Towards a New Opera! is a new Long Beach Opera podcast produced and hosted by director and performer Alexander Gedeon, intended to engage discussion with diverse artists on the expanding possibilities of new American opera. What does a new opera look and sound like if classical music is not treated as a culturally 'superior' form? How can conceptual artists from outside the field be engaged in the 'public dreaming' of new approaches? Each episode becomes a ‘message in a bottle’ — with the dream of awakening new connections across vast cultural seas.