In-School Education

Educators … don’t let limited budgets deprive your students of an opportunity to experience the magic of opera in your school. AO’s Opera-On-The-Go! offers affordable interactive and highly entertaining programs that use opera and its great stories as a lively tool for learning.

To learn how you can bring Opera-On-The-Go! to your school, contact Lauren Green at  (907) 279-2568 or lgreen@anchorageopera.org.

Free Student Dress Rehearsals

Free entertaining and educational opera treats for our youth!

Anchorage Opera’s open dress rehearsals are offered to students at no charge. Open dress rehearsals provide wonderful opportunities to observe the company as they put the final touches on performances.

To learn more, please contact Lauren Green at (907) 279-2568 or lgreen@anchorageopera.org.

Free Brown Bag Opera lectures at Anchorage Public Library

A new collaboration with Anchorage Public Library, this program offers insights into the season’s productions from the professionals staging them.  There will be one Brown Bag Opera held at 12:00pm at the Loussac Library the day before the opening of each mainstage production.

Free Before-the-Opera chats

One hour before curtain, AO will present a 30-minute talk filled with insights about the show. Opera chats are held in the balcony of the Discovery Theatre or Voth Hall.

Free Online Opera Studies

AO offers free downloadable opera study guides filled with information directly related to each mainstage production.

Community Talks: Getting into Opera, Alaskan Style

These dazzling presentations are designed to help audiences understand what it’s all about. Warning: by attending you risk becoming an opera fanatic!

To book a lunchtime, evening, or weekend “opera talk” for your organization or community, call (907) 279-2557 or email at info@anchorageopera.org.

Alaska Native Opera Program (ANOP)

AO, by virtue of its location, has an exceptional opportunity to explore the relationships between Western and Alaska Native and Native American traditions of music and story telling. Alaska's indigenous people, who are jointly called Alaska Natives, can be divided into five major groupings: Aleuts, Northern Eskimos (Inupiat), Southern Eskimos (Yuit), Interior Indians (Athabascans) and Southeast Coastal Indians (Tlingit and Haida). These groupings are based on broad cultural and linguistic similarities of peoples living contiguously in different regions of Alaska. They do not represent political or tribal units nor are they the units Native people have traditionally used to define themselves. These groups represent eleven cultures, speaking twenty languages (fifty dialects).