History and Purpose

Ópera Latinoamérica (OLA) is a network that brings together theaters, companies and festivals from Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Founded in Chile in 2007, OLA is a private, non-profit association made up of more than 40 organizations, companies, festivals and theaters from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.

 

Its purpose is to promote the classical performing arts in the Latin American and Caribbean region through the creation of work networks, training and education, internationalization, collaborative economy practices, open knowledge and associative production, thus generating an international community.

 

Its vision is to be the bridge between Latin American opera and the world, in a network of support, dissemination and reference for opera in Latin America, both for theaters in the region and abroad.

 

Opera Latinoamérica has been legally constituted under Chilean law since July 2017, is based in Santiago de Chile and has more than 40 members from 13 countries.