Opera Lyra Ottawa (OLO) is a non-profit professional opera company based in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in 1984 by Canadian soprano Diana Gilchrist after the demise of the National Arts Centre's annual summer opera productions. The company performs fully staged and concert version operas in their original language with French and English surtitles at the National Arts Centre as well as running outreach and young artist programs. As of the 2012/2013 season, John Peter "Jeep" Jefferies is its General Director and Tyrone Paterson is its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor.
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“He rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you?”
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