Accolades for DOC's "Tales from a Safe Distance"
Named an “ingenious project” by the Wall Street Journal, the inaugural production of the Decameron Opera Coalition, “Tales from a Safe Distance” was acknowledged with several Best of 2020 awards and mentions:
#5 on OperaWire’s list of Industry-Defining Moments of the Year
Winner of a 2020 “Freddie” (Excellence in Opera Award) from Fred Plotkin & WQXR New York Public Radio
Winner of “Best Collaboration” from 360° of Opera
Maria is the lead producer of the DOC, which is a unique partnership between 9 indie opera companies from around the country, who co-created a new opera anthology straight to video inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron. The DOC members include Maria’s company, Resonance Works (Pittsburgh, PA), UrbanArias (DC), Lyric Opera of the North (Duluth, MN), Opera in the Heights (Houston, TX), Bare Opera (NYC), Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Fargo-Moorhead Opera (ND), Chicago Fringe Opera, An Opera Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), and co-creators Peter Hilliard and Matt Boresi.
“an unbridled success – edgy, novel, richly detailed, musically intriguing”
- Houston Press“The Decameron project does genuinely new things with opera, and has lessons to teach the industry that may well outlast the grim pandemic which spawned it.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune