Student Study Guide Archives

Opera Philadelphia is happy to make its Sounds of Learning student workbooks, A Family Guide to Opera, available for download in .pdf format. Click on the opera title below to download the workbook*.

You may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program, to view and print .pdf files.

  • Barber Antony and Cleopatra
  • Beethoven's Fidelio
  • Bellini's Norma
  • Bizet's Carmen
  • Britten's The Rape of Lucretia
  • DiChiera and Uzan's Cyrano
  • Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
  • Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice
  • Gounod's Romeo and Juliet
  • Henze's Phaedra
  • Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
  • Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen
  • Puccini's La Bohème
  • Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly
  • Puccini's Tosca
  • Puccini's Turandot
  • Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges
  • Rossini's Cinderella
  • Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers
  • Tan's Tea: A Mirror of Soul
  • Verdi's Falstaff
  • Verdi's Rigoletto
  • Verdi's Otello
  • Verdi's La traviata

For more information on Sounds of Learning, vist the information page, or email education@operaphila.org

* Libretti may not be available in the workbook due to copyright reprint restrictions. For free online libretti and translations, visit www.opera-guide.ch.