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Co-creating Original Opera with Incarcerated Youth

Published: July 15, 2022, 9 a.m.

Arlene Goldbard and Fran\xe7ois Matarasso talk with David Ramy and Bruno Homem of SAMP in Portugal about co-creating original opera with incarcerated youth.

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This episode focuses on one of three projects that are part of Traction, \u201copera co-creation for social transformation.\u201d David Ramy and Bruno Homem work with SAMP, The Sociedade Art\xedstica Musical dos Pousos, an independent music school in Leiria, central Portugal. They tell us how they worked with young inmates, their families, the cutting-edge technology of the Co-Creation Stage, and a great range of artistic collaborators to make a powerful new community opera, and what may come from it.