2011-2012 Educational Program

OPERA IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAM

Opera4Kids
Our single most requested program from school administrators and teachers is Opera4Kids. Each year San Antonio Opera chooses a 30 to 40 minute comic opera, auditions young professional talent, and tour's the production to ten different school districts in the city. This year SAO will present "The Impresario" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, available now for middle school bookings from late January through May of 2012. The program focuses on providing the art from to middle school students, this program is TEKS aligned, education materials are provided to each participating school. This program is free to middle schools in Bexar County, if you are an administrator or educator and you are interested in this program please contact Suzan Lambillotte at 210-225-5972 for more details. This program is sponsored in part by grant awards from Bexar County, Bennack-Polan Foundation, Target, Marcia and Otto Koehler Foundation, Betty and David Sacks Foundation, Elizabeth Huth Coates Foundation, Ruth Lang Charitable Fund and the Dan and Gloria Oppenheimer Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

DRESS REHEARSAL

Each season, San Antonio Opera invites middle school children to attend an actual dress rehearsal of a main-stage opera. This educational event, that brings students to the venue where major operas are performed, is essential to the overall awareness of the art. Each year's collaboration with the Opera Guild of San Antonio brings approximately 2,000 children to the theatre for a live opera performance, this season for Mozart's Don Giovanni in February 2011. Sponsored by the Opera Guild of San Antonio and AT&T.

For more information on any education program please contact Suzan Lambillotte at 210-225-5972