An Opportunity to Encounter Excellence (and Big News!)

We've arrived at the end, or the beginning, depending on how you mark time. Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia close out this podcast season with an epic career coda and an equally impressive introduction. Join us as we say farewell (but not goodbye) to Andrea and welcome Olga Perez Flora, DMA, Associate Professor of Voice, University of New Mexico (UNM), who will assume Key Change co-hosting duties next season. And what would our final episode of the year be without a trip in the trusty Key Change Time Machine? Cue the tears and cheers as we set a course for legacy-defining moments and forward-focused collaborations.  "I have big dreams," says Olga, the visionary educator and performer excited to "pay it forward" with a collaboration between UNM and Santa Fe Opera. This partnership offers students multiple pathways into performance and other careers in opera. "My dream is for us to build on what has already been happening and give students at UNM just a little bit more room to learn what the professional side of opera is like," Olga explains. "We're gonna work locally toward global impact," affirms Andrea, who exits Santa Fe Opera after 33 years of championing broader student access to and community engagement with the art form. She leaves behind an enduring legacy that includes Opera For All Voices and this podcast, but not before previewing her exciting new synergies with Santa Fe Opera.  And that's the curtain call for season five! FEATURING Olga Perez Flora, Mezzo-soprano, Voice Area Head, Associate Professor of Voice, University of New Mexico Charles Gamble, Director Of Community Outreach, Santa Fe Opera Andrea Klunder, producer, Key Change Podcast MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Opera For All Voices Young Voices Program | Santa Fe Opera Opera Storytellers Summer Camp | Santa Fe Opera Shoes For The Santo Niño The University Of New Mexico School Of Music Florida International University School of Music & Performing Arts Ernesto Lecuona Leo Brouwer José María Vitier Nathan Salazar Marcy Rendon Brent Michael Davids Del Sol Quartet University Of Michigan School Of Music, Theatre, & Dance  RELATED EPISODES Harmony In Process: The Young Voices Of Santa Fe Opera With Amy "Process" Owens Making Learning Sticky: Creative Compassion For Kids And Educators Through Opera With Charles Gamble Music Born Out of a Modern Experience: The Pigeon Keeper Orchestral Workshop Building a Better Society with Florida International University Music Students The View From 20,000 Feet: An Interview with General Director Charles MacKayConnections Across Time and Space: Opera in the Cosmo Hometown to the World: Discovering "Postville" with Laura Kaminsky and Kimberly Reed *** Key Change is a production of The Santa Fe Opera in collaboration with Opera for All Voices. Produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios Hosted by Andrea Fellows Fineberg & Anna Garcia Audio Engineer: Kabby at Kabby Sound Studios in Santa Fe Technical Director: Edwin R. Ruiz Production Support from Alex Riegler Show Notes by Lisa Widder Theme music by Rene Orth with Corrie Stallings, mezzo-soprano, and Joe Becktell, cello Cover art by Dylan Crouch This podcast is made possible due to the generous funding from the Hankins Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and an Opera America Innovation Grant supported by the Anne & Gordon Getty Foundation.   To learn more about Opera For All Voices, visit SantaFeOpera.org. And for more Key Change, visit SantaFeOpera.org/KeyChange