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Bring the Opera to YOUR school! The San Diego Opera Ensemble returns to the road to bring you the excitement of opera close up! Join our six outstanding professional young singers as they combine music, comedy and drama to present two fabulous productions, complete with costumes and sets! Call the San Diego Opera Education and Outreach Department to find out how you can book this group of singers for your school or community function. Call Angela Kanish, Associate Director of Education -- Operations, at (619) 232-7636 or send an e-mail to educate@sdopera.com. To learn more about our ensemble singers, click here.
If you are a singer interested in auditioning for the San Diego Opera Ensemble, please click here for information and an application.
Rumpelstiltskin, Cosi fan tutte, Opera Unplugged
COMPLETE STUDY MATERIALS
When you reserve Rumpelstiltskin, Cosi fan tutte, or our recital program, Opera Unplugged, you will receive a complimentary study guide which includes cast biographies, background material on the piece, the music, and the composers featured in each program, study questions and other exciting activities for use in the classroom, and more! You can also download the study guides by clicking the links below:
The Rumpelstiltskin Study Guide
Cosí fan tutte Study Guide (Coming Soon)
Opera Unplugged Study Guide
An Introduction to Rumpelstiltskin by composer Nicolas Reveles
The 2008-2009 San Diego Opera Ensemble tour is made possible
by a generous gift from the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.
Rumpelstiltskin
by Nicolas Reveles (Music) and J. Sherwood Montgomery (Libretto)
Rumpelstiltskin is based on the well-known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The poor Miller tells a fateful lie to his King: that his daughter Nell can spin straw into gold! When Nell discovers what her father has done, she turns to the bad-tempered magical creature Rumpelstiltskin to do her spinning for her. But in doing so he exacts a terrible demand: her first-born child! He offers her one means of escape…if she can discover his true identity, he will relent. This opera, which has been written especially for the students of San Diego County by our own Geisel Director of Education, will thrill and delight everyone who sees it.
Audience: Grades K-8
Program length: 50 minutes (with an optional, free 50-minute NEXT STEPS follow-up visit to the classroom by one of our teaching artists, to be scheduled for a separate day with the classroom teacher) A question and answer session can follow the performance, depending upon the school schedule.
Availability: September 29 - November 25, 2008 and January 5 - March 13, 2009
Cost: $450 ($300 for an additional performance of Rumpelstiltskin on the same day, same site)
Curriculum: This program enhances English, history, drama/theatre arts, music arts, visual arts and language arts learning.
Please note: this production necessitates a recently tuned piano (no electronic or digital pianos, please!), and a 25’x25’ performance space.
Learning Across the Curriculum:
San Diego Opera Ensemble performances infuse various content areas including Performing and Visual Arts, English Language Arts, History, Social Sciences and Life Skills, all available in the accompanying Study Guide.
Cosí fan tutte: The School for Sweethearts
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“All that yucky love stuff…who needs it?! Having a girlfriend just isn’t everything you think it’ll be”, says Alfonso to his young soldier friends Ferrando and Guglielmo. Of course, they know that their sweethearts (Fiordiligi and Dorabella…don’t you love these names?) are true to them: who could think otherwise? Alfonso wagers his two friends that if they appear to their sweethearts in disguise, the girls will forget all about them and fall for these handsome ‘strangers’. And in a classic switcheroo worthy of Shakespeare, that’s exactly what happens…with unexpected results!
Experience this great comedy and the magnificent music of Mozart with a traveling set and 18th century costumes taken from San Diego Opera’s 1991 mainstage production of Così. In order for students to better understand the opera, it is sung in English with occasional lines of spoken dialogue. Schools that reserve this opera will receive a thorough study guide with classroom activities and lesson plans to help teachers prepare their students for the performance. Expect a delightful, charming and very funny musical experience!
Audience: Grades K-8
Program length: 50 minutes (with an optional, free 50-minute NEXT STEPS follow-up visit to the classroom by one of our teaching artists, to be scheduled for a separate day with the classroom teacher) A question and answer session may follow the performance, depending upon the school schedule.
Availability: October 1 through November 20, 2007 and January 8 through March 21, 2008.
Cost: $450 ($300 for an additional performance of Così fan tutte on the same day, same site)
Please note: this production necessitates a recently tuned piano (no electronic or digital pianos, please!), and a 25’x25’ performance space.
Learning Across the Curriculum:
San Diego Opera Ensemble performances infuse various content areas including
Visual and Performing Arts, Language Arts, History, Social Sciences and Life Skills, all available in the accompanying Study Guide.
Opera Unplugged
Opera Unplugged is a wonderful program designed specifically for middle school and high school assemblies and classrooms. Students will be introduced to opera in an exciting way with arias and ensembles sung in their original languages by our Ensemble members, connected by a narration from a member of the opera Education staff to help highlight terminology, opera stories, anecdotes and musical interest. This program is perfect for large assemblies, but can be geared to smaller classes (especially music, drama, world literature, world culture, history) as well. Call now for what will prove to be one of our most popular offerings!
Audience: Middle Schools and High Schools
Program length: 45 minutes
Availability: September 29 - November 25, 2008 and January 5 - March 13, 2009
Cost: $450
Please note: this production necessitates a recently tuned piano (no electronic or digital pianos, please!), and a 10’x10’ performance space.
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