EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
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Mission Statement
Experiments in Opera is a composer-driven non-profit opera company that presents new works that connect words, story and music. Our mission is to support and educate composers who are exploring musical work beyond a strictly concert setting into the hybrid genre of opera. Experiments in Opera builds informed audiences that are capable of contributing to its work. We believe composers are the visionaries of 21st Century opera, and define opera as the activity of telling stories through music. We support artists with unusual stories to tell, and embrace the diversity of their life and musical experiences.
About This Cause
Our Vision Experiments in Opera is focused on re-writing the story of opera. We are optimistic that new operas can be adventurous and fun, focused on strong and intimate storytelling, while also challenging notions of what experimental music can be. EiO invites composers, directors, designers and performers to create new work that embraces unconventional mediums, a range of durations and production scales, and explores collaboration between all types of artists working to share their visions. We bring new operas to the stage as quickly as we can, marking the urgency of artists with something important to say and the desire of audiences to be a part of the excitement of risky and rewarding work. Our Story Co-Founded in Brooklyn in 2010 by composers Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch and Jason Cady, Experiments in Opera has commissioned 62 new works in six years, from 40 composers collaborating with over three hundred performers, designers and directors from the New York City artists community. During that time we have produced events at Roulette and Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, as well as at Symphony Space, Merkin Concert Hall, The Stone, Le Poisson Rouge, Anthology Film Archives and Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan. Experiments in Opera has presented the work of 40 composers since our first presentation including Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch, Roddy Bottom, Gelsey Bell, Georges Aperghis, Robert Ashley, Joe Diebes, Natacha Diels, Lainie Fefferman, Miguel Frasconi, Anne Guthrie, James Ilgenfritz, John King, Daniel Kushner, Ruby Fulton, Gabrielle Herbst, Nick Hallett, Travis Just, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Lukas Ligeti, Charlie Looker, Cristina Lord, Emily Manzo, Anna Mikailhova, Jonathan Mitchell, Nicole Murphy, Jascha Narveson, Jessica Pavone, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder, Elliott Sharp, JG Thirlwell, Justin Tierney, Leaha Maria Villarreal, Dorian Wallace, Katie Young, John Zorn and the Cough Button collective. We take seriously our role as an organizer of artist and audience communities. To support our composers’ visions and to make the most of our audiences’ connections with our work, we prioritize sharing in-depth interviews with our artists and video documentation of all of our work in our online media library at experimentsinopera.com. These insightful looks into the origins of artists’ ideas and their working habits help to support EIO’s mission of building a more robust conversation about how and why opera works the way it does.