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Grand opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras. The original productions consisted of spectacular design and stage effects with plots normally based on or around dramatic historic events.
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and three local Houstonians, [ 1 ] the company is resident at the Wortham Theater Center .
Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theater in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It was constructed in 1868, at a cost of a million dollars (equivalent to about 22.9 million US dollars in 2024), for distiller and entrepreneur Samuel N. Pike ...
"The Standard Repertoire of Grand Opera 1607–1969", a list included in Norman Davies's Europe: a History (Oxford University Press, 1996; paperback edition Pimlico, 1997). ISBN 0-7126-6633-8. Operas appearing in the chronology by Mary Ann Smart in The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (Oxford University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-19-816282-0.
Oshkosh Grand Opera House, Wisconsin, NRHP-listed Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Grand Opera House .
The Grand Opera House, also known as The Grand or Masonic Hall and Grand Theater, is a 1,208-seat theater for the performing arts in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. The four-story building was built in 1871 by the Delaware Grand Lodge of Masons to serve as a Masonic Temple and auditorium. The construction cost was $100,000. [3]
Scene from a 2015 performance of Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet. Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is an American opera company based in Miami, Florida.It is the oldest performing arts organization in Florida and the seventh oldest opera company in the United States.
The category includes both 'strict' grand operas (i.e. those premiered at the Paris Opéra between 1828 and 1850), and contemporary or later operas written in a similar vein in France and other countries.