Opera Australia presented the piece in Melbourne in May 2009, starring Sigrid Thornton as Desiree Armfeldt and Nacye Hayes as Madame Armfeldt.

The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic image of Sydney, New South Wales, and Australia.

* " The Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia – Opera.

Jørn Oberg Utzon, (), AC ( 9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008 ) was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

The band's A Night at the Opera Tour began in November 1975, and covered Europe, the United States, Japan, and Australia.

Pinafore is still performed around the world by opera companies such as the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen ; Australian Opera ( and Essgee Entertainment and others in Australia ); in Kassel, Germany ; and even Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The show was revised and expanded for a tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2007, including two sell-out nights at the Sydney Opera House.

Sydney Opera House, home of Opera Australia

Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia.

By the end of 2004, Opera Australia provided employment to approximately 1, 300 Australians.

OzOpera ( Opera Australia's education, access and development arm ) presented the La bohème production in Victoria, Northern Territory and Western Australia, attended by 13, 350 people, while OzOpera's Schools Company performed to over 63, 500 primary age children in more than 360 performances in urban and regional New South Wales and Victoria.

At the end of 2003, Richard Hickox was named Music Director-designate of Opera Australia, and took up the post full-time from January 2005.

In mid-2008, Hickox and Opera Australia were criticised for what was perceived as a decline in artistic standards since the start of Hickox's tenure.

Opera Australia is committed to the long term development and performance of modern Australian operas.

In 2011, Opera Australia launched a new digital strategy in order to bring high-definition recordings of its operas to cinemas ( in collaboration with CinemaLive ), as well as launching DVD, Blu-ray and CD releases on its own label and broadcasting these recordings on ABC Television.

This increase in video content has also meant an increase in participation on YouTube, including the more regular release of content on the Opera Australia YouTube channel.

2011 also saw the launch of the Weekly Audience Review competition as part of the Opera Australia Blog, providing incentives for audience members to post reviews of Opera Australia productions online, including pass giveaways and publication of reviews on the blog.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

Opera lovers will be interested to learn that this church was the scene for the first act of Tosca.

This production was recorded on DVD, and subsequently won the 2009 Grammy Awards for " Best Classical Album " and " Best Opera Recording.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

For example, it was added to the New York City Opera Company repertoire in 1990.

At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as " Opera of the Year " by German Opera Magazine " Opernwelt ".

Opera or other vocal music was the feature of most musical events, with concertos and " symphonies " ( arising from the overture ) serving as instrumental interludes and introductions for operas and church services.

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian Chicagoans in 1956, and presents operas in Lithuanian.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

She was awarded a contract with the Royal Opera in London and made her début at Covent Garden as Marie in La Fille du régiment in 1876.

Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence on the librettist Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni and the composer Tommaso Traetta, and in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

The Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro ( OND ) or " National After-work Program " was one major social welfare initiative in Fascist Italy.

This was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

During his senior year, he worked as a supernumerary with the Metropolitan Opera, earning 50 ¢ per appearance, and $ 1 if he was required to perform in blackface.

In 1847, I Lombardi, which was revised and renamed Jérusalem, was produced by the Paris Opera.

It could be said that Martyr was the 15th opera of the partnership, since the Carl Rosa Opera Company presented the work as an opera in 1898.

He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.

That same year, in October / November, it formed part of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's season.

A year later, he finally found four backers and formed the " Comedy Opera Company " to produce the future works of Gilbert and Sullivan, along with the works of other British author / composer teams.

The three each put up £ 1, 000 and formed a new partnership under the name " Mr Richard D ' Oyly Carte's Opera Company ".

In 1956, the Australian Opera Company was formed in Sydney under the auspices of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.

Some of his first rehearsals in the country involved conducting the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra and the Australian Opera Chorus, both newly formed and on permanent contracts.

His next opera, The Rape of Lucretia, was presented at the newly formed Glyndebourne English Opera Company in 1946, and went on tour.

In the early 20th century, Sam Warner formed a business partnership with another local resident and " took over " the city's Old Grand Opera House, which he used as a venue for " cheap vaudeville and photoplays ".

Slonimsky was brought to the United States in 1923 by Vladimir Rosing to work as an accompanist in the newly formed Opera Department at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he continued his composition and conducting studies.

Other college groups include Fitzwilliam Baroque Ensemble, the recently formed Ensemble CB3, and Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, the university ’ s only college-based opera society.

A theatre district had formed in the area by 1869, and soon West 23rd Street was the center of American theater, led by Pike's Opera House ( 1868, demolished 1960 ), on the northwest corner of Eighth Avenue.

Historically, it formed part of the old Covent Garden flower market, and is still commonly known as the ' floral hall ', but it was absorbed into the Royal Opera House complex during the 90s redevelopment.

In 1872, the Coloured American Opera Society formed.

Finally, in 1877, Carte organized a syndicate of four financiers and formed the Comedy Opera Company, capable of producing a full length work.

With his wife, the choreographer Kay Lawrence, he formed in 1984 the Early Opera Project to complement his concert work in period-style performance, beginning with Claudio Monteverdi's L ' Orfeo at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino that year, and touring Britain in 1986.

Starting with the 2010-2011 season, a new company has been formed called Wiener Staatsballet under the direction of former Paris Opera Ballet star dancer Manuel Legris.

It was formed from members of the old Cardiff Grand Opera Company, the BBC Welsh Singers and the Lyrian Singers.

While the Civic Light Opera's last season at the Music Center was in 1987, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera was formed in 1986.

During the next 10 years, Bruhn formed long relationships as a guest artist not only with Ballet Theatre but with most all of the major ballet companies in Europe and North America, including the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, the Paris Opera Ballet, and London's Royal Ballet.

Founded in 1947 as the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, the company was established under the direction of John Field, and was formed to continue ballet performances at Sadler's Wells Theatre, after its predecessor ( today's Royal Ballet ) moved to become the resident ballet company at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

In the early 1900s, he formed a business partnership with another Youngstown resident and " took over " the city's Old Grand Opera House, which he used as a venue for " cheap vaudeville and photoplays ".

The Royal Opera production, which featured contemporary dance by Wayne McGregor Random Dance and animated effects by Mark Hatchard, formed part of a double bill with Handel's Acis and Galatea.