Teachers' Resources
Welcome Teachers!
This site was created to assist you with possible lessons for use with your
students. We have provided ideas for potential lessons and material to support
both you and your students. Feel free to use them as they best suit your classes.
Many were created with the Language Arts Standards in mind. If you publish
this material, please give credit to Lyric Opera San Diego. The site is organized
in this fashion. First is the general information. After that, each production
has its own pages. Simply go to the page of the performance you are especially
interested in. Within each there are introductions to the piece, articles
and Teacher Resources. Any word in gold print is a link to additional information.
Within the articles there are links, as well.
Mandatory Lesson
Your first lesson with students needs to inform them of the difference in
behavior between going to the movies and attending a live musical event such
as operetta and opera. The following are general guidelines to help make this
a better experience for your students and the others in the theatre.
• Students will need to know that they must stay seated throughout the performance, leaving their seats only at intermission.
• Changing of seats and wandering up and down the aisles and in the lobbies is not permitted.
• Talking is also inappropriate during the performance. The cast and musicians depend on the audience to enhance everyone’s
experience by listening carefully and enjoying themselves.
• Applause is encouraged at appropriate times, such as when the conductor arrives, when the scene or act ends (signaled by
the dropping of the curtain) and at the end of a particularly difficult or entertaining piece of music.
• No food or drink is permitted in the theater itself.
• There are restroom facilities, but you are encouraged to have students use them only as needed.
• Disturbances in the restrooms or anywhere on the premises will result in students being removed. Adult chaperones
must accompany any students who are removed for cause.
The Productions
Cinderella
CountessMaritza
Don Pasquale
Iolanthe
The King and I
The Merry Widow
The Mikado
Revised April
2007
Please credit Lyric Opera San Diego when using
these articles.