$100,000 grants for women who are writing operas
mainOpera America has spalshed out $100k to help seven women finish the operas they are composing.
The beneficiaries are:
· Sarah Taylor Ellis for The Trojan Women
· Donia Jarrar for Seamstress
· Gina Leishman for Bird of the Inner Eye
· Carla Lucero for Juana
· Kristin Norderval for The Sailmaker’s Wife
· Niloufar Nourbakhsh for We the Innumerable
· Celka Ojakangas (below) for Mirror Game
Admirable but rather dangerous initiative….. If the results are nonsense, it will contribute to the idea that opera be better kept to the males.
No grants for men?
Are these works commissions? Where will they be staged?
Why does someone need support to keep writing an opera? I mean, if it’s a commission they already received a grant, if not, why bother? Just to promote a pseudo-gender policy? I’m not even getting into the merit of ‘why does anyone need SEVEN new operas?’
“Geld macht sinnlich”