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Children’s answers on the quantitative part of the questionnaire

Boys and girls (N=77) YES NO
Would you like to perform in an opera? 28 49
Would you like to go to an opera performance again? 69 8
Have you ever attended an opera before? 50 27
Do you attend music school? 18 (14 also sing in the choir) 59
Do you sing in the school choir? 25 (14 also attend music school) 52
Do you also want to read the story of the Kekec? 57 20

Analysis of the questionnaire for teachers
(sent to the researcher along with the children’s drawings and completed
questionnaires with open and closed questions)

All three teachers rated the performance as very good or excellent, particularly
impressed by the quality of the aesthetic experience, the setting, the story and
the message of the performance.
They felt that the children and adults got the message that good triumphs
over evil and that relationships between people are important. They found it
particularly positive that children were performing, which had an additional
positive impact on the young audience’s empathy, experience, imagination and
understanding of the play.
They noted that the performance calmed and engaged the children, espe-
cially children who knew the boy who sang the role of Kekec. They found it
particularly positive that children were performing, which had an additio-
nal positive impact on the young audience’s empathy, experience, imaginati-
on and understanding of the play. They noted that the performance calmed
and engaged the children, especially children who knew the boy who sang the
role of Kekec. They felt that the children and adults got the message that good
triumphs over evil and that relationships between people are important.

Discussion

RO1: What are the elements of YO that promote high attentiveness (curiosi-
ty and interest), emotional captivation, identification and empathizing?
The results of our study pointed out that the artistically, carefully created yo-
uth opera has a strong positive impact on children. We demonstrated how they
respond to the work emotionally by evoking a strong affective response and
identifying with the story on the stage, and cognitively by empathizing with
characters. As Malloch (2005) points out, creative artistic expression often

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