His father worked for the National Coal Board and his mother was a singer with the Welsh National Opera.

* January 7 – Marian Anderson is the first African American singer to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

The theatrical / operatic possibilities of Schoenberg's score have been realized by at least two major ensembles: the Opera Quotannis, which staged a version of Pierrot lunaire ( with singer Christine Schadeberg ) at the New School for Social Research in 1995 and, more recently, the internationally acclaimed contemporary music sextet eighth blackbird, which premiered a " cabaret opera " dramatizing the Schoenberg cycle in 2009.

* Giancarlo Monsalve international Opera singer, Cultural Ambassador of Valparaiso and UNESCO medal

There are many similarities between Nilsson and the character of Christine Daaé in Gaston Leroux's novel Phantom of the Opera, and many believe Leroux based the character on the real-life opera singer, although evidence for this is unverified.

* Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi — Opera singer, she first came to public notice as a member of the world-famous opera band Amici Forever

* Robert McFerrin ( March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006 ) opera singer who was the first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of the Grammy Award-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin

Opera singer Richard Bonelli was born here as Jacob Bunn.

* Edyth Walker, American opera singer of the Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera, born in Hopewell ( 1867 ).

* Opera singer Stephanie Blythe

Opera singer Nicky Spence was born in Dumfries as was Britain's Got Talent singer Andrew Johnston.

* Michael Ballam – noted opera singer, founder of Utah Festival Opera Company

His eldest daughter, Theresa Rassam, born in 1871, was a professional singer who sang with the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Opera singer Emmy Destinn wearing a plume-covered hat, around 1909.

In London the previous year, Senesino, a singer who had been a part of Handel's " Second Academy " which performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, quarrelled with Handel and established a rival company, the Opera of the Nobility, operating from a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Opera singer Sir Peter Pears ( 1910 – 1986 ) was born in Farnham and Jessie Matthews, OBE ( 1907 – 1981 ), the popular English actress, dancer, and singer of the 1930s to 1960s, lived in Farnham, where she ran the Alliance public house ( now closed ).

* September 27 – Helen Traubel ends her long association with the Metropolitan Opera, after having appeared in Chicago as a night-club singer ( Anon.

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.

* Opera singer Amelita Galli marries the Marchese Luigi Curci, and acquires the name by which she becomes best-known.

* The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones were the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

The following year she received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Sarah and Son ( 1930 ), portraying an impoverished housewife who rises to fame and fortune as an Opera singer.

With a mezzo-soprano voice, she had hopes of becoming an opera singer, but did not pass the audition with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

The Sarasota Opera presented Luisa Miller in 1999 ; the Teatro Regio di Parma gave it in October 2007 as part of their on-going " Festival Verdi " ; and the ABAO in Bilbao, Spain, has yet to schedule it.

In April / May 2010, a new production of the Zurich Opera House included Barbara Frittoli as Luisa, Fabio Armiliato as Rodolfo and Leo Nucci as Miller.

Pietro Mascagni I Rantzau ( Luisa ) – opera composed for her voice and interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro Delle Pergole of Florence on 10 November 1892 and in première for Teatro dell ’ Opera of Rome on 26 November 1892 ;

In 1908, Tetrazzini finally appeared in New York, not at the Metropolitan, but at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera Company, again as Violetta and again with great success.

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.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

The Metropolitan Opera began a series of live high-definition video transmissions to cinemas around the world in 2006.

San Francisco Opera began prerecorded video transmissions in March 2008.

As a result, he published a correction of Galen's Opera omnia and began writing his own anatomical text.

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

At this time he composed and recorded a series of tangos with the String Orchestra of the Paris Opera and began to play the bandoneon while standing up, putting his right foot on a chair and the bellows of the instrument across his right thigh.

Carte agreed on terms for a new opera with the Comedy Opera Company, and Gilbert began work on H. M. S.

The Metropolitan Opera began coming to Memphis in 1906, their first road show, but in the 1990s decided to only visit larger cities.

Comedian Oliver Hardy began his career in the Milledgeville Opera House.

Early efforts to halt the gradual deterioration of downtown began with the saving and restoration of the Springer Opera House in 1965.

The custom of holding the graduation exercises in the Opera House began in 1885.

In 2003, a British opera inspired by the series, Jerry Springer: The Opera, began playing in the United Kingdom.

It began with a five-week season at the Royal Opera House in London.

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 Convict's Opera ' began touring the UK in early 2009.

After failing to organize a tour, the company began performing as the house company for the Metropolitan Opera.

In the early 1980s, the New Israeli Opera began staging productions, reviving public enthusiasm for operatic works.

Hasse's career began in singing, when he joined the Hamburg Opera ( his family, who were traditionally church musicians, came from near Hamburg ) in 1718 as a tenor.

Opera became a part of the Chautauqua experience in 1926 when the American Opera Company, an outgrowth of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, began touring the country.

The troupe, the May Valentine Opera Company, performed Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado during their 1925 " Summer Season " which began March 26 in Abbeville, Louisiana and ended on September 6 in Sidney, Montana.

The Metropolitan Opera began a long history with the city of Philadelphia during its first season, presenting its entire repertoire in the city during January and August, 1884.

Gelb began his tenure by opening the 2006-2007 season with a colorful and highly stylized production of Madama Butterfly by the English director Anthony Minghella originally staged for English National Opera.

Ackté also began a festival in Savonlinna the following year ; this was the precursor of the Savonlinna Opera Festival, which was started in the 1960s, shortly before the new Finnish opera became famous in the 1970s.