If opera immersion is more to your liking, a residency is available. Ms. Lewis spends one or two weeks in your school. Each grade level is assigned an opera. With the help of recordings and videotapes, students learn up to three selections from the opera in the original language with accompaniments for your classroom instruments created by SO THIS IS OPERA. The residency also involves creative writing, art, drama and research activities. A student performance for parents is the showcase at the end of the residency.
Sample residency activity:
Students in grade one will learn The Three Bears and Little Gingerbread Man Operas. Students will create masks for the characters in the opera. Students will create invitations for parents to attend the opera. Each invitation will contain a persuasive letter written by the student to convince parents to come to the performance.
Expected Outcomes:
- Students will learn that an opera is a story set to music
- Students will learn arias and recitative in opera and the function of each
- Students will develop writing skills
- Students will learn persuasive techniques through writing
If you are interested in booking the residency program, please
Contact Us. Due to overwhelming popularity, residency dates must be reserved during the first month of the school year.
