About VOX
About VOX
New York City Opera’s VOX is an exciting opera lab of new works that offers American composers and librettists the opportunity to hear their works with a full orchestra and excellent artists. Every year, VOX presents up to twelve new, previously un-produced works from both emerging and established composers in orchestra readings that are free and open to the public. For the last half century, New York City Opera has been a leader in the development of American opera. City Opera has an unmatched repertory of American works including those of over 50 American composers and shaped an American aesthetic for opera through the world premieres of more than 25 American operas. To date, the festival has presented excerpts from 70 new operas with more than 30 going on to full productions — four at City Opera and the remainder at other opera companies, including Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, Michigan Opera Theater and the Sante Fe Opera.Sponsors
Leadership support for VOX 2010 is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Major support is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., The Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Virgil Thomson Foundation, Ltd., and contributors to the VOX Special Appeal. Public support is provided by the New York city Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. New York City Opera would also like to recognize the leadership and support of the Board's VOX Committee: John E. Baumgardner, Jr., Chairman, Carol M. and Timothy A. Cole, Mary Sharp Cronson, Mary Gould, Cerise and Charles Jacobs, Kenneth S. Kaiserman, Younghee Kim-Wait, Carol Ann Leibner, Raymond Steckel, Joan Ross Sorkin, and Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò. New York City Opera thanks Linda and Stuart Nelson for their special gift to support composer copying costs.