Anchorage Opera

Anchorage Opera (AO) is a professional opera company located in Anchorage, Alaska and is a member of OPERA America.[http://www.operaamerica.org/applications/membership/byName.aspx?searchText=Anchorage%20Opera OPERA America membership directory] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145726/http://www.operaamerica.org/applications/membership/byName.aspx?searchText=Anchorage%20Opera |date=July 16, 2011 }}

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.{{cite book|title=Opera Companies and Houses of the United States : A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference|last= Zietz|first= Karyl Lynn|year=1995|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=9780899509556|chapter=Anchorage Opera|page=4}} Lorene Harrison once worked with the opera.{{cite web|last=Baechtel|first=Mark|title=A pioneering music to the very end - Anchorage arts patron and musician dies at 100|url=http://www.alaska.edu/files/uajourney/Harrison.pdf|work=Alaska|publisher=Anchorage Daily News|accessdate=5 November 2013}} Anchorage Opera was the first opera company to perform Behind The Green Door.{{cite web|url=http://www.mla.org/cgi-shl/docstudio/docs.pl?map_data_results |title=Anchorage Municipality County, Alaska |publisher=Modern Language Association |accessdate=August 10, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815140430/http://www.mla.org/cgi-shl/docstudio/docs.pl?map_data_results |archivedate=August 15, 2013 }}

References

External links

[https://anchorageopera.org/ Official Site of Anchorage Opera]

Category:American opera companies

Category:Musical groups established in 1962

Category:Performing arts in Alaska

Category:1962 establishments in Alaska