Learning Aloud
(and encouraged)
Central City Opera’s Education and Community Programs enhance existing curriculum for young students and life-long learning for everyone. We work directly with educators, community leaders, students and parents to make these offerings relevant, educational and entertaining. The arts enrich lives and learning.
Find out more about:
Youth Opera Programs - Bring dynamic singing artists into your school for a performance, or create an opera with your students through workshops and masterclasses. Attend a family matinee during the summer festival, or participate in our Summer Performing Arts Intensive for high school students.
Adult Opera Programs - Performing Artists are available for entertainment in your venue, or schedule a lecture on opera or Colorado history.
Music! Words! Opera! - Professional development for educators. The arts make great teaching tools – our training makes using them easy.
Regional Touring - Opera comes to you! Central City Opera Ensemble artists tour the Rocky Mountain region.
Ensemble Artists - Professional performing and teaching artists from around the region make up our year-round roster.
Education Schedule - upcoming events of the Central City Opera Ensemble
Resource Center - Youth program study guides and other educational resources on opera
For information on our summer opera apprentice program of voice training and performance opportunities for young professionals, please visit the Young Artists Training Program page.
To schedule a program at your school or venue, contact the Education and Community Programs office: education@centralcityopera.org or (303) 331-7026.
“The most important thing I learned is that opera is a great way to learn about other things.” - 8th grader, Bell Middle School
“How can I ever say thank you? All my life I’ve wanted to go to Central City to the opera—today you brought the Opera to me. Your beautiful voices touched my very soul.” - Nita Schlickman, Cliffview Assisted Living Center, Kremmling
Our thanks to the following sponsors who so generously support Central City Opera’s Education and Community Programs:
Thomas W. Bean Foundation
Colorado Council on the Arts
The Denver Foundation
Denver Lyric Opera Guild
ECA Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
The Hill Foundation
The Mabel Y. Hughes Charitable Trust
Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation
Raphael Levy Memorial Foundation
J.K. Mullen Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Post-News Charities, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation
Louis and Harold Price Foundation
Henry R. Schwier Charitable Fund
Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District
Galen and Ada Belle Spencher Foundation
Target
Lloyd David & Carlye Cannon Wattis Foundation
Weckbaugh Foundation
Wells Fargo
Xcel Energy Foundation
