Founding Resident Companies
The Long Center for the Performing Arts provides a permanent home for the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera, and Ballet Austin.
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Founded in 1911, the Austin Symphony Orchestra is Austin’s oldest performing arts group and has enhanced the quality of Austin’s cultural life for generations, providing excellence in music performance. The Symphony also offers a wide array of innovative, nationally-recognized youth programs that touch the lives of more than 90,000 young people each year. Led by music director and conductor, Peter Bay, the Symphony provides an enormously entertaining range of classical, pops and family concerts that take audiences on a musical journey throughout the ages and around the world.
For more information about the Austin Symphony click here.
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Austin Lyric Opera, founded in 1986, has become a cultural touchstone for the fine arts community in Central Texas and has gained national and international acclaim as a producer of great opera. From farce to tragedy, rare to well known and classic to contemporary, ALO is committed to producing and promoting outstanding opera that entertains, enriches and educates the community. The Armstrong Community Music School is a vital part of ALO with music lessons representing a range of styles and a multitude of world cultures. General Director Kevin Patterson leads ALO and Richard Buckley is Principal Conductor.
For more information about the Austin Lyric Opera click here.
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Founded in 1956, Ballet Austin has emerged as one of America’s premier ballet organizations, projecting a unique style of movement and a strong commitment to innovation. As distinctive and dynamic as the city it calls home, Ballet Austin welcomes audiences near and far to participate in its “classically innovative” vision for the democratization of dance. With a rich history spanning five decades, acclaimed productions, and one of the nation’s largest classical ballet academies, the organization is poised for an even greater future. From their new home at the Butler Dance Education Center and Community School in downtown Austin, Ballet Austin and artistic director Stephen Mills actively engage the community, dancers, and audiences alike. The New York Times proclaims Ballet Austin “a company with big ambitions” originating work that is “absorbing.”
For more information about Ballet Austin please click here.
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