WHY OSSIA, asks Marcus

Someone much smarter than me once pointed out that opera began in Renaissance Florence as a set of simple questions: what happens when poetry, movement, and music combine to express narrative? (That is a direct quote, I think). Opera as an industry needs to get back to this level of inquiry. In our humble way, we are trying to ask a few questions of our own: How can we communicate the strange synthesis of pop and classical that has come to define our generation’s sensibilities? How can we combine poetry, movement, and music with the immediacy of the internet? How does the medium change the content? Is the medium, in fact, the content? ……

This is all devolving into a lame paraphrase of Marshall McLuhan, so I’ll leave it for now. But, really, Ossia is about experiment. It is about finding yet another path to the next best expression of this art form. Who knows, maybe we are due for another Renaissance type thing.