Write Your Own Opera! Archive

Past Winners

2012
Annabel Gigley will be a rising fifth grader at Erwin Montessori School next fall. Click here to read Battle of the Princesses.

2011
Spencer Williams will be a 5th grader at General Greene Elementary School in fall 2012 and was one of 102 students to enter Greensboro Opera's 2011 Write Your Own Opera! Contest. The ten-minute opera version of The Fight to be Favorite was presented by the UNCG Opera Theatre at the Carolina Theatre in February, 2012 before an audience of 6,000 Guilford County Fifth Graders. Click here to read The Fight to be Favorite.

2010
Emma Younts is a 5th grader at Monticello-Brown Summit Elementary School. She was one of about 20 students to enter Greensboro Opera's Write-Your-Own-Opera contest. A panel chose her story, and turned it into an opera which every Guilford County Fifth Grader saw in February 2011. Click here to view Chicks.