Latest posts tagged with #OperaAmerica on Bluesky
#Opera Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek and Soundstreams are recipients of OPERA America’s Next Stage Grant—big win for new work and Canadian voices. Which projects are you most excited to see take shape? #Canada #OPERAamerica
#OperaNews Deborah Rutter, ousted Kennedy Center chief, will be the keynote speaker at Opera America's 2025 conference in Miami. This move is a bold statement from the national opera forum. What does it mean for Washington? #DeborahRutter #OperaAmerica
New Works Showcase: An opera for the deaf? That was impressive! Next: not sure the middle two are worth pursuing. Finally, I loved the kung fu monkey puppet but please tell me why this needs to be an opera. (The speaker and puppet were fantastic without any singing.) #newopera #operaamerica
Still so happy to have been part of this #OperaAmerica #NewWorksForum and to drink in some of the enlightened vision, free-flowing optimism of and trust between US opera companies.
Fervently hoping I can bring some of this back with me and spread it around back home in the UK. 🥰
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…followed by a live showcase which I missed as I nipped back to my hotel for a quick Power Nap then slept through my alarm. 😭
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Inspirational session on ‘Community Involvement in Programming’ this morning, full of JOY! Take a look at St Louis New Opera Collective!
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…and what a performance! Superb! 👏👏👏
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oops two 3/'s! Back at hotel working on jet lag before #PrototypeFestival Eat the Document.
Read the novel on the plane, GRIPPING, can't wait to see how it comes out as an opera.
(Interesting sidebar: none of #OperaAmerica Prototypefestival.org or here.org have made the move to Bluesky.)
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C:Workshop: Crafting the Perfect Pitch - a one person panel with much audience input on how composers & their collaborators might best pitch their work to producers. Fascinating reminder of @teteateteopera.bsky.social's focus on artist development as opposed to hit-scoring
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B: "Digital Perspectives in New Works" 4 more producers exploring the fusion of opera and new technologies (eg VR, augmented reality etc.) Again, fascinating, and interestingly without getting onto the positive possibilities of AI.
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A: "Producer Roundtable: Breaking Boundaries" 4 inspiring producers making work for and with specific communities, all kinds of protected characteristics and of art forms; I thought of of diversity vs inclusion & how bigger companies power structures might flex to be more open.
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It's great a to be back at 2025 Opera America New Works Forum for the first time since the pandemic. As ever, the most collegiate of opera makers whose willingness to swap ideas and enthusiasm and vision for the art form stimulates really inspiring and rigorous discussions...
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