Pennsylvania Opera Theater di San Domingo" (1982), Weil's "The Threepenny Opera" (1984), Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (1987), Henry Purcell's "The Fairy-Queen" (1988), and Robert Ward's "The Crucible" (1989). The company's final performance was of Mozart's "Così fan tutte" on May 14, 1993 at the Merriam Theater with Jennifer Jones as Fiordiligi, Janine Hawley as Dorabella, Matthew Lau as Guglielmo, Robert Baker as Ferrando, Sara Seglem as Despina, and Robert Holden as Don Alfonso. Pennsylvania Opera Theater The Pennsylvania Opera Theater (TPOT) was an American opera company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1975 by Barbara Silverstein, the company presented an annual
Doctor Ox's Experiment (opera) approached Blake Morrison in May 1988 with the suggestion of working on an opera based on Verne's novella. At the time Morrison knew neither the Verne story nor Bryars's music but he agreed to the proposal after a lunchtime meeting with the composer. They worked together on a concert piece which was premiered as "Doctor Ox's Experiment (Epilogue)" by the soprano Sarah Leonard and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble in November 1988. Both composer and librettist were distracted by other projects but Dennis Marks, who had moved from the BBC to become General Director of ENO, commissioned a full-scale opera to