WHILE OPERA COMPANIES reduce both the number of productions and performances per season, here instead are leaders with a vision of collaboration, teaching tools with which to earn a living in the face of these realities…at music school! So-called bohemian values of high-minded, artistic wealth resigned to material poverty are replaced compassionately with marketable skills and higher standards of living. This pilot project develops agile artists able to transition to any number of roles, within or without the performing arts.
What began in 2020-21 as an entrepreneurship course at Opera