New national opera company launches with a song of love and loss
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When four singers get up on the Federation Square stage on Friday evening to perform a modern opera about love and loss, it marks the birth of a new national opera company, with ambitious plans to bring new audiences to opera, and take opera to new places.
The Australian Contemporary Opera Company (pronounce it “A-coco” for short) has not appeared from nowhere. It is a rebranding of Gertrude Opera, founded as The Opera School Melbourne in 2008.