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About the Archives
OPERA America’s comprehensive Archive, containing hundreds of articles, podcasts and videos, is a rich resource of information for artists, company staff and opera patrons alike.
The Archive contains articles from 1999 to the present, covering topics like fundraising, health, marketing, new works, performance skills, mentoring and finance, written by OPERA America staff and outside industry experts.
Podcasts and videos in the Archive provide invaluable access to OPERA America events such as the Annual Conference and Making Connections.
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Popular Administrative/Trustee Resources
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An Evening with Librettist Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell, Jennifer Aylmer, Wallis Giunta, Troy Cook, Matthew Tuell, Timothy Long
Excerpts from Silent Night, Rappahannock County, Lucrezia, The Inspector, A Letter to East 11th Street and Songs from an Unmade Bed performed by soprano Jennifer Aylmer, mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, tenor Matthew Tuell, baritone Troy Cook and pianist Timothy Long.
Mark Campbell is one of the most in-demand librettists working in opera today. In the past year alone he premiered four new works, including Silent Night for Minnesota Opera (music by Kevin Puts, directed by Eric Simonson), The Inspector for Wolf Trap Opera (music by John Musto, directed by Leon Major) and Rappahannock County
for Virginia Opera, Virginia Arts Festival, University of Richmond and
the University of Texas (music by Ricky Ian Gordon, directed by Kevin
Newbury).
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Advocacy & Public Policy Update
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About OPERA America's Advocacy Efforts
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Latest News & Alerts
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OPERA America represents the interests of the opera community before Congress, the White House and federal agencies. As a founding member of the Performing Arts Alliance, OPERA America works with the performing arts field to advocate for the development of national policies that recognize and strengthen the contributions that the arts make to America.
For more information on OPERA America’s advocacy activities, please contact OPERA America’s Government Affairs Office at 202-375-7523.
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Fundraising for Independent Artists
Dianne Debicella, program director, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured Atlas; Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano; Anne Ricci, general managing diva, Opera on Tap
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Desktop PCM Directory
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The desktop directory application is available for download to all PCM members.
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Current Headlines
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Killer Plants Take Over Brooklyn Garden for Opera
By James Tarmy
• Bloomberg Businessweek • Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In Rappaccini’s Daughter, a crazy botanist locks up his daughter in a garden with poisonous plants. The
story by Nathaniel Hawthorne inspired an opera by Daniel Catan, a
Mexican master of melancholy, who died unexpectedly two years ago after
finishing a new orchestration of La Hija de Rappaccini. Conductor Neil Goren, Gotham’s artistic director, spoke to me during a rehearsal break.
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Gloriana: Britten's problem opera
By Rupert Christiansen
• The Telegraph (U.K.) • Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Gloriana is the orphan among the Britten’s major operas
— he called it “his slighted child” — and sixty years after its premiere, it
has still not been fully adopted into the canon. What holds it back?
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Lyric Opera [of Chicago] signs off on busiest season ever
By John von Rhein
• Chicago Tribune • Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Lyric Opera's unprecedented effort this past season to make itself more generally relevant and to provide what general director Anthony Freud calls “a broader, deeper cultural service to more people around the city” appears to have paid off.
What's more, the company ended its 2012-13 season in the black, just as it has done for 25 of the past 26 years.
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Nashville Symphony, musicians plan talks on new contract
By Walter Roche
• The Tennessean • Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Officials of the union representing the musicians at the Nashville Symphony Association said negotiations over a new contract are set to begin this week even as the symphony’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center is facing a June 28 foreclosure auction.
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New George Benjamin Opera Is Commissioned
By Allan Kozinn
• Arts Beat (The New York Times) • Monday, June 17, 2013
The Royal Opera, in London, has commissioned the composer George Benjamin
to write his third opera, which will have its premiere at Covent Garden
in spring 2018. The as-yet-untitled work will have a libretto by the
prolific playwright Martin Crimp.
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What is OPERAAmerica.org?
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
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