OCC draws its uniqueness from the fact that all of its shows are exclusively for children from the age of 3 upwards.

OCC (Calea Giulesti nr. 16, sector 6, Bucharest) houses three auditoriums - Great Hall, with a capacity of 424 seats, Mozart Salon, with 130 seats, and UnderGrant Hall, with 120 seats - where not only famous soloists and dancers but also very young talents perform.
Nowadays, there are more than 500 events scheduled each season with the main goal of reaching as many children in Bucharest as possible. We believe that it is never too early to expose a child to the great musical works of art and we strive to make it as fun as possible for everyone involved in this process.
Every month over 10,000 children see our shows and even more visit us virtually, accessing the institution's website, www.opreracomica.ro, the Facebook page and the OCC mobile app, available for download on Google Play and App Store.

MAIN GOALS AND MISSIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION

OCC produces and promotes musical culture and performing arts shows for children in-house and abroad, aimed at their education and emotional development starting from a very early age. It initiates and supports educational, cultural and social-formative projects addressed to the target audience and strives to collaborate with educational institutions by providing qualified support to schools to carry out valuable projects. OCC organizes and conducts educational programmes and creative research activities for the continuous improvement of specialised personnel in the artistic, musical, theatre, opera, ballet and technical field. 

MAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANIZATION

Our main activity consists of daily shows hosted in our three halls, but children are also welcome to enrol in our extracurricular workshops or to take part in fun activities (outdoor cinema during summer, outdoor skating rink during winter, interactive lessons, workshops, festivals, backstage tours), all meant to reach children's souls and capture their smiles. With over 70 titles of opera, operetta, musical and ballet in its repertoire, OCC has over 500 performances annually, both in-house and on tour.

WILL THE PROJECT CONTRIBUTE TO AND ENRICH THE ACTIVITIES OF YOUR ORGANISATION?   

Young Theatre on the Move represents a new mile stone for the Comic Opera for Children. Being our second Creative Europe project that we implement as partner, OCC embraced the responsibility to be the Romanian promoter of this new type of cultural education that develops tomorrow’s audience. If Young Theatre project brought Impro Theatre as a steady activity to the institution, from Young Theatre on the Move, OCC hopes to draft and create new methodologies based on our trainer’s experiences as opera directors, ballet dancers and opera singers, methodologies that will help children be more aware of their emotions, their body movement and coordination and their space.