Boston Opera Company
The Boston Opera Company( BOC) was an American opera company located in Boston, Massachusetts, that was active from 1909 to 1915.
Century Opera Company
The Century Opera Company was a New York City opera company.
Fujiwara Opera
The is an opera company located in Tokyo, Japan, and is notably that nation's first and oldest professional opera company.
Second Movement Opera
Second Movement Opera is an opera company in the United Kingdom.
American Opera Company
The American Opera Company was the name of four different opera companies active in the United States.
The first company was a short- lived opera company founded in New York City in February, 1886 that lasted only one season.
The second company was based out of Rochester, New York, and was active from the mid-1920s up until 1930 when it went bankrupt not too long after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
The third opera company was a short lived company located in Trenton, New Jersey that was active in 1937.
The fourth and last opera company was actively performing in Philadelphia from 1946 through 1950.
Berkshire Opera Company
The Berkshire Opera Company was an American opera company located in Lee, Massachusetts.
The company was founded in 1985 by Rex Hearn and closed in 2009.
Amongst the highlights of the company's history were: Performances were held at Cranwell Opera House from 1985 until 1992, when the Opera company sought new venues: Pittsfield's Colonial Theatre and The Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Updates added by Rex Hearn, Founder& President Emeritus of Berkshire Opera Company, also Music Critic of Palm Beach Daily News and palmbeachartspaper.com
The Beggars' Guild
The Beggars' Guild is an American rock band from the state of Georgia.
It s four members are influenced musically by Americana and roots music.
They create music in the style of bands such as Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, Counting Crows, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Black Crowes, Pedro The Lion, Rich Mullins, Cracker, and Del Amitri.
In 2006, they released their first album, an EP called Breaking Me Down.
Breaking Me Down was released on the Favorite Gentlemen imprint.
Chicago City Opera Company
The Chicago City Opera Company was a grand opera company in Chicago, organized from the remaining assets of the bankrupt Chicago Grand Opera Company, that produced four seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1935 to 1939 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties.
It was succeeded by the Chicago Opera Company.
MGM actress Betty Jaynes, at age 15, made her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company on December 6, 1936.
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Two grand opera companies in Chicago have gone by the name Chicago Grand Opera Company
The first Chicago Grand Opera Company produced four seasons of opera in Chicago's Auditorium Theater from the Fall of 1910 through January, 1914.
It was the first resident Chicago opera company, and was formed mostly from an arrangement to acquire the assets of Oscar Hammerstein's dissolved Manhattan Opera Company.
The company also spent several months each year performing in the city of Philadelphia where it performed at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House under the name the Philadelphia- Chicago Grand Opera Company in order to" satisfy the civic pride" of that city.
The company notably presented the world premieres of Victor Herbert's" Natoma"( 1911) and Attilio Parelli's" I dispettosi amanti"( 1912).
The company also mounted the United States premieres of Jean Nouguès's" Quo vadis"( 1911), Karl Goldmark's" Das Heimchen am Herd"( 1912), and Alberto Franchetti's" Cristoforo Colombo"( 1913).
Notable performers who sang with the company included Paul Althouse, Marguerite Bériza, Alfredo Costa, Armand Crabbé, Charles Dalmorès, Dora de Phillippe, Enrica Clay Dillon, Jenny Dufau, Hector Dufranne, Minnie Egener, Amy Evans, Mary Garden, Jeanne Gerville- Réache, Orville Harrold, Gustave Huberdeau, Frances Ingram, Lydia Lipkowska, Vanni Marcoux, Carmen Melis, Lucien Muratore, Giovanni Polese, Albert Reiss, Myrna Sharlow, Tarquinia Tarquini, Luisa Tetrazzini, Alice Zeppilli, and Nicola Zerola among others.
After a season with no performances, the company was re-formed as the Chicago Opera Association, which ran from 1915- 1921, and was re-constituted as the Chicago Civic Opera, which ran from 1921- 1932.
The second Chicago Grand Opera Company was an attempt to keep opera going in Chicago after the collapse of the Chicago Civic Opera in 1932.
It produced three seasons of opera at the Civic Opera House from 1933 to 1935 before it too succumbed to financial difficulties.
It was succeeded by the Chicago City Opera Company, 1936- 1939, and then the Chicago Opera Company, 1940- 1946.
There was no resident opera company after that until 1954, when the Lyric Theatre of Chicago was established, and re-named Lyric Opera of Chicago two years later.
Early Opera Company
The Early Opera Company is a British ensemble dedicated to the performance of baroque operas using period instruments.
It was founded in 1994 by Christian Curnyn.
Handel's operas feature prominently in its repertoire, and the Company has given notable performances of" Acis and GalateaDido and Aeneas Agrippina" in New York," Orlando" at the South Bank Centre Early Music Festival and" Partenope" at the Linbury Studio Theatre.
They have also recorded" Partenope" and" Semele" for the Chaconne label on Chandos Records.
The recording of" Semele" was awarded the Handel Prize in 2008.
Soloists who have performed with the company include Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood and Jonathan Biss.
They performed at the Lufthansa Baroque Music Festival in May 2009 with John Eccles's" The Judgment of Paris" in one its first ever performances.
The ensemble also made the premiere recording of the work for Chandos Records.

Question: Are both bands, Early Opera Company and The Beggars' Guild, from the same country?
Answer: no