Founded in 2020 by James B. Mowdy, MBA, Opera Innovation began as a platform where opera entrepreneurs shared their ideas, initiatives, startups, and small businesses.

Since 2020, OI remains the only platform dedicated to exploring and expanding the spaces occupied by the business of opera, tech, brand, culture, and global innovation. Opera doesn’t exist in a vacuum. As our Venn Diagram suggests, it requires deep coordination with other technologies, producers, and business partners in order to succeed and flourish.

Opera may be one of the world’s great art forms, but it’s also a global industry with centuries of track record; why we aim to be the opera professional’s top of mind digital and physical destination for engagement with the greater business ecosphere and vice versa.

OI is the digital and physical space where the cross-pollination of experience and expertise creates greater understanding, reach, funding and sustainability for the operatic arts, but also strategic engagement for all parties through mutually beneficial, innovative and revenue-producing collaboration.

Opera Innovation was founded as an act of service. Coupled with our mission to connect opera professionals to new markets and like-minded business and thought leaders, this drives our business of opera content, OI Insights subscriber-based newsletter, unique professional services portal, and one of a kind events that break norms and blow up expectations. With no barriers to entry, we welcome all to join the online and live conversation, to participate, collaborate, and innovate.