{"id":3087,"date":"2010-10-15T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2010-10-16T23:07:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T03:07:31","slug":"opera-look-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3087","title":{"rendered":"Opera Look-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/OperaLookIn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3092\" title=\"OperaLookIn\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/OperaLookIn1.jpg\" alt=\"OperaLookIn\" width=\"465\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/OperaLookIn1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/OperaLookIn1-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc-opera.org\/education\/schoolprograms\/operalookin.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Opera presents \u201cOpera Look-In,\u201d at the Kennedy Center Opera House<\/a> to educate children about opera. The program presents opera in a highly accessible manner, combining storytelling, brief scenes in costume, and selected arias (accompanied by the full Opera House Orchestra!) with behind-the-scenes explanations of the use of lighting, music, costumes, and props. School groups attend from all over the Washington, DC area, including homeschool groups\u2014lucky us.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the program revolved around the opera <em>Carmen<\/em>, and included an exhibition of costumes created by fashion design students at Duke Ellington School for the Arts. This year\u2019s program featured Ellington School students supposedly lost in an opera house, encountering as if by accident scenes from <em>The Barber of Seville<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">,<\/span> Madame Butterfly<\/em>,<em> Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em>,<em> The Magic Flute<\/em>,<em> <\/em>and (big crowd-pleaser) <em>Cosi Fan Tutte<\/em>. It\u2019s not easy to sketch in the dark, and by the end I gave up and settled back to enjoy the humorous last quintet.<\/p>\n<p>To engage an auditorium packed with elementary school students is no easy task, and the kids were riveted. I wonder how many go home and ask their parents to rent <em>Cosi Fan Tutte<\/em> so they can see the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the Washington Opera presents \u201cOpera Look-In,\u201d at the Kennedy Center Opera House to educate children about opera. The program presents opera in a highly accessible manner, combining storytelling, brief scenes in costume, and selected arias (accompanied by the full Opera House Orchestra!) with behind-the-scenes explanations of the use of lighting, music, costumes, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=3087\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[47,174,94,17,3],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-dc","tag-homeschooling","tag-music","tag-penink","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}