Opera for the Young's Family Opera Day: Hansel and Gretel

Join Opera for the Young for Family Opera Day featuring the world's most popular children's opera Hansel and Gretel. Come for preshow activities where your family can make costume/prop accessories, participate in a group voice lesson and learn the show's choruses so you can sing along from your seats.  Opera for the Young is joined by staff from the Madison's Children Museum and the Madison Youth Choirs for a wonderful day of operatic proportions.  The program is suitable for children ages 5 to 11.

Schedule of events:
11:30 AM - Art Lesson - Rotunda Stage
12:15 PM - Music Lesson - The Playhouse
  1:00 PM - Performance of Hansel and Gretel - The Playhouse

  2:00 PM - Art Lesson - Rotunda Stage
  2:45 PM - Music Lesson - The Playhouse
  3:30 PM - Performance of Hansel and Gretel - The Playhouse 

Opera for the Young gratefully acknowledges the contributors whose extraordinary generosity has made Family Opera Day possible: The Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation; Overture Center's Community Arts Access Program; the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, American Family Insurance and the National Endowment for the Arts.