Friday, February 6, 2009

Staying Alive

Like all good Divas, the Metropolitan Opera is desperately trying to stay relevant and if the Professional Teaching Artists of the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Education Programs have anything to do with it, they may have a chance.

Guild TAs implement a range of workshops in different contexts, but my favorite has to be Family Explorers, which introduces children aged 5-12 to opera. Families attend workshops together and through "hands-on experiential learning...learn to recognize characters by sight and sound, follow a complex operatic plot, and understand the power of music, acting, and design to tell a story."

The Metropolitan Opera is in movie theaters , on the radio and online. They are heavily involved in schools and they produce educator guides to make the work even more accessible.

I have no idea if they're hiring TAs, but old job announcements state that new hires must be members of Local 802.

Hey. Isn't that a union?

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