Build an Opera - Professional Development for Educators

A FREE* SUMMER WORKSHOP for EDUCATORS ready to learn some NEW skills and have a lot of FUN while adding to their teaching arsenal!

July 9-13
Location: University of Colorado School of Music (Imig Music Building), Boulder, CO

Graduate level credits available through the University of Colorado

LEARNING SHOULD BE FUN, RIGHT?
Come explore new worlds and unleash your creativity at Central City Opera’s annual professional development workshop. Master teaching artists from the service organization Opera America guide you through a process you can replicate and adapt with your own students, using opera to teach and enhance core subjects. The learning really explodes when you guide your students through the creation and performance of their own original opera with support from Central City Opera teaching artists. The Music! Words! Opera! curriculum provides the foundation.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE AN OPERA EXPERT TO PARTICIPATE
This professional development workshop is for any educator—classroom teachers, art and drama teachers, music teachers, and teaching teams—ready to help their students discover the magical connections between language arts, social studies, science, mathematics and fine arts though music. Music! Words! Opera! methods and curriculum are easily applied to all grade levels K-12. Three hours of graduate credits are available for $180.

DON’T MISS OUT! BE THERE

Monday-Friday
July 9-13, 2012

INCLUDED IN THE WORKSHOP:

• Study materials for La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini 
• Tickets to the July 13 8pm performance of La Bohème at the Central City Opera House (optional, small fee applies; required for those taking the class for credit)
• Hands-on experience creating an original opera
• A week of some of the best fun you’ve ever had!
• Central City Opera is committed to assist with the implementation of this program with your students

*Please note: there is a $25 registration fee to cover administrative costs.

You may now register online for the Build an Opera Workshop and pay for the registration fee via Paypal or credit card. Please download this credit registration form as well if you will be taking the class for credit.

If you wish to pay by check or mail us your credit card information, please download the Build an Opera Workshop Registration Form (pdf) instead.

“I've been teaching for years and this is one of the best professional development workshops ever.  I think young teachers in particular can learn more practical applications in one week than in all their college methods classes.”

Mark Clark
Music Specialist, Summit County

THE MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! curriculum was developed by OPERA America, the national support organization for professional opera companies.