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Delete as non-notable. While there are sources given for this article, in my view they are not significant enough to establish notability. The company itself is really not the primary subject of any of the sources; two of which are performance reviews and one which is really more about the director. My searches for reliable independent source where the company itself is the primary subject(ie not a performance review) have yielded nothing; and really that is what is needed in this case. 4meter4 (talk) 04:12, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Further comment. Some of the claims in this article are completely untrue; such as "the longest running continuously performed La bohème of all time". Without even examining the Met's history and other major houses (many of which I suspect could easily challenge this claim), the Broadway run of bohème ran for 6 shows a week for 7 months in 2002-2003 which beets out the 5 month run of this company (see here). Further, this company was not even the first to stage operas in a pub; its been done before by several other companies (most notably the Montana Lyric Opera in the US which performs in a pub with established opera singers like Monica Yunus of the Metropolitan Opera). Really this is just a local novelty that drew some minor press coverage (Come down y'all for a beer and cheep show seems to be the jist).4meter4 (talk) 04:38, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]