Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

The Sante Fe Opera - Artistic Initiatives

for development of ways to increase earned and contributed income

Regional Opera Program

general support

to support artistic initiatives and organizational development

Artistic Initiatives

to support the company’s world premiere of Bright Sheng’s Madame Mao

Madame Mao

to support the New American Works Commissioning Project

New American Works Commission

for its Apprentice Program for Young Artists

Apprentice Program for Young Artists

to support technology and marketing assessments

Artistic Initiatives and Organizational Development

to support a plan to increase visibility and enhance student experience through experiential learning

Santa Fe Campus Experiential Learning Initiative

to support fellowships for opera composers and librettists

Opera Fellowships

to support completion of an electronic archive of documents relating to the planning and construction of the dome of the cathedral of Florence from 1417 to 1436

The Years of the Cupola

Opera Center

Opera Program

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 

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 initiatives to strengthen admissions

Admissions

New President

to support a comprehensive review of admissions strategies and policies

Admissions Review

to support improvement of student recruitment and admissions practices

matching grant to establish a presidential discretionary fund

Presidential Discretionary Fund

to support planning for a national opera center

National Opera Center

to support faculty career enhancement programs

Mentorship Program for Tutors

to support faculty career enhancement programs in music

Faculty Development in Music

to support integration of the classic works of Middle Eastern culture into the curriculum

Mid-Career President: Curricular Review

American Opera Initiative

to continue support for the Opera of our Time Initiative

Opera of Our Time

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

National Opera House

to support the Opera Fusion: New Works initiative

Opera Fusion - New Works

to support the production of a Spoleto-commissioned revision of the opera Amistad

Amistad Opera

to support the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Prototype - Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

Opera/Theatre/Now Festival - Prototype

to support the PROTOTYPE: Opera/Theatre/Now Festival

to support activities facilitating the merger of the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera

Opera and Symphony Merger

to endow the Opera School Fellowship Program

Opera School Fellowship Program Endowment

to support developmental residencies for new American opera in partnership with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music  

Opera Fusion:  New Works

to support Minnesota OperaWorks, a contemporary opera initiative

The Contemporary Opera Initiative "Minnesota OperaWorks"

to continue support for the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Training

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 Prototype, an annual contemporary opera music-theater festival

Contemporary Music - Theatre and Opera Festival

to support the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program 

to support development and dissemination of new American opera

Development and Dissemination of New American Opera

to continue support for Opera Fusion: New Works and to commission new operas about positive Black stories

Advancing the Future of American Opera

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

to support the Washington Opera’s production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa

to support the production of a new opera based on Charles Rosen’s The Classical Style

The Classical Style Opera Production

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 the John Duffy Institute for New Opera

John Duffy Institute for New Opera

to support the development of Rhiannon Giddens’s Omar Ibn Said opera

Omar bin Said Opera Developmental Workshop

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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