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Virginia Opera's Student Matinees offer special daytime performances for students. To enhance the opera-going experience during matinees, teacher guides featuring plot synopses, composer biographies and Standards of Learning curriculum correlation are made available for each opera.

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Opera Terms to Know

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The text of an opera; the literal translation is "little book," which reminds us that in a Broadway show the texts of the songs are called the "lyrics" while the spoken text of the rest of the play is called the "book."

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