Our professional teaching artists will help your students learn their part in an age-appropriate opera.
After five weeks, they’re ready to join professional opera singers on stage and perform in front of their community. Watch your students transform: gaining confidence, knowledge and a love of music that will stay with them for life.
Things to know:
- Students perform on stage with sets, lighting and stage crew from LA Opera Connects.
- Provides cross-curricular ties with California history.
- Teachers must attend a required orientation via Zoom.
- Students meet once a week for five weeks.
- All workshops are scheduled for one class period, one day, each week between 9am and 3pm.
- Enrollment is open for up to 15 schools within a 30-mile radius of the Music Center.
- Maximum of 70 students per school from the 4th and/or 5th grade
- The school participation fee is $1,500.
Deadline
Applications for this program are accepted throughout the year and participation is dependent on availability.
Check back soon for more information about next season.
Elementary In-School Opera + (EISO+): Introducing kids to offstage magic
Show your students that you don’t have to be a performer to play a vital role in an opera production with EISO+. 4th and 5th graders use math and measurement skills to build model sets based on the production of The Prospector. (Hello cross-curriculum, STEAM learning!) On performance day they get to show off their designs to the audience.
Students will:
- Employ critical thinking skills to make their selections based on the libretto
- Learn to build their set within a budget
- Defend their design choices (never too early to practice for that PhD)
- Show off their finished designs on performance day
- Students meet once a week for five weeks.
Things to know:
- 45 students can enter the program
- This is a separate set of students from the performers.
Click here to contact us via email or call 213.972.3157.
Generous Support for Elementary In-School Opera from
The Music Man Foundation
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Sidney Stern Memorial Trust
John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation
