Fund Raising Concert
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Exploring Opera and Dementia
On Monday 9 May, Opera North Education and Bradford District Care Trust will host a fundraising concert in the Howard Assembly Room, to launch a new project exploring the positive impact music has on the lives of those with dementia. To kick start the project, the fundraising concert will feature a newly formed choir made up of staff, service users with dementia and carers from the Care Trust. The choir will perform some well known opera excerpts including Verdi’s La Traviata and Nabucco, as well as popular numbers from musical theatre they are set to learn over the next few months. Guest soloists and regular Opera North singers, soprano Fflur Wyn and tenor Mark Le Brocq, will also perform. All money raised on the night will be used to fund the project, which starts in the autumn. Preparation for the evening’s entertainment includes work with vocal animateur Lea Cornthwaite, who will focus on the group’s confidence, team work, language development and listening. The choir will rehearse three times during April before they take to the stage. With money raised from the concert, the joint venture will see professionals deliver creative community workshops which will investigate the links between music and increased well-being and quality of life amongst people with dementia.
