CANADIAN CHILDREN’S OPERA COMPANY at 50
“[It’s about] digging deep into the experience of young people and mining it to the fullest…The CCOC is producing great art, and the education comes from that.”
DEAN BURRY
In reviewing the 2004 premiere of The Hobbit, commissioned from Dean Burry by the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, The Globe and Mail’s Robert Harris wrote, “One only wishes that as much effort, time and energy could go into every musical event presented on Toronto stages as has clearly been lavished on this one.”
His words summarize an enterprise that continues to give so much to so many people. Hundreds of children have grown up in what was born as the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus (CCOC) at the close of summer in 1968. This past fall, the thriving company marked its 50th anniversary. It’s not just a milestone of attention being bestowed on the CCOC’s stage productions—it’s a celebration about teaching and mentoring children to express themselves in creative ways.
Along the way, more than two generations of young people have formed lifelong friendships, learned more about
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