The University at Albany Performing Arts Center

The Squonk Opera company (google them) has come up with a great marketing scheme. They have created a generic opera that they will modify to be about your hometown. They travel around, taking vid clips of you town, interviewing locals, then put it all together into an avant garde sort of operatic event. This is what they did n Albany recently. Although at times it did seemed very canned and clipped, also a bit too campy, it was an interesting and entertaining event. What I really liked was their use of mixed media, music, song, dance, interviews, video imagery etc. Plus, I was one of the locals they interviewed…so kind of neat. I will forever be able to say “I was in an Opera with William Kennedy” and I can’t even sing!