Tacoma Opera is the Pacific Northwest's second-largest professional
opera company located in
Tacoma,
WA and is a member of
OPERA America. The company presents two to three operas a year. The 2015-16 season includes ''
Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...
'', ''
Die Fledermaus'', and ''
The Threepenny Opera''.
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/ref> After several online endeavors during the pandemic, the company reemerged in 2022 with The Drunken Tenor's Operapalooza Spectacular Shindig, Carmina Burana with Tacoma City Ballet, and Tacoma Method.
History
Tacoma Opera was founded in 1968. While the company initially enjoyed several years of success, the company folded in the late 1970s. In 1981, Hans Wolf, then director of community outreach for Seattle Opera, successfully rebounded the company with the help of Pacific Lutheran University's then dean Richard Moe and the PLU fine arts staff. Wolf then served as the company's general director until the late 1990s, during which time Tacoma Opera produced several premieres, including the West Coast premiere of Offenbach's '' Christopher Columbus'' and the world premiere of Seattle composer Carol Sams
Carol Sams (born 1945) is an American composer based in the Seattle area. She earned a Master of Arts in Music from Mills College and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Washington. One of her teachers was Darius Milhaud. In 1976 her op ...
' '' The Pied Piper of Hamelin''. The current General Director, Limuel Forgey, succeeded the former director, Noel Koran, in February 2023.
References
External links
November 2007 News Tribune Article
March 2008 Tacoma Weekly Article
American opera companies
Musical groups established in 1968
Performing arts in Washington (state)
Musical groups from Tacoma, Washington
Organizations based in Tacoma, Washington
1968 establishments in Washington (state)
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