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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.
Full access to the Archive content is available only to OPERA America members. If you are not a member, please view the membership page to learn more.
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Popular Administrative/Trustee Resources
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On Networking
Angela Myles Beeching, Director, New England Conservatory Career Services Center
You often hear, "It's not what you know, it's who you know!" There is a real element of truth to this but to be accurate, it's who you know and what you do about it that matters. Networking, or "schmoozing," is simply an exchange of information and resources; it's a two-way street.
People often associate networking with other fields — with high tech or business — not the arts. But networking is an important factor in all fields, especially in the "small world" of music where reputations and connections are critical, if not crucial, to career building.
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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.
You must be logged in to download the directory.
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Current Headlines
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Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most
By Martin Kettle
• The Guardian • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Forget the stories, the words, the stagings and the politics. The 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth is the perfect time to get into the music of the man who changed opera for good.
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Ellington School to Premiere Student’s Opera
By Deirdre Bannon
• The Georgetown Dish • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
When Juan Amaya was a young child, he started writing short stories to entertain himself. As an elementary school student, he taught himself how to play the saxophone and later the viola. Now, as a high school senior at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Amaya has brought his two passions together by writing and composing an original opera. Called Cinde'ella, the opera brings a religious twist to the classic Cinderella story. It will premiere at Ellington this weekend — marking the first time the Burleith public arts school has produced an original opera created by a single student.
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Opera singer from Helena heads to Boston Conservatory and Italy
By Lindsey Gordon
• kxlh.com • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tascha Anderson has long identified as
a performer, but it wasn't until she went away to Pepperdine University
in California and participated in her first opera that she knew it was
for her. "My parents, they don't really know much about opera, most people
don't in Montana and I didn't either until I went to school," said
Anderson. She said that people have a lot of misconceptions about opera — that
it's something you have to "do" to your voice, but she says it's
actually about letting go.
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The Thin Lady Sings: Spanish Opera Protests Austerity
By Guy Hedgecoe
• CNBC • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
"El crepusculo del ladrillo," or "Twilight of the brick," premiered
on Sunday in la Tabacalera, a rundown tobacco factory in downtown
Madrid, to rapturous applause. A nod to Wagner's
"Goetterdaemerung," or "Twilight of the Gods," the opera takes on
Spain's ongoing economic crisis, which started to unfold in 2008 after
the country's real estate bubble burst.
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'Becoming Traviata' goes behind the opera scenes with Natalie Dessay
By David Ng
• Culture Monster (Los Angeles Times) • Wednesday, May 22, 2013
When soprano Natalie Dessay showed up for rehearsals for the 2011
production of La traviata at the annual Aix-en-Provence Festival in
France, she encountered a rather unwelcome presence — a documentary
crew with a camera that followed her around in disarming proximity.
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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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