Calendar of Operatic Commemorations
Birthdays and Premieres
- 4.I.1959: O vestido de noiva (Coelho), Lisboa
- 5.I.1809: Alarich und Zaďde, oder Die bezauberte Leyer (V Tucek), Wien
- 7.I.1909: Táncos huszárok (Szirmai), Budapest
- 8.I.1959: Sourwood Mountain (Kreutz), Clinton, Miss.
- 9.I.1859: Léon Dubois, Bruxelles
- 10.I.1809: La Ferme du Mont-Cenis (Champein), Paris
- 10.I.1909: Rudolf Kubin, Ostrava
- 13.I.1759: Melite riconosciuto (Galuppi), Roma
- 13.I.1909: Monna Vanna (Février), Paris
- 14.I.1809: Olga prekrasnaya (Kashin), Moskva
- 15.I.1909: Elie Siegmeister, New York
- 18.I.1759: Der lustige Schuster oder Der zweyte Theil vom Teufel ist los (Standfuss), Lübeck
- 20.I.1809: Sebastián de Iradier, Sauciego, Álava
- 21.I.1659: Antioco (Cavalli), Venezia
- 24.I.1859: Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyinsky, Tsarskoye Selo
- 24.I.1959: Moskva, Cheryomushki (Shostakovich), Moskva
- 25.I.1909: Elektra (R Strauss), Dresden
- 26.I.1709: La Rosmene ovvero L'infedeltŕ fedele (Vignola), Napoli
- 27.I.1709: Il Teodosio (A Scarlatti), Napoli
- 27.I.1809: Dworek na goscincu (Deszczynski), Warszawa
- 27.I.1909: The Angelus (Naylor), London
- 28.I.1809: Françoise de Foix (H-M Berton), Paris
- 28.I.1809: Ifigenia in Aulide (Federici), Milano
- 28.I.1859: Huis-clos (Lecocq), Paris
- 30.I.1909: Mihály Hajdu, Orosháza
- 30.I.1909: Rákóczi Ferenz (Zichy), Budapest
- 31.I.1759: François Devienne, Joinville, Haute-Marne
- 1.II.1859: Victor Herbert, Dublin
- 2.II.1809: Felix Mendelssohn, Hamburg
- 3.II.1709: Abdolomino (Bononcini), Wien
- 3.II.1759: Ciro riconosciuto (Cocchi), London
- 3.II.1809: Bradamante (Reichardt), Wien
- 3.II.1809: Il trionfo delle belle, ovvero Corradino Cuor di Ferro (Pavesi), Venezia
- 3.II.1909: Il principe Zilah (Alfano), Genova
- 4.II.1809: Die vier Heymonskinder (V Tucek), Wien
- 5.II.1909: Grazyna Bacewicz, Lódz
- 6.II.1709: Il comando non inteso et ubbidito (Lotti), Venezia
- 6.II.1959: La Voix humaine (Poulenc), Paris
- 7.II.1759: Les Aveux indiscrets (Monsigny), Paris
- 7.II.1859: Isabella d'Aragona (Pedrotti), Torino
- 7.II.1959: Skĺlknallen (Wieslander), Malmö
- 9.II.1709: Egidio Duni, Matera, Basilicata
- 9.II.1909: Quo Vadis? (Nougučs), Nice
- 11.II.1909: Boleslaw Smialy (Rózycki), Lvov
- 12.II.1709: La ninfa Apollo (Gasparini, Lotti), Venezia
- 13.II.1909: Le Vieil aigle (Gunsbourg, Jehin), Monte Carlo
- 13.II.1959: Ivaylo (Goleminov), Sofia
- 16.II.1909: Le Cobzar (Gab. Ferrari), Monte Carlo
- 16.II.1959: The Lady of Ephesus (R Warren), Belfast
- 17.II.1859: Un ballo in maschera (Verdi), Roma
- 19.II.1759: La ritornata di Londra (Galuppi), Roma (?)
- 19.II.1909: Pepe el liberal (Giménez), Madrid
- 21.II.1759: Cendrillon (Laruette), Paris
- 22.II.1909: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Genova
- 23.II.1809: The Circassian Bride (Bishop), London
- 23.II.1959: Il dottore di vetro (Vlad), Torino RAI*
- 24.II.1909: Margarita la Tornera (Chapí), Madrid
- 26.II.1909: Der Traum (Mraczek), Brno
- 27.II.1759: Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, Berlin
- 27.II.1909: Katharina (Tinel), Brussel
- 28.II.1809: Oreamo (Lavigna), Milano
- 28.II.1859: La Fée Carabosse (Massé), Paris
- 28.II.1959: The Sons of Aaron (Landau), Scarsdale, N.Y.
- 1.III.1959: La riva delle Sirti (Chailly), Monte Carlo
- 2.III.1759: Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, Oberschönau, c. Suhl, Thuringen
- 2.III.1859: Król pasterzy (Kolberg), Warszawa
- 3.III.1959: Night Blooming Cereus (Beckwith), Toronto*
- 4.III.1859: Herculanum (David), Paris
- 6.III.1909: Bryllup i Katakomberne (Höeberg), Křbenhavn
- 8.III.1859: Karl Eduard Goepfart, Weimar
- 8.III.1859: Otto Taubmann, Hamburg
- 9.III.1759: Blaise le savetier (Philidor), Paris
- 10.III.1909: Solange (Salvayre), Paris
- 11.III.1809: Theseus und Ariadne (A Fischer), Wien
- 11.III.1909: La alegría del batallón (Serrano), Madrid
- 14.III.1809: Die Schweizerfamilie (Weigl), Wien
- 15.III.1959: La Cabine téléphonique (Arrieu), Paris RTF*
- 17.III.1909: Hellera (Montemezzi), Torino
- 19.III.1709: Il mese di Marzo, consecrato a Marte (Fux), Wien
- 19.III.1809: Fredrik Pacius, Hamburg
- 19.III.1859: Faust (Gounod), Paris
- 19.III.1959: Eli (Pergament), Swedish Radio*
- 20.III.1809: La Rose blanche et la rose rouge (Gaveaux), Paris
- 21.III.1809: La Mort d'Adam (Le Sueur, 1802), Paris
- 24.III.1859: Il duca di Scilla (Petrella), Milano
- 25.III.1709: Jean Laurent de Béthizy, Paris
- 25.III.1909: Prinzessin Brambilla (Braunfels), Stuttgart
- 26.III.1859: I moschettieri (Sinico), Trieste
- 27.III.1909: Paula macht alles (Raimann), Wien
- 29.III.1859: Herman Bemberg, Paris
- 1.IV.1909: Zhenit'ba (Musorgsky; 1868), St Peterburg
- 2.IV.1909: Jean Kurt Forest, Darmstadt
- 3.IV.1859: Reginald De Koven, Middletown, Conn.
- 4.IV.1809: Le Mariage par imprudence (Dalvimare), Paris
- 4.IV.1859: Le Pardon de Ploërmel (Meyerbeer), Paris
- 4.IV.1909: Safie (Hadley), Mainz
- 6.IV.1909: Le Coq d'Inde (Terrasse), Paris
- 8.IV.1909: Olavi Pesonen, Helsinki
- 9.IV.1909: Ivan Dzerzhinsky, Tambov
- 10.IV.1909: The Beauty Spot (De Koven), New York
- 10.IV.1909: Dido (Lavrangas), Athinai
- 11.IV.1909: Die Sühne (Bronsart), Dessau
- 16.IV.1959: The Triumph of Saint Joan (Dello Joio), New York
- 17.IV.1859: Il menestrello (De Ferrari), Genova
- 18.IV.1759: Jacques Widerkehr, Strasbourg
- 18.IV.1959: The Blessed Wilderness (Kilpatrick), Dallas
- 21.IV.1709: Dafni (d'Astorga), Genova
- 21.IV.1809: Sovedrikken (Weyse), Křbenhavn
- 23.IV.1809: Eugčne-Prosper Prévost, Paris
- 24.IV.1909: La Perugina (Mascheroni), Napoli
- 25.IV.1909: Jaroslav Doubrava, Chrudim, Cechy
- 26.IV.1959: Aurelia (Gershfeld), Kishinev
- 26.IV.1959: Six Characters in Search of an Author (Weisgall), New York
- 27.IV.1709: Teodora Augusta (Vignola), Napoli
- 27.IV.1959: The Hunted (Mailman), Rochester, N.Y.
- 2.V.1859: Eugčne D'Harcourt, Paris
- 5.V.1909: Bacchus (Massenet), Paris
- 5.V.1909: Robins Ende (Künnecke), Mannheim
- 5.V.1959: The Petrified Princess (Arnell), London
- 6.V.1809: Die schöne Melusine (V Tucek), Wien
- 6.V.1859: Ernst Seyffardt, Krefeld
- 9.V.1759: Ippolito ed Aricia (Traetta), Parma
- 9.V.1859: Richard Mandl, Prossnitz
- 11.V.1909: Herbert Murrill, London
- 13.V.1859: Le Diable au moulin (Gevaert), Paris
- 14.V.1959: The Glittering Gate (Glanville-Hicks), New York
- 15.V.1759: Maria Theresia von Paradis, Wien
- 15.V.1859: Il diavolo a quattro (L Ricci), Trieste
- 15.V.1909: Rodolfo Cornejo, Manila
- 15.V.1909: Else Klapperzehen (Waltershausen), Dresden
- 15.V.1909: Zoraide (J B Massa), Buenos Aires
- 15.V.1959: Mérope (Braga Santos), Lisboa
- 17.V.1859: Mazeppa (Vietinghoff-Scheel), St Peterburg
- 17.V.1959: Mirandolina (Martinu, 1954), Praha
- 18.V.1759: Charles Duquesnoy, Beuzet
- 18.V.1859: Korylla (Duniecki), Lvov
- 21.V.1909: Hoshi-San (Leps), Philadelphia
- 23.V.1759: António da Silva Leite, Oporto
- 24.V.1709: Méléagre (Stuck), Paris
- 24.V.1959: The Decorator (Woollen), New York
- 25.V.1709: L'amor volubile e tiranno (A Scarlatti), Napoli
- 26.V.1909: Una novella di Boccaccio (Monleone), Genova
- 28.V.1759: Le Diable ŕ quatre, ou La double métamorphose (Gluck), Laxenburg
- 30.V.1859: El último mono (Oudrid y Segura), Madrid
- 31.V.1959: Aniara (Blomdahl), Stockholm
- 2.VI.1909: Robin Orr, Brechin, Angus
- 4.VI.1909: Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia
- 5.VI.1909: Alfred Uhl, Wien
- 6.VI.1659: La virtů guerriera (Tricarico), Wien
- 8.VI.1859: L'Omelette ŕ la Follembuche (Delibes), Paris
- 10.VI.1809: Le rivali generose (Paganini), Milano
- 10.VI.1909: Erwin Dressel, Berlin
- 10.VI.1959: Seraphine (Sutermeister), Zürich Radio*
- 12.VI.1909: Mansel Thomas, Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley
- 14.VI.1959: Le Major Cravachon (Martelli), Radio français*
- 14.VI.1959: Die tödlichen Wünsche (Klebe), Düsseldorf
- 15.VI.1859: El nińo (Barbieri), Madrid
- 17.VI.1959: A Hand of Bridge (Barber), Spoleto
- 19.VI.1959: Salto mortale (Badings),Eindhoven*
- 20.VI.1709: Gli amori di Circe con Ulisse (Badia), Dresden
- 20.VI.1709: La Leucippe (Porfirii), Senigallia
- 21.VI.1909: Kurt Schwaen, Katowice
- 22.VI.1859: Un Mari ŕ la porte (Offenbach), Paris
- 25.VI.1709: Francesco Araia, Napoli
- 25.VI.1809: Zélomire ou L'Intrigue au serial (Isouard), Paris
- 26.VI.1809: Up all Night, or The Smuggler's Cave (King), London
- 26.VI.1959: Peter und Susanne oder die österrichische Schwermut (Kont), Wien
- 28.VI.1959: Kalchas (J Andriessen), Nederlands TV*
- 1.VII.1809: Killing no Murder (Hook), London (?)
- 3.VII.1709: Wilhelmina, Markgräfin von Bayreuth, Berlin
- 6.VII.1859: Les Vivandičres de la grande armée (Offenbach), Paris
- 7.VII.1859: Never Judge by Appearances (Loder), London
- 9.VII.1959: La notte d'un nevrastenico (Rota), Torino*
- 10.VII.1909: Brian Easdale, Manchester
- 13.VII.1909: Paul Constantinescu, Ploiesti
- 15.VII.1709: Gli ossequi della notte (Fux), Wien
- 15.VII.1709: La Placidia (Ariosti), Wien
- 22.VII.1809: Heinrich Proch, Ceská Lipa
- 22.VII.1809: The Russian Imposter, or The Siege of Smolensko (Addison), London
- 22.VII.1909: The Vision of Dame Christian (Holst), London
- 23.VII.1959: Moonflowers (Arnell), Kent
- 24.VII.1759: L'Ivrogne corrigé, ou Le Mariage du diable (Laruette), Paris
- 25.VII.1909: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Bergamo
- 26.VII.1709: Il Campidoglio ricuperato (M Ziani), Wien
- 26.VII.1709: Desiderius, König der Langobarden (Keiser), Hamburg
- 29.VII.1909: Georgy Mushel', Tambov
- 31.VII.1709: Martis exilium, e pacis reditus (Stupan von Ehrenstein), Wien
- 31.VII.1909: Paul Schoop, Zürich
- 1.VIII.1809: The Vintagers (Bishop), London
- 9.VIII.1959: A Faun in the Forest (Cockshott), Westport, Conn.
- 11.VIII.1759: Le Carnaval d'été, ou Le Bal aux boulevards (Gibert), Paris
- 12.VIII.1859: Voyage autour de ma chambre (Grisar), Paris
- 15.VIII.1959: Alexandra ha' Hashmonait (Avidom; 1953), Tel Aviv
- 18.VIII.1759: L'Amant statue (Lusse), Paris
- 18.VIII.1809: I falsi galantuomini (Gnecco), Milano
- 20.VIII.1909: Maître Seiler (A Maclean), London
- 21.VIII.1809: Francesco Schira, Malta
- 23.VIII.1859: Artur Rösel, Münchenbernsdorf
- 25.VIII.1909: Arwel Hughes, Rhosllanerchrugog
- 28.VIII.1809: Safe and Sound (Hook), London
- 29.VIII.1809: Der bezauberte Blumenstrauss (F Teyber), Wien
- 3.IX.1959: La smorfia (Bettinelli), Como
- 4.IX.1909: Karel Horký, Stemechy u Trebice
- 6.IX.1909: Die Gaukler (Ziehrer), Wien
- 8.IX.1859: Dans la rue (Caspers), Paris
- 9.IX.1809: La Dupe de son art (Dourlen), Paris
- 11.IX.1909: Bacchus triomphant (Erlanger), Bordeaux
- 11.IX.1909: The Rose of Algeria (Herbert), Wilkes-Barre
- 13.IX.1859: Joseph Deighn Redding, Sacramento
- 15.IX.1809: Colmal (Winter), München
- 15.IX.1909: Carlos Estrada, Montevideo
- 16.IX.1959: Lo scoiattolo in gamba (Rota), Venezia
- 17.IX.1759: L'Huître et les plaideurs, ou Le Tribunal de la chicane (Philidor), Paris
- 17.IX.1759: Johann Tröbs oder Der vergnügte Bauernstand (Standfuss), Hamburg
- 17.IX.1859: Richard Henry Warren, Albany, N.Y.
- 20.IX.1709: Ama piů chi men si crede (Lotti), Venezia
- 20.IX.1959: Die Ermordung Cäsars (Klebe), Essen
- 21.IX.1859: La Veuve Grapin (Flotow), Paris
- 22.IX.1909: Sergius Kagen, St Peterburg
- 23.IX.1959: Il circo Max (Negri), Venezia
- 24.IX.1759: La Veuve indécise (Duni), Paris
- 26.IX.1809: Le avventure di una giornata (Morlacchi), Milano
- 29.IX.1859: Catalina de Guisa (Paniagua y Vasques, 1845), Mexico
- 30.IX.1859: Les Petits violons du roi (Deffés), Paris
- 30.IX.1959: Procedura penale (Chailly), Como
- 1.X.1709: Patrň Calienno de la Costa (A Orefice), Napoli
- 2.X.1809: Anton Emil Titl, Pernstein, Morava
- 3.X.1759: L'Arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé (Gluck), Wien
- 3.X.1959: Plautus im Nonnenkloster (Butting), Leipzig
- 7.X.1909: Das Fürstenkind (Lehár), Wien
- 7.X.1909: Zolotoy petushok (Rimsky-Korsakov), Moskva
- 8.X.1759: La Femme orgeuilleuse (Sodi), Paris
- 11.X.1809: Dirna (E T A Hoffmann), Bamberg
- 11.X.1859: Mohega, die Blume des Waldes (Sobolewsky), Milwaukee
- 12.X.1959: Fregat 'Pobeda' (Arapov), Leningrad*
- 14.X.1859: Entre mi mujer y el negro (Barbieri), Madrid
- 14.X.1909: Kalervo Tuukkanen, Mikkeli
- 18.X.1959: Vlast (Lhotka-Kalinski), Zagreb TV*
- 20.X.1859: Guglielmo Zuelli, Reggio Emilia
- 22.X.1809: Federico Ricci, Napoli
- 23.X.1909: Didi (Straus), Wien
- 25.X.1709: Georg Gebel, Brzeg
- 25.X.1809: The Jubilee (Kemp), London
- 26.X.1859: Arthur Friedheim, St Peterburg
- 28.X.1909: Adolfs Skulte, Kiev
- 28.X.1959: El amor propiciado (Chávez), México
- 30.X.1959: Kassiani (Sklavos), Athinai
- 1.XI.1909: Bruno Bjelinski, Trieste
- 1.XI.1909: Drei Stunden Leben (Ujj), Wien
- 2.XI.1809: Karl Schnabel, Wroclaw
- 4.XI.1709: Engelberta o sia La forza dell'innocenza (F Mancini), Napoli
- 4.XI.1759: Achille in Sciro (Hasse), Napoli
- 4.XI.1759: Ippolito ed Aricia (Holzbauer), Mannheim
- 6.XI.1909: Henk Bijvanck, Kudus, Java
- 6.XI.1909: Heinz Röttger, Herford, Westfalen
- 6.XI.1909: Ize˙l (d'Albert), Hamburg
- 6.XI.1909: Trajko Prokopiev, Kumanovo
- 6.XI.1909: Old Dutch (Herbert), Wilkes-Barre
- 9.XI.1859: José Maria Valle-Riestra, Lima
- 11.XI.1909: Pierrot and Pierrette (Holbrooke), London
- 12.XI.1909: Der Graf von Luxemburg (Lehár), Wien
- 15.XI.1859: Joseph Bernard Vidal, Toulouse
- 15.XI.1959: Lud gidiya (Khadzhiev), Sofia
- 17.XI.1859: Gerhard Schjelderup, Kristiansand
- 19.XI.1859: Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Gachina
- 19.XI.1859: Genevičve de Brabant (Offenbach), Paris
- 20.XI.1959: Rascoala (Dumitrescu), Bucuresti
- 24.XI.1809: Der Sammtrock (Gyrowetz), Wien
- 26.XI.1659: Theodor Schwartzkopff (*), Ulm
- 26.XI.1809: Auguste-François Morel, Marseilles
- 26.XI.1809: Mariano Obiols, Barcelona
- 26.XI.1959: Herr Arnes penningar (Nystroem), Sveriges Radio*
- 27.XI.1959: Der Tod des Grigorij Rasputin (Nabokov), Köln
- 28.XI.1809: Fernand Cortez, ou La Conqučte du Mexique (Spontini), Paris
- 30.XI.1809: Le Diable ŕ quatre, ou La Femme acariâtre (Solié), Paris
- 30.XI.1809: Pimmalione (Cherubini), Paris
- 1.XII.1909: Brüderlein fein (Fall), Wien
- 2.XII.1809: Leszek Bialy czyli Czarownica z-Lysej Góry (Elsner), Warszawa
- 2.XII.1859: L'Amour (Lacombe), Paris
- 2.XII.1859: Le Roi des Aulnes (Benoît), Bruxelles
- 3.XII.1959: Ristin (Saikkola), Helsinki
- 4.XII.1709: Engelberta, ossia La forza dell'innocenza (A Orefice), Napoli
- 4.XII.1909: Rahab (Franckenstein), Budapest
- 4.XII.1909: Il segreto di Susanna (Wolf-Ferrari), München
- 4.XII.1909: La Sina d'Vargöun (Pratella), Bologna
- 6.XII.1959: Stanac (Gotovac), Zagreb
- 8.XII.1809: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Willent-Bordogni, Douai
- 8.XII.1909: Le Coeur du moulin (Séverac), Paris
- 10.XII.1909: Aino (Melartin), Helsinki
- 11.XII.1959: Finn and the Black Hag (R Warren), Belfast
- 11.XII.1959: Oedipus der Tyrann (Orff), Stuttgart
- 13.XII.1959: The Sofa (Maconchy), London
- 14.XII.1709: Astarto (N Fago), Napoli
- 15.XII.1909: Fallen Fairies (German), London
- 20.XII.1909: Vagn Holmboe, Horsena, Jylland
- 22.XII.1859: La hija del pueblo (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 23.XII.1709: Jean-Noël Hamal, Ličge
- 23.XII.1909: Das Tal der Liebe (Straus), Berlin, Wien
- 25.XII.1859: Raoul Gunsbourg, Bucuresti
- 26.XII.1659: Elena (Cavalli), Venezia
- 26.XII.1709: Agrippina (Handel), Venezia
- 26.XII.1759: Gianguir (Ciampi), Venezia
- 26.XII.1759: Sesostri re d'Egitto (C Monza), Milano
- 26.XII.1809: Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra (Pavesi), Torino
- 26.XII.1809: La Fęte de Mars (Kreutzer), Paris
- 26.XII.1809: Raoul di Créqui (Mayr), Milano
- 30.XII.1859: Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Praha
- 31.XII.1759: Harlequin's Invasion, or A Christmas Gambol (M Arne, Boyce, Aylward), London
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