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Opera Hack is a first-of-its-kind gathering of artists, designers, and technology experts from around the world dedicated to the advancement of the art form of opera. Teams of artists and technicians will collaborate and compete with proposals to meet challenges in the opera industry. Participants will have the opportunity to network with creators from different cities internationally to create multidisciplinary teams and bring forward innovative ideas that can advance the production and presentation of opera.
Led by Project Director Angel Mannion, and San Diego Opera (SDO)’s General Director David Bennett the first OPERA HACK was held in 2018 with support from an OPERA America Innovation Grant, bringing together a diverse group of experts from theater and technology to brainstorm and develop new ideas to enhance the building blocks of opera. Forty multidisciplinary artists, designers, and engineers came together in San Diego, CA in July, 2019 and a total of $40,000 was awarded to three winning teams to support the research and development of their ideas.
For the results of the first OPERA HACK, visit the Results page.
Opera Hack were honoured to receive another Innovation Grant, which allowed them to apply learning from the first OPERA HACK to further identify and address some of the industry’s most important problems with new technologies.
OPERA HACK 2.0:
1) Conducted an industry-wide survey to identify challenges currently facing the industry.
2) Held an online, international hackathon to discover technological solutions for the identified challenges.
3) Awarded $15,000 in total to up to (3) three innovative proposals for solutions to these challenges.
4) Provided an online platform to host all proposals (with permission) so that companies may contact the creators for further development.
The results of this survey were used to identify challenges that the hackathon participants were given for a month-long event (June 4 – July 2, 2021).
Are you ready to Upgrade? Join us for Opera Hack 3.0, the industry-leading event that brings together music, opera, theater, and technology experts to transform the field of opera by combining Art and Technology. Cross-disciplinary Opera Hack artists and teams will brainstorm to meet major challenges in the field of opera around the following topics in opera:
Collaboration
Innovation
Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access
Sustainability
Participants will network with artists and technologists from across the world to form teams and develop innovative proposals that can advance the production and presentation of opera.
This year’s event will be held entirely online. In the weeks to come, Opera Hack will host several “Hack/Social” sessions where participants can network with each other and learn about cutting edge advances in opera and related fields. The project will culminate in an all day online “Hackathon” presentation of participants’ presentations, after which Opera Hack will award three winning proposals. This cycle we have created four challenges and three awards of $5,000 to be given to support the further development of participants’ proposals.
Opera Hack are accepting applications to participate now at www.operahack.org until 1st June.
This is an opportunity to learn more and ask questions about the event.
This year’s challenges will be announced, and the advisory panel introduced.
All proposals will be featured in short presentations to all of the participants and advisory panel.
Public presentation of winning proposals.
Participation is open to the public and all participants will be invited to presentations by our expert Advisory Panel and special guests to learn more about how technologists and artists are working together to transform opera.
We especially encourage applications from members of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) communities, womxn, persons with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and others who can contribute to the further diversification of ideas in music theater.
OPERA HACK is made possible by an OPERA America Innovation Grant,
supported by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
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