it's very similar to our professional company in the sense that you know we're prepared to music for six to eight weeks and then from staging in five weeks we're opening i think that we can put something together in a couple months go from what is this i'm looking at to having the whole thing memorized stating cost in light of everything they touch as to what limits on the imus thing we're all kids so they're they can be lenient but at the same time they push us they make sure we get stuff done on time so remember if you see no problem you know here they won't treat you like you're five which was another another and other productions that i've been in the know i really love our program like saps and any child so between the ages of eight and eighteen so there's no prior prior experience needed with music once you're in the program we work with you ok so you can learn how to sing and how to act and all of the other skills associated with performing on stage but it's not a requirement so once they the secret world of august kind of a it's not greatly known outside of canada it was a it was a children's book that was written by pierre burton who's a very well known iconic in fact canadian writer so it starts basically very much as this this sense of the kids playing in their play house out in the country but then i think the whole impetus for what was it came from the fact that the kids lose things they don't probably don't put like you know kids do they don't put their toys away things get lost well burton's take on what that was is that this entire race of green skinned augie's living under the play house where the where what stole the pieces and the kids playing in their playhouse and then one day the baby gets kidnapped we don't know where it is we find a tunnel under the playhouse and then we in the grand scheme of things i think it's trying to show people that operate is not what they think it is it's not all about biking helmets and breaking glass and and all those stereotypes and that it can be darn exciting and fun as well the first opera that i ever saw where everything that was exposed to before even  youth i joined us opera was not chick flick and i was like oh no this is going to be the worst three hours of my life like i'm going to cry this whole time i obviously imagined a viking lady and like some you know the basic stereotype of what an opera is and so i came here with my family and i you know there is not like you know understand because there's the subtitles on the top and it's just also like a play so you kind of can see what's going on it's not just people standing there and so and then in the production semester at some point in the process our director joins and then we start the staging process you will find far enough that she can't see  yeah yeah that's it so now you don't stop yourself getting to the  there are other opera companies in the country and probably throughout the world who do you think we're unique because we always do it here at the sarasota opera house we don't do it other facilities a lot of times you know that you'll do those productions that the high school auditorium or another theater all great venues but we like to do them here in our opera house we also always use a professional orchestra it's a bit intimidating like working like i said they expect us to act like adults because they treat us like adults i mean we've got adults who are making awesome costumes and we've got miss martha who's planning this whole thing and staging it and we've got adults who are working on lighting adults who are working on the sound of the case and  production except the kids on stage i mean we really don't feel any different we feel like we're getting same treatment we feel privileged this company and what we do and i'm always impressed at the commitment we make to this because it's something we could easily say that costs a lot of money and we could use that in these other fashions but we say no this is important being on stage opening i mean i could be on stage in costume make up everything and nobody sitting in the audience and just doesn't feel the same when i first walk out you're anxious but at the same time you're really excited and it's like you're finally going to show people  it the way you approached it and even though we've been here since tuesday i feel like i've been here for the whole thing so thank you for welcoming me so much we're going to have a great show whom there's everybody and you can just see the first couple rows fill because the lights lin you and everything just comes together and you get this rush of adrenaline and everything works out and it's just wow i really can do this i really can first moment when the lights come on first first opening night just whoa that's probably my favorite part every part of something that takes that much work it feels really cool that's another thing that i've noticed you thought the program has helped me develop my socialization my work my you know common sense in a way because i feel like with working with other people i've learned to you know person we're not trying to train necessarily the next opera singers you know they're young very young kids so we hope that by doing it they will actually learn those life skills and psyche like i think of working in the search for the opera and it's also been helping me and other branches in my life they've done such a good job with the program so awesome and i mean it's the only one like it in the country we're so lucky to have it and education will not make money for us you know it can but the it's not going to you know all the time the goal is really how can we inspire the next generation of performers and patrons to this art form and actually i would say even how do we inspire the next generation of citizen