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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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Making Connections on the Web
Megan Young, Artistic Services Manager, OPERA America
We live in a truly exciting time. More arts organizations than ever are using Web 2.0 technologies, including open source software, to engage and develop their audiences and employees. Diana Hossack aptly chronicled this excitement in her February 2008 ArtistLink feature.
Advocacy & Public Policy Update
About OPERA America's Advocacy Efforts Latest News & Alerts
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.
What Does Audience Engagement Really Mean?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Latest Video & Audio Additions
Visa Processing for Foreign Guest Artists
Jonathan Ginsburg and Andi Floyd, FTM Arts Law
Fundraising for Independent Artists
Dianne Debicella, program director, fiscal sponsorship, Fractured Atlas; Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano; Anne Ricci, general managing diva, Opera on Tap
Taxing Foreign Artists
Robyn Guilliams, FTM Arts Law attorney, Larry Bomback, Director of Finance, OPERA America, Amy Fitterer, Director of Government Affairs, OPERA America
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Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview
By Staff • NPR • Tuesday, February 07, 2012
On studying opera as a teenager: "I was 13. I didn't like opera. Ew. I liked cheerleading and boys — that was what I was interested in, and Barbra Streisand, The Beatles and Bob Dylan. But I loved singing. I loved it. And I did have a very good coloratura. I listened to my high school Music Man just as I was getting ready to get the Kennedy Center Honors with Barbara Cook, because I had been to see her when I was a kid in The Music Man on Broadway. And I had sung the part in my high school production and it's very good, but it's a voice I don't have anymore. It was very high and light and free."
Thelma: an opera world premiere
By Tom Service • The Guardian • Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Thelma. It's not exactly the world's most promising title for an opera. But this isn't the story of one half of a female-bonding fugitive drama, or even a musical based on bestockinged northern women from Last of the Summer Wine-era BBC central casting. Thelma is the (supposedly) lost opera by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Croydon's most famous son, and still the country's most celebrated mixed-race classical composer, who died 100 years ago after collapsing with pneumonia on the platform of West Croydon station late in the summer of 1912.
Purcell and a pint - welcome to a new kind of classical concert
By Maggie Faultless • The Guardian • Monday, February 06, 2012
Music should be a very social experience. Today, it sometimes feels as if we've lost sight of this.
For Virginia opera lovers, it’s a whole new scene
By Anne Midgette • The Washington Post • Monday, February 06, 2012
Opera in Virginia is changing, all right. For one thing, there’s more of it. 
Build a Killer Website: 19 Dos and Don'ts
By Ilya Pozin • Inc. • Friday, February 03, 2012
At bottom your website is a marketing tool. For many businesses, it’s the only source of business. If done right, it can be a major part of yours.

Here’s my quick-hit list of the top dos and don’ts before you get started.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
      

Winter 2012 Magazine Issue
  • Letter from the President/CEO
  • Philadelphia Cultural Revolution
  • Supporting First Time Directors
  • The National Opera Center
  • Recently Published
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