360° Opera: Stunning "immersive" productions are surging in popularity

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Opera Parallèle’s immersive Everest (photo: Stefan Cohen)

Article Published: 11 Jul 2023

360° Opera: Stunning "immersive" productions are surging in popularity

By Greg Stepanich

What’s it like to be on the world’s tallest mountain? “Endlessly glorious, endlessly exciting,” says Pippa Blake, a retired ski-academy administrator from Victoria, B.C., who in 2007 traveled to Nepal to fulfill her lifelong dream of visiting Mount Everest’s base camp.

This article was published in the Summer 2023 issue of Opera America Magazine.

Greg Stepanich

Greg Stepanich, an editor for Gannett and founder of Palm Beach ArtsPaper, has written for Opera News, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, The Palm Beach Daily News, Ocean Drive, and the Knight Foundation. He also teaches at the Lynn Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton.

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