Obsidian Opera Company

Educational Outreach

Obsidian Opera Company has taken opera into the lives of hundreds of school age children and community members through its extensive Educational Outreach Program:

COCC Lunch and Learn Series
Cascade Junior High
Pilot Butte Junior High
High Desert Middle School
St. Francis School
Sisters Middle School
Sunriver Preparatory School
3 Rivers Elementary School, Sunriver
Sunriver Library
Redmond Senior Center
Lynch Elementary School
Deschutes County Library
Crook County High School
Bend High
Mountain View High
Thompson School
Central Christian School
Seven Peaks Elementary
Kenwood Elementary
Summit High School
Sky View Middle School
High Lakes Elementary
Westside Village School
Ochoco Youth Correctional Facility, Prineville
Bear Creek Elementary
Highland Elementary
Jewell Elementary
John Tucker Elementary
Ensworth Elementary

We are committed to creating opportunities for children to experience opera and musical theater. Our Educational Outreach Program visits Central Oregon schools and reaches thousands of school age children every year. Children are welcome at all of our performances. We do encourage you to gauge your child’s level of comfort and ability to sit through a production quietly and considerately.

Look for our Children’s Matinees in conjunction with our main stage performances. The children’s matinees are designed for a young audience, age 4-12 and their adult chaperones.

Praise-Keep it Coming
After hours of singing their hearts out and pouring their souls into the art form-opera performers, conductors and orchestra members look to you, the audience, for the best reward of all-a standing ovation! Nothing makes all the hard work pay off faster than praise from the audience. Often after a performance, patrons are eager to get to their cars and head home. But we ask that you wait to depart until after the final curtain. Artist are sensitive creatures, and when they peer out into the crowd, they deserve acknowledgement for a job will done from the people that matter the most- you, the opera lover. So, please don't turn you backs on the performers by heading out that aisle before final curtain. Wait just a few extra minutes and enjoy the glowing and ever so thankful artist on stage, it'll mean the world to them.