Opera for All Voices, brainchild of a consortium of five opera companies around the country, is a new project aimed to make opera accessible and desirable to audiences up to and including the 55+ crowd. They shortly went viral, and Paris soon ended up on The Late Late Show, gave a TED Talk (I use the word 'talk' loosely) and now-in a move that seems as surprising to her as it is fabulous for us-has ended up an opera diva thanks to the Opera for All Voices initiative. apprentice' beatbox battle videos on YouTube. Paris rose to arguable fame a few years ago when she and her father began releasing 'mentor vs. Despite Nicole Paris not being an opera singer, she delivered some of the most fun and impressive arias of the year for the Santa Fe Opera at Saturday's one-night-only performance of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, a marvelous melding of children's theater and opera if ever there were one.

It was a night of the unexpected and perhaps the absurd, and all of it combined to create a night of opera as unconventional as it was delightful.

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