Family Opera Initiative
Performing Arts - New York, New York, United States
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Family Opera Initiative (FOI) is a program established by producer, stage director, choreographer, and dramaturge Grethe Barrett Holby at American Opera Projects in 1995 to bring to a widely diverse audience the opera experience in the form of new, original American "opera-musicals" that are accessible but challenging, made by exciting, unexpected artists, who speak to this audience through the artistic media of opera: music, words, theater, and visuals, with subject matter that matters. It is now a major program of Ardea Arts.Family Opera Initiative's mission is to:• Bring unexpected artists together to create original American operas with artistic integrity and depth, that will connect to multigenerational and non-standard audiences, especially kids and teens.• Reach, engage, and entertain a public not ordinarily predisposed to the notion of "opera."• Explode the notion that opera is old-fashioned, a "museum," or an art form for the intelligentsia.• Make indigenous American opera, with American themes, language, and music—a modern day American singspiel—the "opera-musical."• Hold these works to a benchmark that will also engage and challenge seasoned opera and theater audiences.• Present these works both inside traditional theaters and opera houses, and outside in the community—in non-standard spaces, places, and environments.• Engage the community in the process and the performance of the piece to the greatest extent possible.FOI's repertory consists of Flurry Tale (1999), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2001), Fireworks! (2002), Animal Tales (2005), and CAT (2010). FOI has also premiered Glen Roven's Goodnight Moon & Plums—Five Songs for Kids during FOI's summer performances in Southampton, NY; David Wolfson's 10-minute gem Maya's Ark, based on a true story from inner-city Newark, NJ; and a choreographed staged version of Babar, The Little Elephant, co-presented with the French Institute Alliance Française NYC (FI:AF).
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