Do you have a budding Maria Callas or Luciano Pavarotti on your hands? If so, now’s the time to sign them up for OperaSLO’s Summer Opera Camp running Mondays through Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., for the two weeks between July 20 and 31, in SLO’s Mount Carmel Lutheran Church.
Summer seems a long way off, but with only 30 spots for kids 9 to 17, the day camp may fill up quickly. The program culminates with a Mikado, Junior performance on Friday, July 31, at 6 p.m. Tuition costs $545 for two weeks.
Facilitated by Marcy Irving (Central Coast Gilbert & Sullivan director), the camp includes voice and acting instruction, operatic singing with costumes and sets, movement and choreography instruction, and ensemble collaboration with live music.
Students will train daily with professional OperaSLO resident artists, “receiving focused mentorship in music, acting, and dance,” organizers announced. “All participants will be invited to join OperaSLO’s full professional production of The Mikado this October at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo.”
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado is a two-act comic opera satirizing late 19th-century British institutions. It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, and has enjoyed enduring popularity.
Visit operaslo.org for details. ∆
This article appears in Weddings 2026.