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
Critical edition (opera) Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Giuseppe Verdi, in addition to many other relatively minor composers who composed many works. But, as musicologist Ellen Rosand also notes, "the editing of operatic works from the 17th century, the 18th century and 19th century provides many considerable challenges. In an online essay – "What is a critical edition?: Answers to Questions You Never Thought to Ask" – which focuses primarily on Rossini, musicologist Patricia Brauner of the Center for Italian Opera Studies at the University of Chicago explains several different aspects of a critical edition, including the process of producing published editions and