Portland Opera To Go Educational Outreach

Portland Opera To Go has finished another wonderful tour. This year's The Magic Flute, by Mozart, was a wonderful success. Our intrepid band of musicians toured all over Oregon, and Soutwest Washington, from coast to coast and from North to South. We were everywhere from Vancouver, WA to Klamath Falls, OR, we were on the...

The tour has begun. January 14, 2013 our intrepid singers have departed on their tour. Criss-crossing the state of Oregon and into SW Washington, our tour will reach all over the state and should reach about 20,000 during their travels. We have a wonderful production of THE MAGIC FLUTE this year that was adapted by the...

The benefit was a huge success! Portland Opera does a one-night concert each year. We call it our Big Night Concert and Street Fair. This season, it was on September 22, 2012. The festivities started at 5:00pm and we were going until 11:00pm! It is in support of our Portland Opera To Go program. This season, the amount...

"I learned that putting people in fire places are bad." - Kether, after watching the 2012 POGO Tour of Hansel and Gretel. Summer has arrived. While the kids are out enjoying the summer months and the sun, we are wrapping up the 2012 tour and booking the 2013 tour! The tour in 2012 saw over 15,000 bright smiling faces. Many...

“Seriously, it was fabulous. The program was designed for children, so they had their own seating area right up front, while we sat towards the back. The woman who led the program was entertaining and taught the children appropriate opera behavior….The performance was great…and my two busy, noisy boys...

As of February 16, 2012, Portland Opera To Go (POGO) has toured all over the stage of Oregon and SW Washington.  POGO has performed 10 public performances, many of them free of charge with our partner, McMenamins Pubs around the area, and 25 locations around the state of Oregon and SW Washington. Our little yellow...

Portland Opera to Go (POGO) brings the power and joy of opera, along with in-school artist residencies, to young people across Oregon during a 10-13 week winter tour.   As an extension of our mission to “celebrate the beauty and breadth of opera,” POGO brings a classic 50-minute English language opera...

It's summer, and now is the time we are putting together all the pieces for our 2012 Portland Opera To Go tour.  We will be touring a 50-minute English language version of the romantic-era opera Hansel and Gretel.  Our goal is to tour ten-weeks and reach 17,000 children across the state of Oregon. The...

Portland Opera To Go completed its 2011 winter tour in March 2011.  During the tour, more than 11,000 children in 37 schools across Oregon enjoyed an English-language production of Rossini's Elixir of Love and in-class residencies. Study guides, designed for teachers with little formal arts training, provide approved...

As of March 17, 2011, Portland Opera To Go has toured across the state of Oregon with a new 50-minute English Language version of Donizetti's comic opera Elixir of Love. Four professional opera singers, a piano accompanist and Portland Opera's manager of education and outreach have touched the lives of more than 15,000...