The Decameron Opera Coalition was awarded "Best Collaboration" in the 2020 360° of Opera Awards!  We are thrilled to be in such amazing company.  Thank you to all who voted!

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We are thrilled to announce that DOC and "Tales from a Safe Distance" have been given an "Excellence in Opera Award" (aka a "Freddie") by Fred Plotkin and WQXR New York Public Radio!

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We are thrilled to be at #5 on OperaWire's list of Top Industry-Defining Moments of the Year!

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5. Indie Companies Lead Operatic Innovation

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We hope you've been enjoying all of Tales from a Safe Distance for the past few months. Haven't had the chance to tune in yet? Want to watch it all again before it disappears at midnight on Friday?…

Tune in Friday, November 20th, 6pm EST, for our second DOC Happy Hour: Librettists in Conversation - streaming LIVE on the Decameron Opera Coalition Facebook page and DOC YouTube channel!

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Join us this Friday, November 13 at 6pm EST/ 5pm CST for a DOC Happy Hour - Producers in Conversation - streamed LIVE to our Facebook page and YouTube Channel!

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Another ingenious project is “Tales From a Safe Distance,” from the Decameron Opera Coalition. Nine small opera companies banded together to create nine 10-minute original operas, plus a 10th…

Houston Press

"The Decameron Opera Coalition's Tales from a Safe Distance features nine regional American opera companies in nine world premieres. Unprecedented. Our own Opera in the Heights…

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Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace

Episode 1:

Both Gladsome and Grievous – October 9, 2020

“The Happy Hour” (Introduction frame)

Composer: Peter Hilliard

Librettist: Matt Boresi

Cast:

Dino (Host) – Luca…

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During the month of October, a coalition of opera companies from across the country will be offering a world premiere of an online, streamed opera that…

Join Opera in the Heights' Eiki Isomura, composer Laura Kaminsky, Tri-Cities Opera's John Rozzoni, and Resonance Works / Pittsburgh's Maria Sensi Sellner in conversation, opera games, and more, for…

Newly launched collaboration between US based opera companies, with the premiere of Tales from a Safe Distance to broadcast online in October 2020

Tickets are now on sale for the Decameron Opera…

This past spring, as the U.S.’s COVID crisis set in and opera shut down, Philadelphia-based composer Peter Hilliard noticed an odd trend on-line: a 14th century novel, “The Decameron” by…

The Decameron Opera Coalition aims to keep opera vibrant, new work thriving, singers singing, and audiences enthralled, even in these alarming times, through a new collaboration of unprecedented…