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Ausrine Stundyte as Cio-Cio-San, Elizabeth Janes as Butterfly’s child and Sarah Larsen as Suzuki in Seattle Opera's production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Photo by Elise Bakketun.
   
OPERA America is dedicated to education, audience development and community services that increase all forms of opera appreciation.

In particular, OPERA America passionately supports the creation and performance of new works by North American composers. The Learning Center, OPERA America’s online education core, features information not only on the most frequently produced operas, but also houses a growing inventory of North American composers and their operas, for use by administrators, artists and opera lovers. Find synopses, historical essays and other research, biographies of composers and librettists, and multimedia excerpts.


   
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X-rays and Operas: A Collaborative Restoration
Lara Sorokanich • National Geographic News
Music in Istanbul Is Intermission for a Protest
Sebnem Arsu • The New York Times
A Tibetan Opera Company Dances on the Roof of the World
Mark Macnamara • San Francisco Classical Voice
'This is like Brigadoon'
Michael Morain • Des Moines Metro Register
Creating [Kid] Artists – Opera for All
Jennifer D'Agostino • Opera Pulse

Spring 2013 Magazine Issue
  • Letter from the President/CEO
  • Of One: The Quest for Asian Fusion in the Opera House
  • Vancouver: Where Nature Nurtures Art
  • Inheriting the Wind
  • My First Time
Contact Us
330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001
P 212-796-8620 • F 212-796-8621
Info@operaamerica.org • Directions
From Airport:
The easiest way to reach the OPERA America offices is to get a cab at the airport. Cost is $40-45
(not including tip).
  • JFK - Take the AirTrain ($5 - approx. 15 minutes) to the Jamaica Street Station and transfer to the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). Take the LIRR to Penn Station ($12 - approx. 35 minutes). See Penn Station directions below.
  • LaGuardia - Take the M60 Bus to the Hoyt Ave/31st Street. Get on the or Train and take that to 42nd/Times Square Station. Follow the Times Square Station directions below.
  • Newark - Take the New Jersey Transit train to Penn Station ($15 - approx. 45 min). See the Penn Station Directions below.

From Penn Station/Madison Square Garden:
Leave the station through the 7th Avenue/33rd Street exit and walk south for four blocks. The building is on
the right hand side.

From Grand Central Station:
Take the Train to the 42nd/Times Square station and transfer to the Train.
Take the Train to the 28th Street stop and walk north on 7th Avenue.
The building is on the same block as the train stop.

From 42nd Street/Times Square:
Take the Train to the 28th Street stop and walk north on 7th Avenue.
The building is on the same block as the train stop.

For more detailed directions, most up-to-date pricing or to specify a different starting location, please visit the
MTA Web site.