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Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Cheryl was one of six featured composers in Tete a Tete's opera project Family Matters (based on Beaumarchais’ third Figaro play The Guilty Mother) with a libretto by Olivier-Award winner Amanda Holden: workshops took place in Battersea Arts Centre in September 2003, with the final opera being staged throughout February 2004 at the Bridewell Theatre, followed by twelve performances around the country.

Opéra Éclaté

Opéra Éclaté is a small-scale opera company based in Colomiers, Midi-Pyrénées, France.


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Alexandra David-Néel

From 1895 to 1897 she was prima donna with a touring French opera company in Indochina, appearing at the Hanoi Opera House and elsewhere as La Traviata and Carmen.

BNOC

British National Opera Company, (1921-9) first European opera company to broadcast a complete opera.

Catapilla

Calvert went on to play in Gong off-shoots, The Invisible Opera Company Of Tibet and Mother Gong with Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth.

Caterina Jarboro

In 1933, twenty-two full years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera, impresario Alfredo Salmaggi hired Jarboro to sing with his opera company at the New York Hippodrome.

Charles Goulding

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company traveled to New York City in the autumn of 1934, but Martin Beck, the manager of the eponymous theatre, insisted that the more famous Oldham play the tenor roles.

Chicago City Opera Company

MGM actress Betty Jaynes, at age 15, made her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company on December 6, 1936.

China National Opera

The administrative offices, practice rooms and a rehearsal theatre, often referred to as the "Central National Opera House," are located at Chaoyangmen Outer Street Dongzhong-jie 115, south-east of Dongsi Shitiao Station in West Beijing, however since the opening of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) at Tiananmen Square East, performances at the permanent theatre of the Opera company are rare.

Claude Watson School for the Arts

Known across Canada, it has performed at Toronto's 2008 Olympic bid, TTC's 50th Anniversary, the Opening Ceremonies of the 1997 Special Olympics at the Sky Dome, and numerous cultural festivals around the world in addition to major production partnerships with professional companies like the Canadian Opera Company.

D'Oyly

Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Richard's son, English hotelier and proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Delores Ivory Davis

She has performed major oratorios in New York as a soloist with the New York Opera - Title III Program; was an Artist-in-Residence with the St. Paul Opera Company and has been a soloist at Radio City Music Hall.

Dušan Žanko

During his time as intendant, he led Zagreb's opera company on performances in Venice, Florence and Rome in April 1942 and to Vienne in 1943.

Edmonton Opera

The Edmonton Opera is a professional Canadian opera company in Edmonton, Alberta, it performs in the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium with its offices in the Winspear Centre in downtown Edmonton.

François Cellier

In 1902–03, Cellier toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in South Africa, conducting the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, as well as The Rose of Persia.

Gaetano Merola

He emigrated to the United States in 1899 and served as an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Henry Wilson Savage's opera company in Boston and Fortune Gallo's travelling San Carlo Opera Company.

Georgina Stirling

While in Paris Stirling had studied under the tutorship of Madame Mathilde Marchesi where she was discovered by a Milan opera company.

Gordon Wry

He notably portrayed the role of Bob Boles in the Canadian premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes for the opening of the CBC Opera Company's second season with William Morton in the title role, Edmund Hockridge as Captain Balstrode, Frances James as Ellen Orford, and Eric Tredwell as Swallow.

HGO

Houston Grand Opera, an opera company in Houston, Texas, United States

Hugh Talbot

After leaving D'Oyly Carte, Talbot appeared with the Blanche Roosevelt English Opera Company in an unsuccessful production of B. C. Stephenson and Alfred Cellier's The Masque of Pandora in Boston in 1881.

Idloes Owen

In November 1943, at a gathering of a small group of music lovers, at his home in Llandaff, he was instrumental in forming The Lyrian Grand Opera Company.

Israel in Egypt

However in 1733 a rival opera company to Handel's, The Opera of the Nobility, had split the audience for Italian opera in London.

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Jonathan Dove

Life is a Dream, a full-scale opera with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was premiered by Birmingham Opera Company in March 2012.

Kristie Reeves

Other choreographies: "Lucia di Lammermoor" for Repertory Opera Company, "The Bartered Bride" for Celestial Opera Company, "Aida" for Casa Italiana, "The Rope" for ICAP Theater Company, "Don't try" for Rangeview Productions and "Love of a Nightingale" for Boston Court Theater.

Kyra Vayne

In 1951 she sang Leonora in ‘’Il trovatore’’ for Welsh National Opera, and in autumn 1952 Vayne sang her first Tosca, to the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi in the Italian Opera Company's production.

Luigi Arditi

Then, following a visit to Constantinople, he decided to settle in London, but made several trips again to America with the Royal Italian Opera Company.

Mabel Hite

Later in 1905 she toured with the Frank L. Perley Opera Company opposite Viola Gillette in The Girl and the Bandit.

Mario Talavera

Talavera then moved to Mexico City and joined the opera company, where he honed his vocal skills and achieved his dream of singing before large audiences opera works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, that gave him the musical direction he had long coveted, although his main contribution was as a popular music songwriter rather than as an opera singer.

Miriam Battista

Battista helped Maloney translate Die Fledermaus into English for the Philadelphia Opera Company (1943), and they collaborated on a television talk show, The Maloneys, on the DuMont Television Network (1947–1948).

Music of Alaska

The Anchorage Opera is currently the state's only professional opera company, however there are several volunteer and semi-professional organizations in the state as well.

Natalia Ermolenko-Yuzhina

Ermolenko-Yuzhina and her husband left the Bolshoi in 1908, and joined Sergei Zimin's opera company, remaining for two seasons.

Nicola Porpora

In 1729 the anti-Handel clique invited him to London to set up an opera company as a rival to Handel's, without success, and in the 1733–1734 season, even the presence of his pupil, the great Farinelli, failed to save the dramatic company in Lincoln's Inn Fields (the "Opera of the Nobility") from bankruptcy.

Pat Leonard

Patricia Leonard, British singer with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Folder: Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company

Ralph Lyford

During his tenure at the Cincinnati Opera Company Lyford also mentored John Jacob Niles.

Ramón Iriarte

José Ángel Montero opera Virginia LPs (Caracas, 1969) Fondacion Vicente Emilio Sojo, National Opera Company.

Ross Yockey

His wife, JoAnn Yockey, was a soprano who performed with the New Orleans opera company and the Metropolitan Opera of New York.

Seeta Indrani

She was then invited on the first national tour in 40 years of Britain's oldest opera company, Carl Rosa Opera, playing Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus.

Siobhán O'Brien

O'Brien is the niece of Brendan Bowyer of The Royal Showband and the great-greatgrandaughter of Albert Bowyer of the Bowyer/Westwood Opera Company of Blackpool, England.

Slovenian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

The national opera company is now a subsection of the Slovene National Theatre (Slovensko narodno gledališce, SNG) as the Slovene National Opera and Ballet Company.

Stéphanie Montreux

In April 2007, Montreux appeared in Pegasus Opera Company's production of Delius' Koanga at Sadler's Wells Theatre to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain.

Sven-David Sandström

Among his works are The High Mass, a Requiem, concertos for flute, guitar, piano, and cello, and the 2001 opera, Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy on a libretto and originally directed by Claes Fellbom, who commissioned the work for the centennial of the Swedish opera company.

The English Opera

The English National Opera, an English opera company founded by Lilian Baylis

The Fair at Sorochyntsi

The opera was first performed in England on 24 November 1936 by the British Music Drama Opera Company at Covent Garden, staged by Vladimir Rosing, with Albert Coates conducting.

Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts

The new opera company employed both professional and amateur performers and entertained the Tibetan refugee camps and staged numerous performances of the folk Lhamo operas.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

Trilogy: An Opera Company

The inception of Trilogy: An Opera Company followed a conversation between Sharpe James, then Newark mayor and African American opera singer Kevin Maynor.

Troubled Island

Although the leading roles of Dessalines and his wife Azelia were based on black Haitians, the opera company cast white opera stars Robert Weede and Marie Powers, who work dark make-up for the 1949 premiere.