Opera 101

School visits for grades 7-9
Working from the viewpoint that jr. high school students still like to be entertained, but that they also appreciate being treated as a more mature audience than elementary school students, we have created a scenes-and-dialogue program where our opera singers introduce concepts from opera and tell students about the scenes they will see, and then perform arias, duets and large ensembles from the standard repertoire of opera. Students will experience scenes from operas such as The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, Die Fledermaus, and The Elixir of Love.

Because of financial support from the Utah State Legislature and private donors, Utah Opera is able to provide this program to public schools free of charge.