2004 Renata Tebaldi, opera singer, dies at 82
2004 Robert Merrill, opera singer, dies at 85
2003 Franco Corelli, opera singer, dies at 81
1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 Rudolf Bing, opera manager (New York Met Opera), dies at 95
1997 "City" soap opera's final episode on ABC-TV
1997 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 Charles Craig, opera singer, dies at 77
1996 Frederico Davia, opera singer, dies at 63
1996 Francesco Siciliani, opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1996 Ljuba Welitsch, opera singer, dies at 83
1996 Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86
1996 Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
1996 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78
1996 Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1995 Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1995 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71
1995 Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59
1995 Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater, dies at 69
1995 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
1993 Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1993 Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run
1991 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards!
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1989 "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 65 performances
1989 "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances
1989 Vaclav Kaslik, Czech opera composer and conductor, dies at 71
1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1988 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56
1988 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87
1988 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win
1988 Bantcho Bantchevsky, U.S. opera singer, commits suicide
1988 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances
1988 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1987 Milton J. Cross, born in New York City, TV announcer, Met Opera Auditions of the Air
1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1986 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and Restless wins
1986 Rudolf Schock, German opera/operetta singer, dies at 71
1986 "Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London
1984 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
1984 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1982 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1982 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer, dies at 73
1982 Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
1982 Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1981 Rosa Ponselle, U.S. singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
1981 Robert Davi (opera singer/actor), dies at 54
1981 Dynasty, a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, premieres on ABC
1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm
1977 Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
1977 Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam
1976 Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1976 Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1976 Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
1975 Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87
1974 Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1973 Alois Haba, Czech (opera)composer (Neuland), dies at 80
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House
1971 Inia Te Wiata, opera singer, dies
1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run
1970 Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
1969 Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer and actor (Full of Life), dies at 69
1969 Rudolf Forster, actor (Threepenny Opera, Tonio Kroeger), dies at 84
1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday
1969 Gladys Swarthout, opera singer and actress (Ambush), dies at 64
1969 Who release rock opera "Tommy"
1969 Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (New York Met), dies at 83
1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1968 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51
1967 Nelson Eddy, U.S. baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
1967 Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
1966 Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies
1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center
1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1966 Amanda Roocroft, opera singer
1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center
1964 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin
1963 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
1963 Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City
1962 D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer, dies at 78
1961 Sarah Brightman, actress and singer, Phantom of the Opera
1961 Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen
1961 James Melton, opera tenor (Ford Festival), dies at 57
1960 Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1960 Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1959 Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1957 Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer, Intelligence Park
1957 Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies
1957 Bernanos and Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres
1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1956 Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95
1956 Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1954 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in New York City
1954 William Walton's opera "Troilus and Cressida," premieres in London
1954 Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot), dies at 78
1954 B Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw," premieres in Venice
1954 Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies
1954 Robert Davi, born in Astoria, New York, opera singer and actor, Gangster Chronicles
1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
1953 Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper, Dutch/US (opera)composer, dies
1952 Ashley Putnam, born in New York City, soprano, New York City Opera 1978
1952 "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV
1951 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor)
1951 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London
1951 Janet Collins, ballerina, 1st Black dancer with Opera Co, Aida
1951 Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice
1951 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
1950 "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances
1950 "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances
1950 Darius Milhauds opera "Bolivar," premieres in Paris
1950 Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet, Deutsche Opera Berlin
1950 Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in New York City
1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1948 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (New York City)
1948 Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1948 Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1948 Catherine Malfitano, born in New York City, soprano, Metropolitan Opera
1947 1st broadcast of 1st U.S. TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1947 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in New York City
1946 Jose Carreras, Barcelona Spain opera tenor, I Lombardi, Three Tenors
1946 Paul August von Klenau, Danish opera composer and conductor, dies at 63
1946 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano, New York City Opera
1945 Jessye Norman, U.S., opera singer, Carmen
1945 John Mauceri, born in New York City, conductor, Washington D.C. Opera
1945 Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1944 Thomas Allen, British opera singer
1944 Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York
1943 James Levine, musical conductor, Tosca, /dir, Metropolitan Opera
1942 Michael Crawford, England, Broadway star, Phantom of the Opera
1941 Judith Blegen, born in Missoula, Montana, opera singer, Papagena-Magic Flute
1941 Placido Domingo, born in Madrid, Spain, opera tenor, Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly
1940 Lord Davies, chairman, Welsh National Opera
1940 Josephine Barstow, opera singer
1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1940 1st U.S. opera telecast, W2XBS, New York City, I Pagliacci
1939 Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970
1938 Gwynne Howell, British opera singer
1938 Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich
1937 Neeme Jarvi, born in Tallinn, Estonia, conductor, Estonia Opera 1971
1937 Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano, Victor-Victoria
1937 Martina Arroyo, New York City, opera soprano, New York Met
1937 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio
1936 Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera
1935 Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1935 Donald Edwin White, advertising copywriter/opera administrator
1935 Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor, Dresden State Opera 1961
1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
1935 Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer, Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion
1935 Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake, New York, soap opera writer, Gen Hospital
1935 Alberto Remedios, opera/concert singer
1934 Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau"
1934 Thomas Paul, born in Chicago, Illinois, bass, New York City Opera 1963-70
1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York City
1934 Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City
1934 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
1933 Frederico Davia, opera singer
1933 Strauss and von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1933 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
1932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer
1932 Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer
1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris, France, opera director, Carmina Burana
1931 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building
1931 U.S. opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City
1930 Phyllis Curtin, Clarksburg, West Virginia, soprano, New York City Opera
1930 Peter Hall, British stage/film/opera director, Pedestrian
1930 Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
1930 Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer, Lassiter, Ruling Class
1930 Arnold Schonbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
1930 Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1929 Istvan Kertesz, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera 1953-57
1928 Leonie Rysanek, dramatic soprano, Vienna Munich State Opera 1952-54
1928 Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera
1927 Teresa Stich-Randall, U.S. soprano, Vienna State Opera
1927 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor, Royal Flemish Opera
1927 William J. Bell, born in Chicago, Illinois, soap opera creator, Young and Restless
1927 Lusine Amara, opera and concert singer
1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1927 Tabe Bas, actor/opera vocalist, Leiser Wolf in Anatevka
1927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1926 Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris
1926 Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera
1926 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1926 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera
1925 Willem Landre's opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague
1925 Nicolai Gedda, born in Stockholm, Sweden, opera tenor, Opera Two to Six
1925 Giselher W. Kleber, German, opera, composer, Die Rauber
1925 Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer, Scenes and Arias
1925 Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin
1924 Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director
1924 Arnold Schonbergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK
1924 Murray Dickie, opera singer and director
1924 Sarah Caldwell, born in Maryville, Missouri, conductor/opera director, Flagstaff
1923 Maria Callas, opera singer, Carmen
1923 Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso, New York Metropolitan Opera
1922 Hubert H. A. Beckers, Curaeaoan opera singer
1922 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1922 Daphne Anderson, born in London, actress, Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice
1922 Geraint Evans, British opera vocalist, Knaben Wunderhorn
1921 Leos Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova," premieres in Brno
1921 Engelbert Humperdinck, Ger opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67
1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1921 Julius Rudel, born in Vienna Austria, conductor, New York City Opera 1957
1920 Harold Samuel Shapero, born in Lynn, Massachusetts, composer, 9 Minute Opera
1920 Richard Hayman, bandleader, conductor and pianist, Theme of 3 Penny Opera
1920 Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano, Interrupted Melody
1919 Charles Craig, opera singer
1919 Dorothy Kirsten, opera singer/Alzheimer disease activist
1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1919 Antony Tudor, born in England, choreographer, Metropolitan Opera 1957
1919 Leon Kirchner, born in Brooklyn, New York, opera composer, Lily
1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in New York City
1918 Astrid Varnay, born in Stockholm, Sweden, soprano, Met Opera 1941-56
1918 Jorn Utzon, Danish architect, Sydney Opera House
1918 Sixten Ehrling, born in Malmo, Sweden, conductor, Royal Opera of Stockholm
1918 Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
1917 Vaclav Kaslik, Czechoslovakia, opera composer and conductor
1917 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
1917 Robert Merrill, born in Brooklyn, New York, baritone, New York Metropolitan Opera
1917 Wieland Wagner, German opera director
1916 Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer, Herr von Hancken
1916 Eleanor Steber, opera singer
1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1916 Opera "Goyescas," premieres (New York City)
1915 Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1915 Rudolf Schock, German opera/operette singer
1915 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer, Verdi/Puccini
1915 Giordano, Sardou and Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gˆne" premieres in New York City
1914 Wolfgang Windgassen, born in Annemasse, Germany, tenor, Stuttgart Opera
1914 Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin
1914 Opera "Madeleine," premieres in New York City
1913 Benjamin Britten, born in Suffolk, England, opera composer
1913 Benjamin Britten, Lowestoft Suffolk England, composer, Beggar's Opera
1913 Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], born in Brooklyn, New York, Tenor, New York Met Opera
1913 Licia Albanese, born in Bari, Italy, operatic soprano, New York Met Opera
1913 Ljuba Welitsch, born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano, Nedda-Pagliacci
1913 Rise Stevens, New York City, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera, /actor, Going My Way
1913 Constance Shacklock, opera singer
1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 Nadine Conner, U.S., opera singer, Carmen, La Boheme
1912 Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
1912 Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
1911 Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1911 Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1911 Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris
1911 Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director, Netherlands Opera
1911 Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer
1911 Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
1911 Opera "Natoma," premieres in Phila
1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in New York City
1911 Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden
1910 Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (New York City)
1910 Sylvia Fisher, soprano, Albert Herring Opera
1910 1st opera by an U.S. composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York City
1910 Opera "Germania," premieres in New York City
1909 Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1909 Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting New York's Metropolitan Opera
1908 Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1908 Peter Anders, German opera singer
1908 Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano, Ljublama Opera 1927
1908 John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp
1908 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170
1907 G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1907 Jarmila Novotna, soprano, Met Opera, /President of Czechoslovakia, 1957-68
1907 Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premieres in Paris
1907 Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Budapest Opera
1907 Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer, Orestes
1906 Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
1906 Antal Dorati, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Dresden Opera 1928-29
1905 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
1905 Serge Lifar, born in Kiev, dancer, choreographer, Paris Opera Ballet
1905 Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer and conductor, Fantasia Irica
1904 Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], New York City, tenor, New York Met Opera
1904 Lily Pons, opera singer and actress, That Girl From Paris
1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1904 James Melton, Moultrie, Georgia, opera tenor, Ford Festival
1903 Opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1903 Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto"
1903 Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1903 Mary Philbin, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Phantom of the Opera
1903 Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British, opera, composer, Beatrice Cenci
1903 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
1902 Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna
1902 Debussy's opera "Pelleas et Melissande," premieres in Paris
1902 Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
1902 Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager, New York Metropolitan Opera
1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1901 Opera "Griselidis" is produced (Paris)
1900 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter, opera stars
1900 Gabriel Faures opera "Promethee," premieres in Beziers
1900 Jennie Tourel, St. Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano, Met Opera 1943-47
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome
1900 Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris
1899 Hans Krasa, Czech opera composer, Brundibar
1899 Hans Swarowsky, Budapest Hungary, conductor, Graz Opera 1947-50
1899 Nelly A "Nell" Knoop, Dutch actress, Driestuivers Opera
1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1898 Viktor Ullmann, opera composer, Der Kaiser von Atlantis
1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1897 Rosa Ponselle, opera diva, Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino
1896 The opera "Andrea Chenier" is produced (Milan)
1896 Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chenier," premieres in Milan
1896 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1896 Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer, Bird's Opera
1896 Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
1895 Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1894 Norman Kerry, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Phantom of the Opera
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in New York City
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Thais," premieres in Paris
1893 Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1893 Alois Haba, Czechoslovakia, opera, composer, Mother
1893 Opera "Falstaff" is produced (Berlin)
1893 Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1893 Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
1892 Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1892 New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci," premieres in Milan
1892 Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna
1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1890 Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," premieres in Karlsruhe
1890 St. Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
1890 Opera "Prince Igor" is produced (St. Petersburg)
1890 Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
1890 Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
1889 Jules Massenets opera "Esclarmonde," premieres in Paris
1888 Miles Malleson, writer and actor, Phantom of Opera, Postman's Knock
1888 Edouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys," premieres in Paris
1887 Opera "Trumpeter of Sackingen" 1st American production (New York City)
1887 Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer, Vienna Opera
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1887 Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgre Luis," premieres in Paris
1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1886 Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London
1885 Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna
1885 Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1885 Opera "Ermine," premieres in London
1885 Johann Strauss' opera "Zigeunerbaron," premieres in Vienna
1885 Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera singer, New York Met
1885 Opera "Lakme" is produced, Paris
1885 "Mikado" opera premieres in London
1885 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1884 Rudolf Forster, Grobming Austria, actor, Threepenny Opera
1884 Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris
1883 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer
1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (New York City) grand opening (Faust)
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakme," premieres in Paris
1883 Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor, High Noon, Phantom of Opera
1882 Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1882 Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal," premieres in Beirut
1882 Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60
1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St. Petersburg
1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1881 Opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)
1881 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa," premieres in Prague
1881 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" produced in London
1881 Gas lamp sets fire to Nice France opera house; 70 die
1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
1879 Opera "Pirates of Penzance" is produced (New York City)
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1879 Joseph Haas, German, opera, composer, Tobias Wunderlich
1878 Gilbert/Sullivans opera "HMS Pinafore," premieres in London
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1877 Camille Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
1877 Opera "Le Roi de Lahore" is produced (Paris)
1877 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
1877 Gibson Gowland, England, actor, Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera
1876 Opera "Gotterdammerung" premieres in Bayreuth
1876 Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1876 Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
1876 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Il dottore Antonio
1875 Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1875 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
1875 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
1874 Johann Strauss Sr's opera "Die Fledermaus," premieres in Vienna
1874 Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1874 Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St. Petersburg
1873 Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
1871 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, dies at 89
1871 Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1870 Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich
1870 Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich)
1870 The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan
1869 Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich
1869 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer and conductor
1868 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in New York City
1868 Wagner's opera "Meistersinger von Nuernberg," premieres in Munich
1868 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1868 Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan
1868 Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna, Dutch Opera
1867 Opera "Romeo et Juliette" is produced (Paris)
1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
1867 Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor, Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth
1866 Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs. Cechach," premieres in Prague
1865 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine," premieres in Paris
1865 Opera "L'Africaine" is produced (Paris)
1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1864 Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
1863 Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1863 George Bizets opera "Les Pˆcheurs de Perles," premieres in Paris
1862 Opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St. Petersburg Russia)
1862 Berlioz' opera "Beatrice et Benedict," premieres in Baden-Baden
1862 Fromental Halevy, [Elie Levy], French opera composer, dies at 62
1862 Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris
1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
1862 Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor, College, Phantom of the Opera
1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer, opera Louise
1859 Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris)
1859 Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
1859 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli
1858 Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer, La Boheme, La Tosca
1858 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Orphee aux Enfers," premieres in Paris
1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1858 Opera "I Pagliacci" is produced (Naples)
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1855 George F Bristow's "Rip Van Winkle," 2nd American opera, opens in New York City
1855 Opera "Les Vˆpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer, Parisfal
1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome
1852 Anton Rubinsteins opera "Dmitri Donskoi," premieres in St. Petersburg
1851 Opera "La Perle Du Bresil" is produced (Paris)
1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice
1851 Jan Blockx, Belgium, opera composer, Sea Bride princess of Herberg
1850 Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1849 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples
1849 Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in New York City (22 killed)
1849 Opera "Il Profeta," premieres in Paris
1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophete," premieres in Paris
1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
1848 Lilli Lehmann, opera singer
1847 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
1847 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter, libretti opera Puccini
1847 "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence
1846 Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
1846 Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright, Kohinoor
1845 Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1845 Opera "Tannhauser" is produced (Dresden)
1845 Richard Wagners opera "Tannhauser," premieres in Dresden
1844 Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario, Ivanhoe
1844 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice
1843 Opera "Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1843 Adelina Patti, born in Madrid, Spain, opera soprano, Lucio
1843 Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan
1843 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in Paris
1843 Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" premieres, Dresden
1842 St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
1842 Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company
1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
1840 Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan
1839 Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer, Munich Conser
1838 Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris
1836 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots," premieres in Paris
1835 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," premieres in Naples
1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33
1835 Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1835 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris
1833 Gaetano Dinozetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia," premieres in Milan
1832 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore," premieres in Milan
1832 Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1831 Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1831 Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1830 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1830 Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris
1829 Opera "Guillaume Tell" is produced (Paris)
1828 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Le Comte Ory," premieres in Paris
1826 Weber's opera "Oberon," premieres in London
1825 1st Italian opera in U.S., "Barber of Seville" premieres (New York City)
1825 1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City
1824 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice
1823 Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
1821 Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1820 Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed
1818 Charles Francois Gounod, born in Paris, France, opera composer, Faust
1818 Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1817 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, opera composer (Chant du depart), dies at 54
1817 Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome
1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome
1810 "Converse," 1st U.S. opera, premieres in New York
1809 Royal Opera House in London opens
1805 Opera "Thais" 1st American performance
1804 Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer, Protoghesi
1804 Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1801 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer, La Sonnambula, Norma
1800 Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg
1797 Cherubini's opera "Medee," premieres in Paris
1797 Antoine d'Auvergne, Fr opera composer (Coquette Trompee), dies at 83
1792 Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1792 D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
1791 Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna
1791 Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague
1791 Louis-J-Ferdinand Herold, France, opera composer, Zampa
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna
1787 Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1784 John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English, opera, composer/diplomat
1782 Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1782 Daniel-Franeois-Esprit Auber, French opera composer, Fra Diavolo
1781 Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1779 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52
1778 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
1775 Opera "Il Re Pastore" is produced (Salzburg)
1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis," premieres in Paris
1770 Date of action in the opera "Madeleine"
1768 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78
1767 Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers
1767 Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1763 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French organist/opera composer, Le Jeune Henri
1762 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" is produced (Vienna)
1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, born in Portugal, opera composer, Portogallo
1762 Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London
1752 Premiere of Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village"
1752 John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
1744 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
1735 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, South Carolina
1735 1st opera in U.S. "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
1732 John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
1731 Georg F Handels opera "Poro," premieres in London
1728 Georg F Handels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London
1728 Georg F. Handels opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London
1728 John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London
1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader, Farnace
1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
1725 Georg F. Handels opera "Tamerlano," premieres in London
1725 Georg F Handels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London
1723 Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London
1723 Handel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London
1711 Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London
1711 Handels opera Rinaldo, premieres
1706 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, opera's buffa
1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
1690 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer
1689 Henry Purcell and Tates opera "Dido and Aeneas," premieres in Chesea
1686 Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris
1685 John Gay, English poet, Beggar's Opera
1685 John Gay, author, Baggars' Opera
1680 Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
1679 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73
1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian, opera, composer
1668 Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro," premieres in Vienna
1656 Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1649 John Blow, composer of 1st English opera, Venus and Adonis, baptized
1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
1643 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60
1642 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
1633 Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71
1633 M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome
1607 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua
1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1600 Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1582 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1563 Franciscus Gomarus, [Francois Gomaer], Dutch theologist/opera singer
1560 Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies
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