Opera Vista was a nonprofit chamber opera company in

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, founded in 2006 by conductor and artistic director Viswa Subbaraman, sopran
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The company aimed to promote and perform new and contemporary works, and to attract new and younger audiences who may be unaccustomed to opera. Subbaraman stated that the idea for the company grew out of a desire to see people his own age attending opera: "It started with a bunch of friends at a bar, talking about the fact that our peers didn't go to opera or classical music. We started to talk about ways to make that happen - and out of that came Opera Vista." In addition to performing lesser-known and lesser-performed works, the company presented many premieres of new and contemporary works, including the World Premieres of James D. Norman’s ''Wake…'', R. Timothy Brady's ''Edelat Square'', Line Tjornhoj’s ''Anorexia Sacra'', and

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's ''The Silent Prince''. Opera Vista also held an annual competition for composers of contemporary chamber opera.

References

External links

Opera Vista website
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