Opera Company of Boston productions

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

1958–59[]

• Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach (first American performance)
• La bohème – Puccini
• The Barber of Seville – Rossini
• The Beggar's Opera – Gay

1959–60[]

• Tosca – Puccini
• Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach
• Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
• Carmen – Bizet

1960–61[]

• La traviata – Verdi
• Otello – Verdi
• Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
• Falstaff – Verdi
• La bohème – Puccini
• Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss

1961–62[]

• Command Performance – Robert Middleton (world premiere)
• Manon – Massenet
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Wagner
• Rigoletto – Verdi

1962–63[]

• Madama Butterfly – Puccini
• The Barber of Seville – Rossini
• Faust – Gounod

1964[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

• Don Giovanni – Mozart
• Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky
• Hippolyte et Aricie – Rameau (first American performance)
• Moses and Aron – Schoenberg (first American performance)

1967[]

• 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[]

• Tosca – Puccini
• Lulu – Berg
• Carmen – Bizet
• La traviata – Verdi
• Falstaff – Verdi

1969[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

• Louise – Charpentier
• La finta giardiniera – Moazrt
• Norma – Bellini

1972[]

• Les Troyens – Berlioz (first American performance of complete version)
• Tosca – Puccini
• La traviata – Verdi

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[]

• Don Quichotte – Massenet
• Madama Butterfly – Puccini
• War and Peace – Prokofiev (American stage premiere)
• Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini

1975[]

• Falstaff – Verdi
• Così fan tutte – Mozart
• Benvenuto Cellini – Berlioz (first American performance)
• I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Bellini

1976[]

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

1977[]

• 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[]

• Stiffelio – Verdi
• Damnation of Faust – Berlioz (in English)
• Don Pasquale – Donizetti
• Tosca – Puccini

1979[]

• Falstaff – Verdi
• Falla double bill:
  • La vida breve
  • El retablo de maese Pedro
• Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
• The Ice Break – Tippett (American premiere)
• Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck

1980[]

• Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss
• Der fliegende Holländer – Wagner
• War and Peace – Prokofiev
• Aida – Verdi

1981[]

• Faust – Gounod
• Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
• Rigoletto – Verdi
• Otello – Verdi

1982[]

• Die Soldaten – Zimmermann (in English, American premiere)
• Aida – Verdi
• La bohème – Puccini
• Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach (in English)

1983[]

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

1984[]

• 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[]

• Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck^[5]

1986[]

• Turandot – Puccini
• Taverner – Davies
• The Makropulos Case – Janáček
• Tosca – Puccini

1987[]

• Il trovatore – Verdi
• Giulio Cesare – Handel
• Madama Butterfly – Puccini
• Don Pasquale – Donizetti

1988[]

• Médée – Cherubini (in French with classical Greek dialog)
• Dead Souls – Shchedrin (American premiere)
• The Threepenny Opera – Weill
• La traviata – Verdi

1989[]

• Mass – Bernstein
• Aida – Verdi
• Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
• La bohème – Puccini

1990[]

• Madama Butterfly – Puccini
• The Magic Flute – Mozart
• The Balcony – (world premiere)

References[]

Notes

Sources

• Kessler, Daniel (2008). Sarah Caldwell; The First Woman of Opera. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-6110-0.

Further reading[]

• Caldwell, Sarah & Rebecca Matlock (2008). Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6885-4.