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Opera Vista is a nonprofit chamber opera company is Houston, Texas, founded in 2005 by conductor and artistic director Viswa Subbaraman. The company aims to promote and perform new and contemporary works, and to attract new and younger audiences who may be unaccustomed to opera.

Subbaraman has stated that the idea for the company grew out of a desire to see people his own age attending opera: "It started with a bunch of friends at a bar, talking about the fact that our peers didn't go to opera or classical music. We started to talk about ways to make that happen - and out of that came Opera Vista."

In addition to performing lesser-known and lesser-performed works, the company has presented many premieres of new and contemporary works, including the World Premieres of James D. Norman’s Wake…, R. Timothy Brady’s Edelat Square, Line Tjornhoj’s Anorexia Sacra, and Somtow Sucharitkul's The Silent Prince.

Opera Vista also holds the annual Vista Competition, for composers of contemporary chamber opera.