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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.

      Katy Lindhart       Amy Maude Helfer      Philippe Pierce         Charles Jebaily
          Soprano                Mezzo Soprano                  Tenor                       Baritone

 

Introduce your students to the magical (and often times hilarious) world of opera!

For Grades K-6
For Grades 7-12

Visit the Opera Guild of Dayton’s pages to discover even more educational programs for students of all ages.

For more information or to reserve a program, contact Pam Eyink at 937.228.0662 X3091.

 

For Grades K-6

OPERA MANIACS! (Click Here to see video)

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 March/April 2011.

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 7-12

   DUELING DIVAS

             A Singing Showdown

 

Four young opera singers claw, fight and sing their way to the top on America’s most popular new game show, Dueling Divas!  Like Jeopardy…only with better music!  It’s Deal or no Deal where just one artist will emerge triumphant, but on the way all four singers will perform their hearts out as they sing the answers to strange and difficult trivia.  Will the Wheel of Fortune smile on the soprano and allow her to Name that Tune?  Is the tenor Smarter than a Fifth Grader?  Find out - only at Dueling Divas!

 

Dayton Opera’s brand-new production, created by Luke Dennis, Executive Director of the Muse Machine, features the singing talents of the four young singers from across the U.S. who were selected through a rigorous audition process for their Artist-In-Residence Program   This fast and fun twist on trivia game shows features some of the best-loved music from opera and musical theatre.  It includes curriculum connections to foreign languages, history and social studies.  The Price is Right so Let’s Make a Deal and bring Dueling Divas to your school.

 

You must provide a recently tuned piano and a bench or a full-size electronic keyboard with a stand and a chair for this program.  This program is appropriate for grades 6-12 as well as adult audiences and is available in February and early March, 2011.

 

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

This program addresses the following Ohio Content Standard Benchmarks:

 

  • Experience a varied repertoire of music and respond by analyzing and describing music using correct terminology
     
  • Identify similarities and differences between drama/theatre and other art forms
     
  • Recognize the benefits of lifelong learning in drama/theatre
     
  • Compare and contrast the distinctive characteristics of art forms from various cultural, historical, and social contexts
     
  • Use knowledge of perspectives, practices and products of cultural, ethnic and social groups to analyze the impact of their commonality and diversity within local, national, regional and global settings