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The Magic Opera

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Introduce your young learners to opera by dressing up as Mozart and recounting some of the fascinating details of his life and music. After exploring the Metropolitan Opera's site for kids, the class listens to a reading of Kyra...
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Creating an Original Opera

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This may be a lot to ask of a high schooler, but then again, who knows? Pupils work in groups to explore, write, and then perform an original opera. They view versions of The Magic Flute and La Traviata, then compose a plot, characters,...
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Amadeus Quiz

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Get out the text-book, and CD player to teach a lesson on Mozart. Afterward, you can administer this quiz which requires learners to complete 20 short-answer questions related to Mozart's life, operas, music, and general music terminology.
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Welcome to Top Score: Verdi's 'Don Carlos'

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the elements in the production of an opera including the personalities, ideas, and stage presence. They examine the skills that are necessary to be a performer in an opera in this series of lessons including making...
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Creating a Costume Book for the Opera Don Pasquale

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to and watch the opera, Don Pasquale, by Donizetti. They discuss the importance of sets and costumes in an opera and then, with a partner, design a period costume for each of the main characters in the opera.
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The Role of the Opera Orchestra

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to and examine a recording of the opera Don Pasquale and study the various musical instruments in an orchestra. They discuss the difference between a symphony orchestra and an opera orchestra. Finally they play the music...
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It Ain't Necessarily So

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine characterization of African Americans in literature, popular culture, and opera. For this stereotypes lessons, students conduct research that requires them to analyze the origins and content of stereotypes perpetuated...
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An Introduction to Opera: The Emperor's New Clothes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to opera, its vocabulary, definitions and are given an opportunity to listen to an opera sung by children. They identify phrases and events in the story, "The Emperor's New Clothes." Each student creates a...
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Model of Success from Beverly Sills: Made in America

For Teachers 5th - 8th
What are the basics of operatic voice? Examine the skills of Beverly Sills and discuss how these skills helped her to achieve her dream of becoming an opera singer with your class. Students research milestones in her career and create...
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Adapting Shakespeare's Classic from Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a new adaptation of composer Charles Fran¿¿ois Gounod's opera "Romeo and Juliet", based on Shakespeare's 16th-century play. They conduct research on the era in which Shakespeare lived, write and respond to letters from...
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Look, Listen and Learn

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm what they know about the performing arts and research an artist or song and its related genre. Students work in groups to create an online banner to attract peers to their performing arts genre.
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Creating an Original Opera

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the lyrical and dramatic structure of opera through Internet sources and audio examples, cooperatively discuss elements of opera stories vs. their own lives and create one-act opera based on their own life experiences.
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200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discuss the style and characteristics of the Classical era and the genre of opera. They compare and contrast modern day popular icons to musical icons throughout history. They write original librettos to modern entertainment.
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Using The Opera To Create A Puppet Show

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students become familiar with various types of puppets and then create their own puppets. They use the Verse Play of La Cenerentola and puppets to prepare and conduct a performance.
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Fan(tom) of the Opera

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. They work in small groups to analyze plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that...
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What is Opera?

For Students 8th
In this opera worksheet, 8th graders read about the history and evolution of opera as a type of theatre. They answer 4 questions based on the reading using complete sentences.
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What is a Concerto? Who is Alban Berg?

For Students 8th
In this music worksheet, 8th graders answer 3 fill in the blank questions in a paragraph about the definition of a concerto. They read about the life and musical works of Alban Berg. They answer 10 questions based on the reading.
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Opera- The Story of Carmen

For Students 10th
In this opera worksheet, 10th graders read a synopsis of the story of the opera, "Carmen." They answer 7 questions bases on their comprehension of the story.
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What Is Opera?

For Students 10th - 11th
For this opera worksheet, students read the description of what opera is including the use of recitative, sing at conversation speed. They read a conversation and put it into recitative form. They write an introduction to a popular song...
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What is Opera? Fill in the Blank

For Students 7th - 9th
In this opera worksheet, students fill in 17 blanks in an essay that explains the composition of an opera. They use the words given in two word banks which include recitative, chorus, solo, ensemble, scenes, aria, and duet.
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Opera

For Students 5th - 9th
In this history of opera worksheet, learners explore and research what an opera is and then answer four questions regarding the history of opera in complete sentences.
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Opera

For Students 4th - 7th
In this musical opera activity, learners fill in seventeen blanks from a word bank that describes the process of an opera and the roles found within each character.
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Opera

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Opera worksheet, students explore the history of opera and identify examples of a recitative. After reading a short conversation between two people, students create their own recitative. They write their own introduction to a...
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Theatre

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify and create flashcards of important key terms as related to theatre. Students observe and write a 1-page summary of events seen at the High School Musical production using at least 8 vocabulary words in your summary....