To have an opera company and an orchestra working in tandem is a rare and enticing prospect.
In 1954, Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.
It was such a success that the opera company decided to premiere Salsipuedes as well, during it's 2004-2005 season.
Resident opera company Welsh National Opera is the big success story of the past year, playing to almost full houses.
In the spring, when its celebrated opera company is on hiatus, the Metropolitan Opera House is home to the American Ballet Theatre.
He said he wants a successful national opera company in Scotland that has thousand of young Scots aspiring to play in its orchestra.
The awards will celebrate winners in 23 categories, including best female singer, best male singer, best conductor, best opera company, and best chorus.
Perhaps City Opera will become the country's first virtual opera company.
Fifteen years ago, he was also singing with a local opera company when he got a call to substitute for a singer at the Sydney Opera House.
That's a highly unusual scenario for this opera company.
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Written by Peter Philips, the chairman of Birmingham Opera Company, the report included among its recommendations that the chief executives of regional cultural organisations should take a more central role in fundraising efforts.
Prior to embarking on my legal career, I was a recording artist and songwriter (see website for a full history: www.tinab.tv) and studied opera at the Juilliard School in New York and with Maestro Vincent La Selva at the New York Grand Opera Company.
The ensuing soap opera between company scion Walter Hewlett and HP Chief Executive Carleton Fiorina kept the spotlight far away from Indigo.
In 1947, Mr. Balanchine became a guest choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet Company, and Ms. Tallchief became the first American to perform with the company.
Opera Software, the company behind the Opera Web browser, has released the findings of new study that focused on mobile advertising.
Norwegian company Opera is also making its presence felt in the browser market.
Composers interested in writing operas should study the oeuvre of Dominick Argento, whose "The Aspern Papers" (1988) recently had a splendid new production at the Dallas Opera, the company that commissioned it and gave the work its world premiere.
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By contrast, all the Norwegian company behind Opera can offer is the best feature set it can craft and the fastest browser it can make.
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple - Opera today joined the ranks of those web giants as the company unveiled the most expensive ad ever created by the company to promote the launch of the Opera 11.10 browser.
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This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.
Which would leave him the option of spending it, if he cannot think of anything more useful, on the English National Opera, London's other great company, where at least the seats are cheaper, the atmosphere jollier, the operatic language English, but where English snobbery and uniformed flunkeys are mercifully absent.
The first time Peter Gelb went to the Metropolitan Opera was in 1967, a year after the company had moved from its old theatre, on Thirty-ninth Street, to Lincoln Center.
When Esther Nelson became general and artistic director of the Boston Lyric Opera in 2008, she wanted to expand the company's season, which then consisted of three operas in the Shubert Theater.
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While the Houston Grand Opera will continue to stage traditional productions, the company has created a new arm, called HGOco, whose goal is to bring musical storytelling into communities that traditionally haven't been exposed to opera.
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Over 10 months, the venerable Minnesota company began a program with the aid of Opera Solutions Inc. of New York, an eight-year-old analytics firm.
Its biggest coup of the coming season, the European premiere of a new work from the world-renowned La La La Human Steps dance company, will be performed on the State Opera stage.
Is that why the company is supposedly interested in having a browser through the acquisition of Opera Software?
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Mr. Hallberg began his study in Phoenix, continued at the Paris Opera Ballet for a year, then studied at ABT and joined its second company in 2000.
The Metropolitan Opera's foray into dynamic ticket pricing this season had an unintended consequence: After the company hiked prices for many seats, attendance dipped.
The members of the youth opera not only perform on the same home stage as WNO, but are also mentored by members of the company and other industry professionals.
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