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.
2024-25 Operas
Opera for Beginners
Past Operas
- Samson and Delilah
- The Flying Dutchman
- Don Giovanni
- Cinderella
- The Elixir of Love
- Turandot
- Die tote Stadt
- Rigoletto—Mainstage
- Rigoletto—Student Matinée
- Pirates of Penzance
- Romeo & Juliet
- 2022-23 Storytime Sessions
- Tosca
- The Shining
- Carmen
- Aida
- Falstaff
- Florencia en el Amazonas
- Il Trovatore
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Steal a Pencil for Me (part 1)
- Steal a Pencil for Me (part 2)
- La fanciulla del West
- The Magic Flute
- The Marriage of Figaro
- The Scarlet Letter