PROFESSIONAL explains that he has received a strange message from the Teatro Real.

Play the audio message "Chapter 1: Getting to know La Resistenza” for the class to hear.

STUDENT listen to the audio.

IMPORTANT: PROFESSIONAL avoid projecting the resource's website or giving clues that this is a pedagogical activity. It has to sound like a real story!

After listening to the audio message, We investigate the group's knowledge about opera today based on the following activities:

Through a game we are going to explore the group's knowledge about opera.

The group stands in a circle.

PROFESSIONAL stands in the center of the circle and makes a statement, always headed by “The alarm sounds…”. The people in the group who fulfill this statement must change places within the circle.

For example, PROFESSIONAL dice: “The alarm rings if you have ever been to the opera”

Everyone who has ever been to the opera will have to change seats.

Playing we investigate ideas, preconceptions and knowledge that the group has about opera.

Some proposals for PROFESSIONAL ask the group:

THE ALARM SOUNDS IF…

• Have you ever been to the opera?
• Have you ever heard opera music?
• Have you ever sung opera?, even if it's a joke
• Could you explain what opera is?
• Do you know when and where opera was invented?
• Do you know the history of some opera
• You understand the lyrics of opera songs
• Can you say the name of an opera composer?
• You know the parts of an opera house
• Do you like opera
• Opera seems boring to you
• The opera seems incomprehensible to you
• Do you like the way of singing used in operas?
• You don't like the way of singing used in operas
• You think opera is something a little old
• You think the opera is a place for people with a lot of money
• You think that only adults can do opera

NOTE FOR PROFESSIONAL:

This game is a qualitative research tool, and it's dynamic and fun.

It can be very useful at different moments in the process of creating an opera.: to search for topics that interest us, experiences or traits that we have in common, opinions or positions regarding something...

The group shares their knowledge about opera before investigating, creating a visual outline.

We divide the group into small groups of 4-5 people.

Each group has some post-its and a piece of cardboard or A2 size paper..

First of all, Each group is going to write all the things they know or think they know about the opera. For this they use post it notes, and put anything they know: It's not about giving the right answers., but to show “what they know or believe” about opera, even if they are not sure.

In second place, looking at the post-it notes that everyone has written, They are going to create a small mural in which to tell it. It is important that you use few words, drawings, colors…

Finally, each group shares their mural, and we reflect together on what we know as a group and what doubts or gaps we have about the opera.