Director of Legal Strategy & Corporate Operations

Harper James facilitates six figure sale of leading classical music and opera website

Director of Legal Strategy and Operations & Head of Corporate

Operabase, one of the world’s most comprehensive online databases of opera performers, houses and companies has recently been taken over by Danish professional networking platform for classical artists, arts organisations and agents, Truelinked.

Founded in 1996 as a means of collating and sharing information on opera performances worldwide, Operabase’s catalogue is available in 27 languages and, at its peak, was collecting 25,000 new performances year-on-year.

Following a hugely successful 20 years which saw the company grow from being the hobby of the founder, Mike Gibb, to being the go-to platform for opera companies and fans across the globe, the decision to sell the company was made in order to ensure the longevity and expansion of the database continued.

The deal, which amounted to a six-figure s...