Creating a new audience for opera | Victor Khodadad | TEDxGeorgeSchool

By bringing this centuries-old art form and delivering it via a digital platform, and creating new operas for children, Victor Khodadad ’85 and the co-founders of New Camerata Opera hope to lead the charge in finding innovative ways to help build audiences for operas, old and new. Victor Khodadad helped create New Camerata Opera (NCO) to broaden the reach of opera to current and future generations. The group offers a wide range of repertoire through both live performance and digital media channels including filmed opera, social media, and other distribution websites. In addition to offering standard operas, NCO is committed to the innovative presentation of all forms of classical vocal music, opera pastiche, adaptations of rare operatic works and commissioned, new and adapted operas for children. Victor has performed in regional houses such as Mississippi Opera, Connecticut Lyric Opera, Natchez Festival of Music and Amarillo Opera. His roles include Alfredo in La Traviata, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Nanki-poo in The Mikado. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx