What is storefront opera?

Storefront opera is the community in which smaller organizations and individuals produce and share operatic works. Similar to the storefront theater community, storefront opera productions are often riskier, scrappier, less traditional affairs.

Storefront opera is an important fixture in the architecture that makes up the modern opera community. There are only so many enormous opera houses and symphonies (if any) in a major city - but that's not to say that a musician is doing nothing between gigs at those large institutions. Some stories are best told for an audience of 100 instead of 4,000. For every living composer whose work gets picked up by a multimillion-dollar company, there are a thousand crafting incredible stories that deserve to be shared. For every story in the traditional grand operatic canon, there are hundreds of new ones eager to be told - that's where we come in.