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Who Wants to be an Opera Star?

Who Wants to be an Opera Star?. An exciting game show by Utah Opera. What Do You Know?. Brainstorm a list of what you know or think you know about opera. Do you know the names of any operas? Has anyone in class ever been to an opera? If so, which one?

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Who Wants to be an Opera Star?

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  1. Who Wants to be an Opera Star? An exciting game show by Utah Opera

  2. What Do You Know? Brainstorm a list of what you know or think you know about opera. • Do you know the names of any operas? • Has anyone in class ever been to an opera? • If so, which one? • What did you find most challenging? • What did you like most about the opera experience?

  3. What is opera? • An opera is like a play with singing added. Everybody sings almost all of the time. • Words, actions and music work together to tell a story full of conflict and emotion. • Opera started in Italy around the year 1600. • Opera singers train with teachers and coaches to learn how to sing over an orchestra without needing a microphone. • Audience members clap and even shout “Bravo!” when they have enjoyed a performance.

  4. Operas and Languages • Operas are often sung in foreign languages because operas are written by composers from countries all over the world. Here are some examples: • Mozart wrote operas in Italian and German • Bizet wrote the opera Carmen in French • Puccini and Verdi wrote their operas in Italian • There are operas in Spanish, Russian, Czech, and English! • Music communicates easily so you can understand the feelings of an opera, even if you can’t understand the words.

  5. Opera Voice Types • Most children have high voices and are sopranos. Voices change as you grow; your adult voice type depends on the size of your vocal cords – you sing and speak using the same mechanism. • Adult male voices • Tenor • Baritone • Bass • Adult female voices • Soprano • Mezzo-Soprano • Alto • High • Middle • Low

  6. Utah Opera’s Resident Artists • Soprano Amy Owens • from Wisconsin • Mezzo-Soprano Abigail Levis • from Maine

  7. Tenor Tyson Miller • from Texas • Baritone Shea Owens • from Arizona

  8. And playing the role of the orchestra…. • Pianist Sahar Nouri • from Tehran, Iran

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