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Tacoma

United States

We are Tacoma’s own professional opera company, proudly serving the south Puget Sound region and the entire Pacific Northwest by offering traditional and non-traditional operatic productions in an intimate, atmospheric setting that allows our audiences to experience opera in a uniquely personal way, touching the heart and stimulating the mind. With every production, we strive to engage and move our audiences to the fullest, so that at the end of each performance, everyone goes home feeling uplifted and renewed.

Tacoma Opera

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New York City

Taconic Opera

Harbord Village

Canada

Tafelmusik

Tahoe  Symphony Orchestra

Dushanbe

Tajikistan

Tajik State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Copenhagen

Denmark

Takkelloftet

Tampere

Finland

Tampere Hall is an event company and a big and bright culture and conference centre. We are situated in the heart of Tampere, the third largest city in Finland.

Our Main Auditorium accommodates up to 2.000 people, and the charming Sorsapuisto Park Hall is perfect for large exhibitions or parties. Tampere Hall turns all events from meetings to concerts into unforgettable experiences.

We have been voted as the best conference centre in Finland seven times in a row. Tampere Hall is also known for impressive acoustics and has great concerts and other cultural events all round the year.

Our visitors can enjoy delicious food and sparkling drinks at à la carte restaurant Tuhto and buy wonderful gifts at Tampere Hall Shop.

Tampere Hall is an event promoter and a venue operator. We produce concerts and events in our centre, and also all over in Finland. Our event agency, Events Tampere, produces corporate events and provides congress services in Finland.

The organization’s Managing Director is Ms. Paulina Ahokas. Tampere Hall’s turnover and other income is amounted to a total of EUR 14,6 million in 2019.

Tampere Hall Ltd was founded in 1987, and its only shareholder is the city of Tampere.

As being one of the largest conference and concert centres in the Nordic countries, we have 675.000 visitors per year, organize approximately 1 100 events and inject EUR 50 million into the local economy.

We also provide a home for Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and the world’s only Moomin Museum. The Courtyard by Marriott Tampere City is located next to Tampere Hall.

Our doors are open to everyone, brighten up your day with Tampere Hall!

Tampere Hall

Tampereen Ooppera

London

United Kingdom

Tangram is a London-based music collective growing transnational community by creatively celebrating Chinese cultures. ​

Made up of researchers, composers and performers of Chinese and western instruments, the group launched in 2019 as recipients of the Chinese Arts Now Artist Development Bursary and winners of Nonclassical's Battle of the Bands. They have worked with the London Symphony Orchestra, Silk Road Ensemble, New Earth Theatre, and are currently Associate Ensemble at SOAS University of London. Most recently, they have been announced as recipients of Jerwood Arts' inaugural Live Work Fund and Genesis Foundation's Kickstarter Fund.

Tangram's compositions and performances delve into the richness and multiplicity of transnational Chinese experience, encouraging audiences to engage in nuanced cultural exchange and deep listening across perceived borders. Through the emotional languages of music, they hope to transcend the pervasive assumption that China and the West are mutually exclusive entities, in favour of imagining more interconnected futures.

New music forms a large part of Tangram's work as a way to expand the contemporary classical music space to include non-Eurocentric cultures. Highlights include commissions by Raymond Yiu (shortlisted for RPS Awards 2020), Sun Keting, Tonia Ko, Vivian Fung, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Shruthi Rajasekar, Robin Haigh and the premiere of Alex Ho's anti-opera, Untold (winner of George Butterworth Prize 2020).

Tangram are very grateful to the organisations and individuals who have supported their projects including Arts Council England, Jerwood Arts, Genesis Foundation, PRS Foundation, Countess of Munster Trust, Sound and Music, Britten-Pears Arts, and Help Musicians UK.

Tangram

Toronto

Tapestry Opera

Tarnhelm Opera

Lübeck

Germany

Taschenoper Lübeck

Kazan’

Russia

Татарский академический государственный театр оперы и балета имени Мусы Джалиля – один из крупнейших
музыкальных театров России, носитель традиций российской, мировой и татарской национальной музыкальной культуры.

Здание театра было построено в 1956 г. (архитекторы Скворцов и Гайнутдинов). Фасады и внутренние интерьеры театра выдержаны в стиле современного неоклассицизма и сочетают классические формы с татарскими национальными орнаментами и элементами декоративно-прикладного искусства. В 2005 г. театр перенес капитальную реконструкцию. Техническая оснащенность на уровне европейских стандартов, явившаяся результатом реконструкции, позволяет театру создавать новаторские спектакли со сложной сценографией, световыми эффектами. Формирование репертуара театра происходит по принципу антологии. Основу его составляют шедевры мирового музыкального театра, русская классика, а также выдающиеся произведения композиторов Татарстана. Ряд международных проектов, осуществленных в последние годы, позволяет театру находиться в русле новейших тенденций современного мирового музыкального театра.

Особенностью административно-художественной структуры театра является отказ от института «главных» (режиссер, балетмейстер, художник), благодаря чему театру вот уже много лет удается избегать столкновений творческих амбиций, в том числе монополии «главных», не пускающих на свою территорию конкурентов. В театре, одном из первых в стране, были введены должности руководителей оперной и балетной трупп, которые не являются постановщиками, но проводят в жизнь художественную и административную политику театра.

Благодаря имеющейся форме организации работы в театре его художественные границы значительно расширяются, от чего выигрывает, в первую очередь, зритель, ибо он получает возможность увидеть и услышать лучшее, что отобрано временем, а именно оперные и балетные шедевры. Благодаря введению контрактной системы с ее жесткой конкуренцией и возможностью широко использовать практику приглашения гастролеров, театр не только смог избежать посредственного уровня исполнения и, соответственно, пустых зрительных залов (средняя заполняемость зала театра составляет 96%), но и достиг того уровня, при котором ни один спектакль сегодня, не исключая и национального репертуара, не проходит без участия гастролеров. Кроме того, ни один спектакль не проходит и дважды в одном и том же составе, благодаря чему удается поддерживать премьерный уровень всех постановок театра и избежать их деления на событийные и рядовые.

С 1994 г. театр ежегодно проводит международные гастрольные турне по странам Европы (Голландия, Германия, Австрия, Швеция, Швейцария, Люксембург, Португалия, Дания, Франция, Великобритания и др.), в ходе которых представляет зарубежной публике до 120 спектаклей в год.

Tatar State Opera

Dundee

Tayside Opera

Tbilisi

Georgia

The history of the Opera theatre counts 170 years. The foundation of the so called Caravanserai Theatre, which would seat 800 spectators, was laid down on April 15, 1847 by the initiative of the Viceroy of the Caucasus, Adjutant General, Prince Mikhail Vorontsov. The construction of the building of the Theatre, under the supervision of the Italian architect, Scudieri lasted four years.

On April 12, 1851, the first opera theater in Transcaucasia held its Grand Opening with a masked ball, attended by the high society of Tbilisi. On October 25, same year, a popular Parisian newspaper L'Illustration printed a large article by Edmond de Bares with two pictures of the interior of the theater. The author wrote, “This is the only theatre in the city, the interior of which is totally Moorish in style, and is undoubtedly one of the most elegant, beautiful and fascinating theatrical constructions, percepted by man.”

The famous French writer Alexandre Dumas, who visited Tbilisi in 1858, dedicated a whole chapter to the Opera theatre in his book: “I must confess that as soon as I entered the lobby I was astonished by the simple and refined style of the ornament. I had a feeling as I entered the lobby of the Pompey Theatre. In the upper foyer the ornament was changed by Arabic carving. We entered the hall, which seemed to be the palace of fairies, not because of its rich decorations, but because of the fact that it was made with the most delicate taste. It is possible that much money was not spent on it, but I can say without hesitation that I, in my entire life, have never seen such a delightful hall..."

On November 9, 1851, a specially invited Italian troupe, under the conductorship of Barbieri, opened the first theatrical season in Tbilisi with Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. After the performance, which had a great success, the hosts led Barbieri and the troupe to the left bank of the Mtkvari (Kura) River for a public feast, where people celebrated on boats for the whole night.
 
Over the course of three months Barbieri made 12 different opera productions, among them: Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi, Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, Il barbieri de Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini and others. It is known that young Leo Tolstoy was among the guests, who attended the first performances of the Tbilisi Opera House. Teresa Stolz, who later became Verdi’s favourite soprano, made her operatic debut here in 1857.
 
For the second season of the newly opened Opera House, in 1852, St. Petersburg Ballet Company (featuring F. Manokhin and E. Panov) was invited to Tbilisi. The company presented the second act of Tagliani’s ballet La Sylphide and Polka-Vengerka. This was the first ballet performance in Tbilisi. A year later Fedor Manokhin staged the second act of Giselle. The first full-version ballet La Gitana by Auber/ Schmidt, with choreography by F. Taglioni followed in 1854, by Manokhin again.
 
Italian composers Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi were very popular among the music lovers in Tbilisi. At that time Italy had a national liberation war with the Austrian Empire, so the patriotic spirit of the great composers’ musical works was very familiar to Georgians, who also fought against the Russian Empire. 
 
Highly artistic and famous operas, which were staged in Europe, were performed at the Tbilisi Opera House quite soon after the original productions. The opera became people’s beloved show in Tbilisi. Taking into consideration all these circumstances, it was decided to establish a permanent opera troupe.

On October 11, 1874 Tbilisi Opera House was destroyed by the fire. Merchant Kazarov, who was accused of setting fire, was sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment in Siberia. But there were speculations about the involvement of top administrators. Opera moved to the ‘summer stage’ for 22 years. At this time a Russian composer Ipolitov-Ivanov became the director of the theatre; a Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky visited Georgia in 1886-1890; and a Great Russian singer, Feodor Chaliapin received his ‘stage baptism’ in Tbilisi too.
 
In 1896 on the Golovin Prospect (now Rustaveli Avenue) the construction of the new Opera House, designed by the architect Victor Schröter, was finished. The new building was calculated to have a seating capacity of 1200 (the present building of the Opera Theatre). This so called Treasury Theatre was opened on November 3, 1896 with Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tzar.

In the 80s and 90s of the 19th century Tbilisi saw performances of St. Petersburg Emperor Ballet Theatre, which featured Sofia Fedorova, Isadora Duncan, Vera Fokina and Mikhail Fokine. The stage of the Tbilisi Opera House was the venue for the foreign debut of Maria Perini, who studied under the Italian ballet dancer and teacher Enrico Cecchetti. She was the first to perform 32 consecutive fouettés for the Georgian audience. In 1897-1907, she was prima ballerina at the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. Her name is closely connected with the foundation of Georgian Ballet School.
 
Famous opera and ballet groups used to perform on this stage at various times: Italian Opera (1897-1898, 1910), Vienna Empire Operetta (1903), Moscow and St. Petersburg comic operas (1907), St. Petersburg Empire Ballet (1907-1908, 1913). The brilliant singers of the 19th and 20th centuries used to sing there: Chaliapin, Sibiryakov, Davydov, Sobinov, Ruffo, Giraldoni, etc.
 
The Tbilisi Philharmonic Society, founded in 1905, staged Russian and West European operas in the Georgian language, thus contributing to further democratization of opera art and attracting wider layers of the society. 
 
All this, together with the Georgian singing and poetic traditions, contributed to the creation of the Georgian national opera.

The first Georgian opera is connected to the name of Meliton Balanchivadze (father of George Balanchine). Fragments of his opera Tamar Tsbieri (Tamar the Wily) were performed on December 20, 1897 in St. Petersburg, though at the Tbilisi Opera Theatre its full production was only made in 1925-1926. The first Georgian opera, performed on the stage of the Tbilisi Opera House, was Christine by Revaz Gogniashvili (June 17, 1918), though the first classic examples of this genre are believed to be the operas staged in 1919 on the stage of the Tbilisi Opera Theatre: on February 5, Dimitry Arakishvili’s Legend of Shota Rustaveli, on February 21, Zakaria Paliashvili’s Abesalom and Eteri, on December 11, Victor Dolidze’s Keto and Kote. 

These operas, from the very first performances have determined the national image of the Georgian Opera. Abesalom and Eteri by Zakaria Paliashvili has traditionally been the opening performance of the season at the Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Since 1937 the Opera theatre is named after the Georgian classicist and the greatest composer of all time, Zakaria Paliashvili.
 
The first classic ballet Mzechabuki (Heart of the mountains) by Andria Balanchivadze was staged in 1936 by Vakhtang Chabukiani, the greatest dancer and ballet-master of all time, one of the reformers of classical male dancing, nicknamed as “a wizard of dance”. Chabukiani founded Georgian Ballet art and influenced it for a long time. From 1929-1941 he worked at the Kirov Opera and Ballet (Mariinsky), performing all leading roles from the classical repertoire. Chabukiani returned to Tbilisi in 1941 and managed Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre Ballet Company until 1973, as well as created classic examples Georgian ballets. The distinguished ballet actors have danced on the stage of Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre:Lili Gvaramadze, Vera Tsignadze, Irina Aleksidze, Maria Bauer, Eter Chabukiani, Irina Jandieri, Liliana Mitaishvili, Zurab Kikaleishvili, Bakar Monavardisashvili, Tengiz Sanadze, Jarji Maghalashvili.

Vakhtang Chabukiani led the Tbilisi Choreographic School during 1950-1973. Some of the school graduates are world-acclaimed ballet dancers and ballet-masters: Nino Ananiashvili, Irma Nioradze, Igor Zelinski, Nika Tsiskaridze, Elene Glurjidze, Davit Makhateli, Davit and Lasha Khozashvilis, Vasil Akhmeteli and others.
 
Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre is proud of such wonderful soloists (who created and continued traditions of the Georgian opera school) as: Vano Sarajishvili, Sandro Inashvili, Niko Kumsiashvili, Davit Andghuladze, Petre Amiranashvili, Davit Gamrekeli, Davit Mchdelishvili, Batu Kraveishvili, Nadezhda Kharadze, Nadezhda Tsomaia, Vera Davidova, Meri Nakashidze, Zurab Anjaparidze, Nodar Andghuladze, Lamara Chkonia, Medea Amiranashvili, Tamar Gurgenidze, Tsisana Tatishvili, Paata Burchuladze, Temur Gugushvili, Liana Kalmakhelidze, Imeri Kavsadze, Jemal Mdivani, Eldar Getsadze, Makvala Kasrashvili, Zurab Sotkilava, Badri Maisuradze, Valerian Gamgebeli, Lado Ataneli, Gia Gagnidze, Naira Glunchadze, Eter Chkonia (Eter Lamorisi), Iano Alibegashvili (Iano Tamari), Nana Kavtarashvili (Miriani), Nino Surguladze, Tamar Javakhishvili (Tamar Iveri), Nino Machaidze and others. Famous Georgian conductors used to work in Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre: Ivane Paliashvili, Evgeni Mikeladze, Odyssey Dimitriadi, Vakhtang Paliashvili, Didim Mirtskhulava, Zaqaria Khurodze, Jansug Kakhidze; Directors: Aleksandre Tsutsunava, Kote Marjanishvili, Sandro Akhmeteli, Vakhtang Tabliashvili, Mikheil Tumanishvili, Giga Lortkipanidze, Gizo Zhordania, Guram Meliva, Robert Sturua, David Sakvarelidze; Artists: Valerian Sidamon-Eristavi, Sergo Kobuladze, Tamar Abakelia, SolikoVirsaladze, Ivane Askurava, Parnaoz Lapiashvili, Iuri Gegeshidze, Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili, Muraz Murvanidze and others.

Since the 30’s of the 20th century Georgian operas were performed not only on the stage of the Tbilisi Opera, but also abroad (in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Poland, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia). The Tbilisi opera and ballet companies had triumphant tours in a lot of countries, participated successfully in international festivals and forums. World famous opera singers, conductors, dancers have frequently been the welcome guests of the Tbilisi Theatre stage.
 
At the beginning of the 70s the ballet company had a new artistic director – George Aleksidze, Fyodor Lopukhov’s student. Aleksidze brought new aesthetics to the theatre - neoclassical ballets became a part of the repertoire along with classical works. The company’s next artistic director through 1982-1985 was Mikhail Lavrovsky, the internationally known Bolshoi Theatre dancer and choreographer.
 
The important episodes of the artistic biography of the famous Georgian conductor Djansugh Kakhidze are also connected to the Tbilisi Opera Theatre. He came there as a conductor in 1962; later he became a principal conductor (1965-68) and artistic director (1982-2002).
 
After the fire in 1973 almost the whole interior of the building was destroyed - the very famous, stunning curtain by Sergo Kobuladze, costumes, stage properties, details, museum items, archive materials were burnt. In 1978, the theatre building was restored to its original form (architects: Leri Medzmariashvili, Murtaz Chachanidze). The authors of the reconstruction have succeeded in maintaining the Eastern, pseudo-Moorish style of the building. Six rehearsal halls were made (three of them – for ballet, two – for opera and one - for orchestra). In the foyer of the Theatre, three remarkable halls, the so-called Red Hall, Mirror/Blue Halls, hosted vocal and chamber concerts, exhibitions and meetings of various kinds.

In 1986-2004 the general manager of the theatre was Zurab Lomidze, who was followed by the director David Sakvarelidze (2004-2012); the conductor Giorgi Zhordania (General Manager) and Giorgi Kiladze (director of the theatre) were the heads of the theatre after him. In 2005-2009 conductor Zaza Azmaiparashvili was the artistic director. In 2011-2014 – the music director and principal conductor was Gianluca Marciano. In 2014-16 the artistic director was Davit Kintsurashvili and the General Manager was Alexandre Motsonelidze.

Since November 14, 2016, Badri Maysuradze (Tenor) has been the artistic director and the general manager of the theatre.

Since 2004, an outstanding ballerina, Nina Ananiashvili has been the artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia. The repertoire now includes ballets by Balanchine, Ashton, Bournonville, Kylián, as well as works of contemporary choreographers, well known choreographers and ballet masters like Mikhail Lavrovsky, Frank Andersen, Alexander Grant, Bart Cook, Denis Bonner, Margaret Barbieri, Trey McIntyre, Alexei Fadeyechev, Yuri Possokhov, Ben Stevenson, Nancy Euverink, Ken Ossola, Patrick Delcroix, Brigitte Martin work with the company; costumes and scenery are prepared by Alexandre Vassiliev, Vyacheslav Okunev, David Monavardisashvili; performances in Tbilisi are often conducted by Sergei Stadler, Alexander Sotnikov, Robert Cole; actors who perform alongside the State Ballet of Georgia include Ángel Corella, Andrei Uvarov, Sergei Filin, Igor Zelensky, Irma Nioradze, Tamara Rojo, David Makhateli, Maia Makhateli, Elena Glurjidze, etc.

The huge international project of repairing the theatre building started in 2010 (architect Leri Medzmariashvili). Apart from the international foundation Kartu, which was the major sponsor, some other foreign companies (Gerriets and Salzbrenner Media, Germany; Wagner, Austria; Svetlost, Serbia) also took part in the process.
 
The foundation was strengthened; the roof was covered with copper sheets. the painting of the theatre interior, stage mechanism, the material and technical equipment of the theatre was renewed, the orchestra pit became larger, Djansug Kakhidze rehearsal hall was rebuilt, open verandas and a space for exhibitions were added. The garden around the theatre, where composer Zakaria Paliashvili, tenors: Vano Sarajishvili and Zurab Anjaparidze and conductor Odyssey Dimitriadi are buried, became larger. The “visiting card” of the theatre, the iconic stage curtain created by Sergo Kobuladze in 1960, which was burned in fire, returned to the stage recreated.
 
After 5 years of the renovation, the whole Georgia, as well as 700 members of the staff with their Artistic Director of the Theatre celebrated a grandiose re-opening of the theatre.

Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre

Aalborg

Teater Nordkraft

Częstochowa

Poland

Teatr im Adama Mickiewicza

Perm

Teatr-Teatr

Warsaw

The Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera is the home of the Polish National Opera, the Polish National Ballet, the Opera Gallery and the Theatre Museum. It hosts opera and ballet performances, concerts, exhibitions, workshops for artists, educational classes for the youngest ones, while its backstage workshops and rehearsal rooms are buzzing with activity. It is also used as a venue for special events, such as film premieres, conferences, or galas.

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa

Poznan

Teatr Wielki Stanisława Moniuszko in Poznań, boasting over a hundred years of tradition, has been occupying an increasingly important position not only on the Polish but also European opera map for several seasons. Since Renata Borowska-Juszczyńska took over the management (2012), the Poznań opera house has significantly expanded its repertoire and has become a recognizable brand as an institution boldly reaching for contemporary stage productions and acting as a patron towards young artists. Thanks to the active activity in the Opera Europa association, the Poznań theater takes part in the OperaVision project, the aim of which is to make performances available on the streaming platform. Reviews and information about the Poznań opera house appear regularly in the media in the United States, Italy, France, Denmark and Germany. Each year, the theater is awarded with many awards.Parii (June 2019) was recognized as one of the most important events of the Moniuszko Year. In addition, the performance itself and its producers won as many as five nominations for the Theater Music Awards. Jan Kiepura.

 

 

Mission



 

The dynamic development of the Grand Theater is the result of activities included in the mission of the Poznań stage: reach viewers from various social groups, do not restrict yourself to an elite group of experts, familiarize the audience with the specificity of the theater through systematic educational activities conducted in a participatory formula and site-type performances. specific ". These assumptions are perfectly described by the slogan accompanying the last seasons: #operaotwia and the belief that international recognition is gained through local activities - they - metaphorically speaking - carry Poznań's Teatr Wielki on the wings of Pegasus.

Teatr Wielki Poznań

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Tacoma Opera	Tacoma, United States	CompanyView profile
Taconic Opera	New York City, United States	CompanyView profile
Tafelmusik	Harbord Village, Canada	CompanyView profile
Tahoe Symphony Orchestra	United States	CompanyView profile
Tajik State Opera and Ballet Theatre	Dushanbe, Tajikistan	CompanyView profile
Takkelloftet	Copenhagen, Denmark	CompanyView profile
Tampere Hall	Tampere, Finland	CompanyView profile
Tampereen Ooppera	Tampere, Finland	CompanyView profile
Tangram	London, United Kingdom	CompanyView profile
Tapestry Opera	Toronto, Canada	CompanyView profile
Tarnhelm Opera	United Kingdom	CompanyView profile
Taschenoper Lübeck	Lübeck, Germany	CompanyView profile
Tatar State Opera	Kazan’, Russia	CompanyView profile
Tayside Opera	Dundee, United Kingdom	CompanyView profile
Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre	Tbilisi, Georgia	CompanyView profile
Teater Nordkraft	Aalborg, Denmark	CompanyView profile
Teatr im Adama Mickiewicza	Częstochowa, Poland	CompanyView profile
Teatr-Teatr	Perm, Russia	CompanyView profile
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