The Magic Flute Study Guide - Manitoba Opera
The Magic Flute Study Guide - Manitoba Opera
The Magic Flute Study Guide - Manitoba Opera
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Step 4 - Peer Conferencing<br />
Students will exchange reviews to critique and edit. Encourage the students to focus on effective<br />
coordination of ideas in sentences and the correct use of grammar and punctuation.<br />
Step 5 - Creating the final draft<br />
Have students make the appropriate adjustments to their reviews. You could also have the<br />
students type the pieces up and organize them into a newspaper.<br />
Activity #3 – An 18 th Century Newspaper Review<br />
Be a music critic in Austria. Students imagine they are living at the<br />
time of the first performance of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>.<br />
Step 1 - Historical Research<br />
Students will need to learn about the historical context in Austria, around the<br />
time Mozart composed <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>. <strong>The</strong>y may want to learn more about<br />
what was happening in other art forms (e.g., literature and painting).<br />
Step 2 - Writing the Review<br />
Students may want to create a newspaper in which their<br />
review is included. <strong>The</strong> review itself could incorporate quotes<br />
and/or headlines from actual historical reviews. <strong>The</strong> students’<br />
reviews can follow a similar outline to that for the activity<br />
above, but they must remember the time period in which they<br />
are writing. If they design a newspaper, they can try to use<br />
similar type styles (font) and page layout as were used in the<br />
late 1700s.<br />
Activity #4 – Write a Letter from One Character to Another<br />
Choose a moment in the story and have one character write a letter to another.<br />
Activity #5 – Create a Costume, Set, Poster, News Ad, Press Release or<br />
Biography<br />
� Sketch a costume for a character in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>. <strong>The</strong> costume<br />
can be traditional or modern.<br />
� Draw a set for a production of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>. <strong>The</strong> set can be<br />
traditional or modern.<br />
� Design a poster for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong> Student Night at the <strong>Opera</strong>,<br />
including the date, the time, and the people involved. <strong>The</strong> poster can<br />
be traditional or modern.<br />
� Create a newspaper ad for <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>. Include whatever you<br />
feel is the biggest "selling point" of the opera - what makes it<br />
exciting? Why should people come to see it?<br />
� Write a press release about <strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong> Student Night at the<br />
<strong>Opera</strong>, including the date, the time, the people involved, and why it<br />
would be exciting or fun to attend.<br />
� Write a biography of one of the characters.<br />
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Empress Maria<br />
<strong>The</strong>resa, ruler of<br />
Austria, 1740 -1780<br />
Costume design for<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> <strong>Flute</strong>
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