The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.

In 2009 it is expected that OzOpera will enable over 100, 000 people to experience opera firsthand.

OzOpera was established after the merger of the AO with the VSO in 1996 under the Directorship of Lindy Hume.

The first few years of the present century saw the retirement of Moffatt Oxenbould, Opera Australia's Artistic Director for 15 years, and the appointment of Simone Young as Musical Director.

In Australia, they take such forms as a " NO WAR " slogan being painted on the Sydney Opera House, Greenpeace demonstrators chaining themselves to the gates of the Australian Prime Minister's residence ( the Lodge ) and a former Navy officer burning his uniform outside Australia's Parliament House.

The Sydney Theatre Company ( STC ) is one of Australia's best-known theatre companies operating from The Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point near The Rocks area of Sydney, as well as the Sydney Theatre and the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre.

He referred to his recent performances as an extra in Opera Australia's season of Pearl Fishers saying " That is the thrill of politics: it is an opera.

* A concert with some of Australia's leading performers held on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House.

Mann played the role of Buttercup in Opera Australia's acclaimed production of HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan in 2005.

Pinafore "-Gilbert and Sullivan Discography and review about the State Opera of South Australia's production of the opera

In 1977, the New South Wales Friends of the Australian Opera and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust established the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship to further the musical education of professional opera singers.

During the 1930s he made a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where ( at the invitation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early efforts for the establishment of Turkish State Opera and Ballet.

In addition to the annual Festival, Aldeburgh Music also runs the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme ( formerly the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies ), Aldeburgh Residencies-a programme offering bespoke training and development opportunities to UK and international artists – Aldeburgh Young Musicians for exceptionally talented young people between the ages of 8 and 18, The Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, for the development of new opera, as well as an extensive education programme.

Long-standing venues in Budapest include the Philharmonic Society ( founded 1853 ), the Opera House of Budapest ( founded 1884 ) the Academy of Music, which opened in 1875 with President Franz Liszt and Director Ferenc Erkel and which has remained the center for music education in the country since.

Then head of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Mansouri had received an education in medicine in Los Angeles, but gave it all up upon becoming fixated on opera, first as a young tenor with UCLA's Opera Workshop, and then with opera in general.

On January 12, 2005, Opera Software announced that it would offer free licenses to higher education institutions — a change from the previous cost of $ 1, 000 USD for unlimited licenses.

He is actively involved in the Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute for Young Artists as well as Ravinia's model community outreach and education programs, and plans to help lead and expand educational projects during his tenure at Los Angeles Opera.

The Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, are home to the Center Theatre Group, directed by Michael Ritchie. Contemporary Opera Los Angeles presents performances that are sung in English and set in a contemporary style and their proceeds benefit local children's education charities and animal rescue charities.

The city of Hartford is home to Connecticut Opera ( founded in 1942 and closed in 2009 ), the Hartford Symphony Orchestra ( founded in 1934 ), The Hartford Chorale ( founded in 1972 ) and the Hartford Conservatory, an institution of music education.

In 1946, the company moved to become the resident ballet company at the newly re-opened Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and as a result, in 1947 the school moved from Sadler's Wells Theatre to premises in Barons Court, with academic education being introduced for younger students.

In 1985, English National Opera created an education and outreach department, naming it the Baylis Programme called in Lilian Baylis's honour.

After 2: 15 p. m., Monday through Thursday, the school focuses on arts education which is divided into 11 conservatories: Production and Design, International Dance ( was Ballet Folklórico ), Classical and Contemporary Dance, Commercial Dance, Creative Writing, Film and Television, Integrated Arts, Instrumental Music ( divided into Classical Instrumental, Piano, and Jazz / CMP ), Music and Theater ( divided into Musical Theater, Drama, and Voice ), Classical Voice ( was Opera ), Visual Arts, and Culinary Arts ( new to the 2012-2013 year.

Opera Omaha is internationally known for productions of eight world premieres and four American premieres of classical masterpieces, and is highly regarded regionally for an extensive education and outreach program that annually reaches as many as 15, 000 people from elementary school through adulthood.

From the age of nine, he was one of four boy sopranos who sang at performances of the Academy of Ancient Music under the Academy's director Johann Christoph Pepusch ( now best known as the composer of the ' Beggar's Opera '), who also supervised the boys ' education.

Under Moffatt Oxenbould, a yearly National Opera Workshop was devised which enabled selected composers and creators to " access the resources and expertise of the National Company " and receive advice and encouragement from operatic experts.

He also dressed up as a liveryman in order to gain access to the gallery of the Italian Opera.

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was deliberately constructed straddling the border for access for both Canadians and Americans.

Early access in the Opera 10. 50 pre-alpha showed that it is as fast as the fastest competitors, being the winner in 2 out of the 3 most used benchmarks.

Some MDI applications such as Opera and Eudora also have this advantage, by having tabs to access the windows.

Such phones have access to the Web via a free download of the Opera web browser.

The Opera web browser released a new mail client ( beta in November 2002, final version in Jan 2003 ), M2 in which virtual folders ( called access points ) were used for all email management.

The protestors then marched along the Quay to the barricades that had been set up to prevent public access to the Opera House forecourt.

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.

Greek tragedy in verse dates to the 6th century B. C., and may have been an influence on the development of Sanskrit drama, just as Indian drama in turn appears to have influenced the development of the bianwen verse dramas in China, forerunners of Chinese Opera.

Opera buffa was a parallel development to opera seria and arose in reaction to the so-called first reform of Zeno and Metastasio.

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

Opera Software was established in 1995 after the pair went on to continue development of their browser.

The City of Oslo promoted an architectural competition for a new Munch Museum in the area of Bjørvika, a new urban development were the Oslo Opera House is also located.

An ' idea '— the antithesis of the Dionysian and the Apollinian — translated into the metaphysical ; history itself as the development of this ' idea '; in tragedy this antithesis is sublimated into a unity ; under this perspective things that had never before faced each other are suddenly juxtaposed, used to illuminate each other, and comprehended ... Opera, for example, and the revolution .— The two decisive innovations of the book are, first, its understanding of the Dionysian phenomenon among the Greeks: for the first time, a psychological analysis of this phenomenon is offered, and it is considered as one root of the whole of Greek art.

Sadler's Wells, under Lilian Baylis, nurtured talent that led to the development of an opera company, which became the English National Opera ( ENO ), a theatre company, which evolved into the National Theatre, and a ballet company, which eventually became the English Royal Ballet.

Francesco Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

A new Emerson College dormitory ( and eventual relocation of the entire campus ), Suffolk University administrative offices, a relocated branch of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, a new $ 300 million development which includes a Ritz-Carlton Hotel and a Loews cinema, and a renovated Boston Opera House all opened in the area in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

One of HGO's most visible and valued projects is its young artist development program, the Houston Grand Opera Studio.

Founded in 1977 by composer Carlisle Floyd and HGO's then-General Director David Gockley, the mission of Houston Grand Opera Studio is to provide career development for young artists who have demonstrated potential to make major contributions to the opera / musical theater profession.

The Houston Grand Opera Studio provides the necessary time, training and experience to aid each member's artistic development from promising student to practicing professional.

However, by the end of the first browser war, the Internet suite market dwindled to one or two competitors every few years ; in reaction, alternative routes of profit or funding were sought ( Opera Software, for example, moved away from offering the Opera Internet suite with embedded advertisements to a completely ad-free product ), and Mozilla ( spun out of Netscape ) began to separate the Mozilla Application Suite into separate projects: Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, but development of suite continued with Seamonkey internet suite and after several years it is very active and under Mozilla umbrella.

The development of the Orchestra during this period combined with the emergence of Welsh National Opera made it a major force in the operatic world.

Vox, Contemporary Opera Lab ( formerly known as Vox: Showcasing American Composers ) is an annual concert series dedicated to the development of contemporary American operas.

He also wrote the libretto for Heart of Darkness, a chamber opera with music by Tarik O ' Regan currently in development with American Opera Projects.

Two towers in the " Opera Place " development have been built on Bay Street, but as of June 2011 the rest of the property remains vacant.

" The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer " is currently ( 2010 ) in development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City in January 2010.

* Richard Thomas's early work as Kombat Opera, including Tourette's Diva, leading to the development of Jerry Springer-The Opera, which premièred at BAC in 2002, before transferring to the Royal National Theatre