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English National Opera The London Coliseum    
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, for attracting talented...
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 opera to...
Komische Oper Berlin Komische Oper Berlin Location  
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...
Opera Australia The Opera Australia production of The Gondoliers (DVD) Musical Artist  
Opera Australia which is based in Sydney, is Australia's major opera company. 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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Royal Opera, London The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House, home of the Royal Opera   The Rake's Progress
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...
Kiev Opera The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian National Opera House in Kiev Location  
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...
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...
New York City Opera The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, seen from the Lincoln Center Plaza. Employer  
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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Welsh National Opera      
Welsh National Opera (WNO) is a touring opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO now tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it performs over 120 main scale operas. In Cardiff, Bristol,...
Private Opera      
The Private Opera , 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 the actors, taught them...
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...
Florentine Opera   Musical Artist  
The Florentine Opera is Wisconsin's oldest performing arts organization and the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States. It was founded in 1933 by John-David Anello. The company puts on three staged productions per season largely from the...
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...
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Oper Leipzig Oper Leipzig    
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,...
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...
Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Opera's third theatre on the site, which opended in 1998, was named The Crosby Theater after his death Employer  
The Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe in the U.S. state of New Mexico, headquartered on a former guest ranch of . John Crosby, a New York-based conductor, founded SFO in 1956, originally as the Opera...
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Theater of Eternal Values The Magic flute, 2000    
{{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...
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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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...
Light Opera of Manhattan The Pirates of Penzance was LOOM's first production in 1968    
Light Opera of Manhattan was an Off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light opera, including the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and European and American operetta, 52 weeks per year, in New York City between 1968 and 1989. In the fall...
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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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. For most...
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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 opera of Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S;) for over 30 years. It performs an annual season at City Center and also...
Staatsoper Hannover Staatsoper Hannover Location  
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...
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' opera works. The group's first project was to première...
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...
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...
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...
Lyric Opera of Chicago The Ardis Krainik Theatre Employer  
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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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...