Community Enrichment

FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY EDUCATION & OUTREACH OVERVIEW


The mission of the Florentine Opera Company Education Department is to make opera more inviting and accessible to communities in Milwaukee and throughout the state of Wisconsin by:

  • Educating students and the community about opera and career opportunities within opera
  • Providing opera introduction and continuing education events for adults
  • Providing opportunities for young artists

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Florentine Opera Company programs reach a broad spectrum of individuals throughout Metro Milwaukee, southeastern Wisconsin and beyond.  Each year the Florentine Opera is committed to serving the Greater Milwaukee area.  Last year, nearly 18,000 students and individuals benefited from Florentine Opera programs.  We provide a vital addition to local arts education—both in the classroom and on the stage. The Florentine Opera Company Education Department is committed to providing educators with opportunities to utilize opera to meet educational standards, as well as to enhance learning for all students.

Our in-school programs introduce elementary, middle and high school students to the fundamentals of opera and the opportunities that exist within the field of opera.  With support from the Florentine Opera Company’s generous donors, schools with limited budgets are granted educational programming for their students.

SUPPORT FOR THE FLORENTINE OPERA’S EDUCATION PROGRAMS

The Florentine Opera Education Programs are generously supported by the following contributors:

Helen Bader Foundation
Badger Meter Foundation, Inc.
Marjorie L. Christiansen Foundation
Albert J. & Flora H. Ellinger Foundation, Inc.
The Gardner Foundation
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation
William Stark Jones Foundation
Halbert & Alice Kadish Foundation
Herbert H. Kohl Charities, Inc.
Kohler Foundation, Inc.
Milwaukee Arts Board
Wisconsin Arts Board with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Milwaukee Florentine Opera Club
Northwestern Mutual
Charles D. Ortgiesen Foundation
PPC Partners Inc.
Rockwell Automation
Milwaukee Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota
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with support from generous individual donors