Youth and Schools
Sponsored in part by The Poduska Family Foundation
Explore Opera with Your Students This Year!
Opera is for everyone! We invite you to engage in this colorful multi-art form. Whether you are bringing students to the theater, teaching artists to your school, or teachers to a workshop, BLO’s Education Programs are designed for all levels, learning styles, and backgrounds. Our programs not only provide dynamic learning opportunities for students and educators alike, but also meet the needs of schools to help develop young people as engaged, successful citizens. Contact us to begin the conversation.
School Partnerships
Boston Lyric Opera’s School Partnerships are are designed and customized for all levels, learning styles, and backgrounds specific to the needs of each school classroom. Founded on the 25-year-old arts-integrated opera curriculum, Music! Words! Opera!, the partnerships support both teachers and students in the teaching and learning of opera through arts integration in the K-12 classroom…more »
Professional Development
Based in the Music! Words! Opera! national curriculum, BLO’s Opera Creation Boot Camp lets you dive deep into how to facilitate the opera creation process with your students, and learn new tools and techniques that support your existing teaching practice…more »
Creative Youth Development
BLO Education works with VOICES Boston to bring additional education and training opportunities to their youth participants. These opportunities are specifically designed to meet the needs of VOICES youth and support each organization’s mission…more »
Opera on Tour
Introduce your students to opera as a story-telling art through our Artist Classroom Visit: Opera Stories, an interactive performance available for grades 2-12. Learn how we bring the story of an opera to life through music, acting, and movement…more »
2024-2025 Teaching Artists
Teaching Artist Roster
Patricia Au, music, composition
Kalee Burrows, drama, composition
Kylie Fletcher, drama
Sofia Galloway, drama
Andrea Gaudette, music, composition
Dan H. Jentzen, lighting design
Zaray Rossi, music
Vera Savage, music


Kylie Fletcher (she/her) is a theatre director, deviser, and educator currently based in Boston. Growing up attending performances at the Seattle Opera, she has a great passion for interdisciplinary art that transports its audience to alternate universes. As a music student, she studied Lieder performance and ensemble leadership and continues to investigate the importance of musicality and rhythm in all forms of live performance. Kylie has worked with students of all ages on building drama skills with the Boston Lyric Opera, ArtBarn Community Theatre, and Studio Playground, focusing on amplifying student voice and creativity through storytelling. Recently, Kylie served as the dramaturg for Arts on the Horizon’s new work The Laundromat Show by Joshua Rashon Streeter, an originally devised nonverbal performance designed for young people ages 3 to 6. Kylie received her MFA from Emerson College in Theatre Education & Applied Theatre, with intensive study of new works in Theatre for Young Audiences and Theatre for the Very Young.
Sepehr Davallou is a pianist, vocal coach, and opera repetiteur based in the Boston area. He has received honors from organizations like The Polonsky Foundation Fellowship, The National Youth Music Festival, and Saba Ensemble Festival, and was among the finalists at the Federation of The Artsong Fellowship and the First Barbad International Piano Prize. He has performed at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition’s New England Regional with Alexandra Henderson; served as an assistant music director for NEMPAC; served as coach, music director, and pianist for the outreach opera project at New England Conservatory; and worked as a pianist on productions at NEC and Maryland Opera Studio. Davallou is a co-founder of the “Music of the Iranian Diaspora” project, which highlights Persian composers. Festival credits include Aspen Music Festival and Dandelion Opera Institute. With over a decade of experience in music education, Davallou currently teaches at Brookline Music School and EKS Music School. He holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the University of Tehran, a master’s degree in collaborative piano from the University of Maryland, and a Graduate Diploma in opera coaching from NEC. His mentors are Cameron Stowe, J.J. Penna, Joel Ayau, Tanya Blaich, and Rita Sloan.
Joel Esher
Lydia Jane Graeff