Opera Up Close

School visits for grades 9-12
Utah Opera offers “Opera Up Close” to high schools throughout the state of Utah. The program is designed to be presented during a single class period for a large choral audience, preferably in the choral class room. Because of financial support from the Utah State Legislature and private donors, Utah Opera is able to provide this program at no cost to public schools.

"Opera Up Close” consists of Utah Opera’s Ensemble Artists performing arias and ensemble pieces, talking about specific challenges and rewards they have met as vocalists and performing artists, and answering questions from the student audience. The discussion focuses on issues confronting young professional singers--issues that all young people who work or will be working have to confront, to some extent (each performer addresses a separate issue–each one sings and then talks for about 2 minutes).

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.