Residency Days

One-Day Residencies
School visits for grades K-8
After an introduction to opera through a performance of "Who wants to be an Opera Star?," 150 students a day rotate through five participatory workshops, each focused on an aspect of the general topic of communication through the various art forms involved in opera (visual as well as musical). Each workshop involves direct experimentation with the workshop topic in a booklet provided for each student.

Topics include:
Communicating through costumes, props, makeup and hair
Communicating through sets and lights
Communicating through music
Communicating through singing
The audience's part in communication

Five-Day Community Residencies
School/community visits for grades K-adult
US&O travels throughout Utah each year, offering five week-long community residencies. Opera artists spend 2 days in school residencies (up to 150 students in each of 2 schools) conducting the workshops described above, plus one day in high school and jr. high presentations. On the final two days of a community residency, the artists give community concerts, including a final gala performance.

During the 2007-08 school year, we plan to offer five-day residencies to Box Elder, Iron, Millard, Tooele and Cache. Email Paula Fowler for more information.