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children, tweens & teens
Mozart & Co.
“A company specially organized to sing and play a little opera for YOU.” Mozart and fellow composers mined the riches of great literature and fairy tales to create comic masterworks with great appeal for children.
Eureka Street
“From lumberjacks to culture, singing and adventure; come to Central City where the singing is so pretty.” With funny and fascinating opera characters as your tour guides, discover Central City’s Eureka Street! You’ll meet prospectors, divas and lumberjacks from stories by Rossini, Shakespeare and other favorites.
Grades K-6 Available year round Performed by 3 singers and pianist $350 single/$450 double (back to back) Colorado Academic Standards: Music, Reading, Writing and Communicating, World Languages Resources and related lesson plans available online.
The Great Opera Mix-up
“To give your plot far more zest, add characters on a quest.” Learn that opera is musical storytelling – with plot, characters, conflict and resolution. This is great preparation for story writing units or reinforcement of literacy elements for all grades. All three of these fast-paced, imaginative and interactive programs are designed to support K-6 standards and curriculum. Children are invited on stage to help create scenes from stories originally envisioned by the likes of Shakespeare and the Brothers Grimm, and to learn about the magic of telling stories through song.
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For more information: centralcityopera.org/education education@centralcityopera.org 303.331.7026
How the West was Sung
“Along with dreams they brought their songs; that’s how the West was sung.” Western frontier history comes alive when seen through the eyes and music of Leadville Silver King, Horace Tabor, and his beautiful wife Baby Doe; Molly Brown, known as unsinkable; Clara Brown, freed slave and Colorado pioneer; and other assorted frontier characters. What did people do for entertainment before the iPad and Netflix?
Grades 3-8 Available year round Performed by 3 singers, narrator and pianist $450 single/$550 double (back to back) Colorado Academic Standards: Music, Reading, Writing and Communicating, Social Studies Resources and related lesson plans available online.
Opera Alive! Teaching Artists
Grades K-12
Producing opera requires knowledge and experience from many different fields. Augment your curriculum in STEM subjects, music, dance, theater and world languages with hands-on workshops, master classes or residencies led by Central City Opera’s proficient Teaching Artists. Students gain knowledge, confidence and technique in singing, composition, instrumental technique, stagecraft, movement or other related activities. Two popular STEM workshops are Science of Singing and Cooking and Fractions where students watch and experience how sound waves and harmonics are produced and manipulated by the human voice, or apply various math techniques to recipes and discover how bodies are instruments that need to be fueled.
Cost varies.
“My students are always so highly energized after your workshop! They work harder, they are more focused, and they sing better. I want this on my school calendar annually!” - Choral Director, Estes Park High School
For more information: centralcityopera.org/education education@centralcityopera.org 303.331.7026
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