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Opera and Australia
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 AustraliaOpera.
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.
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.

Opera and presented
The Los Angeles Opera presented the opera in September 1989 under conductor Kent Nagano and with a Jonathan Miller production.
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.
In spring 2007, an operatic adaptation of the comic strip was announced to be presented in spring 2009 by the Sarasota Opera, composed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem.
* Oscar ( opera ), an opera about Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet by composer Theodore Morrison to be presented by The Santa Fe Opera in 2013.
In 1907 he presented five concerts of Russian music in Paris, and in 1908 mounted a production of Boris Godunov, starring Feodor Chaliapin, at the Paris Opera.
* A Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne and Victorian Opera ( Melbourne ) co-production of The Threepenny Opera was presented in Melbourne between 28 May and 17 June 2010 and again in Sydney by the Sydney Theatre Company in September 2011.
In the UK, the opera was first presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 May 1894 with Arturo Pessina in the title role, while the US premiere was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4 February 1895 with Victor Maurel as Falstaff.
In April 2012 the Houston Grand Opera presented the five-act French version.
* Sweden: 19 May 1905, Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, presented by the Royal Swedish Opera with Maria Labia as Mimì.
It was presented at the Metropolitan Opera with Marcella Sembrich, and Charles Gilibert ( Sulpice ) in 1902 / 03.
In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.
Also in June is the popular Broadway review presented by UK Opera Theatre, " It's A Grand Night for Singing!
The company presents one full-length classical ballet in the spring of each year and one mixed repertory program in the fall, both presented at the Grand 1894 Opera House.
During the 1980s, after many years of recording performances by the Australian Opera for television, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) and The Australian Opera presented their first live simulcast, Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, and it was seen by more than two million people.
Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.
* The Letter ( opera ), a 2009 opera to be presented by the Santa Fe Opera and based on the 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham
His next opera, The Rape of Lucretia, was presented at the newly formed Glyndebourne English Opera Company in 1946, and went on tour.
Mulgrew remains friends with former co-star Ilene Kristen and presented a special Soap Opera Digest Award to Ryan's Hope creator Claire Labine in 1995.
The Royal Opera presented A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream in the first season, and on 16 June 1973, the first performance of Britten ’ s final opera, Death in Venice, was given at the Concert Hall, with Pears in the role of Aschenbach.
The three-act version rapidly taken up by other companies The Metropolitan Opera first presented the work in complete form in December 1980, a performance since released on DVD.

Opera and piece
The piece was first performed in Los Angeles at Disney Hall on 3 separate evenings in 2004, one act at a time, then given complete performances at the Bastille Opera in Paris in April and November 2005.
Schickele was commissioned to " discover " this opera by the Minnesota Opera, where the piece premiered on April 27 and 28, 1984.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.
Soon, however, the piece suffered from weak ticket sales, generally ascribed to a heat wave that made the Opera Comique particularly uncomfortable.
In recent years, the Carl Rosa Opera Company has produced Pinafore several times, including in 2009, and Opera della Luna and other British companies continue to mount the piece.
It is also the stimulus for the new ballet piece by Kim Brandstrup, ' Invitus Invitam ' which premiered in the Royal Opera House in October 2010.
In 1920, The Beggar's Opera began an astonishing revival run of 1, 463 performances at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London, which was one of the longest runs in history for any piece of musical theatre at that time.
The lives of the convicts partly mirror their characters in The Beggars ' Opera, and modern popular songs are performed throughout the piece.
The piece had been commissioned by Grethe Barrett Holby's Family Opera Initiative with composition by Kitty Brazelton.
Utopia, Limited was to be McIntosh's only part with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, as Sullivan refused to write another piece if she was to take part in it.
The D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company generally played Trial by Jury as a companion piece with the opera.
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.
Other professional companies have produced Princess Ida, including American Savoyards in the 1950s and 1960s, Light Opera of Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players since the 1980s, Ohio Light Opera ( which recorded the piece in 2000 ), the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in 2003 and 2009, and others.
The piece was presented in the 1980s by the Light Opera of Manhattan.
She also recently contributed a piece to the South Park 15th Anniversary Art Exhibition at Opera Gallery New York.
When designing Die Fledermaus for Welsh National Opera, he stated that he felt the piece to be about prostitution ; champagne, a recurring theme in the operetta, was the hard drug of choice for the characters, and ought to be treated as such.
It is perhaps Pärt's most popular piece, and a 1997 recording by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra conducted by Tamas Benedekand has been widely distributed.
The piece was forgotten until 1997, when the Lubo Opera Company performed it in concert in New York, after which Light Opera Works of Illinois performed the work in 1998 in a fully staged version with a new translation by Philip Kraus and Gregory Opelka.
After the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company released its recording of the piece in 1976, The Grand Duke was produced more frequently.

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