Over a three-year period, OPERA America will offer workshops and seminars for trustees, composers and librettists, singers, technical/production personnel, and educators. In addition, OPERA America will conduct personalized consultations with smaller companies, in which field experts will work with opera company staff to tackle such issues as board development and strategic planning.
Extending Core Services
As part of its continuing service to the field of opera, OPERA America has developed a number of programs and services that can be implemented at the local level. Through the San Francisco Bay Initiative , OPERA America plans to bring two of its core programs to the Bay area, working with members of the local community to further refine the programs and to ensure that they meet the needs of the Bay area audience.
• Singer Workshop
• MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! Teacher Training Workshop
Developing New Programming
The San Francisco Bay Initiative also provides OPERA America with an opportunity to develop and pilot several new programs. In this way, the programs of the Initiative will potentially serve as a foundation for new programming for several OPERA America constituencies.
• Trustee Volunteer Resource Center Seminar
(event took place November 2001)
• Composer and Librettist Workshop
• Technical and Production Workshop
Looking Towards the Future
OPERA America plans to evaluate the impact of the San Francisco Bay Initiative through a number of different mechanisms including conference calls and surveys. Feedback about the three new programs that will be piloted in San Francisco will be especially valuable as OPERA America refines these programs and adds them to its core services. OPERA America will also examine the impact that the programming has had on the Bay area opera community as a whole, to see if the initial goals of strengthening and revitalizing that community have been achieved.
OPERA America feels the San Francisco Bay Initiative and its assessment will yield valuable knowledge and experience, allowing for the replication of similar programming series in other communities
| OPERA America's San Francisco Bay Initiative is an ambitious series of multifaceted programs meant to build capacity for the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera in Northen California through a series of workshops, presentations, classes, and consultations.
The San Francisco Bay Initiative is generously sponsored by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. |
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