We commission and compose for the same reason: we love the creation itself. Operas cost more than they will likely ever make, so love Money to pay for them must be raised by the non-profit producing company. Composing is the poetry, and a commission is the prose.Ī commission is a contract and mutual agreement between a producing company like HGO and the creative mind of a composer plus all the attendant creatives necessitated by their creation: librettist, designers, singers, conductor, director, marketers, and all the Passion may write operas, but only a good deal of money gets them put on. On the play, and not even being told it could never be performed or commissioned. Not happen-a composer has such a burning engine inside that they must compose-nothing would stop the opera Figaro, not a ban
Quite a lot of them, actually, pandemic-be-damned,Īnd they reflect the extraordinary musical diversity of contemporary composers.īut how do these new operas happen? Ultimately, they happen for the same reason Mozart wrote The Marriage of Figaro: they can’t But rest assured, opera lover, new ones are being created all the time.
Composing an opera feels like such a 19th century thing to do, like making horseshoes or being an elevator How do new operas find their way to us? Unless you are following closely, it could be surprising to learn that anyone is still
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