Key Change
49 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow do we reimagine opera to reflect the current moment? How does the complexity of the art form help us to hold complicated truths? How can present and future leaders in the industry strengthen our understanding of voice, story, and community? Co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia from the Santa Fe Opera invite artists, creators, educators, collaborators, and audience together to discuss both what and how opera can be for generations to come. www.santafeopera.org/keychange
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Making Learning Sticky: Creative Compassion for Kids & Educators Through Opera with Charles Gamble
April 17, 2024 07:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBWe're taking an Opera For All Voices-adjacent excursion to the realm of wiggly kiddos, innovative teachers, and fresh vocabulary words, highlighting the power of playful arts integration. Join Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia with special guest Charles Gamble, Santa Fe Opera's Director Of School Programs, as they introduce two of Santa Fe Opera's most dynamic community engagement programs: ALTO: Active Learning Through Opera, a multi-session residency within the...
The Key Change Time Machine: Reflecting the Times, Speaking to the Human Condition
February 28, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes - 66.5 MBIt’s all systems go for season five of Key Change! But before we commence with the anniversary celebrations, co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia dust off the time machine for a whirlwind tour of seasons past. Think of this episode as part process evaluation––an appraisal of Opera For All Voices (OFAV), the Santa Fe Opera initiative committed to co-commissioning and co-producing new, diverse operatic works––and part indispensable playlist for repeat audiences and newcomers alike,...
Season 5: Stretching The Boundaries Of What Opera Can Be
February 22, 2024 23:24 - 1 minute - 1.32 MBIt's season 5! This season, we're inviting you, our favorite listeners, on a journey through time and space -- traveling back in time to the origins of Key Change and Opera For All Voices and forward into the future of boundless possibilities. This spring, Andrea Fellows Feinberg and Anna Garcia take you through through the community engagement portal to hear from the voices transforming the future of opera. And in the fall, they'll offer a backstage pass to latest Opera For All Voices...
Special Announcement: Help us win an award!
September 23, 2023 00:22 - 2 minutes - 2.25 MBSeason 5 is coming soon and we’d LOVE for you to help us celebrate our 5th anniversary. Key Change is a FINALIST in the Signal Awards for the podcasting industry! We are up for 2 different awards: Best Music Show for our 4th season; and Best Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Episode for “Telling Hard Truths”, an episode in our series following the commission, creation, and world premiere of This Little Light of Mine by Chandler Carter and Diana Solomon-Glover. A panel of esteemed ind...
Connections Across Time and Space: Opera in the Cosmos
April 26, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBSeven years ago, Santa Fe Opera started a conversation that would reverberate throughout American Opera, shaping this celebrated art form into something more reflective of the world in which it's created. Today, Opera For All Voices (OFAV) commissions have surpassed even our wildest storytelling expectations. Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia tuck into the time machine for a season-ending trip around the OFAV universe, revisiting the initiative's greatest hits an...
Competing Interests: How Do You Workshop a New Opera?
April 12, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBRoadtrip! After many long months of necessary virtual collaboration, the creative team behind The Pigeon Keeper, a Santa Fe Opera Opera For All Voices (OFAV) commission, finally got to spread their wings for an emotional workshop in San Francisco. Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia discover what it was like to have everyone (well, almost everyone) in the same room for the very first time––featuring composer David Hanlon, librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, stage dir...
Hometown to the World Debuts on Broadway
March 29, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBIf a chorus of 12 teens can provide compelling commentary on immigration enforcement from the stage of a venerable performing arts center in Santa Fe, how might ten times that number of voices impact the debate? From a Broadway venue that has welcomed some of the twentieth century’s most influential social justice visionaries? Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows-Fineberg and Anna Garcia pilot the time machine east to find out, setting a course for the 2022 premiere of Hometown to the World...
Telling Hard Truths
March 15, 2023 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBWhat do you know about the life and legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer? Chances are, not much. That's about to change. Co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia dust off the Key Change time machine for a trip back through time and place to the real-life inspiration for This Little Light of Mine (TLLoM), the modern operatic masterpiece commissioned by Santa Fe Opera's Opera For All Voices initiative. Good thing this ride is roomy because joining them are two women who can claim a direct con...
A Day in the Life Before a World Premiere
March 01, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBIt’s October 28, 2022. As a brisk, still night settles over Santa Fe, things are heating up inside The Lensic Performing Arts Center. Longtime opera patrons mingle alongside never opera goers. Soon, the curtain will rise on This Little Light of Mine (TLLoM), a modern operatic masterpiece composed by Chandler Carter with libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover. The one-act production is an unflinching yet uplifting dramatization of the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black woman born on the very lowe...
Spark of Imagination: Generations of the Pueblo Opera Program with Sonja & Seth Martinez
July 20, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBIf you’re unfamiliar with Santa Fe Opera’s Pueblo Opera Program (POP), take a quick journey back in time for part one of this conversation. Go ahead; we’ll wait. In it, you’ll meet Renee Roybal and Claudene A. Martinez, both members of Pueblo of San Ildefonso. The pair recall the early days of POP and the formation of the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council (POCC). Now that you’re sufficiently caught up, join Andrea Fellows Fineberg as her time machine co-pilot Kyle Gray, SFO’s Manager of Com...
Story With Purpose: The Origin of the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council with Renee Roybal and Claudene A. Martinez
July 13, 2022 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBAll aboard the Key Change time machine for a two-part trip! On this half of the journey, we toggle back to the origins of a beloved community-based program and then forward to celebrate its exciting expansion. 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Pueblo Opera Program, lovingly known around the Santa Fe Opera as POP. Key Change commemorates this momentous event by passing the mic to colleague Kyle Gray, SFO’s Manager of Community Relations & Government Affairs. Kyle and his guests d...
In a Room Making Music With People: The Pigeon Keeper with Stephanie Fleischmann and David Hanlon
June 29, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBHurry up and wait. When your world premier is stopped in its tracks by forces beyond your control, “momentum” is measured a bit differently. Andrea Fellows Fineberg chats with composer David Hanlon and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, the creative duo behind The Pigeon Keeper, about maintaining artistic progress during the pandemic, the limits of virtual collaboration, and finally (finally!) preparing for live performances. All aboard the Opera For All Voices time machine for a quick re...
Influence and Inclusion: The Impact of Hometown To The World with Estevan, Ely, and Francesco of the Youth Chorus
June 22, 2022 07:00 - 37 minutes - 35 MBYou’ve heard of main character energy? Well, get ready for youth chorus energy! Andrea Fellows-Fineberg connects with an optimistic, pragmatic, and empathetic mindset courtesy of the youth chorus members who participated in the December 2021 world premiere of Opera For All Voices’ Hometown To The World. Their insights and post-performance emotion speak to art's ability to foster community––with Ely Aguilar, Francesco Aimale, and Estevan Flórez-Mansi. We also hear post-show reactions from...
This Doesn’t Happen Without Audience: The Hometown To The World Premiere
June 15, 2022 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBWhen an initiative is called Opera For All Voices, who’s the “all”? Key Change Season Four examines OFAV’s burgeoning legacy of co-creating new operatic works through a community-centric lens, beginning with an OG favorite, Hometown To The World. Host Andrea Fellows-Fineberg revisits the production with core members of its artistic team, young performers, and the most influential collaborator: the audience––featuring Ruth Nott, Composer Laura Kaminsky, Librettist Kimberly Reed, and a behin...
Season 4 - The Voices of the Community
June 07, 2022 13:05 - 1 minute - 1.31 MBOpera. Change is in the air. These are the stories of Opera For All Voices, its continuing mission to seek out more voices, to explore other ways of sharing story, to boldly go where opera has yet to get. In January of 2016, we started a conversation with opera companies across the country about how to create nimble new works that would resonate more deeply with our communities. Six years, four commissions, two world premiers, eight states, three universities, one global pandemic, and on...
Season 4: The Voices of the Community
June 07, 2022 13:05 - 1 minute - 1.31 MBOpera. Change is in the air. These are the stories of Opera For All Voices, its continuing mission to seek out more voices, to explore other ways of sharing story, to boldly go where opera has yet to get. In January of 2016, we started a conversation with opera companies across the country about how to create nimble new works that would resonate more deeply with our communities. Six years, four commissions, two world premiers, eight states, three universities, one global pandemic, and on...
0308: Bridging Communities with Carmen Flórez-Mansi
October 13, 2021 17:44 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBAt its heart, Hometown To The World is a simple story of hope set amongst the emotionally complicated aftermath of a 2008 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Postville, IA––the largest ever in US history. It’s fitting, then, that host Andrea Fellows-Fineberg and her guest Chorus Master Carmen Flórez-Mansi close out this season of Key Change charting a buoyant, optimistic course towards the future. In addition to her roles as founder and director of the Choral Arts Society at St. Mi...
0307: Lighting a Fire: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
September 01, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBTo appreciate the life and legacy of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer is to speak truth to power and unite in song. In June of 2021, Opera For All Voices did just that, hosting an online workshop of This Little Light Of Mine, the one-act opera commissioned by Santa Fe Opera, composed by Chandler Carter with a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, in collaboration with Kentucky Opera led by Barbara Lynne Jamison. No one’s better suited to take the mic than for this exploration Ms. Hamer’s las...
0306: Building a Better Society with Florida International University Music Students
August 25, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBWhen you name an initiative Opera For All Voices (OFAV), it better have the “all voices” to back that claim up! In the first of a series of guest-hosted episodes, Andrea passes the mic to the remarkable young talents making Is This America? their own. But before she does, Andrea reminds listeners of what OFAV is all about: telling stories for our time and extending that conversation outward––to all voices. Javier Jose Mendoza, Director of Orchestral Studies at Florida International Univ...
0305: Making a Choice With Conviction: A Conversation with Jeri Lynne Johnson
March 03, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MB"When people talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that's art." ~Jeri Lynne Johnson Near the end of last year’s contentious presidential campaign, opera and activism joined forces on the deck of a moored oil tanker to ask audiences how does democracy function and for whom does it function? In the wake of that election, artists’ responsibility to speak up and out is even more vital. In this episode of Key Change, host Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Is This America? music di...
0304: Singing a Call To Action, Is This America?
February 24, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBHow do artists lend their talents in support of social change when they’re literally and figuratively stifled by a global pandemic? They do as voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer did in 1964: they find a way to make their voices heard. Andrea Fellows Fineberg takes listeners on a short trip with maximum impact. Travel back to the autumn of 2020, to the final weeks of a contentious presidential campaign, to the deck of a historic oil tanker docked in New York Harbor, to the timely worl...
0303: Responding to the World, Hometown to the World
February 17, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBImmigration. Racism. Religion. Some themes are ever present in our society. In this episode, Key Change host Andrea Fellows Fineberg puts the time machine through its paces, capturing the artistic evolution that brought one of the first Opera for All Voices commissions to the stage...sort of. With wrenching plot twists worthy of La Traviata and more false endings than a Beethoven symphony, this is the story of Hometown to the World created by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Kimberly...
0302: Interpreting Ambiguity, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun
February 10, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBA hummingbird, a beatboxer, and a sweet potato walk into a theatre… We should probably mention the bees, the dog, the squirrel, the baby pigeons, and a few woodpeckers, too. These are some of the creatures that inhabit the magical garden community of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, and in 2019, they lit up the stage performing opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But a menagerie as complex and unpredictable as this one didn’t just arrive fully formed, ready for its world premiere. Instead, Opera...
0301: Dreaming of Opera...
February 03, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBKey Change is back for Season 3! Hold on… Some things have changed around here; some things have changed everywhere. What happens when a global pandemic upends your well-crafted plans? How does art respond within the confines of social distancing? Where’s Brandon?! Don’t worry, all will be revealed. To better understand where Opera for All Voices (OFAV) is headed this year, it’s helpful to reflect on where it’s been, to acknowledge achievements, and hear from the people whose talents ...
Season 3 Trailer - What now?
January 20, 2021 19:27 - 2 minutes - 3.84 MBIt doesn't seem that long ago, and yet... Remember when we used to gather in a theater with hundreds of other people to see a live show? Remember how that felt? The excitement? The anticipation? In this Season 3 trailer, we listen back to comments from our expectant audience recorded minutes before the world premiere of our first Opera for All Voices (OFAV) commission, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun. That premiere was over a year ago in October of 2019 -- we had done it, the realization of...
Season 3: What now?
January 20, 2021 19:27 - 2 minutes - 3.84 MBIt doesn't seem that long ago, and yet... Remember when we used to gather in a theater with hundreds of other people to see a live show? Remember how that felt? The excitement? The anticipation? In this Season 3 trailer, we listen back to comments from our expectant audience recorded minutes before the world premiere of our first Opera for All Voices (OFAV) commission, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun. That premiere was over a year ago in October of 2019 -- we had done it, the realization of...
BONUS: Is This America?
October 30, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBFor opera to remain vibrant, its stories must reflect a multitude of experiences, and its productions must adapt to unconventional spaces. Both characteristics were in full effect on October 10, 2020, when OFAV (Opera for All Voices), in association with PortSide New York, staged a performance of Is This America? on the deck of an oil tanker docked in Brooklyn. This workshop of an adaptation of This Little Light of Mine, by composer Chandler Carter and librettist Diana Solomon-Glover, is...
0209: America Is Impossible Without Us: Revisiting Hometown to the World
June 05, 2019 09:00 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MB"There's a multi-layered contract from creator to interpreter to audience, and everybody has to actively participate to make a work come to life." ~Laura Kaminsky, composer of Hometown to the World One of the hallmarks of the Opera for All Voices commissioning process is workshopping the new operas with a team of dedicated artists and a live audience to see what's working and and what needs work. In this stage of the development of Hometown to the World (previously known in season 1, ep...
0208: Gender is Not Genre: women in opera
May 29, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB"Relationships are infrastructure." ~Andrea Fellows Walters Of the 100 busiest conductors in classical music only for are female. A list of the 150 composers whose work is most often performed includes only one woman, and women comprise approximately 35% of soloists in opera. Of the 10 productions on the list of the most performed operas in 2017-2018, three are comedies and of the seven dramas, six end with a dead female protagonist. Women's bodies underwrite a staggering proportion of the...
0207: Mother of a Movement: This Little Light of Mine inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer
May 22, 2019 09:00 - 35 minutes - 80.6 MB"There is no distinction between art and life. Art is the way we express life and life is the way we express art. " ~Diana Solomon-Glover, librettist Fannie Lou Hamer rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become one of the most important, passionate and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movement. She became a leader in the efforts for greater economic opportunities for African-Americans. Brandon talks with composer Chandler Carter and librettist Diana Solom...
0206: The Universe is Made of Stories: A conversation with Peter Sellars
May 15, 2019 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.9 MB"Every single thing in the world is made of stories, and the story creates the moral energy of the universe where the question of right and wrong you learned from a story. And in this period, particularly when we're living in a world so polarized and people are so extreme and so vicious in their reaction to stuff, you can't tell anyone anything. But you CAN tell them a story." ~Peter Sellars Andrea and Brandon had a rare opportunity to sit with stage director, librettist, professor Pe...
0205: The Audacity of Storytelling: bringing us from another to each other
May 08, 2019 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MB"The more we get to know one another through our stories, the closer we come together as a community, as a nation, as a world... and as you start to dissect many operas, you're really telling the story of the delicacy and strength of the human condition." ~Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez We invited some of our favorite storytellers to talk to us about the role of story in opera. They each share their unique perspectives on the big question: Why are we even bothering to tell stories? Not only tha...
0204: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: a first look at The Pigeon Keeper
May 01, 2019 09:00 - 28 minutes - 64.8 MB"Opera is like one of the transporting art forms... transporting you to these hidden secrets places like in yourself that are otherwise inaccessible." ~David Hanlon, composer Andrea takes a deep dive into the creative process behind creating a new opera with composer David Hanlon and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. Fresh from the New York libretto reading for their Opera for All Voices commission, The Pigeon Keeper, they were ready to talk fables, families, and refugees. A libretto re...
0203: Bring Your Folding Chair: Equity, diversity, inclusion and opera - Part 2
April 24, 2019 09:00 - 41 minutes - 47.5 MB"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” ~Shirley Chisholm We take a moment to dream with members of the opera community across departments about what a more equitable, diverse and inclusive opera industry will look, feel, and sound like. Beyond that, we take a practical look at things that are working and things that perhaps still slow to change, and why. This conversation is at the heart of Opera for All Voices. This episode is part 2 of a 2-part explorati...
0202: A Seat at the Table: Equity, diversity, inclusion and opera - Part 1
April 17, 2019 09:00 - 39 minutes - 90.4 MBEquity, diversity, and inclusion: it's a phrase that's at the forefront of many industries at the moment, and opera is no different. What do those words really mean and how do they relate to the forward momentum of our art form? This conversation is at the heart of what Opera for All Voices is about and we're going deep into the struggles, the uphill battles, and the opportunities that lie ahead. This episode is part 1 of a 2-part exploration featuring stories from a series of candid int...
0201: Press Play: A closer look at our first commission Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun
April 10, 2019 09:00 - 30 minutes - 69.1 MBAndrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal are back with Season 2! Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, our first commission for Opera for All Voices, gets a closer listen with a live audience. Hopping back in our OFAV time machine, we travel to September 2018 Chicago. Sweet Potato had a live workshop with invited audience and we had a rare opportunity to find out both what audience members were anticipating before the workshop, and what they thought afterward. Andrea and our dramaturg Cori Elliso...
Seeing yourself in opera - Season 2 Trailer
April 03, 2019 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBThis season, it's time to dig a little deeper. Exploring the future of opera in America and telling new stories with Opera for All Voices. Season 2 drops April 10th, 2019. Subscribe now to be the first to listen! *** Key Change is a production of The Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with Opera for All Voices. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios Hosts: Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal Audio Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Sa...
Season 2: Seeing yourself in opera
April 03, 2019 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBThis season, it's time to dig a little deeper. Exploring the future of opera in America and telling new stories with Opera for All Voices. Season 2 drops April 10th, 2019. Subscribe now to be the first to listen! *** Key Change is a production of The Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with Opera for All Voices. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios Hosts: Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal Audio Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Sa...
Key Change Season 2 Preview
March 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.4 MB7 American opera companies, 4 new commissions, 2 workshops... Opera for All Voices is back with Season 2 of Key Change! Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal take you on a journey behind the scenes of commissioning new opera, reaching new audiences and supporting emerging artists. This season, we're digging even deeper into the most compelling topics and questions that are shaping the future of opera in America. Season 2 drops April 10th, 2019. Subscribe now to be the first to listen...
08: And We're Just Getting Started: What's next for Opera for All Voices?
August 15, 2018 09:00 - 31 minutes - 72.5 MBWhere you begin and where you end up are often two very different things. While this final episode of the season is definitely NOT the end, we thought it was a good time to pause, check in with our consortium members and commissioned artists, and speculate on what lies ahead for Opera For All Voices. And for that matter, we hear some interesting thoughts from our community about what lies ahead for opera -- the art form and the industry. If you're new to Key Change, we recommend going...
07: The View From 20,000 Feet: An interview with General Director Charles MacKay
August 08, 2018 09:00 - 19 minutes - 44.4 MBAll the way back in episode 01, we began this season in New York City, celebrating the career of Charles MacKay, who has been the General Director of the Santa Fe Opera since 2008. Charles is a known visionary in the opera industry who has given opportunities to countless new artists, musicians, and administrators during his 50-year tenure. His artistic leadership has furthered The Santa Fe Opera’s tradition of bold and innovative repertory with the commission of five mainstage world pre...
06: Hometown to the World: Discovering "Postville" with Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed
August 01, 2018 09:00 - 31 minutes - 72.6 MB"Postville: Hometown to the World" almost didn't happen -- at least not as part of Opera for All Voices. The true and timely story of immigrant workers in a Kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant that was raided by ICE in 2008 in the town of Postville, Iowa felt too large in scope for the OFAV framework -- 3 singers, small pit orchestra, 90-minutes or less with no intermission, to be scaleable for different sized opera companies and venues... But, composer Laura Kaminsky's passio...
05: Other Duties As Assigned: The role of education & community outreach in opera companies
July 25, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 49.2 MBAndrea always says, "our best education program is what happens on the main stage," and it's true, but how do we get new audience members TO the main stage? Education, outreach, programs and partnerships... these departments are not just about programming for children and schools, but even more so about building relationships on and off stage an sparking interest through storytelling that connects with new and diverse audiences. In this episode, Andrea takes a deep dive with Barbara Lynn...
04: Dollars and Sense: where does the money come from?
July 18, 2018 09:00 - 21 minutes - 49.7 MBFor such an ambitious undertaking as Opera for All Voices (OFAV) -- balancing the needs of multiple companies, production budgets planned years in advance, the commission of new works with very little to go on up front, hiring musicians and singers, the changing landscapes of main stage vs workshop premieres, leaps of faith from funders, administrators, artists and collaborators alike all with the hope of JUST BREAKING EVEN… how does this all work financially? And what is it worth? Are the...
03: Beatboxing and Opera: A Love Story with Augusta Read Thomas and Nicole Paris
July 11, 2018 09:00 - 27 minutes - 63 MBWhat happens when the composer that you've commissioned to write a new opera says to you, "Sit down -- I have something to tell you," and that something is that she's fallen in love... with a beatbox artist? The first Opera for All Voices (OFAV) commission, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, is scheduled to premiere in the Fall of 2019 and this episode is a very early look at the creative process of Grammy Award winning composer, Augusta Read Thomas. We get a deep dive into how she "sculpts so...
02: What's in a name? The Origin Story of Opera for All Voices
June 29, 2018 09:02 - 17 minutes - 40 MBOpera for All Voices (OFAV) wasn't always "Opera for All Voices." Amidst endless brainstorming sessions, redefining family programming, seeking edgier content, aligning with social justice themes, addressing significant doubts, and drawing solutions on dinner meeting napkins... ...Is it even possible for 7 opera companies to reach some kind of consensus? Get an inside look at the origins, naming, and specific parameters for new operatic commissions with the OFAV initiative. ***...
01: Setting the Stage: New beginnings, heightened expectations, the heart of opera, and the Santa Fe of it
June 29, 2018 09:00 - 17 minutes - 40 MBWhat do you think of when you think of opera? In January of 2016, opera companies from all over the United States started a conversation, trying to figure out how to create new works for smaller stages, alternative spaces, and major opera companies. Could we develop works that speak to a broader audience and how can we be the leaders in showing that diversity is a huge plus? What if we fail? What if we succeed? What if we keep imagining? These and other questions guide us through th...
Season 1: Creating New Opera - Key Change Preview
May 04, 2018 18:46 - 1 minute - 3.32 MBStarting June 29th, The Santa Fe Opera brings you Key Change, a series exploring the commission and creation of new operas and their connection to our industry, our communities, and our future. Will we fail? Will we succeed? What if we keep imagining? These and other questions guide us through the ups and downs of this new collaborative initiative called Opera for All Voices. Co-hosts Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal give you a sneak preview.
Key Change Preview
May 04, 2018 18:46 - 1 minute - 3.32 MBStarting June 29th, The Santa Fe Opera brings you Key Change, a series exploring the commission and creation of new operas and their connection to our industry, our communities, and our future. Will we fail? Will we succeed? What if we keep imagining? These and other questions guide us through the ups and downs of this new collaborative initiative called Opera for All Voices. Co-hosts Andrea Fellows Walters and Brandon Neal give you a sneak preview.