The mission of the OSB is to produce and perform opera, to stimulate interest in opera through performances and educational outreach, and to serve the cultural life of the community through means including but not limited to encouragement of musical talent in a nonsectarian, no partisan, inter-racial and multi-cultural manner.

One of our goals is to educate all audiences, especially the school age audience, to the the wonders of opera. The opera education curriculum is sensitive to current things in education in general and to our community in particular. It presents opera as a vivid literary, dramatic medium for the expression of human conditions within an artistic framework, and strives to develop an appreciation for the dramatic and musical arias in a new generation of theatre-goers. The education program is designed to provide listeners with innovative, stimulating opportunities to experience opera and to ultimately to becomean opera enthusiast. The education programs are part of a continuum, directed toward students at appropriate stages in their development. Some programs might begin with participatory operas for younger students, and then progress to more challenging works at the secondary school level. Interdisciplinary in design, the programs emphasis the relevance of opera to contemporary life: themes and dilemma's have importance now, in the new millenniums, as they did when the operas where composed. A Teacher's Guide accompanies each opera and when we perform in the schools, we offer translations of the arias. We have been encouraged by the enthusiastic reception in the schools.

Dress Rehearsal. Students are invited to attend Dress Rehearsal. Check back at our website to get the schedule for upcoming operas. Admission is free by prior arrangement. Call the opera office at 805-898-3890 for more information.