2024-09-25T10:09:25-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 463775780 EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA EXPE 9175761314 205 23rd Street Brooklyn NY 11232 Aaron Siegel Executive Director 9175761314 2024-08-30 1 2023 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z X experimentsinopera.com X X 198071 X 195402 2669 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 198071 0 0 20367 143312 3522 4194 18632 190027 8044 11976 399 20419 X 11976 22334 0 0 0 5674 11976 28008 0 7589 11976 20419 Supporting the creation of new opera by commissioning writers and composers and producing their work. Our season kicked off on November 8 and 9, 2023 with a two-day workshop at the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) of the new opera Five Ways to Die. This work was commissioned by EiO and featured librettos from Joanie Brittingham, Jason Cady, Britt Hewitt, Marcella Murray and Melisa Tien and new music from composers Jason Cady, Anthony Gatto, Jesse Gelaznik, Seong Ae Kim, Del'Shawn Taylor. The workshop culminated in a full run of the piece for an audience of 57 listeners, including members of the HSA community. 0 8000 On January 13, 2024, we produced the second workshop for the new opera A Prize for Every Player with a libretto by celebrated author A.M. Homes based on her story by the same name. Composer and EiO Founder Aaron Siegel wrote 30 minutes of music for this opera which follows a family of four into a large department store for their weekly Sunday shop. The workshop performance took place in an unused storefront in Chelsea. The creative team, led by director Mark DeChiazza converted the space into a department store and audience members were ushered around the building based on the storyline. 84 audience members attended this thrilling workshop performance. 0 9739 On April 15, 2024, Experiments in Opera partnered with Works & Process for a single night performance of Act 1 of Phil Kline's new opera The Lives and Dreams of Nikola Tesla at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan. The opera featured films by Jim Jarmusch and singing by noted countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. The cast of 9 singers and 8 instrumentalists shared the story of the well known inventor's final days in the Gotham Hotel at the turn of the 20th Century. 276 audience members were in attendance at the performance which was previewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice publication. 15000 20783 On May 30, 2024, EiO presented the first workshop of a new opera Crystal's Channel, by EiO Co-Founder Jason Cady at Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition, we shared the workshop performance of another new opera, Souls Unscreened, written by Alize Francheska Rozsnyai with music by Roger A. Martinez. 82 audience members were in the house for this rousing evening. 0 4000 The new opera Five Ways to Die received its premiere production at HERE in Tribeca from June 27-30, 2024. This production included full staging, costumes and designs and was the featured presentation of the whole season. With contributions from 10 artists, this show was the culmination of two years of work by the EiO Writers' Room, which was established as a way to bring in underrepresented voices to the opera creation process. This premiere production at HERE played for a total audience of 233 listeners over the course of the four-show run. 0 87393 129915 Aaron Siegel Executive Director 15 5000 0 0 Jason Cady Artistic Director 10 5000 0 0 Kamala Sankaram Artistic Director 5 4000 0 0 Nadia Berenstein Treasurer 5 0 0 0 Erin Flannery Board Member 1 0 0 0 Todd Marcus President 2 0 0 0 Dalia Levine Secretary 1 0 0 0 A M Homes Board Member 1 0 0 0 James C Horton Board Member 1 0 0 0 Audrey Cox Board Member 1 0 0 0 Elissa Iberti Board Member 1 0 0 0 Jonathan Hampton Board Member 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NY Aaron Siegel 205 23rd Street Brooklyn NY 11232 9175761314 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 82349 100523 185038 143324 195402 706636 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82349 100523 185038 143324 195402 706636 42140 664496 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 706636 0 0.94037 1 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Description;Amount^Props and Sets;3916|Costumes;2658|Tech Equipment;252|Reception Supplies and Catering;358|Research Tickets and Admissions;2193|Travel;870|Conferences and Workshops;4373|Online Newsletters and Ads;1791|Office Supplies;65|Software and Online Services;1441|Website and Podcasting Hosting;408|Merchant Processing Fees;68|General Liability Insurance;239^Total;18632^ Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 20 Description;Amount^Reconciliation Adjustment;399^Total;399^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 Description;EOY Amount^Accounts Receivable;5093|Prepaid Expenses;581^Total;5674^ Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 Description;EOY Amount^Accounts Payable;7589^Total;7589^