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# Youth opera camp receives $35,000
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/youth-opera-camp-receives-35-000/
- Published: 2003-08-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:50:23.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Santa Monica College has been awarded a $35,000 grant from The Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation for SMC’s youth opera camp.

The opera camp is designed for children from 9 to 17 years old and runs from Oct. 4 through Dec. 7.

Students are taught by Los Angeles Opera professionals and get voice, movement and drama training, but also get a behind-the-scenes visit to the opera company and learn about set design, props, costume and lights.

The program is offered through SMC’s Madison Project, a proposed education and arts center to be built at the college’s Madison campus on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.

The grant funding will cover teachers, production costs, rental of the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica for rehearsals and performances, 30 “need-based” scholarships for students and transportation from downtown to the Westside.

“We are so thrilled to have received this very important support from The Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation,” said Adam Philipson, Madison Project and opera camp coordinator. “This will allow us to really reach out to include more young people in Los Angeles that might not otherwise have this amazing opportunity to discover the magic of opera and their individual potential.”

Philipson said the college will work with several after-school arts programs to offer scholarships to their students. The opera camp hopes to have about 40 young people from as near as Santa Monica and as far away as East Los Angeles.

The students will perform the opera on Dec. 5 at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica and Dec. 7 at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

The camp will culminate with performances of “Brundibár,” a piece written during the Holocaust and performed more than 50 times by children in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

This is the third year the opera camp has been offered in partnership with Los Angeles Opera.

The Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation supports organizations that provide services and experiences to underserved children and youth to enhance their potential and gain values and confidence to develop into responsible individuals.

For information on the opera camp, call (310) 434-3431.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 27, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/082703.pdf?ref=smdp.com)