Teaching Resources

The Royal Ballet brings Beatrix Potter's lovable animal tales to life with choregraphy by Frederick Ashton. 

Humperdinck's 1893 opera, animated using 35 hand-sculpted dolls and lavish sets, done especially for children.

42 min. production with lavish sets and costumes, English narration and songs in German—perfect way to introduce children to opera.

Designed to capture the imaginations of children, these classroom length DVDs are a perfect intro to opera and ballet. Humperdinck, Mozart, Prokofiev.

Five joyful ballet and opera productions designed to capture the imaginations of children.

Introduce Mozart's opera to children through the story adapted by Kyra Teis and the video of the shortened opera from the Children's Cultural Collection.

Two Fantasy Operas created from Sendak's books are composed and conducted by Oliver Knussen with production design by Maurice Sendak himself. 

Joyful classics, abridged for the classroom. A great intro to opera & ballet for kids!

Lillie demonstrates with 1st-3rd graders two sections of John Feierabend’s First Steps Curriculum: Arioso and Movement Exploration.

This Emmy Award-winning DVD-ROM, from the Classical Kids series is a favorite with kids and now has interactive games.

Harry deals with alien space capsules to Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain.

bu Ann Bryant.  Integrate music, art, and literature with a story told to the  William Tell Overture by Rossini.

Curriculum Kits by Clifford Brooks and Roger Ames.

These joyful productions, abridged for the classroom, capture a child's imagination and are a perfect introduction to classical music.

The Music and Lives of 22 Great Composers by Jay Althouse & Judith O'Reilly.

These are favorites with kids! A youth get to know each composer and his music in each live drama. Perfect to introduce these composers & their music.

One of the Classical Kids series, Mr. Bach visits a modern day Elizabeth as she awkwardly practices his Minuet in G. 

Bach's Fight for Freedom, set in 1717, tells how Bach struggles to follow his dream, which is shared by his 10-year-old assistant Frederick. From the producer of Emmy-Award winning Beethoven Lives Upstairs.

The story of the friendship between composer Georges Bizet and his 12-year-old piano student Michelle, From the producer of the Emmy award-winning Beethoven Lives Upstairs.

Handel rescues a young Dubliner in trouble and the boy returns the favor by lending his golden voice to the first performance of Messiah. From the producer of the Emmy award-winning Beethoven Lives Upstairs.