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| x English National Opera |
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English National Opera (ENO) is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. It is famous for a hugely theatrical style of opera presentation, and for attracting...
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| x Utah Festival Opera |
The Utah Festival Opera (also known as the UFOC) is an opera company based in Logan, Utah. The company performs four works in repertory every July and August at the Ellen Eccles Theatre on Logan's Main Street. The works performed range from operas...
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| x Komische Oper Berlin |
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The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals.
Since 2004, it has been operated by the Berliner Opernstiftung, and is located on Behrenstraße, just a...
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| x Opera Australia |
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Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne....
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| x Royal Opera, London |
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The Royal Opera is London and the United Kingdom's most famous and most wealthy opera company, which, as the Covent Garden Opera Company, began in 1946. The company is based at the Royal Opera House, an opera house in Covent Garden, in central...
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| x Kiev Opera |
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The Kiev Opera group was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest in Ukraine, after Odessa Opera and Lviv Opera. Today, the Kiev Opera Company performs at the National Opera Theatre of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko...
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| x San Diego Opera |
The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California and is a member of OPERA America. It was founded in 1950 to present productions by San Francisco Opera in the San Diego area. SDO...
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| x New York City Opera |
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The New York City Opera (NYCO) is based in Philip Johnson's New York State Theater at Lincoln Center.
The company was founded in 1944 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice...
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| x Welsh National Opera |
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Welsh National Opera (WNO) is a touring opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1946. The WNO now tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it gives more than 120 performances of eight main scale operas. In...
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| x Private Opera |
The Private Opera (Russian: Частная Опера), also known as:
was a private operatic enterprise, a company established in 1885 by famous Russian industrialist and philanthropist Savva Mamontov, who staged the operas, conducted the orchestra, trained...
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| x Dallas Opera |
The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicolà Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as...
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| x Florentine Opera | Musical Artist |
The Florentine Opera Company is Wisconsin's oldest fully professional performing arts organization and the sixth-oldest opera company in the United States. It was founded in 1933 by John-David Anello.
The company puts on three staged productions per...
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| x Virginia Opera | Company |
Virginia Opera is an opera company based in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is led by its Artistic Director, Peter Mark, who has been with the company since its first major performances in 1975.
Virginia Opera currently presents four productions a...
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| x Oper Leipzig |
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Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany.
The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third opera venue in Europe after La Fenice (Venice, Italy) and the Hamburg State Opera (Hamburg,...
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| x Chişinău National Opera |
Chişinău National Opera, the national opera company of Moldova, based in the country's capital, Chişinău, was founded in the mid-1940s and became a professional company in 1956. Following the collapse of the USSR, the company is one of the few ex...
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| x Santa Fe Opera |
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The Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, located 7 miles (11 km) north of Santa Fe in the U.S. state of New Mexico, headquartered on a former guest ranch of 199 acres (0.81 km). John Crosby, a New York-based conductor, founded SFO in...
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| x Theater of Eternal Values |
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{{cleanup|date=July 2007}The Theater of Eternal Values (TEV) is an international theatre company.
Started in 1996 at the suggestion of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, TEV seeks to spread a message of integration, spiritual introspection and joy through...
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| x San Francisco Opera | Employer | The Rake's Progress |
San Francisco Opera (SFO) is the second largest opera company in North America. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881-1953). The Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Opera is widely considered to be one of the most memorable events of...
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| x Opus 1 Music |
Opus 1 Music came into existence in 2003 and was an Opera company based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England principally producing professional touring Opera productions on an intimate scale. The company specialised in providing a platform for...
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| x Light Opera of Manhattan |
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Light Opera of Manhattan was an Off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light operas, including the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and European and American operettas, 52 weeks per year, in New York City between 1968 and 1989.
In the...
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| x Opera Company of Philadelphia | Employer |
The Opera Company of Philadelphia is an opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Opera Company was established in 1975 as a merger of the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company and the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. The Opera Company claims to...
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| x Norwegian National Opera | Opera House |
Den Norske Opera or the Norwegian National Opera is the first fully professional company for opera and ballet in Norway.
It was founded in 1957. Kirsten Flagstad, the great Norwegian soprano, was its general manager from 1958 to 1960.
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| x New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players |
New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players is a professional repertory theatre company, based in New York City that has specialized in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S;) for over 30 years. It performs an annual season at City Center and also...
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| x Staatsoper Hannover |
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Staatsoper Hannover is an opera house and opera company in Hanover. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.
During the course of its season from September to June, Staatsoper Hannover mounts productions of a variety of operas from the...
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| x English Opera Group | Musical Artist |
The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten for the purpose of presenting his and other (primarily British) composers' operatic works.
The group's first project was to première...
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| x Wolf Trap Opera Company |
The Wolf Trap Opera Company produces a summer opera festival as part of the program of the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia.
The program was established in 1971, and has developed into one of America's outstanding...
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| x Pinchgut Opera | Musical Artist |
Pinchgut Opera is a chamber opera company in Sydney, Australia, presenting opera from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries performed on period instruments. Founded in 2002, the company's goal is to present operas not widely known and worthy of a...
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| x Minnesota Opera |
The Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1963, and is known for premiering such diverse works as Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Frankenstein by Libby Larsen. Its latest...
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| x Lyric Opera of Chicago |
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Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicolà Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria...
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| x Opera Boston |
Opera Boston is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in innovative repertoire and rarely-heard works, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children, in schools and after-school...
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| x Opera della Luna |
Opera della Luna, founded in 1994, is a British touring theatre troupe of singers and comedians. Led by artistic director Jeff Clarke, it takes its name from Haydn’s operatic setting of Goldoni’s farce Il Mondo della Luna. The company’s goal is to...
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| x Zimin Opera |
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The Zimin Opera was founded by the Russian entrepreneur Sergei Zimin in Moscow, Russia in 1903.
The company staged the premieres of such operas as Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel, Gretchaninoff's Beatris Sister and Ippolitov-Ivanov's Izmena. It...
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| x American Savoyards |
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American Savoyards was an Off-Broadway and touring repertory theatre company that produced light operas, principally the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, in New York City between 1948 and 1967.
In 1948, director Dorothy Raedler started a professional...
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| x Malmö Opera and Music Theatre |
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The Malmö Opera och Musikteater or Malmö Opera and Music Theatre is an opera house in Malmö, Sweden. An opera company of the same name presents seasons of opera in this house.
Built 1933-1944 by architect Sigurd Lewerentz and, until 1992, known as...
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| x Theater Duisburg |
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Theater Duisburg (Duisburg Theatre) is located in Duisburg, Germany and is one of two opera houses where performances are given by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The other is the Opernhaus Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf.
The original theatre was built in...
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| x D'Oyly Carte Opera Company |
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The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company staged performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas in the UK, Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere from the 1870s until 1982. A new D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was formed in 1988 and...
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| x Hamburg State Opera |
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The Hamburg State Opera (in German: Hamburgische Staatsoper) is one of the leading opera companies in Germany.
Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by...
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| x Teatr Wielki, Warsaw |
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The Great Theater in Warsaw (Polish: Teatr Wielki; now the Great Theater and Polish National Opera) is a theater complex and opera company located on historic Theater Square (Plac Teatralny) in Warsaw, Poland.
The theater was inaugurated on February...
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| x Teatro Regio di Parma |
Teatro Regio di Parma is a famous 19th century opera house and opera company in Parma, Italy. The theatre was originally known as the Teatro Ducale.
The construction was begun in 1821 by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma on the location of the former...
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| x Connecticut Lyric Opera |
The Connecticut Lyric Opera, founded in 2003 by a group of professional musicians and opera-lovers and based in New London, Connecticut, is now the only full-season opera company in Southeastern Connecticut.
http://www.ctlyricopera.org/
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| x Boston Lyric Opera |
Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1976.
Each season, BLO produces three mainstage productions at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston and a fully staged, one-hour...
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| x Romanian National Opera |
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The Romanian National Opera (Opera Naţională in Romanian) is the national opera of Romania, situated in a historical building in Bucharest near the Cotroceni neighbourhood.
The first opera performed there was Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades 9 January...
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| x Greek National Opera | Opera House |
The Greek National Opera is the country's lyric opera company, located at Charilaou Tricoupi Street in Athens. It is a public corporation under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Culture and administered by the Board of Trustees and its...
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| x Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz |
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Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (The State Theatre on the Gärtnerplatz) is an opera house and opera company in Munich.
Designed by the architect Michael Reiffenstuel, the theatre opened on 5 November 1865. Since then it has functioned as Munich's...
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