Calendar of Operatic Commemorations
Birthdays and Premieres
- 6.I.1906: Cerné jezero (Rozkosný), Praha
- 7.I.1756: Idomeneo (Galuppi), Roma
- 7.I.1806: Amour et coquetterie (F Bianchi), Paris
- 7.I.1956: Lima Beans (Townsend), New York
- 9.I.1756: I fratelli nemici (Graun), Berlin
- 11.I.1806: List und Zufall (Süssmayr)
- 11.I.1856: Christian Sinding, Kongsberg
- 12.I.1756: La comediante fatta cantatrice (T Giordani), London
- 15.I.1806: Mary, Queen of Scots (Reinagle), Philadelphia
- 15.I.1906: Rezso Kókai, Budapest
- 17.I.1956: Masquerade (Tolstoy), Moskva
- 18.I.1656: Statira principessa di Persia (Cavalli), Venezia
- 18.I.1856: Falstaff (Adam), Paris
- 19.I.1756: La Pipée (C-F Clément), Paris
- 19.I.1856: Elodie, ou Le Forfait nocturne (Offenbach), Paris
- 20.I.1756: La disfatta di Dario (Cafaro), Napoli
- 20.I.1906: Emporium (Morera), Barcelona
- 20.I.1906: Krieg im Frieden (H Reinhardt), Wien
- 21.I.1756: Florizel and Perdita, or The Winter's Tale (M Arne), London
- 21.I.1806: Les Surprises ou L'Étourdi en voyage (R Kreutzer), Paris
- 22.I.1756: Vincenzo Righini, Bologna
- 22.I.1806: The Travellers, or Music's Fascination (D Corri), London
- 24.I.1906: Francesca da Rimini (Rakhmaninov), Moskva
- 24.I.1906: Skupoy rïtsar' (Rakhmaninov), Moskva
- 26.I.1906: William Ratcliff (Leroux), Nice
- 27.I.1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg
- 27.I.1806: Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Rigoitia, c. Bilbao
- 28.I.1806: Les Deux aveugles de Tolède (Méhul), Paris
- 28.I.1956: Opera z pouty (Burian), Praha
- 31.I.1656: La vita humana, overo Il trionfo della pietà (Marazzoli), Roma
- 31.I.1806: Idomeneo (Federici), Milano
- 31.I.1906: Benjamin Frankel, London
- 31.I.1906: The Pipe of Desire (Converse), Boston
- 1.II.1906: Pierre Capdevielle, Paris
- 1.II.1956: Le Fou (Landowski), Nancy
- 1.II.1956: Mañana (Benjamin), London*
- 2.II.1806: Le Livre des destins (F Bianchi), Paris
- 3.II.1806: Rosette, das schweizer Hirtenmädchen (Bierey), Leipzig
- 7.II.1756: Nicaise (Vadé), Paris
- 7.II.1856: I fidanzati (A Peri), Genova
- 7.II.1906: Cernokneznik (Nesvera), Brno
- 8.II.1906: Gustavo Pittaluga, Madrid
- 8.II.1806: The Broken Gold (Dibdin), London
- 8.II.1806: La Prise de Passau (Isouard), Paris
- 9.II.1756: Antigono (Gluck), Roma
- 9.II.1856: Deux sous de charbon, ou Le suicide de bigorneau (Delibes), Paris
- 9.II.1856: Le Postillon en gage (Offenbach), Paris
- 11.II.1756: The Tempest (J C Smith), London
- 12.II.1906: The Gardeners (Walthew), London
- 14.II.1906: La joroba (Chapí), Madrid
- 15.II.1956: The Wife of Martin Guerre (Bergsma), New York
- 16.II.1756: L'Olimpiade (Hasse), Dresden
- 17.II.1806: Monsieur Deschalumeaux (Gaveaux), Paris
- 18.II.1706: Alcione (Marais), Paris
- 19.II.1906: Grace Williams, Barry, Glamorgan
- 20.II.1856: En Revenant de Pontoise (Dufresne), Paris
- 21.II.1806: Frozyna czyli Siedem razy jedna (Jan Stefani), Warszawa
- 21.II.1856: L'assedio di Firenze (Bottesini), Paris
- 21.II.1906: Sanga (De Lara), Nice
- 22.II.1906: Edmund von Borck, Wroclaw
- 22.II.1956: Apollo and Persephone Cockshott(), New York
- 23.II.1806: Die Opernprobe (Poissl), München
- 23.II.1856: Manon Lescaut (Auber), Paris
- 23.II.1956: Mario e il mago (Mannino), Milano
- 24.II.1906: L'Ancêtre (Saint-Saëns), Monte Carlo
- 25.II.1806: Faniska (Cherubini), Wien
- 25.II.1856: Margherita Pusterla (Pacini), Napoli
- 25.II.1906: Boris Papandopulo, Honnef, c, Bonn
- 25.II.1956: La guerra (Rossellini), Roma
- 26.II.1756: La cantarina (Galuppi), Roma
- 28.II.1756: L'Angelica (Brusa), Venezia
- 28.II.1956: Vieni qui, Carla (Negri), Milano
- 1.III.1856: La Fanchonnette (Clapisson), Paris
- 1.III.1906: Maria (Statkowski), Warszawa
- 1.III.1906: Pâris, ou le Bon Juge (Terrasse), Paris
- 3.III.1806: L'Isle flottant, ou Les Voyageurs aériens (Leblanc), Paris
- 4.III.1806: La Fête de Mars (Steibelt), Paris
- 4.III.1856: L'assedio di Leida (Petrella), Milano
- 4.III.1856: Thé de Polichinelle (Poise), Paris
- 6.III.1956: Landara (Zimbalist), Philadelphia
- 7.III.1706: The Temple of Love (Fedeli), London
- 7.III.1806: Wieszczka Urzella czyli To co sie damon podoba (Elsner), Warszawa
- 7.III.1906: Alejandro Garcia Caturla, Remedios, Cuba
- 8.III.1706: La Fine mouche (Matho), Clagny
- 8.III.1756: L'amor mascherato (A Duni et al.), Schwerin
- 10.III.1906: Hugdietrichs Brautfahrt (Straus), Wien
- 10.III.1956: L'ipocrita felice (Ghedini), Milano
- 11.II.1756: Les Raccoleurs (Vadé), Paris
- 13.III.1856: Allan Macbeth, Greenock
- 13.III.1906: Don Procopio (Bizet), Monte Carlo
- 17.III.1806: Tout le monde a tort (Spontini), Paris
- 18.III.1756: Johann Christoph Vogel*, Nürnberg
- 19.III.1806: Das bezauberte Kaffeehaus (Kauer), Wien
- 19.III.1906: Normand Lockwood, New York
- 19.III.1906: I quattro rusteghi (Wolf-Ferrari), München
- 20.III.1856: J F Wagner, Wien
- 22.III.1956: Porträttet (Rosenberg), Swedish Radio*
- 23.III.1856: El amor y el almuerzo (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 24.III.1856: Mam'zelle Geneviève (Adam), Paris
- 24.III.1856: La spia (Arditi), New York
- 26.III.1906: The Free Lanc (Sousa), Springfield, Mass.
- 27.III.1756: La Merope (Graun), Berlin
- 27.III.1906: Aphrodite (C Erlanger), Paris
- 28.III.1906: Murray Adaskin, Toronto
- 29.III.1806: Fidelio, oder Die eheliche Liebe [rev] (Beethoven), Wien
- 29.III.1906: La figlia di Jorio (Franchetti), Milano
- 29.III.1956: Miguel de Mañara (Tomasi), München
- 31.III.1956: Comoedia de Christi resurrectione (Orff), München
- 3.IV.1856: Trombalcazar, ou Les criminels dramatiques (Offenbach), Paris
- 4.IV.1756: La Conquët du Mogol par Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roi de Perse, et son triomphe (Alexandre), Paris
- 4.IV.1856: Entre dos aguas (Gaztambide, Barbieri), Madrid
- 5.IV.1806: Le Voyage impromptu (A Pacini), Paris
- 7.IV.1806: Nardonne e Nannetta (Gardi), Lisboa
- 7.IV.1806: Gli ultimi due giorni di carnevale (Gnecco), Milano
- 8.IV.1756: Joseph Gehot, Brussel
- 8.IV.1906: Medea (Tommasini), Trieste
- 8.IV.1956: The Trial at Rouen (Dello Joio), NBC-TV*
- 10.IV.1756: Tito Manlio (Lampugnani), London
- 10.IV.1906: Tess (F Erlanger), Napoli
- 12.IV.1806: Das Fest der Freude und der Liebe (M Umlauf), Eisenstadt
- 12.IV.1956: Ion Voda cel Cumplit (Dumitrescu), Bucuresti
- 14.IV.1806: Die Sylphen (Himmel), Berlin
- 14.IV.1906: Hans, le joueur de flûte (Ganne), Monte Carlo
- 15.IV.1806: Nephtali, ou Les Ammonites (Blangini), Paris
- 15.IV.1906: Die Liebesgeige (A Maclean), Mainz
- 16.IV.1856: Le Chapeau du roi (Caspers), Paris
- 18.IV.1806: Ludwig Schuberth, Magdeburg
- 19.IV.1706: L'Ercole vincitor dell'invidia (M Ziani), Wien
- 23.IV.1756: Alexander Reinagle, Portsmouth*
- 24.IV.1706: Giovan Gualberto Brunetti, Pistoia
- 24.IV.1706: Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, Bologna
- 24.IV.1806: Le Déjeuner de garçon (Isouard), Paris
- 25.IV.1656: La Didone (Mattioli), Bologna
- 26.IV.1856: Valentine d'Aubigny (Halévy), Paris
- 28.IV.1806: The Invisible Girl (Hook), London
- 28.IV.1806: Un Tour de soubrette (Boïeldieu), St Peterburg
- 29.IV.1856: Les Pantins de Violette (Adam), Paris
- 1.V.1806: Musikalische Malerei (Neukomm), Moskva
- 1.V.1956: The Loafer and the Loaf (Clarke), Los Angeles
- 2.V.1906: Maurice Thiriet, Meulan
- 3.V.1806: Die Festung an der Elbe (A Fischer), Wien
- 5.V.1756: Thomas Linley, jr, Bath
- 7.V.1806: La Famille venitienne, ou Le Château d'Orseno (F Bianchi), Paris
- 8.V.1806: Jan Bedrich Kittl, Orlik nad Vltavou
- 8.V.1906: El maldito dinero (Chapí), Madrid
- 8.V.1906: Le Roi aveugle (Février), Paris
- 9.V.1956: Miranda and the Dark Young Man (Siegmeister), Hartford
- 14.V.1906: L'Habit de César (Lagoanère), Paris
- 14.V.1956: The Birthday of the Infanta (Ron Nelson), Rochester, N.Y.
- 15.V.1906: Le Paradis de Mahomet (Planquette, Ganne), Paris
- 17.V.1806: Uthal (Méhul), Paris
- 17.V.1856: Le due regine (Muzio), Milano
- 17.V.1956: He who gets Slapped (Ward), New York
- 19.V.1806: Ungdom og galskap eller List over list (Dupuy), København
- 21.V.1856: Piorun (Józef Stefani), Warszawa
- 22.V.1806: Monsieur Jugolo, ou Les Chercheurs (F Bianchi), Paris
- 23.V.1906: Hellmuth Christian Wolff, Zürich
- 24.V.1906: Falada (Braunfels), Essen
- 26.V.1756: La Gageure de village (Giraud), Paris
- 28.V.1906: Snezhnïy bogatïr' (Cui), Yalta
- 29.V.1906: Hans Schaeuble, Arosa, Graubünden
- 30.V.1756: La ninfa smarrita (Conforto), Aranjuez
- 31.V.1656: Marin Marais, Paris
- 31.V.1906: Lauri Saikkola, Viipuri
- 1.VI.1906: Andrey Balanchivadze, St Peterburg
- 7.VI.1856: El postillón de la Rioja (Oudrid y Segura), Madrid
- 9.VI.1806: Deux mots (Dalayrac), Paris
- 9.VI.1956: Grozovan (Gershfeld), Kishinev
- 11.VI.1956: The Swing (Kastle), NBC-TV*
- 12.VI.1806: Catch him who Can (Hook), London
- 12.VI.1806: Die neue Alceste (W Müller), Wien
- 12.VI.1856: La Rose de Saint-Flour (Offenbach), Paris
- 16.VI.1806: Das Blumenmädchen (F Benda), Berlin
- 17.VI.1856: A filha do ar (Casimiro Júnior), Lisboa
- 17.VI.1956: Der Sturm (Martin), Wien
- 18.VI.1856: Les Dragées du baptême (Offenbach), Paris
- 19.VI.1756: Laurent-François Boutmy, Bruxelles
- 20.VI.1756: Joseph Martin Kraus, Miltenberg-am-Main
- 20.VI.1906: Sirotek (Ostrcil), Praha
- 21.VI.1806: Luigi Gordigiani, Modena
- 22.VI.1706: Cassandre (Bertin de la Doué, Bouvard), Paris
- 23.VI.1806: Achille (Nasolini), Modena
- 25.VI.1806: Gabrielle d'Estrées, ou Les amours d'Henri IV (Méhul), Paris
- 27.VI.1956: Paná Lesnea Rusalim (Constantinescu), Bucuresti
- 6.VII.1706: Endimione (Bononcini), Wien
- 7.VII.1956: The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore), Central City, Colo.
- 9.VII.1906: Elizabeth Lutyens, London
- 12.VII.1756: Le Déguisement pastorale (Maldere), Wien
- 12.VII.1806: Le Château mystérieux ou Le Crime commis et vengé (F Bianchi), Paris
- 14.VII.1906: Arthur Hutchings, Sunbury-on-Thames
- 15.VII.1806: Les Maris garçons (H-M Berton), Paris
- 16.VII.1856: I pirati spagnuoli [rev] (Petrella), Napoli
- 20.VII.1756: Il trionfo della costanza (Bernasconi), München
- 21.VII.1856: Willem Beukels (Gregoir), Brussel
- 23.VII.1806: Eduard Marxsen, Nienstädten, c. Altona
- 23.VII.1856: Arthur Bird, Belmont, Mass.
- 24.VII.1856: Paolino Vassallo, Cospicua, Malta
- 25.VII.1906: Arthur Kreutz, La Crosse, Wis.
- 26.VII.1756: Les Amans trompés (Laruette), Paris
- 27.VII.1956: Cupid and Psyche (Manschinger), Woodstock, N.Y.
- 30.VII.1806: Idala ou La Sultane (Isouard), Paris
- 31.VII.1856: Le `66' (Offenbach), Paris
- 2.VIII.1856: La flor de la Serranía (Oudrid y Segura), Madrid
- 2.VIII.1856: La Parade (Jonas), Paris
- 3.VIII.1806: Jean Rollin, Paris
- 8.VIII.1856: Deux vieilles gardes (Delibes), Paris
- 9.VIII.1956: Bodas de sangre (J J Castro), Buenos Aires
- 10.VIII.1856: Paul Geisler, Slupsk
- 14.VIII.1756: Olof Åhlström, Åletorp, Värdinge
- 14.VIII.1806: La feudataria (F Dussek), Milano
- 15.VIII.1956: The Logan Rock (Gundry), Portchurno
- 16.VIII.1706: Il Meleagro (M Ziani), Wien
- 17.VIII.1906: Carmelo Pace, Valletta
- 18.VIII.1856: Charles H Gabriel, Wilton, Iowa
- 18.VIII.1856: Jan Karol Gall, Warszawa
- 18.VIII.1856: Le Sylphe (Clapisson), Baden-Baden
- 19.VIII.1756: Le Diable à quatre, ou La Double métamorphose (Laruette, Philidor), Paris
- 21.VIII.1806: Johannes Frederik Frohlich, København
- 24.VIII.1856: Felix Mottl, Unter-Sankt Veit, c. Wien
- 28.VIII.1756: Iphis et Célime, ou Le temple de l'Indifference détruit par l'Amour (Herbain), Paris
- 28.VIII.1906: David Tamkin, Chernigov
- 30.VIII.1756: Artaserse (Jommelli), Stuttgart
- 30.VIII.1856: I promessi sposi (Ponchielli), Cremona
- 3.IX.1906: The Red Mill (Herbert), Buffalo
- 4.IX.1906: Alexander Moyzes, Klastor pod Znievom
- 4.IX.1906: Anton Raciunas, Uzliasiai, c. Panevezys
- 12.IX.1906: Ruvim Pergament, Petrozavodsk
- 14.IX.1856: Hin Ondes första lärospån (Söderman), Stockholm
- 19.IX.1856: Les Dragons de Villars (Maillart), Paris
- 20.IX.1706: Franz Habermann, Kynzvart, c. Cheb
- 23.IX.1756: Nitteti (Conforto), Madrid
- 23.IX.1856: Le Savetier et le financier (Offenbach), Paris
- 23.IX.1956: König Hirsch (Henze), Berlin
- 24.IX.1906: Marcel Mirouze, Toulouse
- 25.IX.1906: Dmitri Shostakovich, St Peterburg
- 27.IX.1756: Le Prix de l'amour (C-F Clément), Paris
- 30.IX.1906: Eamonn O Gallagher, Dundalk
- 2.X.1956: Ruth (Berkeley), London
- 4.X.1806: Philoclès (Dourlen), Paris
- 4.X.1806: Il principe invisibile (J Weigl), Wien?
- 9.X.1856: Sylvain Dupuis, Liège
- 5.X.1806: Heinrich der Stolze, Herzog von Sachsen (Kauer), Wien
- 11.X.1706: La costanza sforzata, Die gezwungene Beständigkeit oder Die listige Rache des Sueno (Keiser), Hamburg
- 11.X.1806: Ines de Castro (Pavesi), Napoli
- 14.X.1856: La Bonne d'enfant (Offenbach), Paris
- 18.X.1706: Baldassare Galuppi, Burano, c. Venezia
- 18.X.1806: La Soeur officieuse, ou Adresse et mensonge (F Bianchi), Paris
- 18.X.1856: La figlia di Don Liborio (Cagnoni), Genova
- 19.X.1956: Gorski vijenac (Hercigonja), Beograd
- 20.X.1906: Künstlerblut (Eysler), Wien
- 20.X.1956: Candide (Bernstein), Boston
- 20.X.1956: In the Drought (Joubert), Johannisburg
- 20.X.1956: Pokondirena tikva (Logar), Beograd
- 21.X.1706: Polyxène et Pyrrhus (Collasse), Paris
- 21.X.1956: The 2 Impostors (Kondorossy), Cleveland
- 21.X.1956: Unexpected Visitor (Kondorossy), Cleveland
- 22.X.1856: Eduard Schütt, St Peterburg
- 23.X.1906: Miriam Gideon, Greeley, Colo.
- 23.X.1906: Les Armaillis (Doret), Paris
- 26.X.1906: Kurucvilág (Farkas), Budapest
- 27.X.1906: Gaziel (Granados), Barcelona
- 31.X.1906: Louise Talma, Arcachon
- 31.X.1906: Ariane (Massenet), Paris
- 1.XI.1956: The Charcoal Princess (Shimizu), Osaka
- 4.XI.1756: Solimano [rev] (M Valentini), Napoli
- 4.XI.1856: Tutti in maschera (Pedrotti), Verona
- 4.XI.1906: Siegfried Borris, Berlin
- 4.XI.1906: Arnold Cooke, Gomersal, Yorks.
- 6.XI.1906: Birute (Petrauskas), Vilnius
- 7.XI.1706: Carlo Cecere, Napoli
- 7.XI.1956: Blur (Gaburo), Urbana, Ill.
- 8.XI.1906: Hermes (Parelli), Genova
- 8.XI.1906: La leyenda de Rudel (Castro Herrera), México
- 10.XI.1956: Hécube (Martinon), Strasbourg
- 10.XI.1956: Hello World! (W Mayer), New York
- 11.XI.1906: Maskerade (Nielsen), København
- 11.XI.1906: The Wreckers (Smyth), Leipzig
- 12.XI.1856: Six demoiselles à marier (Delibes), Paris
- 12.XI.1906: The Vicar of Wakefield (Lehmann), Manchester
- 13.XI.1856: Sigwart Aspestrand, Fredrikshald
- 15.XI.1756: Franz Teyber, Wien
- 15.XI.1906: Wyrok (Noskowski), Warszawa
- 15.XI.1956: The Fool (Somers), Toronto
- 17.XI.1756: Le Charlatan (Sodi), Paris
- 18.XI.1956: The Men of Blackmoor (A Bush), Weimar
- 20.XI.1856: Bis der Rechte kommt (Gumbert), Berlin
- 24.XI.1806: Die Roseninsel (Stegmann), Hamburg
- 24.XI.1806: Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook), London
- 24.XI.1956: Jouni Kaipainen, Helsinki
- 25.XI.1856: Sergey Taneyev, Vladimir-na-Klyaz'me
- 25.XI.1956: The Soldier (L Engel), New York*
- 26.XI.1906: Sandro Fuga, Magliano Veneto, Treviso
- 26.XI.1956: The Man Who Shoots at the Blue Sky (Shimizu), Osaka
- 27.XI.1856: La demente (Marchetti), Torino
- 28.XI.1856: Alexander Kastalski, Moskva
- 1.XII.1906: Peter und Paul reisen im Schlaraffenland (Lehár), Wien
- 1.XII.1906: Vendetta (Pizzi), Köln
- 3.XII.1906: The Girl from Broadway (Hoschna), Philadelphia
- 4.XII.1806: Agnes Sorel (Gyrowetz), Wien
- 4.XII.1956: The Intruder (Starer), New York
- 6.XII.1806: Gilbert Duprez, Paris
- 8.XII.1756: Il rè pastore (Gluck), Wien
- 8.XII.1806: Almeria, ou L'écossaise fugitive (F Bianchi), Paris
- 8.XII.1906: Moloch (Schillings), Dresden
- 10.XII.1756: The Humorous Lieutenant (M Arne), London
- 11.XII.1906: Das Chris-Elflein (Pfitzner), München
- 12.XII.1856: Albin, oder Der Pflegesohn (Flotow), Wien
- 12.XII.1856: Maître Pathelin (Bazin), Paris
- 13.XII.1906: Ingemar Liljefors, Göteborg
- 14.XII.1856: Het dorp in't gebergte (P Benoît), Brussel
- 14.XII.1956: The Open Window (Malcolm Arnold), London
- 17.XII.1906: Fernando Lopes-Graça, Tomar, Portugal
- 18.XII.1756: Zenobia (Piccinni), Napoli
- 18.XII.1806: Koulouf, ou Les Chinois (Dalayrac), Paris
- 20.XII.1756: Taniusha, ili Schastilvagya vstrecha (Volkov)
- 21.XII.1756: Thomas Anton Kunz, Praha
- 22.XII.1906: La pesadilla (Chapí), Madrid
- 22.XII.1956: Nadezhda Durova (Bogatïryev), Minsk
- 23.XII.1906: Ross Lee Finney, Wells, Minn.
- 24.XII.1906: Giulio Cesare Sonzogno, Milano
- 25.XII.1906: Dream City and the Magic Night (Herbert), New York
- 25.XII.1906: The Student King (De Koven), New York
- 26.XII.1756: Comte de Lacépède, Agen
- 26.XII.1756: Artaserse (Gasparini), Milano
- 26.XII.1756: La buona figluola (E Duni), Parma
- 26.XII.1756: Catone in Utica (V Ciampi), Venezia
- 26.XII.1756: Antigono (Pampani), Torino
- 26.XII.1806: Adelasie e Aleramo (Mayr), Milano
- 27.XII.1856: André Gédalge, Paris
- 27.XII.1856: La Reine Topaze (Massé), Paris
- 27.XII.1906: Ivan Brkanovic, Skaljare, Boka Kotorska
- 27.XII.1906: Les troyens [compl] (Berlioz), Bruxelles
- 28.XII.1806: Télémaque (Boïeldieu), St Peterburg
- 30.XII.1756: Paul Wranitzky, Nová Rise, Morava
- 30.XII.1906: Bübchens Weihnachtstraum (Humperdinck), Berlin
- 30.XII.1956: Krakatuk (Szeligowski), Gdansk
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