Today in Opera History (Part 3)
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Historical Events
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1893-12-23 - Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1894-03-16 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris
1894-04-19 - Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC
1896-01-05 - Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
1896-02-01 - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1896-03-23 - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan
1896-03-28 - The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1897-03-12 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1897-10-08 - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1898-11-22 - Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1900-01-02 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
1900-01-14 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome
1900-02-02 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
1900-08-22 - Gabriel Faures opera "Prométhée," premieres in Beziers
1901-11-20 - Opera "Grisélidis" is produced (Paris)
1901-11-21 - Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1902-02-18 - Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1902-02-28 - Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1902-04-30 - Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélissande," premieres in Paris
1902-11-25 - Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna
1903-01-07 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1903-01-12 - Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
1903-11-15 - Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1903-11-23 - Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"
1903-11-27 - Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1904-01-21 - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1904-02-17 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
1905-12-09 - Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1907-05-10 - Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premieres in Paris
1907-12-31 - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1908-01-13 - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
1908-01-25 - John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1908-11-16 - Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909-11-04 - Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1910-01-22 - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1910-03-18 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
1910-12-28 - Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
1911-01-26 - Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
1911-02-08 - Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in NYC
1911-02-25 - Opera "Natoma," premieres in Phila
1911-05-19 - Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1911-11-18 - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1911-12-23 - Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1913-03-04 - Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1914-01-24 - Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
1914-02-19 - Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
1914-05-15 - Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1915-01-25 - Giordano, Sardou & Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gêne" premieres in NYC
1915-09-29 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1916-01-28 - Opera "Goyescas," premieres (NYC)
1918-02-01 - Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
1918-12-14 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in NYC
1919-04-19 - Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1921-10-23 - Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1922-10-22 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1924-10-14 - Arnold Schoebergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1925-01-14 - Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin
1925-10-15 - Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague
1926-04-25 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1926-12-16 - Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris
1927-01-21 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1927-02-21 - Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1930-01-18 - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1930-02-01 - Arnold Schoenbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
1930-11-18 - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
1931-02-07 - US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
1931-11-11 - Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building
1931-12-25 - NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1933-03-23 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1933-07-01 - Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1934-01-22 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
1934-02-10 - Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC
1934-02-20 - Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1934-10-20 - Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1935-12-26 - Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1936-01-28 - Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
1938-05-28 - Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich
1940-03-10 - 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1940-04-16 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1943-12-23 - 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
1944-01-18 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1945-06-05 - Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1947-02-18 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
1948-05-24 - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1948-11-29 - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (NYC)
1950-03-15 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC
1950-05-12 - Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
1950-12-13 - "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
1950-12-16 - "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1951-09-11 - Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1951-12-01 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London
1951-12-24 - 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
1954-09-14 - B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice
1954-12-03 - William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida," premieres in London
1954-12-27 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in NYC
1955-11-04 - The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1955-11-05 - New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956-07-07 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1957-01-26 - Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
1957-08-11 - Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
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