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Opera Philadelphia announces innovative new festival
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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Opera Philadelphia has announced an ambitious new event for 2017.
Over the past few years, Opera Philadelphia has been working on becoming the very model of a modern opera company. It has explored new formats —
an opera about Andy Warhol
in a warehouse — while continuing its commitment to tradition. It has received grants for innovative outreach projects, such as
Hip H’opera
in inner-city schools, and a
composer-in-residence program
. It has been met with critical and public acclaim. And yet, for all of its success, it had a problem — audiences weren’t growing the way that they were supposed to...
Opera Philadelphia announced Tuesday the launch of a new opera festival at the start of its 2017-2018 season. Called O17, the festival will blanket the city with opera — seven events in 12 days, from a traditional opera at the Academy of Music (
Barrie Koskie’s production of “The Magic Flute”
) to a piece developed by Daniel Bernard Roumain and directed by Bill T. Jones in the Wilma Theater to
a double-bill of Monteverdi and a new work by Lembit Beecher
, presented in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Selling out? Hardly. Exciting? Yes.
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