Grantee Database
OPERA PARALLELE
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Impact Projects
Award Amount
$19,250.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Opera Parallèle (OP) and partners will produce the fifth iteration of Expansive, a collaboration between OP and San Francisco’s Transgender District (TGD or “the District”) that celebrates the breadth of transgender and gender nonbinary performing artists by showcasing such artists working in classical music and opera. Our partnership furthers TGD’s strategic initiatives to celebrate the culture, resilience, and resistance of transgender individuals in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood through arts and culture programming led by and for transgender people, while offering a career-enhancing performance opportunity and compensation for transgender artists, and a boost to the local economy for LGBTQ+-friendly business owners, cultural workers, and more.
Organization Summary
Opera Parallèle develops and performs contemporary opera, commissions new works, and re-orchestrates contemporary grand opera, breathing new life into underperformed masterworks for the 20th & 21st centuries. Embracing rituals of old while bravely finding space for the new, this tension sparks creativity – colorful collisions that inspire new ways of experiencing opera. Born in San Francisco, a city built on both old and new, between art and technology, Opera Parallèle merges tradition with innovation to reimagine the power of opera in the modern world, highlighting stories of social relevance that explore the depth of the human condition.
Organization
Opera Parallele
Address
44 PAGE ST STE 400
SAN FRANCISCO
94102-5975
County
San Francisco
Region
Bay Area – San Francisco
Phone
(415) 626-6279
Congressional District
California Assembly district 11
State Assembly District
District 17
State Senate District
District 11
