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 Operas 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
Edmonton Opera is very proud to launch its new education website: behindthescenes.edmontonopera.com. Explore inside the world of opera with us: the art form, the company, the production process - we’ve attempted to touch on every piece of opera, from the page to the stage!
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.
- LISTEN CAREFULLY! One public school at every Opera rehearsal this year will WIN $500 towards classroom technology from PC Corp, announced just before the rehearsal begins.
- 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
RIGOLETTOOctober 22, 2009 Set in the circus-like world of the Duke of Mantua's court, Verdi's Rigoletto asks questions about self-fulfilling prophecies and how people can become trapped by their own actions. Rigoletto is the dukes jester: he loves his daughter and attempts Ebut ultimately fails Eto spare her from his dark and frenzied world, where the jokes are fraught with both lust and cruelty. |
PIRATES OF PENZANCEFebruary 4, 2010 This light-hearted romp with the world's most generous pirates is a silly but sweet story about a young man whose overdeveloped sense of honour keeps him caught between the pirates who raised him and the world that condemns their piracy. As is customary with Gilbert and Sullivan, all ends well with the help of ludicrous plot twists, and a few jokes at the expense of society! |
OTELLOApril 22, 2010 Hailed by critics as one of the best operas ever written, Verdi's Otello sets Shakespeare's famous story of jealousy and betrayal to beautiful, compelling and haunting melodies. The opera focuses on the complex relationships of Otello, Desdemona, and Iago and is the perfect complement to Shakespeare studies or a specific unit study of Othello. |
Cost
| Elementary Students | $6 |
| Jr/Senior High Students | $11 |
| Post Secondary Students* | $20 |
| Adults | $20 |
(One free chaperone seat for every 10 students. The ratio of adults to students cannot exceed 1:4.) *Must attend in groups of 5 or more. |
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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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