The little OPERA theatre of ny (LOTNY) is a chamber opera company that was founded in 2004.

Last spring, the little OPERA theatre of ny [LOTNY] produced American One Acts, a double bill at the Baruch Performing ArtsCenter. The production paired Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still, libretto by Verna Arvey, with Down in the Valley by Kurt Weill, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard. The NY Classical Review credited little OPERA for “brightly reviving a pair of American rarities” and calling the performances “outstanding.”

Since its founding, the little OPERA theatre of ny has presented four NY Stage Premieres: Britten/Piper’s Owen Wingrave; Hasse/Coltellini’s Piramo e Tisbe; Floyd’s Prince of Players; Mozart/Cigna-Santi’s Mitridate, re di Ponto; two US stage premieres: Saint- Georges/Desfontaines/De Genlis’ L’ Amant Anonyme; Cui/Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of the Plague; one world premiere: Zaretsky/Kharms’ Man in a Black Coat; and commissioned a new translation of Mozart/Metastasio’s Il re pastore as The Shepherd King from Mark Herman & Ronnie Apter.

LOTNY’s production of Owen Wingrave was noted in Opera News as “(a) shadowy, haunting, attractive production...superbly prepared.” Piramo e Tisbe again heralded by Opera News as “superlative [and] an excellent and irrefutable case for programming this rare work, [with] indelible performances that should count among the finest and most complete interpretations heard in New York this season.” The NY premiere of Prince of Players was praised by The New York Times as “well made and stylish” and for being “delightful, impressive, [and] affecting” in the NY Classical Review. LOTNY’s concerts have included Past & Present on Governors Island; This Little Light of Mine at Merkin Concert Hall; The Bohemians at Socrates Sculpture Park and Floydiana at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. lotny.org