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William Mount-Burke, LOOM's founder and artistic director. Light Opera of Manhattan, known as LOOM, was an off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light operas, including the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and European and American operettas, 52 weeks per year, in New York City between 1968 and 1989.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island; Glimmerglass Festival; Gotham Chamber Opera (closed 2015) Heartbeat Opera; Hubbard Hall Opera Theater; Hudson Lyric Opera; Hudson Opera Theatre; La Gran Scena Opera Company; Opera Saratoga, formerly Lake George Opera; Liederkranz Opera Theater; Light Opera of Manhattan (closed 1992)
In the 1980s, it was played regularly by the Light Opera of Manhattan and revived by the New York City Opera. [4] It is a popular piece for community light opera groups. The story is a version of plots such as The Scarlet Pimpernel , Zorro and later Superman , where a hero adopts a mild-mannered disguise to keep his true identity a secret.
The nascent group's first performance was in Straus Park, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, on July 14, 1974 as part of a street fair. In the early years of the company, singers were drawn from Columbia University and from the semi-pro New York theatre community, including Vincent La Selva's opera
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, [1] and length of the work. [2] Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. [3]
Davis died Saturday at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia, his manager, Jonathan Brill of Opus 3 Artists, said Sunday. Davis made his Lyric Opera debut in 1986 and led about 700 performances ...
Not long after the company closed, a new professional Gilbert and Sullivan company grew up in residence at the Jan Hus, the Light Opera of Manhattan (LOOM). The American Savoyards' then principal comic, Raymond Allen , joined LOOM, [ 10 ] and Raedler sold many of the company's costumes and stage properties to the new company.
Edwin Lester (30 March 1895 – 13 December 1990) was an American theatre director, impresario, and producer.. He was the longtime general director of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, which he founded in 1938.