Opera: FY2002 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Organizational Capacity

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Access

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$27,300
To support performances of Bizet's Carmen. Two fully staged, free outdoor performances and related educational activities will reach an estimated 30,000 people in 2002.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$45,000
To support audience development and educational outreach programs for adults and students in conjunction with a new co-production of Mark Adamo's Little Women. In consortium with New York City Opera, Little Women will be seen in Cooperstown during the 2002 Festival Season and at Lincoln Center in 2003.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support Opera in the Park. In celebration of its 40 years of opera production in the city, a free concert of opera favorites with principal singers, chorus and orchestra will be performed in Garner Park on the west side of Madison in July 2002.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$9,200
To support the commission, production and multistate school tour of a new children's operatic adaptation of Dvorak's Rusalka. Approximately 215 in-school performances will take place throughout rural Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa during 2002-03.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the Young Artists Program and expansion of community access and educational opportunities for elementary and high school students. In 2002-03 the program will serve over 37,000 people.

Challenge America Access

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
To support the Anchorage Opera Studio Theatre, a statewide touring young artist program to rural Alaskan schools and communities. In its third year in 2002-03, the program will provide development of young professional opera artists and expansion of the company's education and outreach activities to underserved communities including Alaska Native populations in Barrow, Kotzebue, Nome, Valdez and the Kenai Peninsula.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$75,000
To support the seventh year of the Community Connections Initiative. This model initiative demonstrates unique methods for developing new audiences for opera and will include free performances of a work by Puccini performed on the Multimedia Modular Stage at Houston's Miller Outdoor Theatre.

New Cleveland Opera Company
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
To support the Intergenerational Initiative. Using the company's core K-12 programs as a model, the initiative will reach an estimated 21,000 underserved persons.

Opera North
Hanover, NH
$25,000
To support a young audience performance of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and a touring scenes program. During the summer of 2002 a fully-staged and orchestrated matinee performance of the opera will be performed for youth and adults, and opera scenes will be toured to four different venues reaching youth in 18 school districts, and adults in Vermont and New Hampshire.

Creativity

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$11,000
To support the commission and premiere performances of a new edition of Monteverdi's opera Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. Il Ritorno d'Ulisse represents the completion of a three-opera Monteverdi cycle during three successive seasons in Boston, with L'incoronazione di Poppea having been performed in 2000 and L'Orfeo performed in 2001.

Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support a new production of Summer and Smoke by Lee Hoiby with libretto by Lanford Wilson. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this work will be the seventh 20th-century American opera produced by the company.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the Chicago professional premiere of The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten. The production team will be led by two Chicago-based artists: Alexander Platt, Resident Conductor, Chicago Opera Theater; and Michael Halberstam, Artistic Director, Writers' Theatre Chicago.

Cincinnati Opera Association
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a presentation of the opera Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie with libretto by Terrence McNally. Performed in Cincinnati's Music Hall in the summer of 2002, this will be the first presentation of this new work outside of California.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$50,000
To support the American premiere of The Silver Tassie, a new opera by British composer Mark Anthony Turnage. Based on a play of the same name by Sean O'Casey, the opera, co commissioned by The Dallas Opera and the English National Opera, had its world premiere in England in February 2000.

Florida Grand Opera
Miami, FL
$25,000
To support a new production of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. The production will open in Miami-Dade County and run for five performances before moving to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale for two performances.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
To support a new production of Joseph Haydn's Orlando Paladino. Ten performances of the opera will be directed by James Robinson and conducted by Guido Johannes Rumstadt during the company's 2002 festival season.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
To support a new production of Handel's Orlando. The production, set in a contemporary context, will employ American directors and designers and will be sung in English.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support faculty costs for the training and professional development program. The program curriculum includes voice and language instruction, theatrical training, master classes and career development guidance.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support a presentation of Handel's Partenope. Nine performances at the Civic Opera House will reach an audience of 32,000.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
To support a new production of Cold Sassy Tree by American composer Carlisle Floyd. Five performances of the opera at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Kansas City will reach an audience of 7,500.

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support costs for the training program's visiting artists' workshops. The program offers advanced training and performance opportunities to young artists pursuing a professional operatic career.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a production of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly. Nine performances will be given at the Lincoln Center Opera House.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the workshop of a new American opera Margaret Garner composed by Richard Danielpour with libretto by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. The purpose of the workshop is to assist the creative evolution of the opera and to generate public enthusiasm and support for the world premiere in October 2004.

Nashville Opera Association
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Tennessee Opera Theatre's Young Artist Program. This program offers four artists the opportunity to perform leading or supporting roles in two main stage productions and principal roles in the OperaNET education tour for children.

New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a new production of Handel's Agrippina. Six performances of this opera, performed in Lincoln Center's New York State Theater, will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the company's Handel cycle.

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Young Artists Program, a specialized training and professional development program for opera singers. The program offers individual instruction and ensemble training, and teaches essential professional techniques, technical skills, and work habits needed for a successful career in opera.

Opera Pacific
Santa Ana, CA
$25,000
To support a new production of Jake Heggie's new American opera Dead Man Walking with libretto by Terrence McNally. Five performances of this production will take place at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support the American premiere of the opera Flight by Jonathan Dove with libretto by April de Angelis. An audience of 5,700 is expected to attend six performances of this work at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center in St. Louis.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support the regional premieres of an early Baroque opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi and a 20th-century American opera Street Scene by Kurt Weill. L'Incoronazione di Poppea will be performed by the young artists in the professional training arm of the opera, while Street Scene will be the first main stage production sung in English in Pittsburgh in more than 25 years.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support a new production and the North American premiere of the opera St. Francois d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen. This work, composed in 1983, will receive six performances at the War Memorial Opera House.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support the American premiere of the opera L'amour de loin by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho with libretto by French-Lebanese author Amin Maalouf. Approximately 6,000 people are expected to attend three performances of the opera at the Santa Fe Opera Theater.

Tacoma Opera Association
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
To support a new production of Verdi's La Traviata. Asian American designer Carey Wong will design and supervise the construction of scenic elements of the opera.

Organizational Capacity

OPERA America, Inc.
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support expansion of the Field Services Program. The program features customized technical assistance to small and mid-sized opera companies and will include consultations, seminars and publications.

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