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SUPPORT US

The good folk at Creative Partnerships Australia are supporting Opera Prometheus by facilitating tax deductibe donations. 

 

 

 

 

oPr was founded in 2010 by Bernard Leon. Having just completed tertiary training in opera studies, Bernie noticed the dearth of opportunities for singers in between their studies and gaining a full-time professional position, and founded oPr to provide role experience to such artists. In founding oPr, Bernie aimed to create a company which provided affordable, engaging performances, and which works hard to treat all members equally and supportively.

 

Now in its second year under the current board of Sharna Galvin and Melanie and Sarah Penicka-Smith, oPr is a boutique chamber opera company which stages opera productions in unconventional venues, seeking to attract new audiences.

 

We provide boutique chamber opera by:

  1. staging opera productions in partnership with other cultural and arts-based charitable organisations;

  2. fostering the continuation and expansion of opera by providing role experience for early career opera performers;

  3. fostering the continuation and expansion of opera by providing practical experience for creative and production staff interested in working in opera;

  4. fostering the continuation and expansion of boutique chamber opera by staging opera productions, whenever possible, in a manner that will allow for the practical experience of performers and staff to be paid experience;

  5. promoting and fostering the continuation and expansion of boutique chamber opera through using any proceeds from productions to establish a fund that can be used to:

i. pay for the costs of touring Opera Prometheus productions throughout Australia with an emphasis on providing the experience to rural communities; or

ii. provide travel scholarships to Australian students studying Opera in a recognised Australian University to attend educational workshops in Australia and abroad that promote the further understanding of boutique chamber opera.

iii. provide sponsorship, auspicing or financial support to other entities involved in Australian productions of opera.

 

 

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