It was a casual event for a type of art that isn’t usually associated with blue jeans and IPAs, but it was easy to swing along as artists jumped up onto the wooden stage wearing street clothes while a whimsical slideshow of memes was projected behind them.īest of all, you form an intimate part of the story: the audience sits in mixed groups at tables, serving as the “guests” of the wedding as it happens around you (instead of onstage). The standing-room-only event was buzzing with life as attendees, many of whom were newbies to opera, sipped specialty cocktails and listened to modern renditions of classic opera tunes. On that day, SF Opera Lab held their first pop-up at Public Works in the Mission, offering a preview of their upcoming season. On February 11, we got our first taste of what opera looks like when you let it run free. One might wonder, what would opera look like if you could free it from its confines? That’s exactly what the San Francisco Opera is doing with their SF Opera Lab. Usually, the only place you can see it is from a plush red seat in a gilded auditorium.
We still expect to see some kinds of art indoors, though. But that’s what art meant to most Westerners until the last century, when it was “freed” from museums and flooded into everyday experience - whether it be in the form of sidewalk stencils, street performance art, sheets draped across Marin County or a giant spiral in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. What do you think of when you hear the word “art”? Probably, you don’t think exclusively of oil paintings in palatial European museums.
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