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 in Latin America work, such as in his operas "Il Guarany" and "Lo schiavo". The nineteenth-century opera "Guatimotzin" by Mexican composer Aniceto Ortega was the first conscious attempt to incorporate pre-Hispanic elements into the formal characteristics of opera. Other important 19th-century Mexican operas are "Agorante, rey de la Nubia" by Miguel Meneses (premiered during the commemorative festivities for the birthday of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico), "Pirro de Aragón" by Leonardo Canales, and "Keofar" by Felipe Villanueva. The operatic works of Melesio Morales are the most important in Mexico in the 19th century. His operas "Romeo y Julieta", "Ildegonda", "Gino Corsini", and "Cleopatra"