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
Spanish opera Manuel de Falla's "Atlàntida" (1962 posth.), Enrique Granados' one-act opera "Goyescas", Tomás Bretón's "La Dolores", and the English-language operas of Isaac Albéniz - "Merlin", "Henry Clifford" and "Pepita Jiménez" for London and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Manuel Garcia's Italian-language operas "L'amante astuto" ("The astute lover") and "La figlia dell' aria" ("The daughter of the air") had been performed in New York during the 19th Century but Spanish opera waited till the 20th Century. In the Americas operas include Alberto Ginastera's "Bomarzo," (New York 1967) and Mexican composer Daniel Catán's "Florencia en el Amazonas" (Houston 1996). Spanish opera Spanish opera