Opera Residencies

The Elementary Opera Residency empowers students in grades 1-5 to create and perform an original opera that integrates learning content objectives with arts learning in music, theater, and movement.

Teachers and Lyric teaching artists work collaboratively to develop a custom residency plan that addresses desired learning outcomes while students engage in creative storytelling through the art of opera.

Teachers determine a session schedule that coordinates with the established class meeting schedule and the program can be implemented any time during the school year.

Explore Opera engages students in grades 6-12 in an in-depth study of opera through activities that integrate language arts, music, drama, and performance skills. Students gain a rich understanding of a selected work, its history and context, and important themes.

Working in collaboration with the classroom teacher, a Lyric Teaching Artist guides students through a creative process to reinterpret select operatic scenes with their own words and music.

The program includes a field trip to the Lyric Opera House to attend a final dress rehearsal. Teachers determine a session schedule that coordinates with the established class meeting schedule.

The High School Choir Residency supports vocal instruction in high school (grades 9-12) choir programs by providing regular, year-round assistance from a Lyric professional teaching artist. Teaching artists work collaboratively with choir teachers to deliver student instruction and foster student artistic growth. The program features three integrated components:

• Regular, ongoing music learning support in the choral classroom.
• Special guest artists in-school visits.
• An embedded Explore Opera unit of study including a field trip to the Lyric Opera House for a final dress rehearsal.