COMMUNITY
For over twenty years, AOP has been a proud part of the Fort Greene neighborhood in Brooklyn, providing free and low-cost public presentations of concerts, workshops, and premieres in partnership with many local organizations. The creators we work with and the stories we help them tell contribute meaningfully to a long-awaited shift in our field: to diversify the operatic canon, expand the beautiful variety of which stories are told and who is telling them, and to make opera an integral contemporary expression of our daily lives.
CURRENT PROGRAMS
Fort Greene Park Tour featuring Contralto Nicole Mitchell (May 13, 2023)
MUSIC AS THE MESSAGE
Music as the Message (MaM) is an interactive, virtual series created and hosted by Emmy Award-winning soprano Adrienne Danrich (Intimate Apparel). Streamed live, MaM celebrates the power of music to unify and to inspire healing, joy, laughter, love and most importantly, community.
Fort Greene Park Live Tour
For over 20 years, the American Opera Project has partnered with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and NYC Parks Department creating site-specific original music and poetry illuminating the life of Walt Whitman. These tours are free and open to the public who may be drawn by the allure of the historic Fort Greene Park but leave having experienced contemporary performance art and poetry.
2023 tours:
May 13, 2023 Walt Whitman Walking Tour
June 15, 2023 Walt Whitman Walking Tour
Produced by The American Opera Project and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and The Howard Gilman Foundation.