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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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First Openly Trans Opera Student at SF Conservatory
By Tony Bravo
• POP (KQED) • Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Breanna Sinclairé doesn’t look like your stereotypical opera singer.
First of all, she dons neither metal brassiere nor matching horned
helmet and she’s not in the least bit the Wagnerian “fat lady” of yore.
With her long, straight hair and eclectic wardrobe (usually completed
with faux fur booties), she’s the kind of girl you see on Valencia at
all hours. If not for her occasional soprano trills to illustrate a
point, you might not ever know she was a classical voice major at San
Francisco’s Conservatory of Music and, if you didn’t stop and listen to
her story, you definitely wouldn’t know about the new ground Breanna is
breaking in the opera world. The 24-year-old is, by her own estimates,
one of the few (if not the only) transgender singers currently studying
classical voice at a major music conservatory in the United States.
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The 'Black Swan' Intern Ruling Could Change Unpaid Internships Forever
By Rebecca Greenfield
• The Atlantic Wire • Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The case of the unpaid American intern just got upended — again, and maybe for good: Just a month after one judge dismissed the class-action suit filed by free New York City media interns at Hearst Magazines, another has now granted the Hollywood coffee-fetchers who worked on Black Swan a potentially precedent-setting win, ruling that the two production interns* "worked as paid employees" and that Fox Searchlight should have to pay them as such. It's a pivotal decision, says the attorney for the two young men who worked on the Oscar-winning film...
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ONeill Center To Launch National Music Theater Institute
By Frank Rizzo
• The Hartford Courant • Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford is undertaking its largest capital project since its was founded nearly 50 years ago. The state approved a $3 million grant to the Tony Award-winning theater center which will allow it to go forward with a $7.8 million project that will create a new National Music Theater Institute for college undergraduates from the U.S. and abroad, offering semester-away programs in musical theater training. The center has so far raised more than $3 million of the remaining $4.8 million.
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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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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).
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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.
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