Hawaii Opera Theatre

Education programs hot's education department reached over 15,000 students, teachers, and parents across the state of hawaii. Programming included hot's opera express touring show, a family-friendly production of "the curse of lou ling" based on puccini's final opera, "turandot", that travelled across oahu, maui, and kauai. Hot's residency program went to six schools, all of which are classified as title 1, to create original operas written by students; all residencies culminated in performances before the entire school of students, teachers and parents. Opera for everyone, a program that invited students and teachers to the final dress rehearsal of each mainstage production, complete with orchestra, sets, and costumes, served over 1,200 during the season. In a collaboration with hawaii youth opera chorus, hot's education team also produced an original children's opera, "scales," based on the hawaiian story of dragons on maui. This production was the culmination of operatunities, a summer program created by hyoc with hot to teach theatre skills to a new generation of performers. Hot's orvis opera studio and orvis young voices programs provided free, year-round workshops and master classes with local and visiting artists to adult and high-school-level singers who wanted to expand their skills in presentation, diction, stage combat, and vocal techniques. Both programs provide access to mainstage experiences in the hot chorus as well as minor solo opportunities, in addition to group recitals twice a year.