Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, American Opera Projects (AOP) is at the forefront of the contemporary opera movement through its commissioning, developing, and producing of opera and music theatre projects, training programs for student and emerging composers and librettists, and community engagement. The company is recognized for its cross-genre experimentation in works such as Darkling (Weisman/Rabinowitz, 2006), an interdisciplinary workcombining poetry, music and projection, and the dance chamber opera Hagoromo starring Wendy Whelan (Davis/Pelsue, BAM, 2015); stories of African-American history including The Summer King (Sonenberg/Nester/Campbell, Pittsburgh Opera, 2017) and Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom (Okoye, Irondale, 2014); and numerous groundbreaking works on LGBTQ themes like Paul's Case (Spears/Walat, UrbanArias, 2015), Patience & Sarah (Kimper/Persons, Lincoln Center Festival, 1998) and As One (Kaminsky/Campbell/Reed, BAM, 2014), the most widely produced contemporary opera in the U.S. and Canada during the 2017-2018 season. Recent AOP world premieres include Savage Winter (Pittsburgh Opera, 2018), The Echo Drift (PROTOTYPE Festival 2018), and Three Way (Nashville Opera & BAM 2017). Later this season, AOP will present the world premiere of the Georgia O'Keeffe opera Today It Rains,in a co-production with San Francisco's Opera Parallèle, and a collection of performances in New York City that will honor the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising including four mini-operas about Stonewall made in collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts, a new production of Patience & Sarah at Hunter College, and a touring version of As One. A celebration of AOP's thirty years will be held in the spring and hosted by AOP Board Member Anthony Roth Costanzo. www.aopopera.org
View Top Employees from American Opera Projects IncWebsite | http://aopopera.org |
Funding | $52000 |
Employees | View employees |
Address | 138 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, New York 11217, US |
Phone | (718) 398-4024 |
Fax | (718) 398-3489 |
Industry | Media & Internet General, Media & Internet |
Competitors | Almeida Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Opera Parallèle, Opera Philadelphia, Tapestry Opera |
SIC | SIC Code 79 Companies, SIC Code 7929 Companies, SIC Code 792 Companies |
NAICS | NAICS Code 71 Companies, NAICS Code 7111 Companies, NAICS Code 71113 Companies, NAICS Code 711 Companies, NAICS Code 711130 Companies |
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