Life after Little Patuxent Opera Institute
Thursday, August 2, 2007 - Well this past weekend marked the final performances of the maiden voyage of the Little Patuxent Opera Institute. I have to say that every single one of the participants not only rose to the occasion but exceeded expectations. In the context of what is essentially an academic program, the most important thing is that everyone make progress towards becoming a better singing actor. It's not that everyone gets to a completely polished, ready for the real world ratrace of auditions and callbacks, etc, but rather that each person (no matter how inexperienced they were at the beginning of the process) has gained skills, learned things about themselves, unlocked inhibitions, increased confidence, and progressed towards their goal of becoming professional singers. All the students of LPOI experienced this growth, and I'm very happy and grateful to have been a part of the that growth. I look forward to working with next year's crop of students.
On the OV front, we have now opened sales on individual tickets (as opposed to just season subscriptions), set the dates for the autumn round of auditions for the 2008-09 season, and have begun the first parts of our marketing campaign for our 10th season by securing ad space in the Fall Arts Guide of the Baltimore Sun, the inaugural issue of Opera America's new magazine, and by entering our season into various datelines and databases including the Peabody Magazine, and Operabase.com. In conjunction with this marketing campaign, we've been very fortunate to have secured a Marketing Consultant through the Baltimore Community Foundation in order to maximize the long-range impact of this very significant season in our history. The board and I are very excited about implementing the suggestions of this expert.
The designers for Alcina are hard at work crystallizing and finalizing the initial sketches that they brought to our design meeting a few weeks ago. The schematics for the set will go to the carpenter (Fisher Theatrical) at the end of this week for pricing estimates and hopefully will not require much revision so that construction can begin in plenty of time for our October 6, 2007 load-in date. More on that as details become available.
That's about it for now. I encourage all you opera lovers to get your tickets for Alcina, and all you singers to send in your materials for auditions. It's a very exciting time for Opera Vivente, and we want to share that excitement with as many people as possible. So spread the word and as always - See you at the opera!
John Bowen
On the OV front, we have now opened sales on individual tickets (as opposed to just season subscriptions), set the dates for the autumn round of auditions for the 2008-09 season, and have begun the first parts of our marketing campaign for our 10th season by securing ad space in the Fall Arts Guide of the Baltimore Sun, the inaugural issue of Opera America's new magazine, and by entering our season into various datelines and databases including the Peabody Magazine, and Operabase.com. In conjunction with this marketing campaign, we've been very fortunate to have secured a Marketing Consultant through the Baltimore Community Foundation in order to maximize the long-range impact of this very significant season in our history. The board and I are very excited about implementing the suggestions of this expert.
The designers for Alcina are hard at work crystallizing and finalizing the initial sketches that they brought to our design meeting a few weeks ago. The schematics for the set will go to the carpenter (Fisher Theatrical) at the end of this week for pricing estimates and hopefully will not require much revision so that construction can begin in plenty of time for our October 6, 2007 load-in date. More on that as details become available.
That's about it for now. I encourage all you opera lovers to get your tickets for Alcina, and all you singers to send in your materials for auditions. It's a very exciting time for Opera Vivente, and we want to share that excitement with as many people as possible. So spread the word and as always - See you at the opera!
John Bowen
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