Theater Essentials Online is a library of video lessons for grades 7-12 led by local theater professionals. Designed to be completely flexible for in-person, hybrid or fully remote models of learning, each video lesson connects with state standards and includes study guides, student worksheets and other resources. 

Theater Essentials Online videos are designed to support select Nebraska state standards for the fine arts. Connections to standards vary according to the grade level and how teachers incorporate videos and accompanying worksheets into their existing curriculum goals. Please visit education.ne.gov/finearts for a full listing of Nebraska state standards for the fine and performing arts and glossary terms.

 

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Healthy Vocal Habits with Jared Hiscock

Join Jared Hiscock, Holland Community Opera Fellow with Opera Omaha and vocal athlete, as he takes you through the foundational tools you need to keep your voice healthy while finding better consistency, accuracy, and freedom with your own vocal instrument.


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Nebraska Standards for Education, Theatre:

FA 8.4.2
FA 8.5.4
FA 12.4.2
FA 12.5.4

About Jared Hiscock
Baritone Jared Hiscock is a Holland Community Opera Fellow with Opera Omaha. In December of 2020 he received his DMA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music. During the 2019 summer season Jared performed Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Vocal Academy of Orvieto in Città della Pieve, Italy, and Marquis de la Force in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Saltworks Opera in Cape Charles, VA. Jared spent two seasons doing educational outreach with the professional opera touring company Opera for the Young, performing Power House in the world premiere of Super Storm! by Scott Gendel and the Sea-King in Rusalka. Recent credits include Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, and Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors; and as the baritone soloist in works such as Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Mankato Symphony Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs with conductor Ernest Richardson, and the Nebraska premiere of Adams’s The Wound-Dresser.

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For questions or more information, please contact the Education Team at Education@O-pa.org. 

Sponsored by the Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Sunny Durham Foundation and the Producers of Moulin Rouge! The Musical.