In addition to the usual invaluable support from institutions such as the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, MIUR, the Lombardy Region and Fondazione Cariplo, the presence of scientific and technical partners allows us to set up and carry out the immense work behind the tours of each project, and the sponsorships allow us to shout loudly, “Hurray for opera!”
The Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca contributes to Opera Education platform by providing scientific support for the research and definition of a shared didactic-educational paradigm among the different trainers of the musical projects: they are carried out in schools, through the elaboration of didactic proposals that encourage students’ participation and protagonism. Bicocca is also a partner in the Opera and Early Childhood Education: Building European Awareness through Music in Pandemic Times project, promoted by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, of which Opera kids is the subject of study and development.
Nati per la musica (Born for Music), a program promoted by the Cultural Association of Pediatricians and the Center for Child Health, is a scientific partner of Opera Education alongside the activities of the Opera baby project. The purpose of the collaboration is to raise the awareness of parents and educators about the importance of sound expression and musical practice in the growth of the person; it also aims to provide guidance and stimuli on how to propose music in a non-occasional way by promoting opportunities for the dissemination of music in childhood.
Acquaprofonda – Civic Opera domani inaugurates the collaboration between Opera Education and Legambiente. The agreement consists of the proposal of workshop activities, in-depth opportunities and community civic action days for audiences of all ages: these occasions wants to put into practice the values of awareness of the environmental impact that everyone’s actions have, values of which Legambiente and the Acquaprofonda opera are bearers.
UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent is a fundamental reference for Opera Education’s work. With the performance Il guardiano e il buffone. Or Rigoletto (who laughs and cries), we had the opportunity to highlight Article 31 of the Convention, which deals with the right to play; with Acquaprofonda, the theme of the right of children and adolescents to have clean water and the problems this lack still creates in the world today was explored.
SIMILE, Information System for the Integrated Monitoring of Insubric Lakes and their Ecosystems – Milan Polytechnic Foundation, collaborates with Opera Education in relation to content and in-depth activities on the topic of water pollution presented by Acquaprofonda – Civic Opera domani. The “Citizen Science” participatory approach proposed by SIMILE intends to involve citizens, agencies, associations and other stakeholders interested in the topic of water management so that they can contribute to the formalization of new guidelines to cope with the challenges that the lake ecosystem will have to sustain in the future.
Fondazione Alessandro Volta works with local proximity actions to generate an effective and concrete benefit to the citizens of Como, promoting the value of civitas as a tool for the growth of human capital through cultural and educational activities. The collaboration with Opera Education takes concrete form in the production of scientific content for the Acquaprofonda project and the organization of events in the city area to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Opera Education On Demand, conceived by AsLiCo and promoted by AGIS, Associazione Generale Italiana dello Spettacolo, in collaboration with Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onlus and Toscana Federvivo, was presented in 2021. The project, created during the pandemic crisis, aims to bring the world of schools closer to the world of theater and opera through the support of technology. The collaboration with AGIS was started in the Tuscany Region, with the goal of expanding nationwide.
From 2021, the Opera meno9 project dedicated to pregnant families will be enriched by the educational contribution of Baby Brains – The fun side of science, an international multidisciplinary group that works for the empowerment of parents and helps children realize their potential through workshops approved by the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cambridge. The prenatal approach to music workshop is supplemented by Il Parto Positivo program, whose goal is to convey scientific content on prenatal brain development in a playful way.
