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The Norwegian Opera Company ( no, Norsk Operaselskap A/S) was an opera company in
Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
. The Norwegian Opera Company was established in 1950 by the Brunvoll brothers with the aim of having a fixed location as well as operating as a traveling company. The artistic director was the opera singer
Jonas Brunvoll Jonas Brunvoll (3 August 1920 – 6 April 1982) was a Norwegian opera singer and actor. Personal life Brunvoll was born in Bærum; the son of Jonas Brunvoll and Kirsten Sørsdal, and was a brother of Gunnar Brunvoll. During the Occupatio ...
in collaboration with the Hungarian conductor István Pajor, and the impresario and administrative manager was Gunnar Brunvoll. Already in its first year, the company received a government grant of
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15,000. It collaborated with New Norwegian Ballet () starting in 1953. The company was shut down in 1958; its fixed operations were merged into the newly established
Norwegian National Opera and Ballet The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet ( no, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, links=no) is a Norwegian opera company and ballet company. The first fully professional company each for opera and ballet in Norway and the only such professional organisati ...
, and its traveling operations into the National Opera (), the former touring component of the Norwegian National Opera.


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