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Monday, October 11, 2010

Opera by Children Teacher Manual BY CHAPTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TRUST, RISK, AFFIRMATION AND GROWTH

THE THREE RULES OR OBJECTIVES

TEACHER AS FACILITATOR

START WITH A SONG

WHAT IS OPERA?

THEATRE GAMES

WRITING THE STORY

CREATING THE LIBRETTO

TEACHING CHILDREN TO CREATE MELODIES

ARIA VERSUS RECITATIVE, SIMPLIFIED FOR CHILDREN

EMPOWERING CHILDREN TO CREATE MELODY

AUDITIONING: THE CHILDREN CHOOSE
STAGING, THE POWER TO PRETEND

STAGING, MORE QUESTIONS!

COSTUMES: LESS IS MORE

SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCES: FINAL HINTS
Posted by Susan Ames at 11:00 AM
Labels: art, core objectives, costumes, creating melodies; singing, drama, libretto, story, THE HOW TO MANUAL

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J Semenza said...

This manual is amazing!

October 5, 2010 at 11:20 PM

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Welcome to Utah Festival Opera and Opera by Children

Michael Ballam had a vision in 1997 that, children given the power to create their own operas : write them, produce them, own them, could become a new generation of children who would trust themselves; think for themselves; children who would learn how to learn; children who, as adults, would be able to contribute original thought and leadership to society.It takes a visionary to show us a new direction. It takes the rest of us to put it to the test and see if it works. As we enter our 15th year of that working and testing, we can say that it is a true principle: children who learn to trust themselves and those around them will succeed - not only in an original opera but also in countless other ways.

So as Dr. Seuss once said "Try it. You may like it"


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Children Writing Opera

Opera by Children is a combination of philosophy plus process that makes it possible for a classroom teacher who may have virtually no skills in the arts to facilitate the creation and performance of an original opera by the class. Children have been successful as young as 5 and as old as 70 in this adventure.


If you would like to learn more and possibly participate with us, please do email Pamela Gee pamgee@ufomt.org



This is our passion. We would love to tell you all about it.


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