Opera Praktikos

New York City’s First Disability-Affirmative
Opera Company

Image description:  An urban garden with an open air wood stage. Performers line the stage in the final moments of the production Orlando: Hero of Love. Photo by Kyabell Glass.

Making Opera Accessible

OPrak is a disability-affirmative opera company in New York City.

Our mission is to transcend barriers and make opera accessible.


We bridge connections between people with disabilities and the wider community through live performance, shared events, and vibrant digital engagement.

Our vision is to model what’s possible when the world is built for everyone to live in.

Group of seven smiling people, including a man in a wheelchair, posed indoors with a large window decorated with holiday lights and greenery in the background.

Photo credit: Dan Wright Photography

There Will Be

Cake!

A sweet, site-specific musical drama pairing two mono-operas about memory and food, featuring words of wisdom from Julia Child herself! One short opera bakes us a chocolate cake, the other spreads joy! Mixed together, these mono-operas make for one hour of a delicious and joy-filled community event…and yes, there WILL be cake!

Opera Praktikos, Inc received operating support from OPERA America’s NYC Opera Grant: Supporting Small-Business Organizations, supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

Photo credit: Dan Wright Photography

A woman wearing a polka dot apron and a red sweater holding a jar of marshmallow fluff with a spatula in her other hand, smiling, in front of a blue holiday-themed background with string lights.

Orlando:

Hero of Love

Our first production, in collaboration and partnership with Opera Essentia is a 75-minute, one act distillation of Handel's Baroque masterpiece. Orlando: Hero of Love asks eternal questions: What is Love? Who is a Hero? Where do our journeys lead?

Photo credit: Kyabell Glass

Asian woman and black woman in an urban garden space embracing as Asian woman sings.

Opera Praktikos is a 501c3 registered tax-exempt nonprofit organization.

Federal Tax ID: #88-3044485