Welcome Teachers!
This site was created to assist you with possible lessons for use with your students. We have provided ideas for potential lessons and material to support both you and your students. Feel free to use them as they best suit your classes. Many were created with the Language Arts Standards in mind. If you publish this material, please give credit to Lyric Opera San Diego. The site is organized in this fashion. First is the general information. After that, each production has its own pages. Simply go to the page of the performance in which you are especially interested. Within each there are introductions to the piece, articles and Teacher Resources. Any underlined word in gold print is a link to additional information. Within the articles there are links, as well.

Mandatory Lesson
Your first lesson with students needs to inform them of the difference in behavior between going to the movies and attending a live musical event such as operetta and opera. The following are general guidelines to help make this a better experience for your students and the others in the theatre.

• Students will need to know that they must stay seated throughout the performance,
     leaving their seats only at intermission.
• Changing of seats and wandering up and down the aisles and in the lobbies are not
     permitted.
• Talking is also inappropriate during the performance. The cast and musicians depend on
     the audience to enhance everyone’s  experience by listening carefully and enjoying
     themselves.
• Applause is encouraged at appropriate times, such as when the conductor arrives, when
     the scene or act ends (signaled by  the dropping of the curtain) and at the end of a
     particularly difficult or entertaining piece of music.
• No food or drink is permitted in the theatre itself.
• There are restroom facilities available, but you are encouraged to have students use
     them only before and after performances and at intermissions. Use at other times is
     inappropriate unless urgently needed.
• The rehearsal may be stopped for corrections.
• At the end of the performance, the orchestra may still be working. Please leave the hall
    quietly.
• No pagers or cell phones, please! Turn all devices to "silent".
• No photography or recordings of any kind are permitted.
• Disturbances in the restrooms or anywhere on the premises will result in students being
     removed. Adult chaperones  must accompany any student who is removed for cause.

The Productions
2010-11

Gigi
The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Seviglia)
The Gondoliers
Fiddler on the Roof

General Information

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Revised May 2010
Please credit Lyric Opera San Diego when using this material.