Events for Individuals with Special Needs
A Concert for Children with Autism and their Families Utah Symphony | Utah Opera offers an annual concert for children with autism, and their families. We present this concert because we know that many families cannot attend cultural events together because their autistic child (children) acts in distracting ways. We feature our Opera Resident Artists with the Utah Symphony on the Abravanel Hall Stage in a special concert where everyone understands the difficulty of keeping these children quiet in their seats. This concert is FREE but registration is required. Register below for the 2009-10 event.
PLEASE NOTE: We have had to make a change in venue for this year’s concert, moving it from its usual home in the Capitol Theatre to Abravanel Hall. Because of the particular set-up of the opera production presently on stage at the Capitol, there isn’t enough room on stage for both the set and the orchestra, so we will host the concert this year in the symphony’s home, Abravanel Hall, located at 123 W South Temple in Salt Lake City. Our Opera Resident Artists and Associate Conductor David Cho will perform with Utah Symphony in this hour-long concert.
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Evening at the Opera for the Blind and Visually-Impaired Each year, 150 members of the blind and visually-impaired community are invited to a special outreach event at the Wednesday evening dress rehearsal of our May opera. At 6:00, our Artistic Director and Director of Education & Outreach talks with the group about the opera, passes around prepared fabric samples of costumes (with Braille labels), and shares information about the set. Braille translations and large print programs are available, as well as headsets through which a play-by-play description of stage action is broadcast from our translator's booth. Each opera production features Braille translations and large-print synopses. Please contact the Moran Eye Center for registration.