Bantam of the Opera

Did you enjoy the book Bantam of the Opera?  The aria the rooster sang, La Donna e' mobile can be heard here in this video of Andrea Bocelli, a famous Italian tenor, singing this popular song at an outdoor concert.  La Donna e' mobile.

If you'd like to tour an opera house like the one mentioned in the book there are several famous opera houses you can tour online.  Vienna, the city of music, has an old beautiful State Opera House with rich history; many of the greatest classical musicians walked, rehearsed and performed their operas in this building.  You can push the arrows and take a self guided tour- you can even visit backstage and the roof.  During the opera season, which is during our school year, they put on a different opera every night!  I went to many operas in Vienna when I student taught in the city.  You can purchase a standing only ticket the day of the opera, you mark your place with a scarf and can pay under $10 to hear an opera!  It's a good deal.   Vienna Austria's Staatsoper link.

The Opera House in Sydney, Australia is known for its architecture.  Here is a tour of the building, it is on the water and an iconic building in Sydney.  All major cities have a performing arts venue and we have the Pablo Center for the Arts!  Have you been there yet?  Here's a link to the different rooms in the Pablo. 

The Pablo also sent out this list of musical performances:

Performance Art

• National Public Radio is compiling a broad list of performances for streamingorganized by date and genre. It's incredible to see so much variety!
• Opera fan? Now's the best time to learn more about this art form as the Metropolitan Opera is streaming its "most thrilling, thought-provoking, and uplifting" performances for FREE. Here are this week's performances.
• Best known for Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber is streaming a musical every Friday, available here throughout the weekend.