On March 23^rd 2010, the Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival was taken over by  400 eight  to eleven year olds from 8 schools across  London to perform the premiere of a new opera entitled ‘Clothesburger’.  Their work was the result of a huge workshop project initiated by the Pegasus Opera Company as part of ‘Sing Up!’, a government run scheme to increase and encourage singing in primary schools.

The Workshops ran over the course of a year, led by Electric Voice Theatre’s Artistic Director, Frances M Lynch, as part of a training programme for professional singers from  Pegasus. The singers encouraged the children to devise their own music, songs, action and illustrations for the opera based on an original story by the composer Errollyn Wallen, who in turn  arranged their work to create the final version of the opera.