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.

In return, the Comedy Opera Company gave notice that they intended to play Pinafore at another theatre and brought a legal action against Carte and company.

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.

In his posts as head of ( sequentially ) the Bavarian State Opera, Meiningen Court Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic he brought a level of nuance and subtlety to orchestral performance previously heard only in solo instrumental playing, and in doing so made a profound impression on young artists like Richard Strauss, who at the age of 20 served as his assistant, and Felix Weingartner, who came to disapprove of his interpretations but was deeply impressed by his orchestral standards.

The Carl Rosa Opera Company, a British touring company, brought it into its repertoire in 1956, giving two performances to packed houses at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1957.

Opera, Lieder and oratorio in German, Italian or English came alike to him, yet he brought to each a precision and individuality that bespoke his perceptive insights into the idiom at hand.

These visitors included the characters ' friends or family, people coming to the store to do their jobs, people brought there by magic (" Treasure Hunts ", " The Queen of Hearts "), bizarre, non-human characters (" Space ", " Sam and the Robot "), and real life celebrities (" Opera ", " Trash ").

She made such progress that the intendant of the Berlin Court Opera engaged her at once when she was brought to her notice.

She also sings with Virginia Opera, where her performance of Donna Anna brought her recognition as a much sought-after artist.

He was criticised by religious groups in relation to the broadcast of Jerry Springer: The Opera, with a private prosecution brought against the BBC for blasphemy.

In 1810 he was brought to Dresden by contralto Marietta Marcolini, and in 1811 Morlacchi was made Kapellmeister of the Italian Opera in Dresden.

The production went on to tour with New York City Opera company and was brought back by popular demand for three successive seasons.

His entertainment company, Showtime Productions Inc., brought artists such as Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, and Paul McCartney, and musicals such as Evita, Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera to Winnipeg.

After the death of his mother the family was brought up by his father's sister, Yelikonida Konstantinovna Myaskovskaya, who had been a singer at the Saint Petersburg Opera.

In order to meet the new demand brought on by, among other things, a four-star review in Rolling Stone, Southern Rock Opera was re-issued by Mercury and Lost Highway Records in July 2002.

He then worked in musicals and at the Malmö Opera House, Sweden, until the founding of " Ballet Workshop " at the Mercury Theatre, London, brought the chance for would-be choreographers to try their talents.

The Opera House on the grounds of the center was rebuilt for the occasion ( and would be rebuilt again 2001 – 2003 as McCaw Hall ); performers at the fair included Igor Stravinsky, Benny Goodman, and Victor Borge ; the Seattle Symphony brought in opera singers and staged Aida.

The Opera Sedan after sitting in storage for almost 20 years, was brought back to life in 2009.

In 1992 Mörtel and Mausi Lugner brought Harry Belafonte to Lugner City, and also took him along to the Vienna Opera Ball.

Collaboration on two further operas, The Children of Don ( first performed at the London Opera House, conducted by Thomas Beecham, on 12 June 1912 ) and Bronwen, brought about the completion of Holbrooke's most ambitious project, a trilogy under the collective title The Cauldron of Annwn setting Scott-Ellis ' versions of tales from the Welsh Mabinogion.

They successfully expanded the “ Kroll Opera Pool ” and brought many new comic operas to the stage, but also enacted lengthy music dramas by Richard Wagner.

Her performances in Cantonese opera were quite different ; she brought in a mixture of Peking Opera, in which she performed a lot of footwork, as in Suet Ting Shan and Fan Lai Hua-Meeting on the Weedy River ( 蘆花河會母 ) in 1961, Giving birth on the bridge – the White serpent ( 斷橋產子 ) in 1962 and How Zhong Wuyan Conquered the West ( 鍾無艷掛帥征西 ) in 1962.

Véron saw the great potential of adapting the Opera to the bourgeois tastes of new audiences and applied for the franchise, which brought with it limited State subsidy.

In 1972 Lew brought the company closer to its original home, the War Memorial Opera House, by officially naming the theatre as its official residence.

Martin Feinstein succeeded London as General Director from 1980 to 1995 and " spent the next 16 years luring artists of the stature of Gian Carlo Menotti ( who directed La Boheme ), Daniel Barenboim ( who conducted Cosi Fan Tutte ) and Placido Domingo ( who debuted in Washington in 1986 with Menotti's Goya " Feinstein brought in many young singers long before their first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera.