Mill City Summer Opera dramas for the summer arts audience in the Twin Cities every year since, with productions of Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" in 2013; Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" in 2014; Gaetano Donizetti's "La fille du régiment" in 2015; Stephen Sondheim's "" in 2016; and Ástor Piazzolla's "María de Buenos Aires" in 2017. In addition, the organization has offered alternative educational and contemporary programming, including opera scenes featuring emerging artists in the opera field and fusion programming. Mill City Summer Opera Mill City Summer Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera in Minneapolis. It produces one opera per
Finnish National Opera being "The Barber of Seville" in 1849. However, the Finnish Opera company soon plunged into a financial crisis and folded in 1879. During its six years of operation, Bergbom’s opera company had given 450 performances of a total of 26 operas, and the company had managed to demonstrate that opera can be sung in Finnish too. After the disbandment of the Finnish Opera, the opera audiences of Helsinki had to confine themselves to performances of visiting opera companies and occasional opera productions at the Finnish National Theatre. The reincarnation of the Finnish opera institution took place about 30 years later.