Opera Company of Boston productions explained
This list includes opera productions of the Opera Group and Opera Company of Boston from 1958 to 1990.
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
- Bartók triple bill:
- Lucia di Lammermoor - Donizetti
- Macbeth - Verdi (original 1847 version in Italian)
- The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart (in English)
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]
1974
1975
1976
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
Sources
- Book: Kessler, Daniel. 2008. Sarah Caldwell; The First Woman of Opera. Lanham, Maryland. Scarecrow Press. 0-8108-6110-0. .
Further reading
- Caldwell, Sarah & Rebecca Matlock (2008). Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. .
Notes and References
- Porter, Andrew. "Musical Events: Proper Bostonian" The New Yorker, 2 June 1973, pp. 102 - 108. Subscription required. Accessed 27 January 2010.
- The remainder of the season was cancelled due to Sarah Caldwell's hospitalization with severe pneumonia .