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Founded in 1948 as the Charlotte Music Club with a budget of $125, Opera Carolina today is the largest professional opera company in the Carolinas.

 Each year, Opera Carolina presents four main stage productions, an annual holiday production of Amahl & The Night Visitors, and acclaimed education and outreach programs to more than 70,000 citizens in the Carolinas. New this season is Opera Carolina's first Valentine's Day concert, Love Notes. The 2007/2008 season opens in October with a journey to 19^th-century Austria in Charles Gounod's operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare's masterpiece Roméo et Juliette. The journey continues to Egypt in January with a tale of love versus duty in Verdi's Aida, then Mozart's Don Giovanni takes us to 17^th-century Spain in March. The season will come to a close in Vienna with the comic operetta by Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus. An excellent roster of guest artists joins the Opera Carolina Chorus and the Charlotte Symphony for a season that will thrill and move the opera fan and the novice alike.