Every year ENO Baylis runs a number of specially tailored projects for a variety of groups. These projects give participants the chance to explore operas in depth and develop their own creative and performance skills.

Schools projects for all ages are at the core of ENO Baylis activity. These vary from short, curriculum-linked residencies to large-scale performance projects. Most projects are linked to ENO productions and young people have opportunities to attend performances at the London Coliseum. Over three years, until 2008, much of ENO Baylis’ work with schools will focus on the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark in South London.

ENO Baylis also runs projects with community groups, particularly in Westminster, working with young people, families, adults with learning disabilities and housing association. A whole variety of initiatives give participants access to ENO’s artists and productions and offer the chance to develop creative and performance skills. ENO Baylis’ work in Westminster is generously supported by City of Westminster.



ENO Baylis recently developed an interactive online project; InsideOut. This website gives audiences unprecedented access behind the scenes of ENO. Take a tour around the theatre; meet the people who work behind the scenes; see footage of wigs, make-up and rigging the lights and check out the flys-eye view of the stage.

There's a special section on the recent production of La bohème with blogs and interviews with cast and crew, and budding Divas can follow an on-line singing lesson with soprano Janis Kelly.

Click here to visit the InsideOut site: www.eno.org/insideout



The Ballad of Slippery Jack
In Spring 2007 ENO Baylis worked with primary schools in Lambeth on a specially commissioned children’s opera The Ballad of Slippery Jack. Five Year 5 classes from four schools spent six weeks working with ENO artists learning, rehearsing, designing and performing their own version of The Ballad of Slippery Jack gaining an insight into the process of putting on a production, and teachers were able to connect the piece to areas of the curriculum and develop classroom activities linked to literacy, citizenship, design and history. Each class presented The Ballad of Slippery Jack in their school hall to the rest of their school and invited family and friends and performed alongside a principal singer from ENO in the role of the Ballad Seller and a double bass player from the ENO Orchestra.

The Magic Flute Suntrials
A Nursery and Reception project linked to and a secondary school project exploring Mozart’s The Magic Flute through music, drama and text.

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