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17-563: By its tenth anniversary, in 2006, the site received "about 10,000 visitors a day to the public site, who look at over four million pages a month between them. Of these, fewer than half use English, 17% use German, 12% Italian, 10% French, 9% Spanish." In autumn of that year the British magazine Opera Now reported that "Operabase has taken on the Herculean task of making [the site] available to every European Union citizen in their own language – not only

34-717: A plan to prevent that company's closure. The National Opera Centre at 330 Seventh Avenue , Chelsea, Manhattan , has two performance venues: the Marc A. Scorca Hall and the Plácido Domingo Hall. It also provides private studios and a rehearsal hall. The National Opera Center has been the venue of performances by artists of companies such as Wolf Trap Opera . In 2018, the Christman Opera Company performed Theodore Christman 's operas Adriana McMannes and A Metamorphosis in Plácido Domingo Hall. The Opera Center has been

51-680: A set of statistics to mark the 250,000th performance on file. These statistics were presented at the third European Opera Forum, organised by Opera Europa in London in March 2011. In autumn 2013, the statistics were updated to show the 2012/13 season figures. The Operabase rankings of the most performed operas formed the basis of a set of music questions in an edition of the BBC's University Challenge , broadcast in July 2014. Competitors were asked to identify three operas in

68-481: Is 42,500 euros, supplied by Camerata Nuova, with 20,000 euros for the winning concept and have their production mounted by a European opera company. Opera America Opera America , styled OPERA America , is a New York–based service organization promoting the creation, presentation, and enjoyment of opera in the United States. Almost all professional opera companies and some semi-professional companies in

85-742: The International Opera Awards . Since 2014, Opera Europa supports the free streaming service OperaVision . Since 2001, in collaboration with the Camerata Nuova e.V. in Wiesbaden , Germany, Opera Europa supports a biennial competition, the European Opera-directing Prize (EOP, in German: Europäischer Opernregie-Preis) for young opera directors and design teams up to the age of 35. The total prize money

102-590: The 2015/16 season the most popular operas overall were: The most popular operas by composers from the 20th century (i.e., by composers born after 1900) were The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934, Dmitri Shostakovich ).  The most popular works by composers alive on 31 July 2012 were the monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (composed 1968, Grigory Frid ), and

119-514: The 21 (as at January 2007) official languages of the EU, but Catalan, Icelandic and Norwegian as well." As of November 2012, the free public area of the site is available in 22 languages, and includes 37,000 performances, 40,000 artists, 700 opera companies, festivals and theatres, and the contact details and rosters of 400 artist managers. Seven years after the public site was launched, a professional site followed and within three years, "200 opera houses from

136-479: The Met to La Scala" were subscribers. The initial service offering for the 750 euro annual subscription fee had increased artist information and an opera casting tool. The casting tool was used for researching singers for a given role, but was particularly valued for finding replacement singers when there were emergency cancellations. The tool could not only put forward the names of all of the singers who had sung that role, but

153-502: The Operabase list from sound clips of Maria Callas . In the five seasons 2008/09 to 2012/13, 2415 different works from 1161 different composers were played. The most popular composers were: More than 600 of the composers played in this period were still alive. The most frequently programmed of these were Philip Glass , Hans Werner Henze , and John Adams . Kaija Saariaho was the most played female composer, living or dead. Throughout

170-488: The United States are members of the organization including such opera companies as the Metropolitan Opera , San Francisco Opera , Lyric Opera of Chicago , and Dallas Opera . Opera America also includes opera companies from Canada. The organization was founded in 1970 and has been led by President and CEO Marc A. Scorca since 1990. In April 2014, advisers from Opera America worked with San Diego Opera to develop

187-400: The artist schedules could be used to find if they were available, and the artists management and contact information could be used to make contact. In 2019, Arts Consolidated ApS, a Danish company specialising in performing arts, acquired Operabase. The relaunch of Operabase meant constructing a site as a Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA) that “provides a flexible interface that responds to

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204-517: The general public, with opera house tours, open rehearsals, talks and special events (both in and outside the conventional spaces). The first European Opera Days were held in 2007, and since then have taken place each year on the weekend closest to the EU's Europe Day , 9 May. Opera Europa is the lead partner behind the Opera Platform, a service launched in May 2015 to offer free live streams of operas via

221-570: The merger of the European Opera Network and the Eurolyrica associations. It had 233 member companies in 44 different countries as of October 2023. For the benefit of its member companies, it runs forums, databases, a quarterly newsletter, and twice-yearly conferences, and offers reciprocal membership benefits with Opera America . Opera Europa co-ordinates the annual European Opera Days when opera companies across Europe open their doors to

238-584: The needs of individual users.” The database was operated by Gibb and Muriel Denzler. As has been noted by Gibb and Denzler in an article on the website of Opera Europa (the European opera service organisation similar to those which exist in the US and Canada, Opera America and Opera.ca) they provide specialised services to opera professionals, with the site including "casting tools, artist records, management details, productions information". But they emphasise that "the site

255-532: The opera Dead Man Walking (2000, Jake Heggie ). In the 2015/16 season, the cities with the most opera performances were: Opera Europa Opera Europa is the international service organisation for professional opera companies and opera festivals in Europe. It is incorporated in Brussels as a not-for-profit organisation. With roots going back to 1995, Opera Europa gained its present format and name in 2002, on

272-513: The web. The three-year project to stream one free production every month received half of its 3.9 million euro budget from the European Union's Creative Europe programme, the other half coming from the 15 opera companies providing the content. The Franco-German TV network Arte is providing the technological platform. The Opera Platform won the Accessibility category in the 2016 edition of

289-500: Was originally created for the general public, who still provide 96% of its users". Operabase is now available in 34 languages and provides services to opera professionals for a fee, although the site is searchable by any web user at no charge. The professional services are available to companies, festivals, opera houses, theatres, orchestras, choruses, agencies, artists, academia and journalists. The site remains searchable by any web users at no charge. In autumn 2010, Operabase produced

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