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Explore this page to find what previous grades have chosen as their source material for the culminating mini-opera.
Mini-Opera Adaptations
Mini-Opera Adaptations
Kindergarten
Two Bad Ants, Chris Van Allsburg
The Nightengale, Hans Christian Andersen
Horton Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss
Chrysanthemum, Kevin Henkes
Guji Guji, Chih-Yuan Chen
The Great Kapok Tree, Lynne Cherry
And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Dr. Seuss
The Little Red Hen, Folktale
Go Away Big Green Monster, Ed Emberley
Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester
The Cow That Went Oink, Bernard Most
Collections of Nursury Rhymes
First Grade
The Billy Goats Gruff, Norwegian Fairy Tale
El Manzano, Mira Lobe
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Mo Willems
Follow the Drinkin Gourd, Jeanette Winter
Goldilocks, Jan Brett
The Little Engine that Could, Watty Piper
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka
The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf
Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar, Bonnie Lass & Pilemon Sturges
Too Much Talk, West African Folktale
The Lion and the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney
Stone Soup, Ann Mcgovern
The Stinky Cheese Man, Jon Scieszka
I See a Song, Eric Carle
Mama Don't Allow, Thacher Hurd
Imani and the King of Beasts, Swahili Folktale
Abiyoyo, Pete Seeger
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock, Eric A. Kimmel
The Very Busy Spider, Eric Carle
The Paper Crane, Molly Bang
The Eagles Who Thought They Were Chickens, Mychal Wynn
Charlie and the Cocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Hansel and Gretl, Brothers Grimm
Frederick, Leo Lionni
Second Grade
Who's Got Game: the Ant or the Grasshopper, Toni & Slade Morrison
The Three Little Pigs, Patricia Seibert
Belling the Cat, Aesop's Fables
The Lion and the Mouse, Aesop's Fables
Bad Frogs, Thacher Hurd
Dragon Gets By, Dav Pilkey
Stone Soup, Ann Mcgovern
Cherry Blossom, Japanese Folktale
Half of an Elephant, Gusti
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister
The Great Ball Game, Joseph Bruchac
Auntie Tigress, Chinese Folktale
How Mother Earth Flowered The Fields, Tom Schwartz
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
75 Spools of Thread, African Folktale
Chicken Little, Film/Folktale
Cinderella, Fairy Tale
Mei-Ling and the Dragon, Chinese Fairy Tale
How Tiger Got His Stripes, South American Folktale
Too Much Noise, Ann McGovern
The Weaving of a Dream, Chinese Folktale
Charlie and the Cocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Musicians of Bremen, Brothers Grimm
Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock, Eric A. Kimmel
Third Grade
Good Fortune, My Journey to Gold Mountain, Li Keng Wong
Mulan, Film
Dogzilla, Dav Pilkey
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
The Terrible Eek, Patricia Compton
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
Chelonia: Return of the Sea Turtle, Dawn Navarro
How Tiger Got His Stripes, South American Folktale
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare
Rotten Island, William Steig
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Cupid and Psyche, Greek Mythology
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
Fourth Grade
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Tales of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Titanic, Film
Dracula
Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Witches, Roald Dahl
Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar
The Stinky Cheese Man, Jon Scieszka
Zeus & Poseidon, Greek Mythology
Fifth Grade
Tales of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Dracula
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Charlie and the Cocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
Sixth Grade
The Odyssey, Homer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Special Day
Chrysanthemum, Kevin Henkes
Sneeches, Dr. Seuss
Video Gallery
Video Gallery
*These videos have been posted by individual schools or parents and not by San Francisco Opera.
West Portal Elementary School, 2011
1. The Stinky Compost Monster - 1st grade Opera
2. Oh Volcano - 2nd grade Opera
Jefferson Elementary School, 2012
1. Guji Guji - Kindergarten Opera
2. Beatle Goes to Mexico - Kindergarten Opera
3. Chrysanthemum - Kindergarten Opera
(The parent who captured these operas only filmed the music portion, not the spoken dialogue)
Yick Wo Elementary, 2012
Where the Wild Things Are - Special Day 3rd-5th grade Opera
West Portal Elementary School, 2012
1. Forest On Fire - 1st grade Chinese Opera
2. Friendship Time - 2nd grade Opera
3. The Interrupted Story - 3rd grade Opera
4. Un-Shushables! - 3rd grade Opera
5. Blazing Acorns, Quest for the Robin of Fire - 4th grade opera
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Thomas Edison Elementary, 6th Grade
Atalanta
Thomas Edison Elementary, 5th Grade
Frederick
Yick Wo Elementary, 1st Grade
Strega Nona
Sunnyside Elementary, 2nd Grade
Tacky the Penguin
Thornhill Elementary, Kindergarten
The American Revolution
Lafayette Elementary (Oakland), 5th Grade
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock
Thornhill Elementary, 2nd Grade
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock
Thornhill Elementary, 2nd Grade
The Eagles Who Thought They Were Chickens
Lafayette Elementary (Oakland), 1st Grade
The Great Ball Game
Stevenson Elementary, 2nd Grade
Nursery Rhyme Opera
Rooftop Elementary, Kindergarten
Amazing Space
George Peabody Elementary, 3rd Grade
Grand Theft Hearts
Yick Wo Elementary, 5th Grade
Beatle Goes to Mexico
Jefferson Elementary, Kindergarten
Abiyoyo
Lafayette Elementary (Oakland), 1st Grade
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