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The NYCO was founded as the New York City Center Opera, and originally made its home at the New York City Center on West 55th Street, in Manhattan.City Center's chair of the finance committee, Morton Baum, mayor Fiorello La Guardia and council president Newbold Morris hired Laszlo Halasz hired the company's first director, [12] serving in that position from 1943 until 1951.
This inclusive list of North American opera companies contains American and Canadian professional opera companies and opera related organizations with entries in the Wikipedia. For opera companies in Latin America (including Mexico) see List of Latin American and South American opera companies .
The U.S. has become a hub for opera education, with institutions such as the Juilliard School [11] and the Curtis Institute of Music fostering the training of aspiring opera professionals. The Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program continues to nurture emerging talent.
Before such elements were forced out of opera seria, many libretti had featured a separately unfolding comic plot as sort of an "opera-within-an-opera". One reason for this was an attempt to attract members of the growing merchant class, newly wealthy, but still not as cultured as the nobility, to the public opera houses .
Opera News published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild has extensive searchable online archives, many of the articles, even those going quite far back, do not require subscription for access. Although the site has its own search facility, more results can be found using Google by typing the following into the search box:
Opera Software was founded as an independent company in Norway in 1995 by the Icelandic Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy. [9] They had initially begun development of the Opera web browser while both working at Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor.
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