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 created short, kid-friendly, interactive versions of Mozart’s Magic Flute; Wagner’s Das Rheingold (the above footage from Theft of the Gold: The Ring Begins, our adaptation of the first chapter of Wagner’s Ring); and a sequel, Siegfried and the Ring of Fire, based on later chapters of the Ring. In the 2009-10 school year, five elementary schools will jointly produce Siegfried and the Ring of Fire with Seattle Opera. The production is directed by Vanessa Miller, costumes by Deborah Skorstad, puppets by Brian Kooser, sets and props by Phillip Lienau, movement design by Gordon Carpenter, adaptation by Jonathan Dean.

Week-Long Opera Residency

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.