Virtual Kids Opera Boot Camp™
Virtual Kids Opera Boot Camp™
Not just for summer anymore! The Dallas Opera’s popular summer programming comes directly to students, families, and education organizations worldwide through the popular, online camp episodes. Each of the five episodes is designed to show students what it takes to create opera through an engaging combination of hands-on activities, fun facts, and laugh-out-loud characters. The program concludes with a screen-adapted performance of John Davies’s delightful children’s opera about the value of teamwork, The Bremen Town Musicians.
Grades: K-6th
Location: Online
Dates: Available now for use anytime
Cost: Free (Registration required)
Please sign up for the access code to view our Kids Opera Boot Camp™ materials, which is now live! If you have any questions, please email us at education@dallasopera.org.
Kids Opera Boot Camp™ Episode 1
Welcome to TDO Kids Opera Boot Camp™! Join us and learn what it takes to make opera through the story of The Bremen Town Musicians.
Length: 14:18
Materials Needed: None
Curriculum / Lesson Plan: Social Studies
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Kids Opera Boot Camp™ Episode 2
Music is fun! Learn more about what it’s like to sing opera with some of the music from The Bremen Town Musicians.
Length: 10:48
Materials Needed: None
Curriculum / Lesson Plan: Music Lesson
Kids Opera Boot Camp™ Episode 3
Every story needs a setting! Design your own opera set and learn more about what happens on stage during an opera.
Length: 16:57
Materials Needed: Paper, pencil/ markers/ crayons, and other art materials.
Curriculum / Lesson Plan: Visual Arts
Kids Opera Boot Camp™ Episode 4
It takes everyone to make opera! Learn more about performing opera and get moving with some of the choreography from The Bremen Town Musicians.
Length: 14:37
Materials Needed: None
Curriculum / Lesson Plan:
Kids Opera Boot Camp™ Episode 5
It’s all about opera! You’ve learned what it takes to make opera, now it all come together and enjoy the screen-adapted performance of The Bremen Town Musicians.
Length: 26:18
Materials Needed: None
Curriculum / Lesson Plan: