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Founded in May 2020, Opera Innovation remains the only platform dedicated to exploring and expanding the spaces occupied by the business of opera, tech, brand, culture and global innovation.

Opera is one of world’s great art forms, but it’s also a global industry with centuries of track record. OI aims to be the opera professional's top of mind brand for business engagement; a digital and physical space where the cross-pollination of experience and expertise creates greater understanding, reach, funding and sustainability for the operatic arts, through mutually-beneficial, innovative and revenue-producing collaboration.

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Tenor Lawrence Brownlee's Moscow cancellation is good risk management

(Santa Fe, NM) - Getting right to it, I’m relieved that lauded American tenor Lawrence Brownlee cancelled his concert at Moscow’s state-run Zaryadye Hall.

From Operawire’s 18AUG breaking story, I pondered Brownlee’s statement: “…as an artist, I believe that my art is the most powerful way for me to create positive change in the world. My decision to sing in Russia is not in any way an endorsement of the policies of their current government, just as my decision to continue to sing in the U.S. is not an endorsement of our current government. For me, the greatest power of music is that it can lift us above the divisive rhetoric of present-day politics, and remind us of what truly unifies us in our shared human experience…”

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Co-branding fascism

(Santa Fe, NM) - When a cozy and intimate inauguration happens in the Capitol rotunda, it will be the most co-branded in history. Elon, Mark, Sam, Sundar, and Jeff will be there. So will the TikTok CEO and Apple’s Tim Cook. All made millions in donations to Trump’s inauguration fund, interesting now that outdoor activities are safely free of the unwashed masses (slush fund 2.0)! No more crowd sizes to potentially offend Monsieur, the Capitol rotunda his temporary country club / television studio; the cumulative in-rotunda wealth will be immense, each CEO representing their brand front and center for a global broadcast audience. But the Broligarchy It Girls’ dance with fascism is already ugly…