Carl Rosa
![Carl Rosa](/Images/godic/202501/03/Carl-rosa-print1926.jpg")
![Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa](/Images/godic/202501/03/Parepa-Rosa,_Euphrosyne,_1836-18741926.jpg")
![Carl Rosa in a Jeremiah Gurney photograph](/Images/godic/202501/03/Carl_Rosa_0011927.jpg")
![Carl Rosa startled by the bogey of Italian Opera in an 1886 cartoon by Alfred Bryan](/Images/godic/202501/03/Carl_Rosa_21927.png")
Carl August Nicholas Rosa (22 March 1842 –30 April 1889) was a German-born musical impresario best remembered for founding an English opera company known as the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He started his company in 1869 together with his wife, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, and popularised opera in Britain and America, performing standard repertory in English, as well as operas by English composers.