music in general, singing, movement, etc. — all of which will serve her well if she would like to pursue opera as she gets older.
Kindermusik is a highly-respected music program for youngsters, and has some classes in or near Detroit:
http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/attraction/kindermusik-48000
There’s also the Detroit Children’s Choir: http://www.detroitchildrenschoir.org/
where she could get some good training in solid technique.
Later on, when she’s 10, she could audition to join the children’s chorus of the Michigan Opera:
http://www.michiganopera.org/press/07july2childrenchorus.html
Children’s choruses are used in operas like La Boheme, Carmen, and Die Meistersinger, so some opera companies create their own children’s ensembles to have ready to go when they program a work that needs children.
Above all, listen to opera music, and, if age-appropriate, watch some opera DVDs with your daughter (Hansel and Gretel is a great one for children).
I have no suggestions other than to add that if you’re going to have her listening to opera, make sure it’s of the fantastic singers of the 30s, 40s and 50s like Beniamino Gigli, Richard Crooks, Lauritz Melchior, Rosa Ponselle, Jan Peerce, Richard Tucker, Licia Albanese, Robert Merrill, Grace Moore, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Eleanor Steber, Leonard Warren, and Patrice Munsel and not to the crap of today. That way if and when she becomes a singer perhaps she’ll be fantastic and a perfectionist in singing unlike the riff-raff in opera today.