Opera North (U.S.A.)

Opera North (U.S.A.)

Opera North is an opera company based in Lebanon, New Hampshire,[1] and is the region's oldest professional opera company.[2] The company presents an annual summer season of two fully staged operas. Opera North productions are staged at the Lebanon Opera House. Opera North is a member of OPERA America.

Opera North was founded as the Light Opera of Norwich in 1981 as an offshoot of the Parish Players, a community theater in Thetford, Vermont by the late David Strohmier. At this time the company was merely a non-profit community theater organization. Under Strohmier's leadership the company focused mostly on light opera and operettas with a particular focus on the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Strohmier worked closely with Louis Burkot, the then director of the Dartmouth Glee Club. After Strohmier’s departure in 1987, Burkot became artistic director of the company and began moving Opera North towards a more serious operatic repertoire.

The 1988 Opera North hired producer Flo Klausner and opera director Ron Luchsinger for the company's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Since then Klausner has served as executive producer for many of Opera North's productions, and Luchsinger has become Director of Productions for the company. Klausner and Luchsinger were involved in changing Opera North into a professional regional opera company. In 1996, Opera North hired executive director Patricia Compton and officially became a professional opera company. Compton stayed with the company until 2006 when Risa Bridges-Hall joined Opera North as the first full-time executive director of the company.[3]

References

  1. ^ Wren, Christopher S. (June 30, 1996). "What's doing along the Connecticut River". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/travel/what-s-doing-along-the-connecticut-river.html. 
  2. ^ Lowe, Jim (August 17, 2008). "'Magic Flute' entertaining, but not more". Rutland Herald. http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080817/NEWS/808170405/1004/NEWS03. 
  3. ^ Opera North: Directors

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