Viva Coro!, the Oratorio Society’s youth engagement program, aims to inspire the next generation of singers to be lifelong participants in choral music.

Viva Coro! invites high school-age singers to rehearse and perform a choral masterwork with the Society and a professional orchestra. In this, our 30th season, OSM partnered with the Chamber Singers of Armstrong High School to perform Mozart’s Requiem.

For more information about the program, contact Artistic Director Matthew Mehaffey at 612-624-1511 or send email to mehaffey@umn.edu.

Comments from Viva Coro! participants:

It was incredible! It’s one thing to listen to the Requiem with the orchestra and a full choir, but another thing to be part of it. It was an out-of-body experience. No! It actually was! —Henry, age 18

I’d have to agree with that. Singing with 82 adult singers, with them and the sound they can make, is a very special experience. —Sam, age 17

It was just kind of like, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. —Bethany, age 17