Key Change: Creating Opera for All Voices

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Opera for All Voices (OFAV) began as a consortium of North American opera companies committed to co-commissioning and co-producing new operatic works for audiences of all ages that bear the same artistic integrity and depth of storytelling as main stage works. Over several years it has grown in its mission to tell "stories of our time." Follow host Andrea Fellows Fineberg from The Santa Fe Opera and OFAV collaborators and stakeholders as we explore the process, the context, and the story of commissioning and producing new operas in America. www.santafeopera.org

0304: Singing a Call To Action, Is This America?

Feb 24, 2021

How 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....

0303: Responding to the World, Hometown to the World

Feb 17, 2021

Immigration. 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...

0302: Interpreting Ambiguity, Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun

Feb 10, 2021

A 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...

0301: Dreaming of Opera...

Feb 3, 2021

Key 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...