Bellissima Opera has recently become one of Working in Concert's 4 initiatives. We will be updating our website over the next month and will have new information about our upcoming performances by Aug 25, 2019. Thank you for your patience.

Celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of the human voice.


Bellissima Opera's Four Principles...

• Preserve and promote the tradition of classically trained vocal arts
  
• Produce innovative concert events with professional artists
  
• Give age-appropriate concerts for school children K-12 
  
• Commission new works by contemporary writers & poets set by composers on timely themes



A short documentary showing snippets of Bellissima Opera's 5-year project with 1,300 Chicago area youth exploring the themes of our shared humanity by bringing music and poetry directly into the students' classrooms and presenting writing and art workshops each student participated in.

The result of this project will be a new opera, Future Perfect, composed by David Shenton, libretto by Christine Steyer inspired by the 1,500 writings and 200 drawings from these workshops. 

Future Perfect, produced by Bellissima Opera & Working in Concert, is set to premiere in Chicago from June 24-28, 2020. 
This unfinished documentary is created to raise awareness about the project and raise needed funds to premiere the opera.
To make a tax-deductible donation for this project please go to WorkinginConcert.org.

For further information, contact Bellissima Opera Artistic Director Christine Steyer at Christine@workinginconcert.org.

Thank you!

Bellissima Opera Outreach...

Recently performed at Concordia University Chicago, Lane Tech HS, Senn HS and Unity School bringing our grand total to 23,000 students reached.

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