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Mar 31, 2023 · According to a 2022 study by Opera America only one-fifth of opera administrators in Canada and the United States were Black, Indigenous or people of colour, while a new a new program by that...
Jun 19, 2024 · On June 12, the Canadian Opera Company announced that Perryn Leech “will be moving on from the organization by mutual agreement,” and that effective immediately, David C. Ferguson would act as...
Apr 9, 2024 · Opera America’s 2023 Annual Field Report reveals an alarming reality: a 27 percent drop in attendance and a 20 percent decline in productivity compared to pre-pandemic levels. As ticket sales and...
Gelb is quick to note in his piece that new opera has been at the core of the American opera experience and credits “David Gockley, the visionary former leader of the Houston Grand Opera and later the San Francisco Opera, who commissioned 45 new operas, including Adams’s ‘Nixon in China.’
- Independent Companies Are Diversifying Opera
- Indie Companies Are Producing New Canadian Operas
- Indie Opera Companies Are Fostering Rising Stars
Vancouver's re:Naissance Opera understands the necessity of diversity. Led by the tireless effort of artistic director Debbie Wong — a cohesive force in Vancouver's opera scene — the company's mission is a focus on equity and intersectionality in opera. Its 2017 production of Handel's Acis and Galatea, for example,rebranded 18th-century sensibiliti...
Independent companies are also at the forefront of mobilizing composers and librettists in the creation of original Canadian content. Operas inspired by current events, for contemporary sensibilities, will always be the genre's lifeline toward relevance and accessibility. Perhaps no other company has been more dedicated to this mission than Toronto...
Sarah Pelzer and Caitlin Fysh, co-founders of the aforementioned Lucky Penny Opera in Vancouver, are especially keen on the role of companies like theirs in fostering growing talents and new faces in opera. In terms of what a company can do for emerging artists, for Pelzer, "it's better to have space than to have scale," as in space for artists to ...
Oct 4, 2019 · The Industry performed Hopscotch, a new opera with multiple composers, in 24 limousines that drove around Los Angeles. The greatest talents honed in these kinds of enterprises, Scorca says, will find their way into the bigger companies, and shake them up, as well.
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Jan 4, 2020 · Just as in 1970, American opera companies are keeping opera’s heritage alive: Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini are all holding their own on the nation’s stages. Still, the dazzling abundance of new works has transformed the field, giving it a vitality and connection to contemporary culture that would have been all-but-unthinkable in 1970.
