Opera Company

Opera Australia which is based in Sydney, is Australia's major opera company. Its performance season at the Sydney Opera House runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the The Arts Centre in Melbourne, Victoria. In 2004,...

The Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. The Metropolitan is America's largest classical music organization, and annually presents some 240 opera performances. The home...

The Kungliga Teatern ("Royal Theatre") or Royal Swedish Opera is the national stage for opera in Sweden. The building lies in the center of Stockholm, on the eastern side of Gustav Adolfs torg. The opera company was founded by King Gustav III and its first performance,...

English National Opera (ENO), located at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane is the national opera company of England, and one of two opera companies in London, along with the Royal Opera at Covent Garden. It is famous for a hugely theatrical style of opera...

De Nederlandse Opera (DNO), (The Netherlands Opera) in Amsterdam, is the leading opera company of the Netherlands. The DNO is renowned for its adventurous and theatrical stagings, its mixed repertoire of modern and established operas, and its strong ensemble...

The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper), located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important opera houses - and opera companies - in the world. The members of the equally prestigious Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from the orchestra at the Staatsoper. The...

San Francisco Opera (SFO) is the second largest opera company in North America. It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881-1953). The Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Opera is widely considered to be one of the most memorable events of the year for opera...

The Hamburg State Opera (in German: Hamburgische Staatsoper) is one of the leading opera companies in Germany. Opera in Hamburg dates back to 2 January 1678 when the "Opern-Theatrum" was inaugurated with a performance of a biblical Singspiel by Johann Theile. It was...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicolà Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut...

The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas (USA). The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicolà Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as...

The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is a Houston, Texas-based opera company. It was founded in 1955, by Walter Herbert. David Gockley was its longtime general director, serving 33 years from 1972 to 2005 before moving to the San Francisco Opera on January 1, 2006. Gockley...

Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera) is a prominent German opera company. Its permanent home is the Opera House on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin. Frederick II commissioned the original building on the site and construction work began in July...

Welsh National Opera (WNO) is a touring opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO now tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it performs over 120 main scale operas. In Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool,...

Scottish Opera is a Scottish opera company. Founded in 1962 and based in Glasgow, it is Scotland’s national opera company and the largest performing arts organisation in Scotland. Founded in 1962 by Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish Opera has grown to become one of the...

Opéra National de Paris is the leading opera company of France. It stages performances at the Opera Bastille and Opera Garnier in Paris. Other opera houses in Paris are the Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra-Comique and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. *

The Opera Company of Boston was founded by the American conductor Sarah Caldwell in Boston, Massachusetts in 1958. At one time, the touring arm of the company was called Opera New England. During its thirty-three year history, it gained international acclaim for its...

Boston Lyric Opera New England (BLO) is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1976. Its home has been the Shubert Theatre in Boston since 1998. BLO is the region's largest and oldest opera company producing a season of professional, fully...

Opera Boston is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in innovative repertoire and rarely-heard works, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children, in schools and after-school programs throughout...

The Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) is an opera company based in Munich, Germany in existence since 1653. Its orchestra is the Bavarian State Orchestra. While opera performances are held in the Prinzregententheater completed in 1901, the Company's home...

The Komische Oper Berlin is an opera company in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in German language productions of opera, operetta and musicals. Since 2004, it has been operated by the Berliner Opernstiftung, and is located on Behrenstraße, just a few steps from...

Finnish National Opera (Finnish: Kansallisooppera) in Helsinki is the leading opera company in Finland. Its home base is the Opera House on Töölönlahti bay in Töölö which opened in 1993. The Opera House features state-of-the-art technology and two auditoriums: the main...

The Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique (National theatre of Opéra comique) is an opera company and opera house in Paris. It is located in the Place Boieldieu, in the IIe arrondissement of Paris, near the Paris Stock Exchange and not far from the Opera Garnier, home of...

Opéra National de Lyon is an opera company in Lyon, France which performs in the Nouvel Opéra, a modernized version in 1993 of the original 1831 opera house. The inaugural performance of François-Adrien Boïeldieu's La Dame blanche was given on 1 July 1831. The...

The Malmö Opera och Musikteater or Malmö Opera and Music Theatre is an opera house in Malmö, Sweden. An opera company of the same name presents seasons of opera in this house. Built 1933-1944 by architect Sigurd Lewerentz and, until 1992, known as the Malmö City...

The NorrlandsOperan (literally Norrland Opera), is an opera company in Umeå, located in Norrland, Sweden. It was founded in 1974. Among notable productions in late years are the collaboration with local hard rock groups in Demons of the Opera (2005); the...

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is based in Philip Johnson's New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. The company was founded in 1944 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and...

Baltimore Opera is an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland whose home base is currently the Lyric Opera House. Building on earlier amateur efforts, Baltimore Opera was formally established in 1950 as Baltimore Civic Opera Company with the famous American soprano...

Teatro Comunale di Bologna is an opera house in Bologna and is one of the most important opera venues in Italy. Typically, it presents eight operas with six performances during its November to April season. While there had been various theatres presenting opera in...

Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany. The previous theater (the "Neues Theater") was inaugurated on January 28, 1868, with “Jubilee Overture” by Carl Maria von Weber and the overture for Iphigénié en Aulide by Gluck and Goethe's...

Teatro Regio di Parma is a famous 19th century opera house and opera company in Parma, Italy. The theatre was originally known as the Teatro Ducale. The construction was begun in 1821 by Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma on the location of the former Monastery of St....