Opera in a Trunk
For More Information:
Scott Miller
Education & Outreach Coordinator
204-942-7470
smiller@mbopera.ca
Humperdinck
Based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Humperdinck’s musical retelling of the story of two mischievous children who discover a delicious gingerbread house hiding a wicked secret combines fantasy, adventure, catchy folk-type songs, and beautiful music.
Donizetti
A feisty orphaned tomboy raised by French soldiers must convince her “fathers” to let her marry a peasant. A comedy with a happy ending, featuring vocal acrobatics such as the show-stopping “Ah, mes amis (Ah, my friends).”
Bizet
Music that pulsates with the spirit of Spain, including many opera favourites such as the famous “Habanera,” and the rousing Toreador Song.
Mozart
A fanciful fairytale about a prince out to win his princess with the help of a merry bird catcher.
Verdi
The grandest of grand operas, Aida is an epic love story about an Ethiopian princess who longs to be with Radames, leader of the Egyptian army that conquered her homeland.
Puccini
One of the most romantic operas of all time, a coming-of-age story about love and loss in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1830s.
My students loved the trunk. They enjoyed the costumes and using the props. They were captivated by the DVD…the trunk opened up a new world for them to explore. It has given birth to a few young and budding opera lovers I am sure.
Thanks so much for providing the Opera in a Trunk each year! I use it with my students from K-6 and they love it! They especially enjoy the opportunity for creative dress-up play with the costumes and props in the trunk and love becoming the characters that they’ve learned about in the opera. A great resource!
Our Land Acknowledgement:
Manitoba Opera is located upon, and operates within, Treaty #1 territory, the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Anisininew, Dakota, and Dene peoples’ traditional lands and waters and the Red River Métis Nation homelands.
As water nourishes the land and all it gives us, we also acknowledge that the source of the City of Winnipeg’s water is from Shoal Lake, the home and shared territory of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent Nation and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.
In view of such understandings and acknowledgments, Manitoba Opera remains committed to working in partnership with the Indigenous peoples in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.
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