We're launching an Opus Affair podcast! Our first interview is with Cerise Jacobs, the creator and librettist of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Madame White Snake and the founder of White Snake Projects.
We're launching an Opus Affair podcast! Our first interview is with Cerise Jacobs, the creator and librettist of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Madame White Snake and the founder of White Snake Projects.
What would the end of 2017 be without a blog post with numbers and lists? I figured we might as well join in the fun. Let's take a look at some of the facts and figures around the people, events, and organizations in the Opus Affair community...
A few months ago I was having drinks with a musician friend. Like most successful modern musicians, she has her hands in several entrepreneurial projects in addition to her work with more established organizations. Surprise, surprise: we ended up talking about building audiences for new projects. Specifically, we were talking about crafting messaging around a particular concert she had coming up.
There's a video that's been making the rounds on social media lately...people working out at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Take a look...
I bet one of these conversations will be familiar to you. If you spend any time thinking about new audiences for performing arts, I bet both of them will...
Every time an arts organization tells me their plan to attract new audiences consists of discounting tickets, this is the image that pops in my head. Especially when "new" = "younger"
This week we celebrated 8 years of Opus Affair. It's pretty thrilling to look back and see how much the group has grown, reflect on all of the people who have been involved through the years, and to make plans for our future. Rather than trying to sum up eight years of Opus, I'll give a few highlights of the last year...
It's been a while since the last Big Party and we took a year off from the Winter Ball...so we're way behind on opportunities to dress seriously fancy. Thankfully there's The Thing.
Never forget. Four years ago today, we held Opus Affair at L'Espalier, the classiest establishment to ever host us, and the famous Back Bay Blackout happened, plunging the entire event into darkness. Thankfully, Allana Taranto's photobooth kept going, so we've got the whole night captured.
Since we've added member profiles to the Opus Affair site, I've had several people ask me why we don't have profiles for organizations. Is that an oversight or a deliberate decision? It's the latter: we made a deliberate decision to move organizations to the back-burner.
