Family Opera Day
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Overture Center-Playhouse 201 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Vincent Fuh
Opera for the Young performers.
Opera for the Young performers.
Since 1970, Opera for the Young has worked to give children an interest in and passion for opera; its 13th annual Family Opera Day program features The Barber of Seville. This free event starts with an art lesson and yoga for children at 9:30 a.m. at the Rotunda Stage; activities move to the Playhouse for a music lesson at 10:15 a.m. followed by an all-ages performance of Rossini’s story of a count who must enlist the help of a barber and disguise himself in order to be with the woman he loves.
media release: Join Opera for the Young (OFTY) on June 3 for their 13th annual Family Opera Day featuring OFTY's Barber of Seville. Come for pre-show workshops and enjoy opera-related activities including art, yoga and singing.
Opera for the Young is joined by the Madison Youth Choirs, little om Big Om, and the Madison Children's Museum.
Schedule of events:
9:30am Art Lesson / Yoga for Children – Rotunda Stage
10:15am Music Lesson – Playhouse
11:00am Barber of Seville – Playhouse
Family Opera Day is made possible by: Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation and by Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
https://www.overture.org/