What do we do?

Spectacular Spettacolo provides interactive, bilingual Theatre in Education productions specialising in learning Italian in a fun, exciting and entertaining way. These productions are suitable for Primary School students from Prep to Grade 6 and aim at enhancing the learning of languages through musical theatre style productions. 

For over 14 years, Spectacular Spettacolo has entertained thousands and thousands of students from Victoria to Queensland and South Australia. Created and run by Lea da Silva Gomes, who has a Masters in Producing and a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Musical Theatre, a performer who has been on stage for most of her life and has performed all over the world. Together with her father, Corrado Porcaro, an Italian teacher in the Primary sector for over 30 years, they developed interactive, musical theatre style productions for any Primary school offering an Italian program. The shows are relevant to the current curriculum and aim at helping students from Prep to Grade 6, learn Italian in a fun, interactive and exciting way. 

2024 PRODUCTIONS

"VACANZE ROMANE"
&
"L'INGREDIENTE SEGRETO

​Due to popular demand, we will have two shows on offer in 2024.

For those schools that didn’t have the opportunity to see “Vacanze Romane” in 2023, we highly recommend booking this show as 2024 will be the final year it will be offered. Don’t miss your opportunity to watch our hero, Claudia, drive around Rome on her vespa, taking in all the wonderful sights that the eternal city has to offer.

For our second show, we will be offering the brand new “L’ingrediente Segreto”. A choose your own adventure style show that follows secret agent Giacoma Bonda as she conducts the ultimate search to find the secret ingredient to Nonna’s famous Bolognese! Combining our most popular songs from our previous shows, this is a brand new adventure in which the audience decides where we go next. So no two shows will necessarily be the same!

All our productions are extremely interactive, fun, engaging, energetic and feature original songs. We actively encourage student participation, making them a part of the journey.
On confirmation of a booking, teachers will also be sent a reference pack. The accompanying teacher’s reference pack is relevant to current curriculum and can be used by classroom teachers to help incorporate and extend the language in the production. This pack contains approximately a semesters worth of material which can be used before and after the production.
A huge GRAZIE Michelle for presenting the Vacanze Romane show for our Italian day. The show was so interactive and engaging and your energy and enthusiasm got the crowd cheering.  Students and teachers had so much fun plus they learnt many facts about Roma as well! The students are still talking about how great the show was and today I heard some students singing the Vespa song around the yard! The teacher pack was wonderfully prepared and provided opportunities to engage with the content of the show before and after the performance. Thank you again for visiting us and we look forward to having Spectacular Spettacolo back at our school in the future. "
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Tania (St Mary’s Thornbury)

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