On Site Opera (OSO) is a professional opera company based in New York City that specializes in site-specific productions. The company was founded in 2012 by General and Artistic Director Eric EinhornEric Einhorn, On Site Opera and Executive Director/Producer Jessica Kiger.Jessica Kiger, On Site Opera On Site Opera, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is member of Opera America and the New York Opera Alliance. After Einhorn stepped down, in 2023, the company appointed Piper Gunnarson as its next General Director & CEO and Sarah Meyers as Artistic Director.
In addition to site-specific productions, On Site Opera produces operas specifically for children, including a production of Shostakovich's The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse, Op. 56, at the Bronx Zoo in 2012.
In 2014, On Site Opera was the first opera company to use Google Glass to display subtitles. Figaro Systems created the software in which the translation of Rameau's Pigmalion was sent to Google Glass, allowing the audience to experience opera and translation in their field of vision at the same time.
Production history 2012: Dmitri Shostakovich's The Tale of the Silly Baby Mouse at the Bronx Zoo 2013: George Gershwin's Blue Monday at the Cotton Club at 626 W 125th Street in Harlem 2014: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Pigmalion at Madame Tussauds New York and the Lifestyle-Trimco mannequin showroom at 152 W 25th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan 2014: Frédéric Chaslin/P. H. Fisher's Clarimonde (based on "La Morte Amoureuse", developmental workshop) at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, Phoenicia, New York 2015: Giovanni Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1782) at Edith Fabbri House (House of the Redeemer) at 7 East 95th Street, Upper East Side 2016: Marcos Portugal's The Marriage of Figaro at 632 Hudson Street (Manhattan)"Review: Following Figaro From Room to Room in a Townhouse" by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 15 June 2016 2016: Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night and Hector Berlioz's La mort de Cléopâtre at the Harmonie Club, Manhattan 2016: World premiere of Gregg Kallor's The Tell-Tale Heart for The Crypt Sessions at the Church of the Intercession, Harlem 2017: Mozart's The Secret Gardener, partnered with Atlanta Opera (New York and Atlanta premiere), at West Side Community Garden, Upper West Side; and Atlanta Botanical Garden 2017: Darius Milhaud's La mère coupable (US premiere) at The Garage, 611 West 50th Street, Manhattan 2017: World premiere of Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt by John Musto (about the granddaughter of Charles R. Knight), partnered with Lyric Opera of Chicago and Pittsburgh Opera, at the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan 2018: Morning Star by Ricky Ian Gordon (the opera's second production), at Eldridge Street Synagogue"Morning glory" by Joel Rozen, parterre.com, 23 March 2018
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