Opera company
An opera company is a troupe that performs operas , often at different venues and in different cities. An opera company can, but does not have to, have its own house.
Disambiguation
The theater of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries was largely a traveling business. Hence the terms company and troop . The opera was less flexible from the start because it increasingly required a large orchestra and a large choir. But there were well-known traveling opera ensembles, especially of Italian origin, such as those of the Bon family, well into the 20th century .
In 19th century Paris, the four major ensembles - in addition to the Opéra , the official opera company of the court, the Opéra-Comique , the Théâtre-Italy and the Théâtre-Lyrique, were referred to as the opera company .
In the 1880s, the Impresario Angelo Neumann's Wandering Wagner Theater caused a sensation. He traveled with singers, costumes, sets, orchestras and choirs and showed the tetralogy Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner in 22 European cities.
Even today, the venue and ensemble are in many cases two different organizations and institutions. For example, the Sydney Opera House (SOH) is played by seven troupes or ensembles, including Opera Australia and The Australian Ballet . Opera Australia not only plays in the SOH, but also in the Arts Center Melbourne and the open-air stage on Sydney Harbor. In addition, the opera company goes on tour with a production every year.
Today's opera companies
Today the term is used specifically in two cases:
- for touring companies such as the English Touring Opera or the Nederlandse Reisopera , which, for example, are showing their new production of the Flying Dutchman in twelve Dutch cities
- for alternative opera companies in large cities, such as the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg (founded in 1974), Neue Oper Wien (since 1990) or the Novoflot opera company in Berlin (founded in 2002).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Udo Bermbach: Richard Wagner in Germany: Reception - Falsifications , Springer-Verlag 2011, ISBN 3476052958 , p. 369
- ↑ SOH: Resident companies , accessed on April 16, 2018, see also: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1991, p. 11
- ↑ Nederlandse Reisopera: TICKETS VOOR DER FLIEGENDE DOLLÄNDER , accessed on April 16, 2018