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

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.

Opera Australia ( OA ) was formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera ( VSO ) companies in 1996, following the financial collapse of the Melbourne based VSO.

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.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

In addition there is now a Salieri Opera Festival sponsored by the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and dedicated to rediscovering his work and those of his contemporaries.

Never achieving the popularity of Weill and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny is still considered a work of stature with a haunting score.

The practice of accelerating the age of a television character ( usually a child or teenager ) in conflict with the timeline of a series and / or the real-world progression of time is popularly known as Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome, or SORAS.

The Civic Opera House is home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque.

Today Asmara is worldwide known for its early twentieth century Italian buildings, including the Art Deco Cinema Impero, " Cubist " Africa Pension, eclectic Orthodox Cathedral and former Opera House, the futurist Fiat Tagliero Building, neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic Cathedral, and the neoclassical Governor's Palace.

Indicate location-Establishing shots may use famous landmarks to indicate the city where the action is taking place or has moved to, such as the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty to identify New York, the London Eye or Big Ben to identify London, the Sydney Opera House to identify Sydney, the Eiffel Tower to identify Paris, or the Las Vegas Strip to identify Las Vegas.

* It is the subject of a ballet, Still Life at the Penguin Café, and a song, ' A Dream too Far ', in the ecological musical Rockford's Rock Opera.

Gaston Lerouxs The Phantom of the Opera ( 1909 – 1910 ) is another well-known example of gothic fiction from the early twentieth century.

Newer versions of popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista implement the Online Certificate Status Protocol ( OCSP ) to verify that this is not the case.

Support for SNI is available since Firefox 2, Opera 8, Safari 2. 1, Google Chrome 6, and Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista.

Today, a memorial at the Opera Square is a reminder of the persecution of the Jews in Hanover.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

* 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place ; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.

The Lyric Opera also is also located at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Originally developed by Netscape, it is still supported by Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome, Safari ( but not in Safari on the iPhone ) and Opera, but traditionally ignored by Microsoft.

The Italian Methodist Church (" OPCEMI – Opera per le Chiese Evangeliche Metodiste in Italia ) is small, with c. 5, 000 members.

Perhaps his best-known motion picture in America is Brain Donors, the 1992 update of the comedy classic A Night at the Opera, starring Smith as a cheeky, opportunistic cab driver turned ballet promoter.

However, in some cases, this is solveable by initiating another parent window ; this is the case in Opera and Chrome, for example, which allows tabs / child windows to be dragged outside of the parent window to start their own parent window.

The company's 50th anniversary was celebrated in 2006 with a Gala Concert in which tributes were paid to Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge, the principal artists, the chorus, production staff and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra ( the AOBO ) for their ' artistry and talent ' and the ' ensemble nature ' of the company.

Throughout the pre-production and the early principal photography, the project still retained Kelland's original title, Opera Hat, although Capra tried out some other titles including A Gentleman Goes to Town and Cinderella Man before settling on a name that was the winning entry in a contest held by the Columbia Pictures publicity department.

Stage direction was by John Brownlee, principal baritone of the Metropolitan Opera, and the musical director and conductor was Frederick Fennell of the Rochester Eastman Kodak Symphony.

Strauss was born on 11 June 1864, in Munich, the son of Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich.

The principal company that performed at the Teatro Opera moved to the Teatro Colón in 1908.

Likewise, the San Francisco Opera has staged the opera 10 times during its history giving its first performance in 1925, with Marguerite d ' Alvarez and Fernand Ansseau in the principal roles, and its most recent performance in 2008, with Borodina and Clifton Forbis.

From 1846 to 1852 Balfe was appointed musical director and principal conductor for the Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre.

Igor Stravinsky was the son of Fyodor Stravinsky, the principal bass at the Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, and Anna, née Kholodovskaya, a competent amateur singer and pianist from an old-established Russian family.

In 1916 he conducted the Ballets Russes on a North American tour and from 1917 to 1919 he was the principal conductor of the French repertoire at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

He had one of the best jobs in the musical world as Director of the Vienna Court Opera and was the principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the world ’ s great orchestras.

After leaving the Royal College of Music, Mason became a member of the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, moving on later to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra where he eventually became principal trumpet.

In 1772, he was appointed by Felice Giardini to play violin in the opera at Covent Garden ( now the Royal Opera House ), and from 1773 he was principal violist there.

Gigli was the principal tenor at the Metropolitan Opera alongside Giovanni Martinelli for good reason and his version of Nessun Dorma will amaze many by its similarity to that made famous by Luciano Pavarotti many years later.

His brother, George, became famous as the principal comedian of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company and was the most famous comedy-sketch pianist of the Victorian era.

When Lind was about nine years old, her singing was overheard by the maid of Mademoiselle Lundberg, the principal dancer at the Royal Swedish Opera.

It is one of the two principal opera companies in London, along with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

She joined the Vienna State Opera in 1955, where she became one of its principal artists and was appointed Kammersängerin in 1962 and performed with the company for more than thirty years.

Her ultimatum, that he leave his wife and children and marry her, resulted in Toscanini's abrupt resignation as principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in 1915.

1969 ) was a mezzo-soprano and principal performer at the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and in Amsterdam, Boston, Philadelphia, Fort Worth and other US cities.

This included the principal venue of the Imperial Ballet and Opera, the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre ( until 1886 ), and later the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, as well as the Imperial Theatres of Peterhof and the Hermitage.

He became principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Opera in 1928, and then the company's Generalmusikdirektor in 1929.

The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, which had exclusive rights to the opera in Britain, dropped The Sorcerer in 1901, and its principal repertory company did not play the piece again until 1916, after which it made its first professional London appearance in over twenty years in 1919.

" Praise for her Idamante in Mozart's Idomeneo led to an offer of a three-year contract as junior principal at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden where she made her debut as Xenia in Boris Godunov and a Flower Maiden in Parsifal in 1970.

She had previously worked with Graeme Jenkins at the Cologne Opera in Germany, where he was principal guest conductor.