Opera a la Carte (UK) Opera a la Carte (UK) Opera a la Carte is a UK-based chamber opera company located in London. It was founded in 1993 by its present General Director, Nicholas Heath, who was a member of the chorus of the Royal Opera from 1993 to 2006. Since 1996, its wide range of operas performed runs from "La traviata" to the 2011 season "Rigoletto" taking in the popular Mozart operas such as "Don Giovanni" and "The Marriage of Figaro" and those of Puccini, such as "Tosca" and "La boheme". There are more thrills and spills in a terrific, tiny- budget “Tosca” from
Opera the 19th century was Ferenc Erkel, whose works mostly dealt with historical themes. Among his most often performed operas are "Hunyadi László" and "Bánk bán". The most famous modern Hungarian opera is Béla Bartók's "Duke Bluebeard's Castle". Stanisław Moniuszko's opera "Straszny Dwór" (in English "The Haunted Manor") (1861–64) represents a nineteenth-century peak of Polish national opera. In the 20th century, other operas created by Polish composers included "King Roger" by Karol Szymanowski and "Ubu Rex" by Krzysztof Penderecki. The first known opera from Turkey (the Ottoman Empire) was "Arshak II", which was an Armenian opera composed by an ethnic Armenian