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Pinchgut Opera is a chamber opera company in Sydney, Australia, presenting opera from the...

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 wider audience. Pinchgut stages one opera each year in Sydney's City Recital Hall, a venue chosen with the aim of a more intimate and involving audience experience. The company utilises the professional chamber choir Cantillation as its chorus and has engaged both the Sirius Ensemble and the Orchestra of the Antipodes . Pinchgut draws most of its singers, players, directors and designers from Australia, aiming in particular to develop and foster local talent. Pinchgut's joint artistic directors are Erin Helyard and Antony Walker. Walker has conducted most Pinchgut productions, although in 2007 the company's production of Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans was directed from the harpsichord by Attilio Cremonesi, and the company's co-artistic director Erin Helyard will conduct the 2009 production of Francesco Cavalli's L'Ormindo. All productions are recorded by ABC Classics and are released on CD. Pinchgut Opera draws its unusual name from Fort