Education & Community Engagement Manager

The Education & Community Engagement Manager oversees, designs, and executes the Florentine Opera’s diverse portfolio of learning and community-centered programs. This role bridges the gap between professional opera production and the Greater Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin community, ensuring high-quality, accessible, and curriculum aligned programming for audiences ranging from school-aged youth to seasoned opera-goers and lifelong learners.

• Opera in Schools Tour: Lead all operational and administrative execution of the children’s opera tour, including school/venue bookings, rehearsal tracking, artist scheduling, evaluation metrics, and cross-departmental logistics for set, costume, and prop transportation.
• Play & Perform Residency Program: Design and deliver interactive, in-class residency content that directly compliments the learning and curriculum needs of Milwaukee Area Schools, giving students the tools to explore opera elements, rehearse scenes, and perform.
• Touring Recital Series: Partner directly with the Artistic Administrator to curate and tailor engaging recital programs appropriate for specialized settings, ranging from high-performance academic environments (high Schools and universities) to community and senior centers.
• Opera Without Limits (OWL): Develop accessible, inclusive virtual music education content leveraging music therapy principles. Deliver this programming asynchronously to support the unique learning paces and environments of differently abled and medically fragile youth.
• Schools on Stage: Coordinate the Florentine’s flagship annual youth engagement initiative, managing partnerships with local under-resourced schools to embed student choruses or silent actors directly into professional mainstage productions onstage. Oversee students while backstage and on stage; lead rehearsals with the Head of Music.

• Versed Series: Conceptualize and produce the asynchronous digital "edutainment" video series aligned to each mainstage production, highlighting directors, conductors, designers, and singers to engage both newcomers and seasoned opera-goers alike.
• Pre-Opera Talks and Program Notes: In close collaboration with the Head of Music, develop and present 30-minute informative, synchronous sessions prior to mainstage performances to provide audiences with a deeper musical foundation, including historical background, compositional hallmarks, and production specifics. Leveraging the research performed in gathering information for Pre-Opera Talks and Education Study Guides, partner with the Head of Music to develop program notes for mainstage performances.
• Community Circle: Manage and grow the discount ticket program to expand arts access, actively auditing and engaging with non-profit arts, community, and educational partners to distribute accessible seating.
• Community Masterclass Series: Plan and execute public masterclasses hosted at the Riverwest Opera Center, driving attendance and participation for area vocalists, members of the Florentine Chorus, board members, students, and opera enthusiasts to learn from Baumgartner Studio Artists and visiting professionals.
• Community-Mainstage relationship opportunities:
  Based on our annual programming and in partnership with the General Director and Artistic Administrator, develop opportunities using our mainstage themes to dive deeper into community partnership, bringing opera off the stage and into Milwaukee. Our Bronzeville Boheme partnerships with the neighborhood BID, local businesses and artists, and multiyear connection to sharing Milwaukee’s history on our stage and in our programs fit our mission to foster the current and next generation of opera audiences and practitioners.
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