Opera Philadelphia

Filing Period

Jun 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 19, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$12,295,736

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Education and outreach efforts: the company has developed its 'sounds of learning' program for elementary and secondary level school students. An arts-integrated teaching methodology, this program uses opera to enhance the core curriculum and build reading literacy in a lively and stimulating environment. Six weeks of classroom study, structured around an 80-page active learning book, culminate in student attendance at dress rehearsals at the academy of music. This year, approximately 4,535 students from 136 classes, primarily from under-served communities, participated in this program. Throughout the year, there were 119 education and outreach activities, including: lectures to the general public to educate and enhance the opera experience; opera recitals and concerts; opera previews; other educational events; theater, backstage and costume shop tours; together these programs served approximately 23,483 people; publication of the company's e-newsletter, distributed to over 6,000 patrons monthly, with the intent to inform, educate, and to meaningfully connect audiences to operaphila.org as a resource to learn more about the art form.

Activity 3

Composer-in-residence program: a three-year residency program that aims to provide the best and brightest american composers with an opportunity to develop their operatic composition skills. The program is suited to emerging operatic composers seeking to further develop their skills or established composers who work primarily in another compositional genre seeking to explore opera, offering the potential to contribute to the operatic canon over a significant number of future years.

Filer

EIN

23-1504706