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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!
New for 2008-2009! 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 of 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 returns this season to The Minnesota Opera as Teaching Artist. Last summer she was a member of the Festival Ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, where she sang under the baton of Bach scholar, Helmuth Rilling. In the 2006-2007 season she was 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. In previous seasons with The Minnesota Opera, Ms. Keeton has sung the roles of Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and the Second Secretary in Nixon in China.
Ms. Keeton 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 was seen as 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 has received awards in the Metropolitan Opera National Council 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.