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OPERA America YouTube Channel
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Los Angeles Opera among recipients of new-audiences grant
By David Ng
• LA Times • Thursday, May 02, 2013
As the classical-music world continues to struggle with graying and
shrinking audiences, companies are experimenting with ways to attract
new crowds. On Tuesday, 13 opera companies across the nation were named
recipients of a new grant from Opera America designed to foster
attendance growth.
Based in New York, Opera America is a nonprofit
organization whose goal is to promote and raise general awareness of
opera as an art form. The group said it awarded a total of $300,000 in
grants -- ranging from $7,500 to $30,000 -- under the new program, which
is titled "Building Opera Audiences."
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Dallas Opera names Emmanuel Villaume new music director
By Scott Cantrell
• The Dallas Morning News • Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Dallas Opera has named French conductor Emmanuel Villaume its new music director. He
was introduced by Dallas Opera General Director Keith Cerny at a news
conference Tuesday morning at the Winspear Opera House. Speaking in
charmingly accented, fluent English, Villaume praised the opera house,
the Dallas Opera Orchestra, the company staff and “the response of the
people in the house, the community.”
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OPERA America Program to Aid 13 Companies
By Allan Kozzinn
• ArtsBeat (The New York Times) • Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thirteen opera companies across the United States will share $300,000 in grants awarded by OPERA America in the first year of its new Building Opera Audiences program. The grants, which range from $7,500 to $30,000, are for programs meant to increase first-time opera attendance, and to increase return visits.
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Santa Fe Opera to Present New Opera About Oscar Wilde
By Rodney Punt
• The Huffington Post • Monday, April 29, 2013
The historic path to equality for gays and lesbians is strewn with
victims of injustice. One of the most egregious examples was the fate of
Oscar Wilde, the sparkling genius of late Victorian English theater,
whose career was initially charmed but later cursed by the sexual
phobias of the time. The Irish playwright was a brave, some would also
say foolhardy, soul who flaunted his indiscriminately brilliant wit in a
series of plays with multi-dimensional sub-texts that have never lost
their luster with audiences. He paid, however, a steep price for that
flamboyance in his private life.
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Opera Grand Rapids executive director announces resignation from company
By Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk
• Michigan Live LLC • Monday, April 29, 2013
Opera Grand Rapids executive director Michael Havlicek is leaving the company at the end of the season. Opera Grand Rapids has named Tom Wesholski to serve as interim
executive director while the company begins a search for a new director.
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Why Not Have City Opera Go Home to City Center?
By Anthony Tommasini
• The New York Times • Sunday, April 28, 2013
Last spring, reflecting on the completion of New York City Opera’s first
season as an itinerant company bringing productions to the people in
theaters throughout the city, George Steel, its general and artistic
director, defended his decision to abandon Lincoln Center and argued
that things were going well.
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Two Opera Professionals Produce Legendary Operas at Home
By Staff
• Cerritos-Artesia Patch • Sunday, April 28, 2013
It’s an insane idea, to produce opera at your home and expect audiences to flock to backyard performances of Così fan tutte or Don Giovanni.
But a couple of wild and crazy professionals, artistic director Josh
Shaw of Highland Park and musical director Stephen Karr of New Jersey,
have done just that. Their company, Pacific Opera Project (POP) — launched
in 2011 — aims to provide audiences with an alternative to L.A.'s
big-budget opera circuit and offer local performers a showcase for their
talent. (They even pay their artists!) A fully functioning opera
company, POP operates primarily out of Josh Shaw’s home on the border of
Eagle rock. The compound houses skeletons of sets, props and costumes
procured from studio auctions, including a pair of purple pants worn by
Jack Nicholson during his turn as the Joker in Tim Burton’s Batman.
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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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JFK -
Take the AirTrain ($5 - approx. 15 minutes) to the Jamaica Street Station and transfer to the Long Island Railroad (LIRR).
Take the LIRR to Penn Station ($12 - approx. 35 minutes). See Penn Station directions below.
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LaGuardia -
Take the M60 Bus to the Hoyt Ave/31st Street. Get on the
 or  Train and take that to 42nd/Times Square Station.
Follow the Times Square Station directions below.
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Newark - Take the New Jersey Transit train to Penn Station ($15 - approx. 45 min). See
the Penn Station Directions below.
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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