Season 4: The Voices of the Community

Key Change: Creating Opera for All Voices

Opera. Change is in the air. These are the stories of Opera For All Voices, its continuing mission to seek out more voices, to explore other ways of sharing story, to boldly go where opera has yet to get.

In January of 2016, we started a conversation with opera companies across the country about how to create nimble new works that would resonate more deeply with our communities.

Six years, four commissions, two world premiers, eight states, three universities, one global pandemic, and one performance on the deck of a retired oil tanker later... A whole new frontier is on the horizon.

This season on Key Change, we're celebrating the voices of the community in this new opera frontier -- the instigators, the creators, the artists, the presenters, and the audience.

Season 4 begins June 2022.

P.S. If you're new to Key Change, we recommend catching up on the stories of:

Hometown To The World

Season 1, Ep 6: Hometown to the World: Discovering Postville

Season 2, Ep 9: America Is Impossible Without Us

Season 3, Ep 3: Responding to the World

Season 3, Ep 8: Bridging Communities with Carmen Flórez-Mansi

and The Pigeon Keeper

Season 2, Ep 4: Hope is the Thing With Feathers: a first look at The Pigeon Keeper

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Key Change is a production of The Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with Opera for All Voices.

Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios

Hosted by Andrea Fellows Fineberg

Audio Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe

Theme music by Rene Orth with Corrie Stallings, mezzo-soprano, and Joe Becktell, cello.

Cover art by Dylan Crouch.

This podcast is made possible due to the generous funding from the Melville Hankins Family Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and an OPERA America Innovation Grant, supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.

To learn more about Opera For All Voices, visit us at SantaFeOpera.org.