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Article Published: 29 Sep 2024

2024 IDEA Opera Grant Winners

OPERA America recently announced the recipients of its 2024 IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Opera Grants. The program, launched in 2019 and supported by the Charles and Cerise Jacobs Charitable Foundation, seeks to enrich the cultural tapestry of the field by promoting the work of BIPOC composers and librettists.

This year's winners are:

Nathan Felix, composer

Nathan Felix and Anita Gonzalez's Faces in the Flames is a historical drama about photographer Thomas Askew, who captured Black life in Georgia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Anita Gonzalez, librettist

Danielle Olana Jagelski, composer

Danielle Olana Jagelski and Rhiana Yazzie's Little Ones is a dark comedy set in a Native American residential school in Utah in the 1980s.

Rhiana Yazzie, librettist

Jorge Sosa, composer

Jorge Sosa's Generación Perdida is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the crisis of disappeared people in Mexico.

To learn more about the grant recipients, read the press release.