CHILDREN will be getting a taste of opera as the third annual Blackheath Halls Community Opera takes place this week.

Professional soloists join together with a chorus of more than 300 community members and schoolchildren as well as an amateur orchestera as part of the initiative.

The chorus includes children from Greenvale School in Grove Park, Charlton School, Wingfield School in Kidbrooke and John Ball Primary School in Blackheath

This year’s opera, Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice also sees 16 disabled young people taking part.

For more information contact Rose Ballantyne at rose.ballantyne@blackheathhalls.com

Orpheus and Eurydice, Blackheath Halls, July 14-19

Box Office: 020 8463 0100 or blackheathhallsopera.com