Program / Event Details

Opera Baltimore’s (formally Baltimore Concert Opera) “What is Opera? A Team!” assembly presentation is an interactive, engaging 45 minute program that can be tailored to groups large and small, pre-K through 4th grade. Led by two experienced teaching artist-opera singers, students learn about the teamwork that creates an opera – people who work together to tell a story all at once – like blockbuster movie, but with no second takes, and no microphones! They hear spectacular singing, see beautiful pictures, and move to the music. By the end of the show, they know that opera can be very FUN!
Through energetic narrative and a projected presentation, students discover that opera is the ultimate mash up: music + words + acting + dance + visual art!

Students learn what opera is and look behind the curtain at opera productions: learning about the scenic, costume, and lighting components of opera. They also hear about different voice types and how opera singers train their voices to make them louder, stronger and faster – just like an athlete. Students discover an opera singer from Baltimore that changed the opera world: Anne Wiggins Brown. Lastly, the opera-singing teaching artist performs selections of operatic classics — but they needs their help to perform the songs! Students join our teaching artist onstage to become a part of the ‘opera team’ right then and there.

This program focuses on opera, but its message is clear:

Whatever you love to do, find your team — and do it together!

For more information and scheduling contact Courtney Kalbacker, Education Director, Courtney@BaltimoreConcertOpera.com. Minimal onsite requirements include a sound system that can play from a computer, and a projector & screen (We can also provide projector).