With support from the California Arts Council, Opera Parallele and partners will produced the third iteration of “Expansive’, a collaboration between Opera Parallèle and the Transgender District which celebrates the breadth of transgender and gender non-binary performing artists by showcasing transgender performing artists working in classical music and opera. Our partnership furthers the Transgender District’s strategic initiatives to celebrate the culture, resilience and resistance of transgender people in the city’s Tenderloin area through arts and culture programming led by and for transgender people, while economically supporting transgender artists, performers, business owners, cultural workers, and more.
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.

