Out of the Box - Central City Opera 2014-2015

out of the box Bringing the Magic of Opera to You!

Central City Opera 2014-2015 Education and Community Engagement

Central City Opera

making history...both in and out of the box Built by Welsh and Cornish miners in 1878, the Opera House in Central City, Colorado, is still making history today as the home for Central City Opera’s professional annual summer festival. The jewel-box theatre is a National Historic Landmark and one of the most unique and intimate venues anywhere – with the Rocky Mountains and the mining town of Central City as an unforgettable backdrop. In addition to the Opera House, Central City Opera owns more than 30 historic properties used as housing and performance venues each summer. The organization is also known for its nationally recognized young artist training program and year-round education and community engagement throughout the region. Touring programs reach as many as 100,000 student, family and senior patrons each year. Central City Opera offers a musical and theatrical experience unlike any other and has wowed audiences with world-class performances since 1932. The company’s artistic vision is boldly different from other regional companies in balancing traditional and progressive works, and taking opera programming for children and families into the broader community. With its combination of diverse repertory and unique theatre, Central City Opera attracts internationally recognized directors, conductors and artists who produce amazing, exciting

Central City Opera’s engagement programs are designed to come to you – we tour to all areas of Colorado and Wyoming.

For Families, Adults, Lifelong Learners Operas, Concerts and Variety Musical Shows Speakers Regional Touring 2015 Festival - Family Matinee

For Children Eureka Street The Great Opera Mix-up Mozart & Co. How the West was Sung (grades 3-8) Opera Alive!

Music! Words! Opera! Residency

Central City Opera’s touring programs enhance existing curriculum for young students and lifelong learning for everyone. We work directly with educators, community leaders, students and parents to make these offerings relevant, educational and entertaining. The arts enrich lives and learning at every age.

To Book a program

• CentralCityOpera.org/education Easy online reservations available • Education@CentralCityOpera.org • 303.331.7026

Scholarships

A student program request is never refused because of inability to pay the stated fee.

Scholarships, funded by generous foundations and individuals, are offered to qualified schools and organizations. Please call 303.331.7026 for more information.

For Tweens and Teens

and unforgettable art.

personnel

Director – Deborah Morrow Coordinator – Emily Murdock Production/Stage Manager – Erin Joy Swank 25 Ensemble and Teaching Artists

Take advantage of excellent in-school offerings from our partner organizations:

How the West was Sung (grades 3-8) En Mis Palabras/In My Own Words Colorado Performing Arts Intensive Opera Alive!

Out of the Box Music! Words! Opera! Residency

Colorado Children’s Chorale ChildrensChorale.org Inside the Orchestra InsideTheOrchestra.org The Alliance Project Sponsored by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) SCCollaborative.org

For Educators Music! Words! Opera! Workshop Music! Words! Opera! Residency

Photos by Mark Kiryluk and Erin Joy Swank

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families, adults & lifelong learners Enjoy the magic of live music theatre and opera any time, any place with Central City Opera’s extraordinary traveling performances. From one artist to a full 90minute staged show with multiple artists, call on us to arrange a presentation just right for you. We can even bring the keyboard.

Available year round, region-wide Cost varies based on program and distance.

Choices include (but are not limited to): •

Regional Tours 2-4 day tours anywhere in Colorado/Wyoming offering community and school performances and master classes (3-4 singers and pianist)

• 60-90 minute staged variety musical shows based on selected themes; current offerings include Love Notes, Smooth Operator and Saints and Sinners (2-4 singers and pianist) • One-act operas or programs suitable for family or adult audiences, like En Mis Palabras/In My Own Words, or How the West was Sung • On the Go programs designed exclusively for you (1-3 singers and pianist) •

Powerpoint presentations and speakers on topics such as Colorado History; Opera and the relevance of the Arts; and specific operas and musicals (La Traviata, Man of La Mancha, etc.)

December 4, 2014, 7:30pm December 5, 2014, 7:30pm December 6, 2014, 2:00 and 7:30pm

Amahl and the Night Visitors Beloved holiday opera

by Gian Carlo Menotti The story of a magic star, a shepherd boy, some royal visitors, and an act of unselfish love that brings on a miracle.

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St. Luke’s United Methodist Church 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch Tickets: $15 and $25 For more information: CentralCityOpera.org/amahl 303.292.6700

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children, tweens and 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

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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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?

Music! Words! Opera! Residency Nothing jumpstarts kids’ creative juices like the opportunity to write and perform their own musical story. The process of researching/scripting a story and writing/composing lyrics and music develops problemsolving and team skills while providing practical applications of core disciplines like math, reading/ writing and social studies. Experienced teaching artists are available to assist in applying methods from Opera America’s Music! Words! Opera! curriculum.

“It is very inspirational to come back and actually try different approaches and techniques with students. The support offered by Central City Opera’s teaching artists is excellent.”

- Music Teacher, Granby Elementary

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.

How the West was Sung

For more information: CentralCityOpera.org/education education@centralcityopera.org 303.331.7026

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.

Cost varies

For more information: CentralCityOpera.org/education

Cost varies

Opera Alive! Teaching Artists

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.

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tweens and teens

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En Mis Palabras/In My Own Words

Music! Words! Opera! Workshop

I’ll never be free unless I dare to be me.

Professional Development for Educators

An original one-act bilingual opera, En Mis Palabras/ In My Own Words addresses the universal theme of adolescent development – finding your own voice and learning who you are amid parental expectations and peer influences. Fifteen-year-old Ana Maria feels stifled by her strict father just as he is bewildered by her wish to be herself. Her wise Abuela and brother Rodolfo try to help, but both father and daughter must experience a crisis to learn tolerance and understanding.

Explore new worlds and unleash your creativity at Central City Opera’s annual professional development workshop. Master teaching artists will guide you through a process you can replicate and adapt with your own students, using opera to enhance core subjects while developing 21st century skills – communication, collaboration and creative thinking. Get ready to help students discover the magical connections between language arts, social studies, science, mathematics and fine arts though musical storytelling. Music! Words! Opera! methods and curriculum apply to all grade levels K-12.

A bilingual resource guide explores cultural and family traditions, immigration and Latino history in Colorado and includes lesson plans in language arts and social studies.

Colorado Performing Arts Intensive Students - Elevate Your Art in the Rocky Mountains Presented by the Colorado Springs Conservatory and Central City Opera, this 17-day immersion program offers instruction and performance opportunities for talented young performers ages 14 through 19. Amidst the majestic mountains of Colorado, students participate in a series of rigorous, interactive master classes, workshops and symposia; attend performances; and team-create an original music theatre piece which they perform as part of the annual Central City Opera Festival. Students dig deep to develop skills in vocal technique, dance/movement, theatre and composition.

“The students amaze and astound all of us with the work they accomplish in just two weeks.

More importantly, they astound themselves.”

- Jeff Gilden, artist-in-residence

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Grades 6-12 Available year round Performed by 4 singers, pianist, classical guitarist $650 single Colorado Academic Standards: Music, Reading, Writing and Communicating, World Language, Social Studies, Theater Resources and related lesson plans available online. (English and Spanish) Auditions: November 8-9, 2014 (or by video through Dec. 15, 2014) Intensive dates: July 15 - August 1, 2015

July 7-11, 2015 University of Colorado, Boulder Workshop fee: $99 CU graduate credit fee: Add $180 (3 credits) (subject to change)

INCLUDED IN THE WORKSHOP: • 3 CU graduate credits (opt’l for an additional fee) • Hands-on experience creating an original opera • Lesson plans and instruction in how to implement a project with students • Study materials for La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi • Tickets to a performance of La Traviata at the Central City Opera House (opt’l for non-credit participants; small fee applies) • A week of some of the best fun you’ve ever had!

• Central City Opera is committed to assist with the implementation of this program with your students This professional development workshop is for any educator – elementary classroom teacher to high school language arts teacher or music specialist – and is particularly effective for teaching teams.

For more information/ to register: CentralCityOpera.org/ professionaldevelopment

For more information: CentralCityOpera.org/ highschoolintensive ColoradoSpringsConservatory.org

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the 2015 festival July 11 - August 9, 2015 Look for these shows in Central City, Denver and throughout Colorado.

La Traviata Man of La Mancha The Prodigal Son The Blind Don Quixote and the Duchess CentralCityOpera.org/2015

Family Matinee Verdi’s La Traviata August 4, 2015, 2:30pm Students (ages 6-18) $15 Adults $20 Central City Opera House Opera Insider resource guide available online.

For more information: CentralCityOpera.org/familymatinee

Sponsors Our thanks to the following foundation and corporate sponsors who so generously support Central City Opera Education and Community Engagement.

The Schlessman Family Foundation Schramm Foundation Henry R. Schwier Charitable Fund Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation The Weckbaugh Foundation

The Anschutz Foudation Virginia W. Hill Foundation Mabel Y. Hughes Foundation JK Mullen Foundation Marcia L. Ragonetti Arts Education Fund

We also thank the many individuals whose gifts support the arts in education.

Education Partners

Scientific and Cultural Collaborative

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CentralCityOpera.org/Education

303.331.7026 | education@centralcityopera.org

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