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Operanauts hosted an opera music fête in Kinshasa featuring live performances by young Congolese musicians on March 18. 

Operanauts is introducing a series of downloadable breath exercises. Each exercise comes with a detailed description and a link to a tutorial video featuring a professional demonstration of the technique. 

Operanauts is proud to announce its collaboration with the Joy Quintet (Quintette de Joie), a group of five talented musicians who represent an inspiring cross-section of Kinshasa.

Menotti’s opera celebrates the season of giving, and delivers the timely message that all charity is blessed. Now, more than ever, we need to recognize the importance of giving and take action to benefit those in need.

Read about how musicians in Kinshasa, Congo created their own system of hand-drawn symbols to learn Western Classical music.

Read about our Opera Residency certificate program 2020 and hear about Samuel Niaty's experience during his stay in the US.

In conversation with watercolor artist Jonathan Davis: "Watercolor for me is perfect because it is controllable but it has just enough creative chaos to it."

An awesome view on a rainy day from Kinshasa's side of the Congo River where you can see the Brazzavile-Congo in the distance.

Vidhatri talks about her experience with Operanauts, how it has changed her and what she has learned.

Niccolo Bechtler gives us an insight into Congolese humor and resilience.

Meet the winners of the 2018 Génies des Arts classical music competition.

Alfred Music Publishing have kindly donated 30 Italian music books to Operanauts.

Six teams of students of the advanced Advertising-Graphic Design (ADV) course at Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) create a comprehensive marketing campaign for Operanauts

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar spreads a message both of black power and of cultural inclusivity through a hard-hitting soundtrack for Black Panther.

Watch our interview with the acclaimed composer Dr. Craig Levesque by Niccolo Bechtler

Join us for a fundraising event at Tower Dogs where 20% of all meal purchases will be donated to Operanauts.

Thank you for coming and painting for Operanauts’ opera music work in Congo!

Thank you for coming and celebrating Operanauts’ milestone with a Coffee Tasting at Starbucks!

Operanauts joins the #GivingTuesday movement to connect with our local community at Ten Thousand Villages, in the Princeton Shopping Center in New Jersey.

Operanauts join the national #GivingTuesday movement to celebrate our #ReplywithMusic and to deepen relationships with our local community of generosity.

Walk for Kids in Congo at the Princeton “Reply With Music” Annual 5k Walk

Join us in Princeton, New Jersey on Sunday, September 25th to join with University and high school students to walk for children in Congo.

PIPs are Positive Impact Points – Rewards you earn when you do good things.

On MLK’s birthday we presented the debut jazz concert of violinist HERITIER MAYIMBI and his group CoJazz

The l’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste choir was invited to sing backup for pop musicians Bono, the Edge, Hozier, Miley Cyrus and Jessie J.

Catch up on our feasibility trip to Kinshasa where we met producers, partners and sponsors.

View a slideshow of images by photographer Laurence Paverd, giving us a take on the fashion and style happening right now in Kinshasa, Congo.

Journey with us on a typical weekday morning in Kinshasa and find out how Operanauts can improve the lives for so many young people in this city.

Welcome to the first draft of our opera comic strip for La Petite Carmen!

Find out details about our inaugural festival performance with the world-famous Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste.

Chris Rosenkrans, Director of Congo Travel &Tours, tells us all about an iconic venue in Congo on our successful Feasibility Trip to Kinshasa

Performance spaces are often taken for granted in first world countries like the United States, this however is generally not the case in developing third world countries where resources are often limited and the country does not have the economic means to construct elaborate performance environments.

In 2015, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was rated #8 of the top 10 most violent countries and #2 of the top 10 poorest countries in the world. Read about how Operanauts is bringing an opera intervention to Congo.

Thanks to our Volunteers the 2015 Opera Fellows Program is launched!

Meet our 2015 Opera Fellows: Mireille Kinkina, a versatile soprano and chorister with the OSK; Guelor Ntela, cellist; and Vatick Vanza, director/playwright.

Read about the Operanauts mission and campaign for change in Congo.

Read about what Operanauts has achieved since it began in May 2012.

Where and when do the paths of a Congolese slum, Angelina Jolie, Mozart, opera, and a winner of two dozen international film festivals cross paths?

In 2013, Eastern Congo Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative published this scholarly report.

La Petite Carmen is an abridged version of Bizet’s Carmen, reducing the opera to its emotional roots.

Monroe Village Will Host Unique Opera Program; Residents Benefit As Senior Community Provides Rehearsal Space and Living Accommodations

Kinshasa Symphony is an award-winning documentary film that shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra.