Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the participation of six singers from the Cape Town Opera School in the Glimmerglass Young Artists Program

South African Young Artists

Opera Program

toward costs of improving specific aspects of its operations

to support artistic initiatives and the production of new America operas

Artistic Initiatives for New American Operas

to support the development and production of new operas

Development and Production of New Works

to support the production of new and rarely produced operas

to support new works development and public programs

New Artistic Initiatives

to support the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Prototype - Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

to support the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Opera/Theatre/Now Festival - Prototype

for support of Theatre, Inc. (Phoenix Theatre), New York

Theatre Inc.

to support Fast Forward at Di Capo Opera, a series of concerts and semi-staged operas not yet produced by major opera companies

Opera Program 

to endow opera and music theater programs

Opera and Music - Theatre Endowment

to support collaborative opera development with Opera Company of Philadelphia and Music-Theatre Group, and a producing associate position in collaboration with Music-Theatre Group

Collaborative Opera Development/Producing Associate

to support the first phase of the development of a new performing edition of John Corigliano’s opera Ghosts of Versailles

The Ghosts of Versailles Opera

to support Prototype, an annual contemporary opera music-theater festival

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

Opera Center

to strengthen artistic and administrative capacity

to strengthen its artistic and administrative capacity

Opera Project

toward support of a program of services for trustees and volunteers of opera companies and to explore the possibility of merging the organization with that of Opera Guilds International

Opera Company Services

to support planning for a national opera center

National Opera Center

to support fellowships for opera composers and librettists

Opera Fellowships

to support a collaborative composer-in-residence program with The Gotham Chamber Opera, Inc. and Music-Theatre Group, and a new-works administrator position

Composer-in-Residence Program

to support development and dissemination of new American opera

Development and Dissemination of New American Opera

to support Black Theatre United's strategic planning process

Black Theatre United

to support the disruption of established practices around the commissioning of new work


Advancing the Future of American Opera

to support the development of a new opera, Charlie Parker, and a producing associate position

to assist the Goodman Theatre in producing earlier work that merits revival

Regional Theatre Program

to support a professional training and development hub for Black theatre artists and technicians and to produce six plays by Indiana Black playwrights

District Theatre Project

toward operating costs of the Phoenix Theatre

Operating Support

to support required stabilization work for the opera house building and increased organizational capacity

National Opera House

to support the Frontiers program and the Noches de Opera initiative

Frontiers Programs and the Noches de Opera Initiative

to support the orchestra development program, and new and 20th-century operas

to support the New Works, Bold Voices program

New Works, Bold Voices Incubator

to establish a collaborative opera program with the Metropolitan Opera Association

to support opera and music-theater programming

Opera Presentations and Opera Endowment

Small Opera Program

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

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Borderlands Cultures

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Civic Engagement

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Evolving Higher Education

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Expanding Public Knowledge

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Monuments and Memory

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Multivocality

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Power of the Word

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Public Places‚ Public Stories

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Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

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