GUIDEBOOKS
Opera Colorado provides FREE downloadable teaching materials through our guidebooks, which offer lessons, activities, and discussion topics tailored to each of the season’s programs. There is also a beginner’s guide for audiences new to opera! Lessons connect the opera performances to academic content areas, including reading, writing, history, math, science, and music. All Guidebooks align to Colorado Academic Standards.
2023-24 Operas
Opera for Beginners
Past Operas
- Turandot
- Die tote Stadt
- Rigoletto—Mainstage
- Rigoletto—Student Matinee
- Pirates of Penzance
- Romeo & Juliet
- 2022-23 Storytime Sessions
- Tosca
- The Shining
- Carmen
- The Barber of Seville
- Aida
- Carmen
- Cinderella
- Don Giovanni
- Falstaff
- Florencia en el Amazonas
- Il Trovatore
- La Bohème
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Madama Butterfly
- Rigoletto
- Romeo & Juliet
- Rusalka
- Steal a Pencil for Me
- The Barber of Seville
- The Elixir of Love
- The Girl of the Golden West
- The Magic Flute
- The Marriage of Figaro
- The Scarlet Letter