adult education

Community Engagement Events

 Opera Lafayette aims to inspire a public appreciation for forgotten repertoire. Beyond bringing this repertoire to life in our season performances, we accomplish this by offering community engagements for all ages and stages in life. The following are events designed for our adult audience to gain a more holistic understanding of our season’s operas, their music, historical relevance and insights into the productions and performers. Join us!

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Pre-Performance discussions

Pre-performance discussions with our Fonder and Artistic Director, Ryan Brown are a long-standing company tradition. Brown regularly attracts standing-room-only audiences to learn more about the opera being performed, its musical and historical relevance, as well as insights on the evening’s production and performers. This event takes place one-hour before nearly every Opera Lafayette performance and is complimentary for all ticket-holders.

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Special Events

This season we are expanding our adult education offerings to include events in advance of performance day and throughout the community. We invite you to join us for any and all of the events below whether you are attending a season performance or not.

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Opera Lafayette at The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts

Opera Lafayette is pleased to partner with The Bowie Center for the Performing Arts in the joint mission of adding to the cultural offerings in Bowie, Maryland. For our 2018/19 Season, we presented three masterclasses highlighting two of our staged productions to the Center’s youth production arts program, and the Center presented a preview performance of Handel’s Radamisto. Due to overwhelming and positive feedback, the two organizations are collaborating again. Opera Lafayette will present four masterclasses around all three productions, and the Center will present a preview performance of our Leonore by Beethoven. Explore the upcoming events below.

 

Learn more about our Community Engagements for people in all stages of life!

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