Our Story.
Born out of stoop concerts presented in Brooklyn during the pandemic summer of 2020, The Opera Next Door was created to help fill a gap left in the artistic world by the loss of live concerts, particularly opera productions.
Founder, Colombian soprano Sasha Gutiérrez, began performing arias and art songs from her stoop in Bedford-Stuyvesant for the neighborhood and anyone who cared to stop by and listen.
Many of the people who listened had never heard opera before and left amazed and curious.
During this time, in conversations about developing the concerts, and the idea of staging an opera on the stoop was born. While the idea seemed at first untenable (putting on an opera requires an astounding amount of production and artistic work), the seed was planted in Gutiérrez’s mind.
