Opera is for Everyone!
Edmonton Opera offers educational groups the affordable opportunity to witness fully staged and sung professional opera at the Jubilee Auditorium. Opera is an art-form that encompasses many different fields of learning: from history, music, theatre, literature and social studies to stage techniques using math, computer technologies, and even physics, Edmonton Opera’s Educational Program can complement a vast number of curricular goals and entertain and enthrall students at the same time!
Opera in the classroom
Edmonton Opera provides education guides as teacher resources for each rehearsal. These offer information about the art-form and specific historical, biographical, and musical details about each production. They also include ideas for classroom activities designed to get students thinking critically about what they will experience at the Opera.
Edmonton Opera can also visit your students in their classroom either before or following their attendance at our dress rehearsal (pending availability) at no extra cost!
Opera online
Our in-depth educational website takes students backstage, onstage, and even to the planning process that goes into actually producing world- class opera in Edmonton.
behindthescenes.edmontonopera.com
All dress rehearsals are approximately 3 hours in length including intermission.
Enhance your Opera Experience
- Download education guides from our website and book in in-class visit with our Artistic team (subject to availability).
- Arrive 30 minutes before the rehearsal at the Jubilee Auditorium. Latecomers may not be seated, as it is disruptive to the rehearsal. Tickets are picked up AT THE THEATRE, along with receipts.
- Write to us about your students' experiences! Student feedback is incredibly important to the Opera: we share it with our singers, staff, and funders.
Show Dates
La BohèmeOctober 21, 2010 | 11 am The hope and loss of young love plays out amidst the gritty world of Parisian ghettos at the turn of the 20th century. Rodolfo, a young painter, has his life turned upside-down by his passionate love for the fragile seamstress, Mimi. |
The Abduction from the SeraglioFebruary 3, 2011 | 7 pm Mozart's musical wit warms up a comic romance as Belmonte, a dashing young man, journeys to the exotic East to rescue his beloved Konstanze from the love-sick pasha who has imprisoned her. Madness ensues in this topsy-turvy world as the lovers battle to outwit a bumbling and jealous vizier. |
ToscaApril 7, 2011 | 7pm Desperate choices embroiled in the politics of Napoleonic Rome set the scene for Puccini's darkest masterpiece. Tosca, a fiery and passionate diva, struggles with a deadly dilemma: will she surrender to RomeÕs brutal chief of police to save the man she loves? |
The Barber of BarrheadFebruary 15-17 & 23, 2011 | 7 pm Edmonton Opera and Fringe Theatre Adventures are proud to collaborate in taking family fun from Seville, Spain to the Alberta Klondike for The Barber of Barrhead. Figaro, a jack-of-all-trades, endeavours to unite the young Al with his love Rosie, despite the dastardly dealing of the devious innkeeper, Bart. Students will recognize the famous music, but enjoy it sung in English in this one-hour long production! Please note that all booking requests will be forwarded to Fringe Theatre Adventures for processing. |
Cost
| Elementary Students | $7 |
| Jr/Senior High Students | $12 |
| Post Secondary Students (must attend in groups of 5 or more) |
$20 |
| Adult Chaperones (1 free chaperone seat for every 10 students. The ratio of Adults to students cannot exceed 1:4.) |
$20 |
Before each dress rehearsal begins, one school in the audience will win $500 towards classroom technology from PC Corp.
| EDMONTON OPERA EDUCATION PROGRAM 9720 - 102 Ave. Edmonton, AB T5J 4B2 |
BRIANNA WELLS Audience Development Manager
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