Who says opera needs a grand stage? This festival is all about intimate productions
The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.
Until a few years ago, Irish composer Emma O'Halloran had never even considered writing an opera, "because it seemed so grand, and fancy," she says. "And I didn't really feel like I would be a person who would be able to do something like that."
But she took a stab, one thing led to another, and this season she's getting her operatic debut at — a festival founded fancy and presented in grand theaters. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says PROTOTYPE co-founder Beth Morrison, "and so we were really invested in the possibilities of what intimate opera and music theater could be."
