Let’s start at the very beginning! A very good place to start is with our Opera Tots! program where our highly qualified Teaching Artists coordinate a 4 week in-classroom residency with students in Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st grade. During this residency, Teaching Artists will visit once a week to share the art of storytelling through dance, rhythm, characters, costume, and music. The residency concludes with participants creating and performing their own original Mini Opera based on our upcoming Opera in the Neighborhood Production so everyone involved is able to experience (perhaps for the first time) the magical art of opera.

For registration details for this FREE education program, please CLICK HERE to start your journey into the world of Opera Tots!

Program support

PNC Foundation
The Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation
PNC Charitable Trusts
The Grable Foundation

In a world of pure imagination, students from Kindergarten through 5th grade will be able to experience a live opera with a cast, costumes, set, and one dynamite pianist. Each year Pittsburgh Festival Opera selects an age appropriate opera featuring local young artists that come together to create an opera production that is not only enjoyable for students, but also for the educators and parents who want to tag along.

Before coming to participate in the opera, each school will be visited by a Teaching Artist for a presentation of “What Is Opera?” Through this presentation, students will learn about musical styles, voice types in opera, characters of the show, audience etiquette, types of storytelling, and even try out their own operatic voices.

For registration details for this FREE education program, please CLICK HERE to start your journey into the world of Opera in the Neighborhood!

Program support 

Major support for Opera in the Schools is made possible by:

PNC Foundation
The Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation
PNC Charitable Trusts
The Grable Foundation

Impossible, things are happening every day, and with Opera YOUR WAY we invite students ages 12 – 15 to an intensive 5-week program that exposes them to contemporary opera and opens doors for them to imagine, build, write, and present a short production that tells their own stories. This program shares with students all aspects of creating a production, from singing and acting to set and costume design and beyond. We will present culturally relevant and contemporary examples that encourage the use of technology and mixed media to produce a short opera that reflects students’ heritage, values, interests, and futures.

For registration details, please CLICK HERE to start your journey into the world of Opera YOUR WAY!