Making video operas you could watch on your phone occurred to Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch a few years ago in a bar in Brooklyn, at a meeting of Experiments in Opera, the company they began in 2010. Cady, Siegel, and Welch are composers. Cady plays pedal steel, Siegel plays jazz drums and vibraphone, and Welch plays bagpipes and is getting a doctorate in composition at Yale. "Opera's one of the few pla…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 01:13PM on June 21, 2016