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The Carolina Opera Experience is a one-week summer program for children in fifth through ninth grades, presented by Opera at USC. The program offers children with different levels of musical ability or an interest in performing arts a chance to have an educational experience and gain insight by working with talented and dedicated professionals. They will participate in daily workshops that teach the overall techniques of opera production. Children will work with professional-level opera singers, directors and designers as they explore the basics of creating characters with and through music; participate in voice, music reading and rhythm exercises; and learn about set lighting and costume design. Director of the program is Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, Director of Opera Studies at the University of South Carolina School of Music.
Who: Opera at USC presents THE CAROLINA OPERA EXPERIENCE
What: Children's summer opera camp
Who: Children in fifth through ninth grades
When: July 12- 16, 2010
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday
Where: USC School of Music
Tuition: $125. (Includes non-refundable deposit of $30)
Several Need-based scholarships are available
Registration Deadline: (June 28, 2010)
Additional Requirements: Some basic knowledge of music and singing
required.
About the Director
ELLEN DOUGLAS SCHLAEFER, Director of Opera Studies
joined the School of Music in 2004. She has staged Faust
for The Washington Opera; La Boheme and Romeo et
Juliette with the National Symphony Orchestra (Wolf Trap
Opera);The Abduction from the Seraglio (The Connecticut
Opera); Scott Joplin and Treemonisha for Opera
Memphis; Le Nozze di Figaro ( Green Mountain Opera
Festival); Aida (The Connecticut Opera); the Francesca
Zambello production of The Little Prince (Houston Grand
Opera, Tulsa Opera); The Magic Flute (Opera
Memphis,Houston Ebony Opera Guild); La Boheme (Michigan
Opera Theatre,Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Carolina,
Connecticut Opera, Augusta Opera); Porgy & Bess (Opera
Illinois,Connecticut Opera); La Traviata (Cleveland
Opera, Opera Memphis,Connecticut Opera); Rigoletto (
Opera Carolina ,Piedmont Opera); Salome, Norma,
Die Fledermaus, Tosca, the Ballad of Baby Doe
, Il Tabbaro, Romeo et Juliette (Connecticut
Opera); Madama Butterfly (Artpark & Co., Connecticut
Opera, Houston Ebony Opera); Lucia di Lammermoor (Orlando
Opera); Fidelio (Cleveland Opera); I Pagliacci
(Eugene Opera,Connecticut Opera). Other operas include La
Dolorosa, The Face on the Barroom Floor, Luisa
Fernanda, and Bastien & Bastienne (Santa Fe Opera
Apprentice Tour); Amahl & the Night Visitors, Gianni Schicchi
(Dayton Opera); The Medium (Augusta Opera); The
Telephone (Augusta Opera,Dayton Opera); Le Ville,
Edgar, Martha, Linda diI Chamounix,
La Pietra del Paragon and The Toy Shop (Opera Theatre
of Northern Virginia)
Additional directing projects include the dramas I Am My Own
Wife (Workshop Theatre of South Carolina) Doubt and
The Goat or Who is Sylvia (Trustus Theatre)
Master Class, Grace & Glorie, You Can't Take it
With You and The Sister Rosensweig (Workshop Theatre
of SC); musicals She Loves Me (Coastal Carolina
University): A Chorus Line, South Pacific, Oklahoma,
The Merry Widow and The King & I (Artpark,
Lewiston, NY) Sweeney Todd for Workshop Theatre and The
Princeton Festival (Princeton , NJ).
Dedicated to arts education, Schlaefer is founder and general
director of FBN Productions, Inc. Opera for Kids, a touring
company based in South Carolina, specializing in bringing opera
into the schools of the Southeast. FBN has shared the joys of
live opera with over 150,000 young people.
www.operaforkids.org She has also worked with the young
artist programs for The Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Opera
Carolina, Baltimore Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Connecticut Opera,
Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Dayton Opera, Intermezzo and Opera
Colorado.Recent engagements include
Don Giovanni for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
