Grade School

Opera Goes to School

With Opera Goes to School, the Seattle Opera Education Department introduces this wonderful art form to an even younger audience: grade-schoolers. The Education Department has adapted Mozart's fairytale-like opera The Magic Flute into a short, kid-friendly interactive version called The Magic Flute: A Hero’s Quest. Our newest and most ambitious installation in the Opera Goes to School program is our original adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Rhinegold, titled Theft of the Gold: The Ring Begins.

Professional Teaching Artists, singers from the Young Artists Program, and Education Department staff work with grade-school students and teachers during a week-long residency at each participating school. At the end of the residency, students and singers perform the production they’ve created for their classmates and parents.