As a school of Performing & Culinary Arts, it's been my understanding that cultivating our students in the arts is advantageous to their well-being as well academically. Prior to my arrival to Marion P. Thomas, I was afforded an opportunity to expose my students to the Metropolitan Opera.
Let me tell you what it's all about: HD Live in Schools (straight from the Website).
The Met's HD Live in Schools program brings live opera performances to students across the nation through high-definition transmissions at their local movie theaters. With our Educator Guides, classroom resources, and in-person events, the Met is providing teachers with the tools to make opera first accessible, then thrilling, to their students.
As an avid theater person, my goal is to impart that same love and possibly a connection with the Met to our scholars. The process of
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Reed and Mr. Goldberg at the beginning of the year, and they are supportive. However, after making numerous calls throughout the year to the Met, my contact person, Daniel, has informed me that process for High School education programs have changed and we need to apply as a new school. In the past, the process was totally in my hands and the contact person for all. However, an administrator or superintendent of schools must complete the application process moving forward.
Principal White, I ask for your support and the administrations to move forward and have us obtain the possibilities of gaining not just tickets to the theater but an opportunity for our scholars to be exposed to the art form which joins language, music, singing, drama, poetry, plastic arts and sometimes dance and love. Furthermore, this can create a new vision here at Marion P. Thomas that will help our scholars thrive not only in the arts but help them academically as well; especially our scholars who are pursuing acting careers in theater.
The following link will lead you directly to the application
On March 31, I had the pleasure of seeing Hello Dolly at Mandeville High School. As a talented theater student at the school, I take the shows that are put on very seriously. Being involved in the show, helping make set pieces, and working at the box office brings light to me as an individual, every little helping hand counts. I want to make sure that my school represents theater in the best way possible. With this production put on, I am proud to say that I am a theater student at Mandeville High.
Throughout the years, America has pursued the performing arts in a large variety of ways. Theatre plays a dramatic and major role in the arts of our society today, and it takes great effort in all aspects. Musical Theatre, specifically, involves a concentration and strength in dance, acting, and singing. This is the base that Musical Theatre is built upon. For my Senior Project, I helped choreograph multiple scenes in a community musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie”. Choreography is a way of expressing oneself, but it has not always been thought of for that purpose. Agnes de Mille’s expressive talent has drastically affected how people see choreography today. Agnes de Mille’s influence in the world of dance has left a lasting impact in the Performing Arts Department, and her revolutionary works are still known today for their wit, lyricism, emotion, and charm.
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Eastern Washington University Department of Music presented a program of Opera works by Giacomo Puccini, Aron Copland, W.A. Mozart, John Dowland, Franz Shubert, Maurice Ravel, and Robert Schumann on Friday, March 7, 6:30 p.m., in the Music Building, Recital Hall. These Opera works were sung by Senior Recitalist, Alexandra Rannow.
I’m not going to lie, I was skeptical about seeing a production of The Tempest. After sitting through painstaking high school productions that killed the romance in Romeo and Juliet, misinterpreted the meanings in The Merchant of Venice, and failed to realize Much Ado About Nothing was actually a comedy; I promised myself to never see another production of Shakespeare. I concluded the best way to enjoy the great works of Will was to read them through the medium of a book. However, a free ticket to the Brooklyn Academy of Music too see The Tempest directed by Sam Mendes was too tempting to not attend. I was shocked at the productions ability to stay true to the words of Shakespeare, use innovative techniques to impact the audience, and highlighting that Prospero is meant to be a quasi-autobiographical Shakespeare.
“Lecture, concert will tell State Theater History.” Bay City Times 7 Oct. 2010: C1: Print. LaLonde, Pati. “Out with the old.”
Here we run up against the bugbear of historically informed performance. So many of the treatises (in music and dance as well as in acting) depend on the student's imitation of an admired master, and a gradual perfection of "good taste" as his society constructed that elusive quality. We cannot recreate those apprenticeships, those saturations in a period aesthetic. However, by constructing exercises along the lines of a Renaissance aesthetic, we may expose some of the differences between what the Shakespearean audience saw, and what the North American audience sees today.
Lazarus, Joan. "On the Verge of Change: New Directions in Secondary Theatre Education." Applied Theatre Research 3.2 (July 2015): 149-161. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1386/atr.3.2.149_1.
On October 12th, I saw Tosca by Giacomo Puccini held at Atlanta Opera. Tosca is an Italian opera, directed by Tomer Zvulun, accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Arthur Fagen, included a cast of Kara Shay Thomson, Massimiliano Pisapia, and Luis Ledesma (The Atlanta Opera). Opera is an art form in which singers act out drama through a combination of acting and vocal performance. Singers deliver conversation in a musical manner, essentially singing the conversation. Since we recently learned about opera in class, I want to explore the future of opera - where it will go next with the ever advancing modern technology, media and entertainment, and what researches are currently being done at both the industry and academic levels. I will briefly describe what the traditional opera is like using Tosca as an example. Next, I will look at modern opera after the World War II. I will also select one example from the industry and university that are experimenting with opera. At last, I will offer my imagination of what the future of opera may be.
The description of such programs can be found under the tab “Curricular Goals” on the theatre’s website. As for interacting with young students, they intend to give lessons providing an appreciation for diversity and the deaf culture. The workshops teach cooperation, creativity, communication skills, pride, respect, positive self-esteem, and so on. They also provide a booklet for schools who book their shows that gives background knowledge on the Deaf culture, so that the students and staff members can have a thoroughly effective experience. The theatre also provides teachers with a book that gives examples of classroom exercises to involve the students before and after the performance, as well as a guide on basic sign
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“The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation,” says Stella Adler. Theater is unique and intriguing because it blends literary and visual arts to tell a story. Before Theater 10, I viewed theater on the surface level: cheesy plot lines with dramatic scenarios for entertainment purposes. Throughout the course, I have learned what it means to appreciate theater, such as understanding Brechtian and Chinese theatre; however, I believe understanding theater’s ability to convey crucial historical and social messages, such as in the production of RENT, is more relevant and important for theater appreciation.
In the spring of 2015 audiences were treated to the marvelous spectacular that is ‘Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber that traverses the ages. Director Terri Andrews was able to successfully bring the story of Jesus Christ and his disciples into our modern-day, presenting a show relatable to audiences of all ages. As the audience took their seats we were greeted by a beautiful open stage. The world was immediately presented as an open concept that could unfold into anything. The simplicity of the company’s design has stuck with me.
Even though many find opera unintelligible, overwhelming, and boring, opera continues to be a popular form of storytelling. People love the drama and the musical masterpieces written by well-known French, Italian, and German composers. The addition of beautiful costumes and eye-catching scenery make opera an attractive form of entertainment. However, even with all these positive elements, many avoid opera like the plague. The goal of this paper is to help eliminate these negative opinions by educating the opera challenged, to love, or at least tolerate the fine art of opera.