In-School Education Programs

 

At Dayton Opera, we know schools have limited budgets, so we drive the experience of live opera right into classrooms with Opera-On-The-Road! Our offerings are interactive and highly entertaining programs that use opera and its great stories as a lively vehicle for learning.  The performers in Dayton Opera’s in-school education programs are the professional singers from their Artist-In-Residence Program.

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For Grades K-6

At Dayton Opera, we’re MANIACS about OPERA! Opera Maniacs! is a highly entertaining and interactive introduction-to-opera program that uses opera as a unique and lively vehicle for learning. Opera Maniacs! invites your students to join in the fun as the four, young, charismatic, professional singers in Dayton Opera’s Artists-in-Residence program become “maniacs for opera” and unfold the world of opera for young audiences in this past-paced, 40 minute program for grades K-6.

By using an entertaining script, props, costume pieces and familiar music (some selections used in “Bugs Bunny” cartoons), basic opera information and terms are conveyed to your students in a way that will plant the seeds for a lifetime of appreciation and love for opera. We know your students will join us in becoming Opera Maniacs! too!

Opera is a powerful medium for learning about all the arts – as well as history, literature and foreign languages. It is an art form that occurs in all cultures, as all peoples combine music with words, drama and dance to express ideas. In addition, opera deals with the human condition – the way people live, think and feel. Opera is, in short, a natural interdisciplinary art form that relates directly to standard school curricula.

You provide a piano or full sized electronic keyboard, performance space (usually the gym) and the audience and we come to your school with the rest. You incur no bus transportation costs which makes this a very economical program for your school. Opera Maniacs! is available in April 2012.

For more information and available dates, please contact Pam Eyink, Education Manager, at 937/228-0662, Ext. 3091 or by email at peyink@daytonopera.org

OPERA MANIACS! addresses the following Ohio Content Standard benchmarks

Foreign Languages

• Derive meaning using aural, visual and contextual clues.
• Identify significant contributions and historical figures from the target culture.
• Compare and contrast how linguistic structures carry meaning and vary across languages.
• Analyze and explain how the target language and English express meaning through variations in style.
• Attend, participate in or view target culture events and describe to others.

English Language Arts

• Use a variety of strategies to enhance listening comprehension.
• Analyze the techniques used by speakers and media to influence an audience, and evaluate the effect this has on the credibility of a speaker or media message.
• Evaluate the content and purpose of a presentation by analyzing the language and delivery choices made by a speaker.

Fine Arts

Drama

• Explain the style of a dramatic/theatrical work in historical or cultural context.
• Defend personal responses to a drama/theatre event.Compare their personal responses to a drama/theatre event with the response of another person.
• Engage in activities that lead to continued involvement in theatre.

Music

• Identify composers and classify them according to chronological historical periods.
• Develop and apply specific criteria for making informed, critical judgments about quality and effectiveness of music works both written and performed.
• Identify various ways music affects their lives.
• Identify various careers in music.

 

For Grades 6-12

OMG – It’s Opera!

Before Rent there was La bohème…Before West Side Story there was Romeo and Juliet…and before Bugs Bunny became the “Rabbit of Seville” there was the original Barber of Seville!  Figaro, Figaro, Feeeeegaaaahhhro! OMG – those were all operas?  

Students will love this fast-paced blend of something old and something new as they learn that some of their favorite musicals, cartoons, and even pop songs have their roots in the opera tradition.  Love, revenge, and gorgeous music – opera has it all – which is why contemporary artists borrow freely from operas today.  

Written and directed by Muse Machine Executive Director Luke Dennis and presented by Dayton Opera, OMG it’s Opera!  features the incredible talents of the four, young, professional singers from Dayton Opera’s acclaimed Artist-in-Residence Program performing excerpts from opera and Broadway to cartoons and pop.  OMG – you’ll love it! 

You must provide a recently tuned piano and bench or a full-sized electronic keyboard with a stand and chair for this program.  This program is appropriate for grades 6-12 as well as adult audiences and is available during March, 2012. 

Contact Pam Eyink, Education Manager, for more information and available dates at 937/228-0662, Ext. 3091 or peyink@daytonopera.org 

DATES: March 5 thru March 30, 2012

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS: Foreign Languages; Geography; English Language Arts; Music