List of premieres at the Metropolitan Opera
Throughout its history the Metropolitan Opera has taken a leading role at introducing both original stage works to the world and bringing works from around the globe to the United States for the first time. The following is a list of works that have premiered at the Met. All works are operas unless otherwise stated.
Contents
1 World premieres
2 United States premieres
3 References
4 Sources
World premieres
Opera | Composer | Date of premiere |
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La fanciulla del West | Giacomo Puccini | 1910-12-10 |
Königskinder | Engelbert Humperdinck | 1910-12-28 |
Mona | Horatio Parker | 1912-03-14 |
Cyrano | Walter Damrosch | 1913-02-27 |
Madeleine | Victor Herbert | 1914-01-24 |
Madame Sans-Gêne | Umberto Giordano | 1915-01-25 |
Goyescas | Enrique Granados | 1916-01-28 |
The Canterbury Pilgrims | Reginald de Koven | 1917-03-08 |
Shanewis | Charles Wakefield Cadman | 1918-03-23 |
The Dance in Place Congo (ballet) | Henry F. Gilbert | 1918-03-23 |
Il trittico | Giacomo Puccini | 1918-12-14[1] |
The Legend | Joseph Carl Breil | 1919-03-12[2] |
The Temple Dancer | John Adam Hugo | 1919-03-12 |
L'oiseau bleu | Albert Wolff | 1919-12-27 |
Cleopatra's Night | Henry Kimball Hadley | 1920-01-31[3] |
Skyscrapers (ballet) | John Alden Carpenter | 1926-02-19 |
The King's Henchman | Deems Taylor | 1927-02-17[4] |
Peter Ibbetson | Deems Taylor | 1931-02-07[5] |
The Emperor Jones | Louis Gruenberg | 1933-01-07 |
Merry Mount | Howard Hanson | 1934-02-10[6] |
In the Pasha's Garden | John Laurence Seymour | 1935-01-24 |
The Man Without a Country | Walter Damrosch | 1937-05-12[7] |
The Island God | Gian Carlo Menotti | 1942-02-20 |
The Warrior | Bernard Rogers | 1947-01-11 |
Vanessa | Samuel Barber | 1958-01-15 |
Antony and Cleopatra | Samuel Barber | 1966-09-16 |
Mourning Becomes Electra | Marvin David Levy | 1967-03-17 |
The Ghosts of Versailles | John Corigliano | 1991-12-19 |
The Voyage | Philip Glass | 1992-10-12 |
The Great Gatsby | John Harbison | 1999-12-20 |
An American Tragedy | Tobias Picker | 2005-12-02 |
The First Emperor | Tan Dun | 2006-12-21 |
United States premieres
Opera | Composer | Date of premiere |
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La Gioconda | Amilcare Ponchielli | 1883-12-20 |
Die Walküre | Richard Wagner | 1885-01-30 |
Die Königin von Saba | Karl Goldmark | 1885-12-02 |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Richard Wagner | 1886-01-04 |
Das goldene Kreuz | Ignaz Brüll | 1886-11-19 |
Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner | 1886-12-01 |
Merlin | Karl Goldmark | 1887-01-03 |
Siegfried | Richard Wagner | 1887-11-09 |
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen | Viktor Nessler | 1887-11-23 |
Euryanthe | Carl Maria von Weber | 1887-12-23 |
Fernand Cortez | Gaspare Spontini | 1888-01-06 |
Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner | 1888-01-25 |
Das Rheingold | Richard Wagner | 1889-01-04 |
Tannhäuser | Richard Wagner | 1889-01-30 |
Der Barbier von Bagdad | Peter Cornelius | 1890-01-03 |
Asrael | Alberto Franchetti | 1890-11-26 |
Il Vassallo di Szigeth | Antonio Smareglia | 1890-12-12 |
Diana von Solange | Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1891-01-09 |
Werther | Jules Massenet | 1894-03-29 |
Elaine | Herman Bemberg | 1894-12-17 |
Manon | Jules Massenet | 1895-01-16 |
Falstaff | Giuseppe Verdi | 1895-02-04 |
La Navarraise | Jules Massenet | 1895-12-11 |
Ero e Leandro | Luigi Mancinelli | 1899-03-10 |
Tosca | Giacomo Puccini | 1901-02-04 |
Messaline | Isidore de Lara | 1902-01-22 |
Manru | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1902-02-14 |
Der Wald | Ethel Smyth | 1903-03-11 |
Parsifal | Richard Wagner | 1903-12-24 |
Fedora | Umberto Giordano | 1906-12-05 |
La damnation de Faust | Hector Berlioz | 1906-12-07 |
Salome | Richard Strauss | 1907-01-22 |
Tiefland | Eugen d'Albert | 1908-11-23 |
Le Villi | Giacomo Puccini | 1908-12-17 |
La Wally | Alfredo Catalani | 1909-01-06 |
Germania | Alberto Franchetti | 1910-01-22 |
L'attaque du moulin | Alfred Bruneau | 1910-02-08 |
The Queen of Spades | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1910-03-05 |
Armide | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1910-11-14 |
Ariane et Barbe-bleue | Paul Dukas | 1911-03-29 |
Lobetanz | Ludwig Thuille | 1911-11-18 |
Le donne curiose | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1912-01-03 |
Versiegelt | Leo Blech | 1912-01-20 |
La Vita Nuova (cantata) | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1912-01-28 |
L'Orfeo | Claudio Monteverdi | 1912-04-14 |
Boris Godunov | Modest Mussorgsky | 1913-03-19 |
Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss | 1913-12-09 |
L'amore dei tre re | Italo Montemezzi | 1914-01-02 |
Julien | Gustave Charpentier | 1914-02-26 |
L'amore medico | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1914-03-25 |
L'Oracolo | Franco Leoni | 1915-02-04 |
Prince Igor | Alexander Borodin | 1915-12-30 |
Iphigénie en Tauride | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1916-11-25 |
Francesca da Rimini | Riccardo Zandonai | 1916-12-22 |
Mârouf, savetier du Caire | Henri Rabaud | 1917-12-19 |
The Legend of Saint Elisabeth (a staged oratorio) | Franz Liszt | 1918-01-03 |
Lodoletta | Pietro Mascagni | 1918-01-12 |
The Golden Cockerel | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1918-03-06 |
La reine Fiammette | Xavier Leroux | 1919-01-24 |
Eugene Onegin | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1920-03-24[8] |
Il Carillon Magico (ballet) | Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli | 1920-12-02 |
Der Polnische Jude | Karel Weis | 1921-03-09[9] |
Die tote Stadt | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1921-11-19 |
The Snow Maiden | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1922-01-23[10] |
Così Fan Tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1922-03-24 |
Anima Allegra | Franco Vittadini | 1923-02-14 |
Mona Lisa | Max von Schillings | 1923-03-01[11] |
I Compagnacci | Primo Riccitelli | 1924-01-02[12] |
Jenufa | Leoš Janáček | 1924-12-06 |
Giovanni Gallurese | Italo Montemezzi | 1925-02-19 |
La cena delle beffe | Umberto Giordano | 1926-01-02[13] |
La vida breve | Manuel de Falla | 1926-03-06[14] |
Le Rossignol | Igor Stravinsky | 1926-03-06 |
Turandot | Giacomo Puccini | 1926-11-16 |
Violanta | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1927-11-05 |
Madonna Imperia | Franco Alfano | 1928-02-08[15] |
La Rondine | Giacomo Puccini | 1928-03-10 |
Die ägyptische Helena | Richard Strauss | 1928-11-06 |
La campana sommersa | Ottorino Respighi | 1928-11-24[16] |
Jonny spielt auf | Ernst Krenek | 1929-01-19 |
Fra Gherardo | Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1929-03-21[17] |
Sadko | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1930-01-25[18] |
The Fair at Sorochyntsi | Modest Mussorgsky | 1930-11-29 |
Le Preziose Ridicole | Felice Lattuada | 1930-12-10 |
Schwanda the Bagpiper | Jaromír Weinberger | 1931-11-07 |
La Notte di Zoraima | Italo Montemezzi | 1931-12-02[19] |
Simon Boccanegra | Giuseppe Verdi | 1932-01-28 |
Il Signor Bruschino | Gioacchino Rossini | 1932-12-09 |
Caponsacchi | Richard Hageman | 1937-02-04[20] |
Alceste | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1941-01-24 |
The Rake's Progress | Igor Stravinsky | 1953-02-14 |
Arabella | Richard Strauss | 1955-02-10 |
Atlàntida (cantata) | Manuel de Falla | 1962-09-29 |
The Last Savage | Gian Carlo Menotti | 1964-01-23 |
The Happy Prince | Malcolm Williamson | 1967-08-21 |
Syllabaire pour Phèdre | Maurice Ohana | 1973-02-17 |
Death in Venice | Benjamin Britten | 1974-10-18 |
Le siège de Corinthe | Gioacchino Rossini | 1975-04-07 |
Cyrano de Bergerac | Franco Alfano | 2005-05-13 |
Two Boys | Nico Muhly | 2013-10-21 |
The Exterminating Angel | Thomas Adès | 2017-10-26 |
Marnie | Nico Muhly | 2018-10-19 |
References
^ James Gibbons Huneker (December 15, 1918). "Opera: A World Premier of Puccini Operas. "Il Tabarro." "Suor Angelica." "Gianni Schicchi."" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 22..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "New Native Operas Foreign In Scene" (PDF). The New York Times. March 9, 1919. p. 50.
^ Richard Aldrich (February 1, 1920). "The Opera" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 21.
^ Olin Downes (February 18, 1927). "Hailed As Best American Opera" (PDF). pp. 1, 24.
^ "Great Ovation Won By 'Peter Ibbetson' At World Premiere". The New York Times. February 8, 1931. pp. 1, 26.
^ Olin Downes (February 11, 1934). "'Merry Mount' Gets A Stirring Ovation" (PDF). pp. 80, 82.
^ "Damrosch Cheered At Opera Premiere". The New York Times. May 13, 1937. pp. 27, 30.
^ Richard Aldrich (March 25, 1920). "The Opera: Based on a Work of Pushkin" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 9.
^ Richard Aldrich (March 10, 1921). "Indian Chief Sings Leading Opera Role" (PDF). The New York Times.
^ Richard Aldrich (January 24, 1922). "The Opera" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 22.
^ Richard Aldrich (March 2, 1923). "Opera" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 18.
^ Olin Downes (January 3, 1924). "Music; Tragedy and Comedy at Opera". The New York Times. p. 13.
^ Olin Downes (January 3, 1926). "Opera: "The Jest" a Dramatic Success". The New York Times. p. 29.
^ Olin Downes (March 7, 1926). "Opera" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 30.
^ "'Madonna Imperia' Shown To America" (PDF). The New York Times. February 9, 1928. p. 28.
^ "Programs of the Week" (PDF). The New York Times. November 18, 1928. p. 169.
^ Olin Downes (March 22, 1929). "'Fra Gherardo' Has American Premiere". The New York Times.
^ "American Premiere Of Fantasy 'Sadko'" (PDF). The New York Times. January 26, 1930. p. 27.
^ Olin Downes (December 3, 1931). "Montemezzi Opera Is A Melodrama" (PDF). The New York Times. p. 35.
^ Olin Downes (February 5, 1937). "' Caponsacchi' Has Premiere Here; Audience Acclaims Hageman Opera". The New York Times. p. 16.
Sources
- Metropolitan Opera archives