Founder, artistic director, and flutist Eva Ding is one year into a new classical music venture Orchestra Q, an artist-driven, boundary-pushing, conductor-less orchestra of the next generation, and is spending the holidays bringing New York a unique twist on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and twinkling dreamscape of the city December 9th.

Créatine Price took a moment with us to share what it’s like to be home to perform their upcoming show The Drag Messiah, a gay twist on Handel’s iconic masterpiece, with Chamber Queer and hopes for the future.

While other performing arts industries make headway in diversity, equity, and inclusion, opera has a unique challenge from its systemic history that has seemingly been engraved in its art and has taken longer to shed itself from.