Opera Box

A digital educational platform for secondary education educators and students.

What exactly is opera? Is it the singing, music, drama, and dance? A phantasmagoria, a work lasting only a few minutes, an ancient drama revival, a comedy, an epic endeavour? Or, could it be, perhaps, all of the above?

OperaBox, the Greek National Opera’s digital education platform, launched in the  2023/24 season, as part of the educational programme for secondary education schools Opera Interactively Into Schools, is available online, inviting individuals of all ages to a journey across the past, present, and future of opera. Using interactive activities and applications, new and archival audiovisual material, musicological and historical texts, as well as the imaginative video game Helen of Solidarity, OperaBox serves as an educational tool for formal and non-formal education that enables the introduction of teenagers into the world of opera and the familiarization of students and professors with the preparation of music theatre performances.

For secondary education educators who want to enhance their knowledge of using OperaBox in the classroom, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) will support more than 600 free online training seminars across Greece.

The programme Opera Interactively Into Schools was co-funded by Greece and the European Social Fund through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education, and Lifelong Learning”.   

GNO Learning & Participation Lead Donor