Episode 59: Opera Parallele

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Opera Parallele Productions - Champion, Les Enftants Terribles, Dead Man Walking, Everest Graphic Novel Opera, Harriet, Flight, Heart of Darkness, The Little Prince, Xochitl, Ainadamar

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“I see more conversations between organizations on how to do this well and how to do it together rather than just all ourselves in little, boxes”

In this episode our featured voice is the Artistic and General Director of Opera Parallele Nicole Paiement. “I started this company because I was very eager to not only collaborate with a lot of artists in the area, but specifically with living composers, and also try to find a way to sort of demystifying what opera is about bringing it into the 21st century by telling relevant stories and embracing modernist really making opera as compelling as it can be. And, you know, our vision is creating opera of our time and being part of this community through the art of storytelling and beautiful music”

Nicole Paiement

Conductor, Nicole Paiement has been widely acclaimed for her interpretations of a wide range of contemporary operas. As Founder and Artistic Director of Opera Parallèle in San Francisco, Mo. Paiement has conducted many new productions, commissions, and world premieres including Laura Kaminsky’s Today it Rains; John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby; Adam Gorb’s Anya 17; Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness; Osvaldo Goljov’s Ainadamar and John Rea’s reorchestration of Wozzeck. An active guest conductor, Mo. Paiement made her debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2019 with Heggie's Dead Man Walking and at Opéra de Montréal with the Canadian premiere of Benjamin's Written on Skin in 2020. Other guest conducting engagements have brought her to Fort Worth Symphony, Atlanta Opera, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Hollywood Bowl. Upcoming engagements include her UK premiere in June 2023, conducting Talbot’s Everest with the BBC Symphony at the Barbican Center, London. Mo. Paiement will also return to the Dallas Opera, where she is Principal Guest Conductor in April 2022, and to Opéra de Montréal in 2023.

Opera Parallèle

Opera Parallèle merges tradition with innovation to re-invent the power of opera in our modern world. Opera Parallèle is a professional, nonprofit organization that develops and performs contemporary opera. OP commissions new works, as well as re-orchestrations of contemporary grand opera, breathing new life into underperformed masterworks for the 20th & 21st centuries. The company champions the work of living artists, as it presents cutting-edge productions by today’s leading composers including Jake Heggie, Stewart Wallace, and Philip Glass. Collaboration is at the heart of every OP production, with creative interdisciplinary partnerships and intentional community engagement designed to enrich our audience’s experience. Currently entering its eleventh season, Opera Parallèle’s contemporary operas highlight stories of social relevance that explore the depth of the human condition. We embrace rituals of the old while bravely finding space for the new. This tension sparks creativity–colorful collisions that inspire new ways of experiencing opera.

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Presenting opera today requires the creativity and vision that have been the hallmark of Opera Parallèle since its inception. OP boldly forges ahead with innovative ways to produce live work and bring the best artistry to San Francisco and beyond. We invite you to help us write our next chapter as we present a new season that is as unique to OP as it is to the times in which we live. Become an Artist Sponsor or you can donate by credit card, check or stock donation. Support Opera Parallele

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“I’ve been thinking that art is what keeps us alive and what keeps us alive, even when we have passed. And I think in these COVID times, I think we really realize that is something that I think that will be a vibrancy when we can go back into a hall together and experience art together as a community. ”

— Nicole Paiement,Artistic & General Director,Opera Parallele

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