With director Karen Day for in-person Q&A!
Diversity and opera rarely appear in the same sentence. Dull, stuffy, and inaccessible are the adjectives most often applied to this 300-year-old singing spectacle usually performed in Italian, French, or German. Today, an unlikely group of four young artists is breaking barriers on world stages to create a place for themselves and cultural relevancy in the obscure and mysterious art of opera.
Karen Day is the Winner of the Governor’s Award for the Idaho Arts in filmmaking. With a 20-year career in war zone journalism, Day focuses on gender equity and social justice in education, health/reproductive rights, media and cultural issues affecting women and girls from Afghanistan to Idaho. Day has produced and directed 20 award-winning social justice documentaries with luminary advocates, including Geena Davis, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and George Takei. Her films have premiered on PBS and NBC and become established curriculum in more than 100 universities’ gender and film programs. Day is the former publisher of IdaHome Magazines and currently concentrates on directing and producing films focused on igniting positive social change and equity around the world. Her new documentary, ARIA; Opera on the Edge, begins streaming on DOCPLAY in September, 2026 and her latest film for Harvard Global Health and Human Rights, A BREATH OF HOPE, premiered UNITAID Global Conference in Luxemburg. www.karendayfilm.com
