Little Opera (2011 - 2023)

Little Opera bid its final farewell to its students this spring, after twelve years of making operas with kids in San Francisco, California. It was a casualty of Covid. The pandemic arrived during a moment of major change for Little Opera–a founder’s transition, plus a new programmatic home with a new partner. The resulting challenges led the leadership and board to decide it was time to say goodbye.

Born from a breaktime conversation in a Just Theater rehearsal room, Little Opera came into being when playwright and librettist Erin Bregman told actress Alona Bach she’d been thinking about starting an after-school program, inspired by her work as a teaching artist with the San Francisco Opera, where kids would write and perform their own operas. Bach, about to take a gap year between high school and college, responded by offering to help start it. And so they did.

On September 22nd, 2011, after a summer of planning, fundraising, and dreaming, Bregman and Bach met their first four students in a classroom at West Portal Elementary school, officially launching what would become the vibrant creative community of Little Opera. That first class ended in the same way every following Little Opera class and performance would: with a 4-syllable word, and Little Opera’s theme song, sung to (more or less) the tune of Denza and Turco’s Funiculì, Funiculà.

It was a community that grew organically–four soon became nine, and the following year it was fourteen. Bach left for college, and other artists and educators joined the core teaching and administrative team over the next ten years, some briefly and some for a decade, including: singers Wendy Buzby, Ava Harmon, Claire Shaw, Cristina Lanz, Alexandra Mena, Albert Montañez, Ariana Strahl, Susan Swerdlow, and Christina Swindlehurst Chan; composers Danny Clay, Joshua Raoul Brody, Erica MacLeod, DeVante Winn, Brian Rosen, and Alex Stein; Little Opera alumni Gertrude Stookey; dancer Sharon Benitez; director Naya Chang; flutist Jenny Hanson; visual artist Felipe Hernandez; singer/songwriter Vessna Scheff; writer and performer Eva Langman; actor and singer Matt Morgera; and veteran West Portal teacher/musician/dancer Suzanne Vradelis. 

They were supported by a rock-solid board, led for many years by Jonas Wright, and later by Liz McGee. Other impactful behind-the-scenes volunteers included artist Jon Fischer, whose screenprinted shirts and annual show posters were loved by all, and music education leader Heath Marlow, whose mentorship was generously honest, wise, and sometimes as simple as: that’s a hard problem, we haven’t figured it out yet etiher.

Each year, the team would spend the full school year leading students through the process of writing their own stories and librettos, composing their own music, designing their own costumes, and performing for friends and families. One of Little Opera’s core goals was to bring together students from different backgrounds, and by 2022 the team had worked with 177 students, from 36 different schools, who lived in 20 different zip codes, and spoke 17 different languages at home.

In addition to the core team, dozens of guest artists visited class every year. One annual favorite was libretto reading day, where professional actors and directors spent an afternoon rehearsing and performing the students’ full libretto for them as a staged reading. Other highlights were weekend building days, where volunteer artists worked with students to build set and prop pieces, and create their opera’s costumes, which ran the gamut from a giant eyeball to ballgowns. In its lifetime, over 100 guest artists visited Little Opera.

The operas themselves were as wildly different as young imaginations could make them, though over the years, age-group themes began to emerge. The youngest students (K-3rd grade) returned time and time again to feasts and magic portals, their older colleagues (grades 4-5) often wrote tragic shows with ghosts or lost children, and the oldest (grades 6-8) dove into the intricacies and challenges of child/parent relationships. 

Each season produced new mega-hit earworm songs. There’s a 48-song-long ‘Greatest Hits’ folder in the Little Opera archives, which features such unforgettable tunes as ‘The Coffee Song’ (give me coffee, yes yes yes! I need coffee, yes yes yes!), and ‘Ghost Aria’ (if I were alive, I could be seen. If I were alive, I’d wake up from this horrible dream), and ‘The Cows Come Home’ (The! Cows! Come! Home!). 

Sometimes the shows had an uncanny ability to predict, as they were being written in the fall, what the state of the world would be the following spring, when they’d be performed. The most striking example of this was during the 2019-2020 school year, the first year Little Opera moved from its longtime home of West Portal Elementary School across the city to Grace Cathedral. Starting in September 2019, the middle school students wrote a libretto for a scary story: they were trapped in a warehouse, imaginations going wild with fear, trying to guess what might be waiting outside. The students had started to compose their first few songs when Covid hit, and the program moved to 100% remote. The refrain of their main aria, performed via video in the spring of 2020, was: 

It kills us or we defeat it.
How did we end up in this mess? 
What is outside? 
Will I die if it kills us?

Throughout the course of Little Opera’s lifetime, students performed their shows on a wide variety of Bay Area stages, including at the Children’s Creativity Museum, the Magic Theater, the SF Community Music Center, the SF Conservatory of Music, the Wilsey Center at the SF Opera, the SF Public Library, and the Cabrillo Music Festival’s Church Street Fair.

In the fall of 2020, during a planned Director transition, Bregman stepped down and handed Little Opera to interim co-directors and Little Opera teaching artists Jenny Hanson and Matt Morgera, who skillfully guided the organization through the most turbulent moments of return-to-in-person teaching. In 2021, they passed the reins to singer and nonprofit leader Frances Lee, who had been a long time Little Opera champion and board member.

Little Opera is survived by its entire community of more than 900 teaching artists, students, families, partners, donors, fans, and board members. You are invited to join us for a bonfire singalong in its memory in March 2024 at ocean beach in San Francisco, CA. RSVP here for more info in early 2024. 

In the words of Little Opera’s students, from one of their finale songs:

This is the end of our story
The kids who wrote it are full of glory.
We think we heard some people snoring
We hope you didn’t find it boring.
Goodbye, goodbye
Don’t cry, don’t cry
It’s time to have some pizza pie!

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