Opera through drama, an integrated approach for secondary school students

grantor: University of TorontoOpera combines music and theatre by combining the art forms of design, drama, dance, music and poetry. The opera education and outreach programmes in place at all of Canada's major opera companies focus on students in primary and elementary school. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using opera within integrated drama studies connected to the curriculum of senior years' students, and then examine how these classroom experiences effect secondary school students' responsiveness to opera. The students in this study are comprised of culturally diverse senior years' drama students from a major metropolitan centre in southern Ontario. Questionnaire and journal responses were collected from students during the study. The results of this study on the effects of using drama and opera to create an integrated secondary school unit could assist Canada's opera companies in designing their own integrated senior years' models.M.A