Founded at the beginning of 2007, we are a group of Atlanta-based singers and musicians with the goal of bringing opera to a wider audience, ensuring the continuing legacy of an art form that we love and cherish. We are opera for the 21st century and beyond, a fresh new approach to a 400-year-old artistic medium. Our works, by award-winning Russian-American composer, Misha V. Stefanuk, include original music and texts in English, written specifically to meet our goals and please audiences. Our subjects are thoroughly researched, and our stories carefully planned to communicate the messages that we find enriching and important, as well as entertaining!

Perhaps the most important facet of The New Opera is our outreach, including a great number of shows focused on younger audiences. In today’s digital world of video games and the internet, it is easy for children and young adults to lose track of real life, culture, music and the performing arts. We plan to help remedy that with our shows for young audiences, including performances in the schools. We are also developing outreach programs for senior homes and centers.

Our current operas include The True Story of Wolf and Red Riding Hood, a children's opera premiering in February of 2009. We are also presently writing an opera entitled Emily, which will incorporate the poetry of Emily Dickinson. We also are considering opportunities to perform our show, Or Not To Smoke, a health-based opera for middle school and high school-aged audiences.

Our first season's operas included a jazz work entitled An American Story: George Gershwin, an opera on the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entitled Wolfy, our first children’s opera called The Kitty Who Lost Her Meow.

So, will you like us? Well, do you like opera? Then, yes! Do you like musical theater, dramatic theater, concerts and other live performances? Do you listen to upbeat music in the car or to keep you going through the day? Of course you do! So, you'll love us! We are all of the above! "But I don't really care for opera...," you say. Well just wait, we will show you a new approach that will pull you in! And, no, we will not make you sit for 3 to 4 hours and listen to us! We strive for beauty and excellence with a side of brevity!

We have big plans for the future! Are you ready to experience it with us?