Anchorage Opera

Anchorage Opera (AO) is a professional opera company located in Anchorage, Alaska and is a member of OPERA America.[1]

History

Anchorage Opera was one of the first major performing arts institutions established by Americans in the Circumpolar North. The company was officially incorporated as Anchorage Civic Opera in 1962. Lorene Harrison once worked with the opera.[2] Anchorage Opera was the first opera company to perform Behind The Green Door.[3]

References

  1. ↑ OPERA America membership directory Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Baechtel, Mark. "A pioneering music to the very end - Anchorage arts patron and musician dies at 100" (PDF). Alaska. Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Anchorage Municipality County, Alaska". Modern Language Association. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2013.


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