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Gotham Chamber Opera
The Gotham Chamber Opera presents vibrant, intimate productions of small-scale works, from the Baroque era to the present, which are generally overlooked in today's traditional opera houses.
Until recently, New York City had lacked a company dedicated to creating high-quality productions of chamber operas. In 2000, the Gotham Chamber Opera began to fill this niche with its mission to produce intimate operatic works intended for a small space, offering audiences opera that is not a distant spectacle but immediate, involving, and powerful theater.
In its short history, the Gotham Chamber Opera has presented six U.S. premieres of 18th- and 20th-century operas, including such masterpieces as Mozart's 1771 Il Sogno di Scipione; Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's 1928 Dada opera, Les Larmes du Couteau (The Tears of the Knife) and Hlas lesa (Voice of the Forest), Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister's 1935 masterpiece Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Widow), and Handel's Arianna in Creta.
Praised by Anne Midgette of The New York Times as "the pre-eminent small opera company in New York, "the Gotham Chamber Opera recently sold out performances at the Lincoln Center Festival, with puppeteer Basil Twist directing the U.S. premiere of Ottorino Respighi's fantastical puppet opera, La bella dormente nel bosco (Sleeping Beauty in the woods). In the spring of 2006, Benjamin Britten's only comedy, Albert Herring, received its first professional staging in New York in more than 30 years, and in winter 2007, Rossini's Il signor Bruschino received its first major professional New York staging in over a half century. Future productions include operas by Piazzolla, Cavalli, Mussorgsky, and Haydn.
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