Opera Company of Boston productions

Opera Company of Boston productions

This list includes opera productions of the Opera Group and Opera Company of Boston from 1958 to 1990.

Contents

1958–59

1959–60

1960–61

1961–62

1962–63

1964

1965

  • 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

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

  • 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

1975

1976

  • Fidelio – Beethoven
  • Montezuma – Sessions (first American performance)
  • The Girl of the Golden West – Puccini (in English)
  • Macbeth – Verdi (1865 version in Italian)

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

  • Carmen – Bizet
  • The Invisible City of Kitezh – Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Norma – Bellini
  • Turandot – Puccini

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

References

Notes
  1. ^ Kessler, pp. 44-45.
  2. ^ Porter, Andrew. "Musical Events: Proper Bostonian" The New Yorker, 2 June 1973, pp. 102–108. Subscription required. Accessed 27 January 2010.
  3. ^ Kessler, p. 250.
  4. ^ Kessler, p. 251.
  5. ^ The remainder of the season was cancelled due to Sarah Caldwell's hospitalization with severe pneumonia (Kessler, pp. 158-59).
Sources
  • Caldwell, Sarah & Rebecca Matlock (2008). Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera. Middletown, Connecticutt: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819568854.
  • Kessler, Daniel (2008). Sarah Caldwell; The First Woman of Opera. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810861100.

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