26 Sep Teaching materials that work!
Opera for Young began offering teaching materials in the 1980's. Each season, we rework these tools to better serve the needs of our host schools. The tutorial recording is an important piece of the OFTY package - Artistic Director Diane Garton Edie walks teachers and students through the show, while our...
15 May “Pirates” receives highest ever NEA grant!
Opera for the Young received its first grant from the NEA in 2000, and since then has received substantial annual support for our programs. Our upcoming adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance will receive OFTY's largest award yet - $22,000 towards the 2019/2020 school tour. We're honored...
28 Mar Karen Brown-Larimore, designer extraodinaire!
We say it all the time - opera is the perfect vehicle to ignite excitement for all of the arts, not just singing. One of the most important artforms of opera is costume design. We interviewed Opera for the Young's Resident Costume Designer, Karen Brown-Larimore,...
10 Apr Teacher Feature ✦ Karl Kessler
Every year we meet hundreds of innovative music educators along our tour, and we're excited to introduce you to one of those teachers. Karl Kessler works with students at both Butte des Morts Elementary and Jefferson Elementary in Menasha, WI. We interviewed him at Butte...
21 Mar In the recording studio
Good news! This past weekend we officially completed the recording for the 2018/19 school tour of Super Storm! The recording will be used to create our Tutorial Recording, Full Cast Recording, and our Spanish Supplement (we now offer all of the children's chorus music in Spanish!). This...
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