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Make opera come alive in your classroom!
The Minnesota Opera's Teaching Artist brings a personal touch to opera through hands-on activities, performance and more. Session topics range from solo/ensemble coaching, voice lessons, career guidance, and preparing your students to attend a live performance. This award winning, tailor-made residency program is a collaborative effort between your school and the Minnesota Opera.
Explore the interdisciplinary nature of opera! Opera through the Eyes (and Ears) of Mozart
A collaborative touring opera where students (K-12) have the opportunity to learn about and perform some of Mozart's greatest music alongside professional opera singers! Artists will come into your opera house for a 40-minute, staged performance. Student performers are encouraged to participate. This program is ideal for students of all ages to gain their first experience with opera!
Performance requirements – stage or gym floor, a (tuned) piano and student(s) ready to perform in the opera.
How do I sign up? Contact Teaching Artist Angie Keeton at akeeton@mnopera.org or 612.342.9554. Call soon as school dates are limited.
Length and cost of residencies: We suggest residencies to last at least five days in length. Teaching Artist per visit: $100/day Tour presentation: $600/performance
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Angela Keeton currently serves as Teaching Artist for the Minnesota Opera. In addition to performing for students across Minnesota and Wisconsin, Ms. Keeton has performed with the Opera in the roles of Gianpaolo in Casanova's Homecoming, Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and the Second Secretary in Nixon in China. She is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with both a Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in Vocal Music Performance. At the university she performed the roles of Meg in Little Women, Rosette in Manon, Marthe in Faust and La Diva in the American premiere of Jeppe by Sven David Sandström. For the Brevard Music Center's Janiec Opera Company she appeared as Lois Lane in Kiss Me Kate and for Bloomington Music Works she performed the Witch in Into the Woods. Her concert and oratorio experience includes performances of Handel's Messiah, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Mozart's Mass in C Major and Vivaldi's Magnificat.
Ms. Keeton was previously a member of the Indianapolis Opera's Education Ensemble, where she sang Mercédès in Carmen on the main stage, in addition to performing a children's opera for students across the state of Indiana. In 2006, she was an apprentice with Lake George Opera in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Ms. Keeton has received awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council District Auditions, Palm Beach Vocal Competition and the Florida Grand Opera Vocal Competition. Once having served on the voice faculty at Luther College, she continues to offer private voice lessons as well as workshops and master classes to students in the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest.