Opera Company of Boston productions
Appearance
This list includes opera productions of the Opera Group and Opera Company of Boston from 1958 to 1990.
1958–59
[edit]- Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach (first American performance)
- La bohème – Puccini
- The Barber of Seville – Rossini
- The Beggar's Opera – Gay
1959–60
[edit]- Tosca – Puccini
- Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach
- Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
- Carmen – Bizet
1960–61
[edit]- La traviata – Verdi
- Otello – Verdi
- Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
- Falstaff – Verdi
- La bohème – Puccini
- Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss
1961–62
[edit]- Command Performance – Robert Middleton (world premiere)
- Manon – Massenet
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Wagner
- Rigoletto – Verdi
1962–63
[edit]- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- The Barber of Seville – Rossini
- Faust – Gounod
1964
[edit]- Lulu – Berg (2-act version, in English, US East Coast premiere)
- The Magic Flute – Mozart
- I Puritani – Bellini
- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- L'Elisir d'Amore – Donizetti
1965
[edit]- The Abduction from the Seraglio – Mozart
- Semiramide – Rossini
- Intolleranza – Nono (first American performance)
- The Tales of Hoffmann – Offenbach (in English)
- Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky (first American performance of original version)
1966
[edit]- Don Giovanni – Mozart
- Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky
- Hippolyte et Aricie – Rameau (first American performance)
- Moses and Aron – Schoenberg (first American performance)
1967
[edit]- Don Giovanni – Mozart
- Otello – Verdi
- The Rake's Progress – Stravinsky
- Bartók double bill:
- Bluebeard's Castle (in Hungarian)
- The Miraculous Mandarin (pantomime ballet)
- Tosca – Puccini
1968
[edit]- Tosca – Puccini
- Lulu – Berg
- Carmen – Bizet
- La traviata – Verdi
- Falstaff – Verdi
1969
[edit]- Bartók triple bill:
- Bluebeard's Castle (in Hungarian)
- The Miraculous Mandarin (pantomime ballet)
- The Wooden Prince (pantomime ballet)
- Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti
- Macbeth – Verdi (original 1847 version in Italian)
- The Marriage of Figaro – Mozart (in English)
1970
[edit]- Der fliegende Holländer – Wagner
- La fille du régiment – Donizetti
- The Good Soldier Schweik – Kurka
- The Fisherman and His Wife – Schuller (world premiere)
- Rigoletto – Verdi
1971
[edit]- Louise – Charpentier
- La finta giardiniera – Moazrt
- Norma – Bellini
1972
[edit]- Les Troyens – Berlioz (first American performance of complete version)
- Tosca – Puccini
- La traviata – Verdi
1973
[edit]- The Bartered Bride – Smetana (in English)
- The Daughter of the Regiment – Donizetti (in English)
- Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny – Weill
- Don Carlos – Verdi (5-act version in French, including 21 minutes of music cut from the Paris premiere)[1][2]
1974
[edit]- Don Quichotte – Massenet
- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- War and Peace – Prokofiev (American stage premiere)
- Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
1975
[edit]- Falstaff – Verdi
- Così fan tutte – Mozart
- Benvenuto Cellini – Berlioz (first American performance)
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Bellini
1976
[edit]- Fidelio – Beethoven
- Montezuma – Sessions (first American performance)
- The Girl of the Golden West – Puccini (in English)
- Macbeth – Verdi (1865 version in Italian)
1977
[edit]- Ruslan and Ludmila – Glinka
- La bohème – Puccini (in English)
- Rigoletto – Verdi
- Orfeo ed Euridice – Gluck (in Italian)
- Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach (in English)
1978
[edit]- Stiffelio – Verdi
- Damnation of Faust – Berlioz (in English)
- Don Pasquale – Donizetti
- Tosca – Puccini
1979
[edit]- Falstaff – Verdi
- Falla double bill:
- Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
- The Ice Break – Tippett (American premiere)
- Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
1980
[edit]- Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss
- Der fliegende Holländer – Wagner
- War and Peace – Prokofiev
- Aida – Verdi
1981
[edit]- Faust – Gounod
- Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
- Rigoletto – Verdi
- Otello – Verdi
1982
[edit]- Die Soldaten – Zimmermann (in English, American premiere)
- Aida – Verdi
- La bohème – Puccini
- Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach (in English)
1983
[edit]- Carmen – Bizet
- The Invisible City of Kitezh – Rimsky-Korsakov
- Norma – Bellini
- Turandot – Puccini
1984
[edit]- Der Freischütz – Weber
- Silver Anniversary Opera Gala[3] with Shirley Verrett, James McCracken, and Ruth Welting
- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini[4]
- Don Giovanni – Mozart
- Les contes d'Hoffmann – Offenbach
1985
[edit]- Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck[5]
1986
[edit]- Turandot – Puccini
- Taverner – Davies
- The Makropulos Case – Janáček
- Tosca – Puccini
1987
[edit]- Il trovatore – Verdi
- Giulio Cesare – Handel
- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- Don Pasquale – Donizetti
1988
[edit]- Médée – Cherubini (in French with classical Greek dialog)
- Dead Souls – Shchedrin (American premiere)
- The Threepenny Opera – Weill
- La traviata – Verdi
1989
[edit]- Mass – Bernstein
- Aida – Verdi
- Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
- La bohème – Puccini
1990
[edit]- Madama Butterfly – Puccini
- The Magic Flute – Mozart
- The Balcony – Robert DiDomenica (world premiere)
References
[edit]Notes
- ^ Kessler, pp. 44–45.
- ^ Porter, Andrew. "Musical Events: Proper Bostonian" The New Yorker, 2 June 1973, pp. 102–108. Subscription required. Accessed 27 January 2010.
- ^ Kessler, p. 250.
- ^ Kessler, p. 251.
- ^ The remainder of the season was cancelled due to Sarah Caldwell's hospitalization with severe pneumonia (Kessler, pp. 158–159).
Sources
- Kessler, Daniel (2008). Sarah Caldwell; The First Woman of Opera. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-6110-0.
Further reading
[edit]- Caldwell, Sarah & Rebecca Matlock (2008). Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6885-4.