Grades: Pre-K - 6

Length of Performance: 35 minutes + Q/A (flexible)

Number of Programs/Performances per Day:  2

Setup Time: 1 hour      

Teardown Time: 45 minutes

Description: 

Tri-Cities Opera Opera invites you to the farm, where most of the animals like things to be ‘normal and pretty’–not noisy or different! When the new ducklings hatch, there is one ‘ugly duckling’ who doesn’t fit in with the others and spends her days reading by herself. But when a big, bad wolf comes on the scene, it will take someone like the ugly duckling–who has learned about big, bad wolves in her stories– to outwit him and teach the whole farm about the value of being true to yourself. 

The program includes a 35-minute performance and approximate 15-minute (timing flexible) question and answer session with the Opera-Go-Round team. Dates are available from late September 2024 through May 2025. Contact ogr@tricitiesopera.org for more information or to schedule your performance! 

Named as a nod to Binghamton’s famous carousels, Opera-Go-Round has been delivering the excitement of a fully-staged children’s opera to schools throughout New York State and northern Pennsylvania for nearly 50 years. Students engage with our singers and pianist to explore this unique art form with stories connected to curriculum standards and take away valuable social-emotional learning lessons. 

© Copyright 2007 - Libretto by Steven Malone; Music by Andrew Duncan 

Tie-in to Cross-Curricular Standards: animals and resources, interdependent relationships in ecosystems, uses and modification of environments, folk tales, reading to attain knowledge and solve problems, cause and effect, emotions, identities, goals, communities, difference/diversity, peer pressure 

Equipment Needed: Adequate lighting, adequate spacing, and a tuned piano.  If these are not available you must notify Tri-Cities Opera at the time of the contract signing to see if there are any other options.

This performance supports the following NYS Learning Standards for the Arts:

Music & Theatre

• Responding (analyze, reflect, interpret, evaluate)

• Connecting (relate, interrelate)

Categories:  Drama/Theatre, Music Classical 

Cost: 1 performance - $1,400.00 (within 50 miles of TCO Opera Center)