Totals
- Total revenue
- $73,142
- Total expenses
- $56,880
- Contributions and grants received
- $61,990
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $10,888
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $0
- Investment income (line 4)
- $13
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $251
- Total assets, end of year
- $48,330
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $48,330
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $45,842
Program services were 80.6% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
Opera Reading Project (ORP) was established in 2018 to provide financially accessible, professional-quality arts education opportunities for Minnesotans to engage in opera. We offer both auditioned and non-auditioned, affordable, and integrative programs, ensuring aspiring Minnesota singers can access professional training, hone their craft, and connect with other opera artists and audiences.
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Opera Reading Project (ORP) provides financially accessible, professional-quality arts education experiences for Minnesotans to engage in opera and the vocal arts. ORP's goals are to provide a place where (1) The generosity of the artistic experience is shared with all; (2) Storytelling is enlivened through music and (3) Resilience is built through and beyond the creative process. To further our mission in our FY 2025 season, we presented 2 of our standard opera reading programs with public performances, engaging and educating 24 artists and 50-100 attendees per reading; these opera readings were Transformations (Susa) and a double-bill presentation of Alice Tierney (Dunphy) and Pagliacci (Puccini). We additionally presented two special public performance programs: one reading of an in-development opera by Jorge Sosa and John De Los Santos, entitled Ofrenda, which served as the opera's official piano-vocal workshop and engaged 5 additional artists and an audience of 50; and VOXSPEX, a genre fusion project developed by ORP's Music Director Lara Bolton and featuring both local artists and special guests, designed to challenge and enhance the audience's understanding of what the experience of opera music can be. Alongside our public performance opportunities, we presented two community music education classes that were completely free to attend, with the goal of making the craft of opera and the vocal arts approachable and informative for our community; our featured topics this season were The Art of Better Practice and The Integrated Singing Actor. Both our opera readings and community music education classes included outreach activities for youth and the elderly with our various community partners including Neighborhood House, El Rio Vista Recreation Center, and the Carondelet Village Retirement Community.
Expenses $45,842 · Grants $54,000
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Colleen O'Shaughnessy Pollack
Board President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Joseph O'Shaughnessy
Board Treaurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Julie Taylor Bardon
Board Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lara Bolton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Eric McEnaney
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Victoria Vargas
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 12 October 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202542869349201344
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