Lights! Action! CHARACTER!

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF OPERA

This special booklet is for you to use in class. Please take it home with you to show your parents what you have seen and talked about at school today. This is your booklet. Enjoy the games and draw a picture for us! Have fun with your own book.

BEFORE THE OPERA
The show you are going to see is an opera. An opera is a play that has singing in it. Some operas have speaking mixed in with the singing. Others have singing or other kinds of music all the way through. The first operas similar to those we hear today were written in Italy around 1600. Other plays that used music in an important way were done much earlier, as far back as the ancient
Greeks (400 B.C.), and maybe before.

ABOUT
Lights! Action! CHARACTER!
Music from the operetta "Les Bavards" (The Chatterboxes)
by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by David Sarkisian
Music selected and adapted by David Sarkisian


 

CAST OF CHARACTERS

 

CHARACTERS:

Landry Lakota

Sasha Kidder

Desi Plin

Chava Hart

REGULAR CAST:

Jasmine Swalef, soprano

Tracy Lee Jones, mezzo-soprano

Barbara Wilkinson Vlymen, soprano

Stephanie Yparrea-Budd, soprano

UNDERSTUDIES:

Stephanie Yparrea-Budd, soprano

Kaylee McCracken, soprano

 

 

 

 

ABOUT THE STORY

CHARACTER: It is something that you cannot see, hear, feel, taste, or smell and yet it is so important. CHARACTER defines who we are and how others see us.

On our make-believe TV talk show, The Landry Lakota Show, you will meet four people who will explain the different things that make up your CHARACTER and what you can do to improve it.

Landry welcomes guests Sasha Kidder, Desi Plin, and Chava Hart to her show. During their visit each will offer many great ideas on improving our character, including speaking nicely to each other, sharing responsibility, being dependable, being honest and respectful of each other and many, many more!
Get ready. Quiet on the set. Lights! Action! CHARACTER!

 

 

 

 



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