Calendar of Operatic Commemorations
Birthdays and Premieres
- 1.I.1851: Emanuel Chvála, Praha
- 2.I.1901: The Court of Hearts (Wheeler), Cambridge, Mass.
- 8.I.1801: L'Habit de la duchesse de Grammont (Eler), Paris
- 8.I.1901: Hamilton Forrest, Chicago
- 8.I.1951: Paul Dresher, Los Angeles
- 9.I.1751: Antigona (Galuppi), Roma
- 9.I.1851: Giuseppe Gallignani, Faenza
- 9.I.1851: Dame Valentine, oder Frauenräuber und Wanderbursche (Suppé), Wien
- 11.I.1801: John Lodge Ellerton, Cheshire
- 11.I.1951: Doktor Fausts Höllenfahrt (Engelmann), Hamburg*
- 12.I.1801: Vasco da Gama (Himmel), Berlin
- 13.I.1901: Mikhail Starokadomsky, Brest-Litovsk
- 14.I.1751: Corona Schröter, Guben
- 14.I.1801: Gli sposi infatuati (Nasolini?), Venezia
- 16.I.1951: Ot vsevo serdtse (Zhukovsky), Moskva
- 17.I.1901: Vasily Shirinsky, Ekaterinodar
- 17.I.1901: Le maschere (Mascagni), Genova, Milano, Roma, Torino, Venezia, Verona
- 18.I.1751: Ferdinand Kauer (*), Dyákovice, c. Znojmo
- 19.I.1751: La forza d'amore (D Paradies), London
- 19.I.1951: Le Rire de Nils Halerius (Landowski), Mulhouse
- 20.I.1651: Armidoro (Sartorio), Venezia
- 20.I.1751: Ciro riconosciuto (Hasse), Dresden
- 20.I.1751: Semiramide riconosciuto (G Majo), Napoli
- 20.I.1801: Le Grand deuil (H-M Berton), Paris
- 20.I.1851: Die Opernprobe, oder Die vornehmen Dilettanten (Lortzing), Frankfurt
- 20.I.1951: Dimnjiaci uz Jadran (Tijardovic), Zagreb
- 21.I.1801: I baccanali di Roma (Nicolini), Milano
- 21.I.1951: The Village Elder (Azmayparashvili), Tbilisi
- 22.I.1801: La Bonne soeur (Bruni), Paris
- 24.I.1651: Gl'amori di Alessandro Magno e di Rossane (Lucio), Venezia
- 25.I.1851: Jan Blockx, Antwerpen
- 29.I.1801: Johannes Bernardus Bree, Amsterdam
- 29.I.1801: Renaud (Haeffner), Stockholm
- 29.I.1801: The Veteran Tar (S Arnold), London
- 29.I.1851: Stanislao Falchi, Terni
- 29.I.1951: Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Dankevich), Kiev
- 31.I.1901: El náufrago (Sánchez de Fuentes), Habana
- 1.II.1801: Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Skänninge, c. Stockholm
- 1.II.1951: Na beregakh Issïkh-Kulya (Fere & Vlasov), Frunze
- 4.II.1751: Blas de Laserna (*), Corella, Navarra
- 5.II.1951: Brian M. Israel, New York
- 5.II.1951: Pohádka o zakleté pisen (Reiner), Praha
- 6.II.1801: Rosmonda (Reichardt), Berlin
- 10.II.1901: Salammbô (Reyer), Bruxelles
- 11.II.1951: Lady Hamilton (Heger), Nürnberg
- 12.II.1801: Marcel, ou L'Héritier supposé (Persuis), Paris
- 15.II.1901: Astarté (Leroux), Paris
- 17.II.1801: L'irato, ou L'Emporté (Méhul), Paris
- 18.II.1851: Fernando Cortez (F Malipiero), Venezia
- 18.II.1851: Segunda parte de El duende (Hernando), Madrid
- 19.II.1851: Bonsoir, Monsieur Pantalon (Grisar), Paris
- 20.II.1651: L'esiglio d'amore (Mattioli, Laurenzi), Ferrara
- 20.II.1901: La Fille de Tabarin (Pierné), Paris
- 21.II.1801: Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, Praha
- 23.II.1901: Picarol (Granados), Barcelona
- 24.II.1801: Das Pfauenfest (Zumsteeg), Stuttgart
- 25.II.1901: Federico Ghisi, Shanghai
- 27.II.1801: Flaminia à Corinthe (Isouard, Kreutzer), Paris
- 28.II.1801: Alzira (Bianchi), London
- 28.II.1801: Perouse, or The Desolate Island (Davy, Moorehead), London
- 1.III.1851: Medea (Mercadante), Napoli
- 2.III.1801: Andreas Peter Berggreen, København
- 3.III.1851: Il sindaco babbeo (Ponchielli et al.), Milano
- 3.III.1901: Der polnische Jude (Weis), Praha
- 4.III.1901: Gugeline (Thuille), Bremen
- 6.III.1901: Charlotte Corday (Georges), Paris
- 7.III.1901: Les Travaux d'Hercule (Terrasse), Paris
- 9.III.1801: Frohsinn und Schwärmerey (Himmel), Berlin
- 9.III.1851: König Alfred (Raff), Weimar
- 9.III.1901: Die drei Wünsche (Ziehrer), Wien
- 11.III.1851: Rigoletto (Verdi), Venezia
- 12.III.1901: Der Kreuzritter (Lacombe), Sondershausen (?)
- 13.III.1951: Amphitryon (Oboussier),Berlin
- 14.III.1901: Herzog Wildfang (S Wagner), München
- 17.III.1801: Piotr Perkowski, Oweczacze, Ukraina
- 17.III.1851: Le Démon de la nuit (Rosenhain), Paris
- 17.III.1951: Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (Dessau), Berlin
- 20.III.1851: Pietro Abbà Cornaglia, Alessandria
- 20.III.1901: Nausikaa (Bungert), Dresden
- 27.III.1751: L'Armida (Graun), Berlin
- 27.III.1851: Ruperto Chapí, Villena, c. Alicante
- 27.III.1851: Vincent d'Indy, Paris
- 27.III.1901: Albert Henneberg, Stockholm
- 28.III.1701: The Judgment of Paris (Finger), London
- 28.III.1801: Adrien de La Fage, Paris
- 28.III.1951: Giants in the Earth (Moore), New York
- 29.III.1851: La Picaresca (Gaztambide, Barbieri), Madrid
- 29.III.1851: Le tre nozze (Alary), Paris
- 31.III.1901: Rusalka (Dvorak), Praha
- 1.IV.1901: Boris Koutzen, Uman, c. Kiev
- 2.IV.1901: Anis Fuleihan, Kyrenia
- 3.IV.1751: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Eymet, Périgord
- 6.IV.1901: Willem Pelemans, Antwerpen
- 6.IV.1951: Kerkeb (Samuel-Rousseau), Paris
- 7.IV.1851: Otto Klauwell, Langensalza
- 7.IV.1851: Martin Röder, Berlin
- 7.IV.1901: El soñador (Giner y Vidal), Valencia
- 8.IV.1851: Giovanna la pazza (Muzio), Bruxelles
- 9.IV.1901: El fantasma (Giner y Vidal), Valencia
- 12.IV.1801: Astyanax (Kreutzer), Paris
- 13.IV.1901: Lorenza (Mascheroni), Roma
- 15.IV.1651: Domenico Gabrielli, Bologna
- 16.IV.1851: Sapho (Gounod), Paris
- 16.IV.1901: Karel Albert, Antwerpen
- 18.IV.1901: Morel (Giner y Vidal), Valencia
- 20.IV.1801: La bottega del caffè (Gardi), Venezia
- 20.IV.1901: Koza-Dereza (Lysenko; 1888), Kiev
- 21.IV.1801: Ginevra di Scozia (Mayr), Trieste
- 21.IV.1901: Julián Bautista, Madrid
- 22.IV.1801: The Blind Girl (Mazzinghi, Reeve), London
- 25.IV.1801: Aci e Galtea ossia I ciclopi amanti (Naumann), Dresden
- 25.IV.1901: Ernst Gernot Klussmann, Hamburg
- 26.IV.1901: Le Roi de Paris (Huë), Paris
- 26.IV.1951: The Pilgrim's Progress (Vaughan Williams), London
- 27.IV.1801: Le Petit jacquot (Solié), Paris
- 27.IV.1801: Quatre maris pour un (Solié), Paris
- 27.IV.1901: The Emerald Isle, or The Caves of Carig-Cleena (Sullivan, German), London
- 28.IV.1751: Eudossa incoronata, o sia Teodosio II (Araia), St Peterburg
- 29.IV.1901: L'Ouragan (Bruneau), Paris
- 30.IV.1801: La morte di Cleopatra (Bianchi), London
- 1.V.1801: The Bedouins, or The Arabs of the Desert (Stevenson), Dublin
- 6.V.1701: The Judgement of Paris (Weldon)
- 7.V.1901: Marcel Poot, Vilvoorde, c. Brussel
- 8.V.1851: Al amánecer (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 8.V.1851: El campamento (Inzenga), Madrid
- 8.V.1951: The Well (Mennini), Rochester, N.Y.
- 9.V.1951: L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice (Haydn; 1791), Firenze
- 12.V.1801: The Sea-side Story (Attwood et al.), London
- 12.V.1951: Nevjesta od Cetingrada (Baranovic), Beograd
- 13.V.1801: Dritto e rovescio, ovvero Una delle solite trasformazioni nel mondo (Gardi),Venezia
- 15.V.1701: The Virgin Prophetess, or The Fate of Troy (Finger), London
- 15.V.1951: John Socman (G Lloyd),Bristol
- 16.V.1851: Zerline, ou La corbeille d'oranges (Auber), Paris
- 17.V.1901: Werner Egk, Auchsesheim, c. Donauwörth
- 18.V.1901: Henri Sauguet, Bordeaux
- 19.V.1801: Le Tonnelier (Isouard), Paris
- 20.V.1851: Il carnevale di Venezia (Petrella), Napoli
- 22.V.1851: Laurent Grillet, Sancoins, Cher
- 23.V.1801: Erwine von Steinheim (Eberl), Wien
- 23.V.1801: Die Königin der schwarzen Inseln (Eberl), Wien
- 23.V.1901: Edward Rubbra, Northampton
- 25.V.1901: Max Helfman, Radzin
- 29.V.1901: Manru (Paderewski), Dresden
- 30.V.1751: La festa cinese (Conforto), Aranjuez
- 30.V.1751: Tito Manlio (Abos), Napoli
- 30.V.1901: Much Ado About Nothing (The Marriage of Hero) (Stanford), London
- 1.VI.1951: Madame Bovary (Bondeville), Paris
- 2.VI.1751: Antoni Weinert, Lusdorf
- 3.VI.1801: Frantisek Jan Skroup, Osice, c. Pardubice
- 5.VI.1851.: Raymond, ou Le secret de la reine (Thomas), Paris
- 6.VI.1801: Achille (Paër), Wien
- 7.VI.1851.: La valle d'Andorra (Cagnoni), Milano
- 9.VI.1701: Il Temistocle (M Ziani), Wien
- 9.VI.1951: Phèdre (Mihalovici), Stuttgart
- 11.VI.1751: Artaserse (Galuppi), Padova
- 13.VI.1701: Angelo Antonio Caroli, Bologna
- 13.VI.1801: Alexander (Teyber), Wien
- 16.VI.1801: Il fuoruscito (Pucitta), Milano
- 18.VI.1751: El diablo mudo (Nebra) ,Madrid
- 19.VI.1701: François Rebel, Paris
- 25.VI.1801: Antonio d'Antoni, Palermo
- 27.VI.1951: The Duenna (Gerhard), Wiesbaden*
- 29.VI.1801: Harlequin's Benedick, or Mother Shipton's Ghost (Moorehead), London
- 29.VI.1851: Antonio Coronaro, Vicenza
- 30.VI.1801: L'impromptu de campagne (Isouard), Paris
- 1.VII.1951: L'Apostrophe (Françaix; 1940), Amsterdam
- 3.VII.1851: Florinda (Thalberg), London
- 4.VII.1901: Dona Mecia (O da Silva), Lisboa
- 6.VII.1901: Le Légataire universel (G Pfeiffer), Paris
- 6.VII.1901: On demande des Chanteuses (Terrasse), Royan
- 9.VII.1951: The Sleeping Children (), Cheltenham
- 12.VII.1701: La fede ne' tradimenti (Ariosti), Berlin
- 12.VII.1801: John Hill Hewitt, New York
- 14.VII.1701: Aréthuse, ou La vengeance de l'Amour (Campra), Paris
- 14.VII.1951: Bunt zaków (Szeligowski), Wroclaw
- 22.VII.1651: Ferdinand Tobias Richter (*), Würzburg
- 22.VII.1701: Gli ossequi della notte (M Ziani), Wien
- 25.VII.1801: Phasma oder Die Erscheinung im Tempel der Verschwiegenheit (Süssmayr), Wien
- 30.VII.1951: The Mayor of Casterbridge (Tranchell), Cambridge
- 5.VIII.1701: Il pastor di Corinto (Scarlatti), Napoli
- 10.VIII.1901: Robert Keldorfer, Wien
- 10.VIII.1951: La Cuarterona (G Estrada), Buenos Aires
- 12.VIII.1751: Johann Baptist Lasser, Steinkirchen
- 13.VIII.1901: Ian Whyte, Dunfermline
- 17.VIII.1901: Henri Tomasi, Marseilles
- 18.VIII.1801: Le due giornate (Mayr), Milano
- 30.VIII.1701: Gli affetti più grandi, vinti dal più giusto (Bononcini), Wien
- 1.IX.1751: Emanuel Schikaneder, Straubing
- 3.IX.1801: Il marito migliore (Gazzaniga), Milano
- 9.IX.1801: The Chains of the Heart (Reeve), London
- 9.IX.1801: Teresa e Claudio (Farinelli), Venezia
- 11.IX.1951: The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky), Venezia
- 12.IX.1801: Giuseppe Concone, Torino
- 14.IX.1851: Gabrielle Ferrari, Paris
- 14.IX.1851: Tribulaciones (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 20.IX.1901: Leo Justinus Kauffmann, Dammerkirch
- 20.IX.1901: Os saldunes (Miguez), Rio de Janeiro
- 20.IX.1951: Rinde Eckert, Mankato, Minn.
- 21.IX.1751: Les Génies tutélaires (Francoeur, Rebel), Paris
- 22.IX.1951: Prometeo (Cortese), Bergamo
- 24.IX.1901: Erzsike (Major), Budapest
- 25.IX.1851: Lodsen (Paulli), København
- 26.IX.1901: Judith (Chadwick), Worcester, Mass.
- 27.IX.1851: Mosquita la Sorcière (Boisselot), Paris
- 4.X.1951: The Dybbuk (Tamkin; 1931), New York
- 5.X.1901: Jadwiga (Dellinger), Dresden
- 5.X.1951: Storia di una mamma (Vlad), Venezia
- 6.X.1851: Jugar con fuego (Barbieri), Madrid
- 7.X.1801: Adolf Müller, Sr., Tolna
- 7.X.1851: I gladiatori (Foroni), Milano
- 8.X.1551: Giulio Caccini, Tivoli?
- 8.X.1901: Mayissa (Lavrangas), Athinai
- 10.X.1801: Non credere alle apparenze, ossia L'amore intraprendente (Orgitano), Venezia
- 11.X.1901: Emil Hlobil, Veseli nad Luznici
- 14.X.1801: The Escapes, or The Water-carrier (Attwood, Cherubini), London
- 14.X.1901: The Little Duchess (De Koven), New York
- 17.X.1801: Alessandro Curmi, Valletta
- 19.X.1701: La púrpura de la rosa (Torrejón y Velasco), Lima
- 20.X.1701: Die wunderschöne Psyche (Keiser), Hamburg
- 20.X.1801: Das Sternenmädchen im Meidlinger Walde (Kauer), Wien
- 20.X.1901: La Tentation de saint-Antoine (Terrasse), Paris
- 21.X.1801: Natalya, boyarskaya doch (Kashin), Moskva
- 23.X.1801: Albert Lortzing, Berlin
- 23.X.1901: Les Barbares (Saint-Saëns), Paris
- 25.X.1901: Das süsse Mädel (Reinhardt), Wien
- 27.X.1751: Il re pastore (Bonno), Wien
- 28.X.1851: Maria Giovanna (Litta),Torino
- 28.X.1951: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion (Milhaud), Wiesbaden
- 1.XI.1751: La ricamatrice divenuta dama (J F Agricola), Berlin
- 1.XI.1901: Szymon Laks, Warszawa
- 1.XI.1901: Priscilla (Fanciulli), Norfolk, Va.
- 2.XI.1801: L'Auteur malgré lui (Pauwels), Bruxelles
- 3.XI.1801: Vincenzo Bellini, Catania
- 3.XI.1801: Augustine et Banjamin, ou Les Sargines de village (Bruni), Paris
- 3.XI.1801: Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace (Spontini), Roma
- 4.XI.1751: Il Farnace (Traetta), Napoli
- 4.XI.1901: Maid Marian (De Koven), Philadelphia
- 5.XI.1851: Emile-Pierre Ratez, Besançon
- 7.XI.1801: Le Casque et les colombes (Grétry), Paris
- 7.XI.1851: El confitero de Madrid (Inzenga), Madrid?
- 7.XI.1901: El bateo (Chueca), Madrid
- 9.XI.1901: Le roi poète (Campa), México
- 9.XI.1901: Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (Pfitzner), Elberfeld
- 10.XI.1701: Omphale (Destouches), Paris
- 12.XI.1801: Der Schlaftrunk (Teyber), Wien
- 14.XI.1901: Ib and Little Christina (Leoni), London
- 15.XI.1701: La fuga dell'Invidia (M Ziani), Wien
- 15.XI.1851: Zaffira, o La riconciliazione (Pacini), Napoli
- 16.XI.1951: Acres of Sky (Kreutz), Fayetteville, Ark.
- 16.XI.1951: Eastward in Eden (Meyerowitz), Detroit
- 17.XI.1901: Raymond Chevreuille, Watermael-Boitsfort, Bruxelles
- 17.XI.1951: Lorenzo Ferrero, Torino
- 18.XI.1751: Acante et Céphise, ou La Sympathie (Rameau), Paris
- 18.XI.1751: Le Rossignol, ou Le Mariage secret (La Borde), Château de Berny
- 19.XI.1751: The Shepherd's Lottery (Boyce), London
- 19.XI.1951: Ein Landarzt (Henze), Hamburg
- 20.XI.1901: Grisélidis (Massenet), Paris
- 21.XI.1901: Feuersnot (R Strauss), Dresden
- 22.XI.1851: Fiorina, o La fanciulla di Glaris (Pedrotti), Verona
- 22.XI.1901: Joaquín Rodrigo, Sagunto, Valencia
- 22.XI.1901: Na starém bélidle (Kovarovic), Praha
- 22.XI.1951: Der rote Stiefel (Sutermeister), Stockholm
- 22.XI.1851: Feu mon oncle (Debillemont), Dijon
- 24.XI.1901: Pir vo vremya chumï (Cui), Moskva
- 25.XI.1901: Chopin (G Orefice), Milano
- 28.XI.1751: L'Impromptu de la cour de marbre (La Garde), Bellevue
- 29.XI.1851: Der Meergeuse (F Skroup), Praha
- 30.XI.1901: De bruid der zee (Blockx), Antwerpen
- 1.XII.1951: Billy Budd (Britten), London
- 5.XII.1901: Hanns Jelinek, Wien
- 5.XII.1951: Incognita (Wellesz), Oxford
- 7.XII.1851: Camille Benoît, Roanne, Loire
- 7.XII.1951: Cymbelin (Eggen), Oslo
- 9.XII.1801: The Chains of the Heart (Mazzinghi, Reeve), London
- 12.XII.1801: Léhéman, ou La tour de Neustadt (Dalayrac), Paris
- 17.XII.1751: Britannico (Graun), Berlin
- 18.XII.1751: Ipermestra (Cafaro), Napoli
- 21.XII.1901: Der Kellermeister (Zeller, Brandl), Wien
- 22.XII.1851: La Perle du Brésil (David), Paris
- 22.XII.1951: A huszti kaland (Kadosa), Budapest
- 24.XII.1851: Para seguir a una mujer (Inzenga, Gaztambide et al.), Madrid
- 24.XII.1951: Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti), NBC-TV*
- 26.XII.1751: Artaserse (Pescetti), Milano
- 26.XII.1751: Nitocri (Cocchi), Torino
- 26.XII.1751: Le pescatrici (Bertoni), Venezia
- 26.XII.1801: I Manlii (Nicolini), Milano
- 26.XII.1801: I virtuosi (Mayr), Venezia
- 27.XII.1801: Adelaide e Tebaldo (Orgitano), Venezia
- 27.XII.1801: L'unione mal pensata (Basili), Venezia
- 27.XII.1851: Malvina di Scozia (Pacini), Napoli
- 28.XII.1651: Johann Krieger, Nürnberg
- 28.XII.1801: Argene (Mayr), Venezia
- 28.XII.1801: Le virtuose ridicole (Fioravanti), Venezia
- 28.XII.1901: ¿Quo Vadis? (Chapí),Madrid
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