St Albans School hosted two performances of ‘Little Terror’ an interactive family opera all about finding inner strength
With the festive season in full swing, staff and pupils at independent senior school, St Albans School, recently welcomed the English Touring Opera for two special performances of Little Terror, an imaginative, interactive and adventured-fuelled family opera designed to inspire children around finding inner-strength and understanding emotions. The award-winning opera was composed by St Albans School’s own Choral Director and Composer, Mr Noah Mosley, and was attended by more than 400 children from several schools across the local Hertfordshire community.
Split into two separate performances, the morning saw children from local partnership schools attend, including Watling View School, Alban City School and St Michael's C of E VA Primary School, as well as St Albans School’s own Year 7 pupils. In the afternoon of the same day, children from Beechwood Park School, St Martin’s School, Lochinver House School and Aldwickbury School attended.
Rob Varley, Director of Music at St Albans School commented, “It was a wonderful production and a fantastic celebration of creativity, courage, and imagination. Events like these are a great example of our excellent partnership programme which aims to bring the children from our local community together. We welcomed many local children from several schools, all of whom loved visiting our school for an outing while enjoying an exceptional and entertaining performance from the English Touring Opera.”
Little Terror is a fun-filled opera which centres on main protagonist Alex, who doesn’t want to go to her birthday party. To get there she has to go through the front door, to the deep puddle at the end of the street, past the scary school gates and by the boring playground with the parents who never do anything fun. And she has to wear her dreaded pink dress, which is no good at all. Alex wants to be a knight, and knights don’t wear pink dresses...do they?
“It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to have fun while learning about important key skills such as emotional resilience, inner-strength and understanding their own feelings and emotions. We look forward to hosting more events like this next year,” added Mr Varley.
Louanna Alcoe at St Michael’s C of E VA Primary School reached out on social media to praise the performance, “I brought my class to watch this performance and they were totally enthralled. Thank you so much and well done to everyone involved. One of my pupils said they didn’t think they would love opera, but now they know they do!”