and the Royal College of Music which encourages people with Alzheimer's Disease or dementia to compose and sing their own songs, working alongside professional musicians. One Day, Two Dawns was an opera in 2009 for the Truro, Cornwall community, where a 200-member cast of local people aged 8–80 devised and rehearsed a new piece of music. Jack and the Beanstalk / Red Ridinghood (also 2009) was an interactive fairytale opera with pre-school students composed by Tom Smail. Awards In 2004 James Conway's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) "Best Opera" Award. James Conway's production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda was nominated for a South Bank Show Award in 2005. ETO's projects Ice and Crossing the Styx were both nominated for an RPS Award in the Education Category in 2006. Ice was a devised opera for teenagers, and Crossing the Styx was a devised opera for primary school students.House on the Moon with the Wolverhampton Community Opera was nominated for an RPS Best Education Project award of 2007. In 2010 One Day, Two Dawns with Hall for Cornwall won the RPS Education Award.Laika the Spacedog, a new opera for children aged 7 to 11, was awarded the "David Bedford Music Education Award" in 2012. It honours outstanding music education projects, and was given by The PRS For Music Foundation. Laika the Spacedog also won two awards for Best Production at the Armel International Opera Festival in Szeged, Hungary in 2013. The Best Production award as voted for by the members of the International Competition Jury, and Best Production from the Jury of the University of Szeged. In the Spring of 2014, ETO was the winner of an Olivier Award in the "Outstanding Achievement in Opera" category];"ETO Wins Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement" on englishtouringopera.org.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2014 on the Olivier Awards website, it is noted that the company won the Award for "its brave and challenging touring productions....of Michael Tippett's elegant and vibrant King Priam and Britten's rarely performed operetta Paul Bunyan. The stylishly staged pair played at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre in Covent Garden, London, as part of a UK tour." 2021 Dismissals In September 2021, ETO wrote to tell 13 freelance musicians that they would not be re-engaged for the upcoming tour, but that they would stay in a pool of artists to be drawn upon in the