We offer a variety of programs for your school or community organization. Below are brief descriptions of what is possible for your group. Please contact us if we can design a program especially for you.

Opera Interactive - (All Ages) This program features opera that come alive through the music, storytelling and audience participation. Our program is flexible enough to offer differing lengths as well as an opportunity for a small group or class to learn a section in advance and perform it with us. When performing for schools, The Heartland Opera Troupe supplies a teacher guide, that provides pre- and post-opera activities, designed to enhance core curriculum standards in many disciplines. The guide also includes teaching strategies that will increase children's appreciation and understanding of opera.

Project Opera - (K-12 Schools) This in-school residency program focuses on the value of creating an original work by and for young people. Students write the libretto, compose the music, and design an animated projected set, and then rehearse, and perform in their own original work of operatic theatre. Artist teachers include a poet, musician, and animator. The program can be one or two weeks in length incorporating core curriculum standards. Students will strengthen writing, language and musical skills, as well as their stage presence and confidence.

An opera for the Plains - The Trickster and the Troll! We now offer either the full production complete with chamber orchestra or a smaller piano-only production of this new opera based on the book of the same name by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. Please contact us for more details on how to bring this work to your school or communtiy.

Why Opera?
"Learning opera helps increase language skills, teaches higher level thinking and creative problem-solving skills in real world situations, involves cooperative learning, teaches tolerance and understanding of other cultures, develops an appreciation for the arts, involves all learning styles, and stimulates the imagination." --Paula Ifft-McGirr, kindergarten teacher