Disruptive Stages

Ricky Ian Gordon: Composing Authenticity in Opera, Musical Theater and Art Song

Lucia Lucas: Illuminating the Power of Creativity and Inclusion

Anthony Roth Costanzo: Blazing Interdisciplinary Trails [Interview Only]

Tracy Cox: Dismantling Fatphobia in Opera

Sharrell D. Luckett, Ph.D.: Black Acting Methods

Sarah Kirkland Snider: Composing Against the Grain

Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Composing Heroism, Reimagining Technology and Championing Iranian Female Composers

Derrell Acon - New Perspectives on Verdi, Blacktivism, and Artistic Leadership

Kamala Sankaram: Composing for the Technological Revolution

Laura Kaminsky: Transgender Stories on the Operatic Stage

Manual Cinema: Chicago’s Emmy-Winning Collective on Pioneering a New Art Form

Alberto Varon: Contemporary Latinx Opera

Ben Barson & Gizelxanath Rodriguez: Mirror Butterfly, The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite

Kirsten Paige: Wagner and Environmentalism

Disruptive Stages (Trailer)