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- Across Canada, indie opera companies are making the art form cool again; daring and provocative again. Pre-pandemic, the collective mass of these companies was on the verge of something truly special: making opera mainstream, something to be wafted over a crowded pub, or poured out freely in church basements and makeshift venues coast to coast.
www.cbc.ca/music/how-independent-companies-are-saving-opera-1.5944339
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...
Apr 9, 2024 · The good news is that the pandemic has sparked radical thinking about opera’s identity and modes of delivery, and we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in opera newcomers across the country,...
Feb 10, 2024 · As opera companies struggle to survive, a sustained note of alarm. Dwindling ticket sales, rising costs and slumping philanthropy are threatening the viability of opera at every level. 10...
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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.’
Oct 4, 2019 · Five momentous decades have changed the face of the industry. When OPERA America was founded in 1970, with 20 member companies, the U.S. was in the middle of an opera explosion. America had emerged from World War II with a new sense of its power and significance.
the past decade and a half, however, American opera companies have begun to include musical theatre within their subscription series in an attempt to attract both opera and musical theatre enthusiasts and to diversify audiences.
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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.
