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The Gotham Chamber Opera is New York City's premier opera company dedicated to the highest quality productions of chamber operas. Founded by Artistic Director Neal Goren in 2000 as the Henry Street Chamber Opera, the company fills a unique niche for New York: it produces intimate operatic works intended for a small space, offering audiences opera that is not a distant spectacle but immediate, involving, and powerful theater. In the Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center, an intimate 350-seat theater on the Lower East Side, the company first presented the American premiere of Mozart's Il Sogno di Scipione (1771), staged by Christopher Alden and described by The New York Times as "a propitious debut." Soon after, the company produced a double-bill of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689) together with Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orphee (1924), again garnering rave reviews. Two more American premieres followed in November of 2002 with Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's 1928 Dada opera, Les Larmes du Couteau (The Tears of the Knife), and 1935 Hlas Lesa (The voice of the Forest). After incorporating as an independent 501(c)3 organization in 2003, the newly renamed Gotham Chamber Opera continued its emphasis on overlooked treasures with the American Premiere of Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister's 1935 masterpiece Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Widow), a haunting piece of 20th-century music drama...