Tosca Education Materials
Click here to enter San Francisco Opera's Tosca Education Materials website! We are providing you with a vast amount of Resource Materials and a list of Curriculum Connections, which are organized by content area and will continue to be updated. You now have access to plenty of ideas for how to connect the dress rehearsal of Tosca to your curriculum – for multiple learning goals of Grade 5 through 12 students. We hope that you and your students enjoy the experience of opera in your classroom!! We are interested to hear how you have chosen to implement these materials with your class. Please contact us to share ideas, as well as if you have any questions or suggestions, by email at sfoeducation@sfopera.com. Enjoy!
La Traviata Education Materials
Click here to enter San Francisco Opera's La Traviata Education Materials website! We are providing you with a vast amount of Resource Materials and a list of Curriculum Connections, which are organized by content area and will continue to be updated. You now have access to plenty of ideas for how to connect the dress rehearsal of La Traviata to your curriculum – for multiple learning goals of Grade 5 through 12 students. We hope that you and your students enjoy the experience of opera in your classroom!! We are interested to hear how you have chosen to implement these materials with your class. Please contact us to share ideas, as well as if you have any questions or suggestions, by email at sfoeducation@sfopera.com. Enjoy!
The Magic Flute for Schools Education Materials
Click here to enter San Francisco Opera's The Magic Flute for Schools Education Materials website! We are providing you with a vast amount of Resource Materials and a list of Curriculum Connections, which are organized by content area and will continue to be updated. You now have access to plenty of ideas for how to connect The Magic Flute for Schools DVD to your curriculum – for multiple learning goals of Kindergarten through Grade 12 students. We hope that you and your students enjoy the experience of opera in your classroom!! We are interested to hear how you have chosen to implement the Flute DVD with your class. Please contact us to share ideas, as well as if you have any questions or suggestions, by email at sfoeducation@sfopera.com. Enjoy!
School Partnerships
San Francisco Opera’s new Education Department began in February 2008 with the goal of pursuing General Director David Gockley's passionate belief that opera is for everyone. To help fulfill this mission new K-12 education programs are being developed with input from educators. The programs will connect opera learning to classroom and arts curricula while following the SFUSD Arts Master Plan and the CA State Standards.
During the 2008-09 school year we are piloting a School Partnership Program with a small number of SFUSD and Alameda County K-12 schools. Applications were due October 27, 2008. If you are interested in learning more, click here.
For more information, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the San Francisco Education Department at sfoeducation@sfopera.com or at 415-551-6294.
Individual Programs
San Francisco Opera Guild programs are designed to correlate with the Visual and Performing Arts Frameworks for the State of California. We provide a full menu of offerings to immerse students in Opera Arts, grades k-12. Don't know much about opera? We can fix that! San Francisco Opera's education programs are not only educational--they're fun!For more information on any of the following programs, please contact San Francisco Opera Guild Education at 415-565-3238 or education@sfopera.com
Opera In Your Classroom
In-school programming is centered on interaction between students and artists, as well as active student participation. Focusing on the story and how it is transformed musically, each program serves to inform, entertain, foster greater artistic understanding, and provide an entry point to other aspects of opera, its component arts and other subjects.
Kindergarten In School Singing: Kiss a School!
This new program matches a needy kindergarten class with a sponsor to bring singing back into the classroom! We will send a teaching artist to your Kindergarten class to sing classic American, British, and multi-cultural folk songs once a week for a school year! Download application HERE!
Sing a Story: (Grades K- 3)
San Francisco Opera Guild’s exciting entry into the world of Opera! Each classroom visit will enchant and educate younger students and leave a lasting impression!
Opera à La Carte: (Grades 3 thru 8)
San Francisco Opera Guild's condensed version of an opera sung in English. This program is participatory, and requires 2-6 weeks of in-class preparation culminating in a school assembly with professional singers and musicians!
Book to Bravo: (Grades 5-8)
This brand new program, offered in the fall or spring as either a continuation of the Opera à la Carte experience, or as a stand alone program, is a seasonal residency in which a team of teaching artists come to your classroom and help students create an original opera based on a myth or folk tale rooted in the curriculum of the class. Our artists will teach the basics of performance storytelling, libretto writing, and simple composition. The opera will then be cast, rehearsed, and performed in front of the school! Students will have the chance to see how a story becomes an opera and how a written piece comes alive on stage!!
Creative Opera Workshop: (Grades 9-12)
This exciting pilot program is an interactive classroom experience for teens in which a teaching artist collaborates with your classroom teacher, making curricular connections to an opera that is being offered as a student dress rehearsal. There are two to four classroom visits scheduled in which the artist introduces the world of the opera, the history, and the notion of conflict management and action/consequence in artistic storytelling as a model for life. Through role-playing and connection to modern day instances, the students interact with the material and begin to make more complex connections between art and life. This short-term artist residency is highlighted by professional singers at one classroom visit. The 2009-10 season will be featuring Otello by Guiseppi Verdi and Faust by Charles Gounod!
Opera-Live! Training and Performances
Opera Arts Winter Conservatory (Ages 10-17)
Winter Conservatory is a great way to start off the new year singing! Application will be available in the fall for our 2010 program!
Opera Arts Summer Conservatory (Ages 10-17)
DOWNLOAD FORM HERE
Come Sing, Dance, Act, and learn with us this summer! Our exciting summer program will immerse young performers in the Opera Arts. Culminates in a performance of a chamber opera!
Student Dress Rehearsals: (Grades 3 thru 12)
Students from throughout Northern California come to the Opera House to attend final dress rehearsals of a Season's main stage production. All final dress rehearsals feature San Francisco Opera main stage artists and/or resident Adler Fellows Teachers’ Guides and Resource Books along with introductory CDs are available for all offerings.
Madeline H. Russell Night At The Opera: (Grades 9 thru 12)
A formal event exclusively for Bay Area high school students is held at the Opera House in conjunction with the final dress rehearsal of a Season's main stage production.
Other Education Services
Teacher Training:
Offered in September and January, this workshop is an opportunity for classroom teachers to work with teaching artists and specialists. Teachers will learn how to introduce their students to Opera and integrate it into curriculum and will learn how to use the Study Guides and Cd’s most effectively when preparing students to attend dress rehearsals. This one day, Saturday workshop is open to novices and opera buffs alike and is intended to help teachers incorporate the arts more fully into their academic curricula. History, listening, composition, and theatre games will be covered along with important accompanying classroom management skills.
Opera House Tours: (Grades 4 thru 12)
Students receive a tour of the War Memorial Opera House. For more information contact our tour coordinator, Lynn Watson, at 415-648-5327.
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