Interview with Jessica Jahn
Find out more about Jessica Jahn, the costume designer for The Road We Came! Tell us about yourself! How did you get started with costume design? I actually started out as a dancer–I graduated from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts with a degree in dance and also
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She Paved The Way
Written by Mark Schubin In ever-changing New York, it’s remarkable that the five stops on On Site Opera’s The Road We Came Lower Manhattan Tour remain largely as they were. Two other locations in the area, not stops on the tour but near the route, played a significant role in
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The Emperors of 55th Street
Written by Mark Schubin If you’ve taken On Site Opera’s The Road We Came midtown tour, you’ve probably learned a lot about the two major opera companies that were once adjacent on the Lincoln Center Plaza. And you probably didn’t need the tour to learn that the Metropolitan Opera scheduled
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Q&A With Our New Staff Members!
Get to know our new Audience Experience Manager, Yvonne de la Rosa, and Marketing Manager, Bowie Dunwoody! What was your first performing arts experience and what made it memorable? Yvonne: My first and most memorable experience with the performing arts has to be the school Christmas shows I was a
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“The Road We Came” press release
A THREE NEIGHBORHOOD MUSICAL WALKING TOUR OF NEW YORK CITY EXPLORES BLACK MUSIC HISTORY AND ITS LANDMARKS TO LEARN FROM THE PAST AND RE-FRAME THE PRESENT A Multi-Media Collaboration with Award-Winning Historian, Grammy Nominated Baritone and Innovative Production Team Re-Define the Immersive and Site-Specific Music Experience NEW YORK, February 10,
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Creating Operatic Print Design Magic in a Box
PRINT MAGAZINE by Ellen M. Shapiro February 3, 2021 When theaters are dark because of the pandemic, what do you do (if you’re smart)? You send subscribers and classical music buffs an opera in a box, of course. No, three operas—actually song cycles (a group of sequenced tunes): Leoš Janáček’s
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Eric Einhorn of ‘On Site Opera’: 5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Run a Live Virtual Event
MEDIUM By Tyler Gallagher Jan. 2, 2021 Read the original article here. As a part of our series about “5 Things You Need To Know To Successfully Run a Live Virtual Event”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Einhorn Eric Einhorn is the co-founding General & Artistic Director of
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Video: NBC4 – Sending Music By Mail: Opera Goes Old School to Reach Fans
You can’t physically go to the opera this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start the year off with a song. Natalie Pasquarella sat down with Artistic and General Director Eric EInhorn and Tenor Bernard Holcomb who appears in “The Diary of One Who Vanished” and Cristina Maria Castro
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Onstage wasn’t an option, so Jewish artists reimagined theater for the pandemic era.
FORWARD By Irene Katz Connelly Dec. 30, 2020 Read the full article here. Eric Einhorn, the artistic director of On Site Opera, initially struggled to imagine how to serve a scattered, homebound audience. For an opera company that stages site-specific operas in unconventional venues — think “Pygmalion” in a wax
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Snow days, virtual opera: The office holiday party goes on
On Site Opera, a New York City group that performs at non-traditional venues, got an unusual request to perform arias for a team of lawyers at a California firm. The numbers will include an aria from Carmen in which the title character tries to negotiate herself out of prison —
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Best of 2020: OperaWire’s Top 11 Industry-Defining Moments of the Year
“If we look back at this year, we can all agree that some of the greatest innovation from around the opera world came not from the “big name” companies, but those with more flexibility.” Operawire named “To My Distant Love” and “The Beauty that Still Remains: Diaries in Song” in
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Video: Eric Einhorn on The Lied Society’s Round Table
Eric Einhorn, co-founding General & Artistic Director of On Site Opera, joined The Lied Society’s Round Table on December 5, 2020 to discuss The Beauty That Still Remains.
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Opera by Telephone and Other Ways to Enjoy the High Notes
Read the original article here. SPECTRUM NEWS NY1 BY STEPHANIE SIMON NEW YORK CITY PUBLISHED 8:29 AM ET NOV. 11, 2020 NEW YORK – All the major opera houses like The Met have been dark since the pandemic began and opera companies have been scrambling to put programming online. But some in the
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