Residency Description

Creating Your Own Opera - Singing A Story, (grades 3-8). By demystifying opera and demonstrating that opera, at its core, is singing the story, (a big song), students actively learn and demonstrate the basic music principles needed to create an opera. Exploring Character Through Drama, (grades 2-8) focuses on building inference and empathy by applying drama skills to literature. Students learn how actors create characters and relationships, and how conflict and resolution impact a story. By assuming another character's point of view, students bring the stories to life, drawing inferences about the characters and situations not expressly stated in the text.