Calendar of Operatic Commemorations
Birthdays and Premieres
- 1.I.1961: Deseret (Kastle), NBC-TV*
- 2.I.1711: Li tre rivali al soglio (Aldrovandini), Bologna
- 3.I.1761: Armida (Traetta), Wien
- 3.I.1761: Le vicende della sorte (Piccinni), Roma
- 4.I.1661: Gl'amori infruttuosi di Pirro (A Sartorio), Venezia
- 5.I.1861: Heinrich Noren, Graz
- 5.I.1861: Le Chanson de Fortunio (Offenbach), Paris
- 5.I.1911: Die Sirene (Fall), Wien
- 6.I.1761: Anima desolata (Oehlschlägel), Strahov
- 6.I.1811: Rien de trop ou Les Deux paravents (Boďeldieu), St Peterburg
- 7.I.1911: In 50 Jahren (Ziehrer), Wien
- 7.I.1911: Die Spieluhr (Lehár), Wien
- 8.I.1811: Le Sabot miraculeux, ou L'Isle des Nains (Leblanc), Paris
- 8.I.1911: Andrej Ocenas, Serce, c. Banská Bystrica
- 12.I.1761: La Zenobia (Sala), Napoli
- 12.I.1811: Jeune et vieille (H Berton, Pradher), Paris
- 15.I.1811: Triumph des Vaterherzens (Brandl), Karlsruhe
- 15.I.1911: Nazib Zhiganov, Uralsk
- 16.I.1861: La Madone (Lacombe), Paris
- 17.I.1711: Il tradimento traditor di se stesso (Lotti), Venezia
- 18.I.1761: Amore in caricatura (V Ciampi), Venezia
- 18.I.1761: Li tre amanti ridicoli (Galuppi), Venezia
- 18.I.1861: Ausonio de Lorenzi-Fabris, Montebelluna
- 19.I.1711: Tolomeo e Alessandro, ovvero La corona disprezzata (D Scarlatti), Roma
- 19.I.1711: Manto la fée (Stuck), Paris
- 19.I.1811: The Bee Hive (Horn), London
- 19.I.1861: La savoiarda (Ponchielli), Cremona
- 20.I.1761: Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Vercelli
- 20.I.1911: Il Nazareno (Giannetti), Buenos Aires
- 21.I.1711: Gaetano Latilla, Bari
- 24.I.1811: Le Charme de la voix (H M Berton), Paris
- 24.I.1961: Bartleby (Flanagan), New York
- 25.I.1861: Astaroth (Debillemont), Paris
- 25.I.1861: Les Musiciens de l'orchestre (Delibes et al.), Paris
- 25.I.1911: Julia Smith, Denton, Tex.
- 26.I.1911: Norbert Schultze, Braunschweig
- 26.I.1911: Der Rosenkavalier (R Strauss), Dresden
- 28.I.1961: The Fox (Kondorossy), Cleveland
- 29.I.1711: Giuseppe Bonno, Wien
- 29.I.1811: Abradate e Dircea (Nicolini), Milano
- 30.I.1861: Charles Martin Loeffler, Mulhouse
- 30.I.1911: Pantagruel (Terrasse), Lyon
- 31.I.1761: Edgar and Emmeline (Arne), London
- 2.II.1861: La Circassienne (Auber), Paris
- 2.II.1911: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Cran-Gevier, c. Annecy
- 3.II.1811: Constantin Julius Becker, Freiberg, Sachsen
- 4.II.1761: Le Cadi dupé (Monsigny), Paris
- 5.II.1811: Il finto sordo (Nasolini), Parma
- 5.II.1811: The Knight of Snowdoun (Bishop et al.), London
- 7.II.1761: Tito Manlio (Cocchi), London
- 7.II.1861: L'espiazione (A Peri), Milano
- 8.II.1861: Madame Grégoire (Clapisson), Paris
- 10.II.1961: Cetrdesetprva (Logar), Sarajevo
- 11.II.1761: L'Olimpiade (Jommelli), Stuttgart
- 11.II.1811: Baldovino (Zingarelli), Roma
- 12.II.1861: Konkurenci (Miladowski), Minsk
- 14.II.1861: Guglielmo Shakespeare (T Benvenuti), Parma
- 14.II.1961: Fĺgeln (Bäck), Svensk Radio*
- 16.II.1711: Telemach (Graupner), Darmstadt
- 17.II.1811: La Victime des arts (Solié, Isouard, Breton), Paris
- 17.II.1961: Purgatory (Weisgall), Washington
- 18.II.1761: Le Jardinier et son seigneur (Philidor), Paris
- 18.II.1861: Anton Averkamp, Willige Langerak
- 18.II.1911: Katie Did (Hoschna), Chicago
- 19.II.1811: Die Alpenhirten (Wollanck), Berlin
- 19.II.1911: Nikola Hercigonja, Vinkovci
- 20.II.1761: Ludwig Abeille, Bayreuth
- 21.II.1861: Pierre de Bréville, Bar-le-Duc
- 23.II.1811: Jules Godefroid, Namur
- 23.II.1861: Die Kinder der Heide (Rubinstein), Wien
- 23.II.1961: The Sisters (Flagello), New York
- 24.II.1711: Rinaldo (Handel), London
- 25.II.1911: Natoma (Herbert), Philadelphia
- 25.II.1961: Krapp ou La Derničre bande (Mihalovici), Bielefeld
- 26.II.1961: The Widow (Gaburo), Urbana, Ill.
- 27.II.1811: La Victime des arts, ou La Fęte de famille (H M Berton, Isouard), Paris (?)
- 27.II.1911: Kapitanskaya dochka (Cui), St. Peterburg
- 28.II.1861: The Amber Witch (V Wallace), London
- 1.III.1861: Die Verschworenen, oder Der häusliche Krieg (Schubert), Wien
- 2.III.1961: Ariadne (Martinu), Gelsenkirchen
- 3.III.1911: The Sacrifice (Converse), Boston
- 4.III.1861: Le Jardinier galant (Poise), Paris
- 4.III.1911: Borislav (Atanasov), Sofia
- 5.III.1761: Les Bons amis (La Borde), Paris
- 5.III.1811: Fedra (Radicati), London
- 6.III.1911: Jumping Jupiter (Hoschna), New York
- 8.III.1861: M. H. van't Kruis, Oudewater
- 9.III.1861: Bánk bán (F, G, & S Erkel), Pest
- 11.III.1911: Alan Hovhaness, Somerville, Mass.
- 11.III.1961: Uno sguardo del pont (Rossellini), Roma
- 12.III.1861: Aurora di Nevers (G Sinico), Trieste
- 13.III.1861: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg [rev] (Wagner), Paris
- 13.III.1911: The Pink Lady (Caryll), New York
- 14.III.1911: Déjanire (Saint-Saëns), Monte Carlo
- 18.III.1811: Der Taucher (Reichardt), Berlin
- 21.III.1911: Povratak (Hatze), Zagreb
- 23.III.1811: Wilhelm Taubert, Berlin
- 23.III.1861: Le Pont des soupirs (Offenbach), Paris
- 23.III.1961: Assassinio nella cattedrale (Pizzetti), Milano
- 25.III.1911: Grigri (Lincke), Köln
- 26.III.1961: The Hunting of the Snark (Laderman), New York*
- 26.III.1961: Medea (Farberman), Boston
- 27.III.1811: >Le Triomphe du mois de Mars (R Kreutzer), Paris
- 27.III.1911: Mlle. Rosita (Herbert), Boston
- 31.III.1961: Jake Heggie, West Palm Beach
- 31.III.1811: La Fęte au village ou L'Heureux militaire (Isouard), Paris
- 1.IV.1911: Fior di neve (Filiasi), Milano
- 3.IV.1761: Hercule mourant (Dauvergne), Paris
- 6.IV.1911: Phyllis Tate, Gerrards Cross, Bucks.
- 7.IV.1861: Stanislas Gastaldon, Torino
- 7.IV.1911: Die Frau Gretl (Raimann), Wien
- 9.IV.1761: Soliman second, ou Les Trois sultanes (Gilbert), Paris
- 11.IV.1861: La Statue (Reyer), Paris
- 13.IV.1961: Intolleranza 1960 (Nono), Venezia
- 14.IV.1811: Con amore non si scherza (G Mosca), Milano
- 15.IV.1811: The Red Reaver (Reeve), London
- 17.IV.1861: Anarquía conyugal (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 17.IV.1911: Dr. Deluxe (Hoschna), New York
- 19.IV.1961: La Via della Croce (Ghedini), Venezia
- 24.IV.1811: Quinto Fabio (Nicolini), Wien
- 24.IV.1861: Una nińa (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 25.IV.1861: Enrico Bossi, Salň, Lago di Garda
- 25.IV.1861: Erik Meyer-Helmund, St. Peterburg
- 26.IV.1911: La Jota (Laparra), Paris
- 26.IV.1911: Le Voile du bonheur (Pons), Paris
- 26.IV.1961: Perpetual (Kanitz), Los Angeles
- 27.IV.1811: The Americans (Braham, King), London
- 27.IV.1811: Les Ménestrel (Solié), Paris
- 28.IV.1811: Die Feuerprobe (Mosel), Wien
- 28.IV.1911: Napoleon und die Frauen (H Reinhardt), Wien
- 29.IV.1761: Catone in Utica (Gassmann), Venezia
- 29.IV.1761: Le pescatrici (Lampugnani), London
- 29.IV.1811: Timour the Tartar (King), London
- 1.V.1711: La partenope (Zumaya), Mexico
- 6.V.1961: The Scarlet Letter (Kaufmann), Bloomington, Ind.
- 7.V.1861: Rudolf Raimann, Veszprem
- 7.V.1861: Paul Stoeving, Leipzig
- 7.V.1961: Tkalci (Nejedlý, Hanus), Plzen
- 9.V.1861: Au travers du mur (Poniatowski), Paris
- 10.V.1911: Alberto Soresina, Milano
- 10.V.1961: Esugata nyobo (Hayashi), Osaka
- 11.V.1861: La edad en la boca (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 12.V.1861: Ivan Caryll, Ličge
- 14.V.1911: Hans Vogt, Gdansk
- 15.V.1861: Marie-Emmanuel-Augustin Savard, Paris
- 16.V.1861: Alfred Sormann, Gdansk
- 17.V.1861: La Poularde de Caux (Clapisson et al.), Paris
- 18.V.1811: Chi non risica non rosica (Generali), Milano
- 19.V.1811: Wyspa malzenska czyli Zony przez los wybrane (Elsner), Warszawa
- 19.V.1911: L'Heure espagnole (Ravel), Paris
- 19.V.1961: Lancelot (Fiser), Praha
- 20.V.1911: Les Transatlantiques (Terrasse), Paris
- 20.V.1961: Elegy for Young Lovers (Henze), Schwetzingen
- 20.V.1961: Silas Marner (Joubert), Cape Town
- 24.V.1861: Heinrich Spangenberg, Darmstadt
- 25.V.1861: Guerra in quattro (Pedrotti), Milano
- 25.V.1861: Il mulattiere di Toledo (Pacini), Roma
- 25.V.1961: Il mercante di Venezia (Castelnuovo-Tedesco), Firenze
- 30.V.1761: Andromaca (Sacchini), Napoli
- 30.V.1761: Le Temple des arts (Vitzthumb), Bruxelles
- 30.V.1811: Le Počte et le musicien, ou Je Cherche un sujet (Dalayrac), Paris
- 31.V.1861: M. Choufleuri (Offenbach), Paris
- 2.VI.1911: Isabeau (Mascagni), Buenos Aires
- 2.VI.1961: Godfather Death (Meyerowitz), New York
- 3.VI.1811: The Council of Ten (Reeve), London
- 3.VI.1961: Didostatis mardzhvena (Mshvelidze), Tbilisi
- 4.VI.1811: Abu Hassan (Weber), München
- 5.VI.1861: Una historia en un mesori (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 6.VI.1761: Giacomo Antonio Perti, Crevalcore, c. Bologna
- 7.VI.1761: Le Perigourdin (Gossec), Paris
- 7.VI.1911: Franz Reizenstein, Nürnberg
- 8.VI.1761: La Bonne fille (Duni), Paris
- 8.VI.1911: Bruno Bartolozzi, Firenze
- 9.VI.1661: L'Almonte (Tricarico), Wien
- 9.VI.1661: Il Ciro crescente (Bertali), Wien
- 9.VI.1961: Recké pasij (Martinu), Zürich
- 9.VI.1961: La tragedia di Orfeo (Killmayr), München
- 12.VI.1861: Edmond Missa, Rheims
- 17.VI.1861: Sidney Jones, Islington, London
- 21.VI.1811: The Round Robin (Dibdin), London
- 22.VI.1811: L'equivvoco fortunato (Marinelli), Milano
- 25.VI.1861: Theodor Gerlach, Dresden
- 29.VI.1811: Saul, König in Israel (Hoffmann), Bamberg
- 29.VI.1911: Bernard Herrmann, New York
- 3.VII.1761: La Fausse Turque (Gilbert), Paris
- 3.VII.1961: The Lady from Colorado (Ward), Central City, Colo.
- 7.VII.1911: Gian Carlo Menotti, Cadegliano
- 8.VII.1661: Ercole in Tebe (J Melani), Firenze
- 12.VII.1861: Anton Arensky, Novgorod
- 15.VII.1961: The Brute (Moss), Norfolk, Conn.
- 16.VII.1761: Le Dépit généreux (Laruette), Paris
- 16.VII.1861: Franz von Blon, Berlin
- 19.VII.1861: Gustav Lazarus, Köln
- 20.VII.1761: Joseph Lefčbvre, Berlin
- 20.VII.1961: Lavinia (Barraud), Aix-en-Provence
- 23.VII.1861: Virginia (Petrella), Napoli
- 23.VII.1961: Mindiya (Taktakishvili), Tbilisi
- 25.VII.1811: Saphirine, ou Le Réveil magique (Leblanc), Paris
- 28.VII.1761: George et Georgette (Alexandre), Paris
- 29.VII.1911: Ján Cikker, Banská Bystrica
- 31.VII.1861: Les Deux amours (Gevaert), Baden-Baden
- 1.VIII.1811: One o'clock, or The Knight and the Wood Daemon (Kelly, King), London
- 5.VIII.1811: Ambroise Thomas, Metz
- 7.VIII.1911: The Girl of My Dreams (Hoschna), New York
- 7.VIII.1961: Early Dawn (Lockwood), Denver
- 14.VIII.1911: Jan Koetsier, Amsterdam
- 16.VIII.1761: Evstigney Fomin, St Peterburg
- 16.VIII.1961: Das Bergwerk zu Falun (Wagner-Régeny), Salzburg
- 17.VIII.1811: La casa dell'astrologo (Nicolini), Milano
- 17.VIII.1961: C'est la guerre (Petrovics), Budapest Radio*
- 17.VIII.1961: Padurea vulturilor (Jarda), Cluj
- 19.VIII.1961: Nausicaa (Glanville-Hicks), Athinai
- 20.VIII.1561: Jacopo Peri, Roma
- 20.VIII.1811: L'armonia richiamata (Caffi), Venezia
- 22.VIII.1761: Le Maréchal ferrant (Philidor), Paris
- 23.VIII.1961: Lembitu (Kapp), Tallinn
- 24.VIII.1811: Omar der Gute (Brandl), Karlsruhe
- 26.VIII.1811: The Boarding House, or Five Hours at Brighton (Horn), London
- 26.VIII.1911: Jacopo Napoli, Napoli
- 28.VIII.1911: David Gershfeld, Bobrinets
- 2.IX.1961: Le Magicien (Vallerand), Orford, Que.
- 4.IX.1861: A noite do castelo (Gomes), Rio de Janeiro
- 5.IX.1861: La locandiera (Usiglio), Torino
- 7.IX.1761: Le Vieux coquet (Papavoine), Paris
- 7.IX.1811: I pretendenti delusi (G Mosca), Milano
- 8.IX.1911: Tomasz Kiesewetter, Sosnowka
- 9.IX.1811: M.P., or The Blue Stocking (Horn, King), London
- 11.IX.1711: William Boyce*, London
- 11.IX.1911: The Fascinating Widow (Hoschna), New York
- 11.IX.1961: The Ledge (Bennett), London
- 12.IX.1961: Wings of the Dove (Moore), New York
- 14.IX.1761: Pavel Lambert Masek, Zvíkovec, c. Rokycany
- 14.IX.1761: On ne s'avise jamais de tout (Monsigny), Paris
- 14.IX.1811: Le Billet de loterie (Isouard), Paris
- 15.IX.1811: Jan Nepomuk Skroup, Osice, c. Pardubice
- 17.IX.1711: Ignaz Holzbauer, Wien
- 18.IX.1961: Blood Moon (Dello Joio), San Francisco
- 20.IX.1911: Jan Mul, Haarlem
- 24.IX.1761: Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen, Lübeck
- 24.IX.1761: Mazet (Duni), Paris
- 25.IX.1961: Alkmene (Klebe), Berlin
- 28.IX.1761: Le Tonnelier (Audinot et al.), Paris
- 28.IX.1811: Riquet ŕ la houppe (Leblanc), Paris
- 1.X.1811: Der Augenarzt (Gyrowetz), Wien
- 1.X.1961: Attraverso lo specchio (Castiglioni), RAI*
- 4.X.1861: Joăo Marcellino Arroyo, Oporto
- 7.X.1911: Die keusche Barbora (Nedbal), Wien
- 9.X.1911: The Enchantress (Herbert), Washington
- 10.X.1911: Der gute Kamerad (Kálmán), Wien
- 13.X.1761: Alessandro nell'Indieo (Cocchi), London
- 13.X.1811: Bayard ŕ la ferté, ou Le Sičge de Mézičres (Plantade), Paris
- 14.X.1811: The Green-eyed Monster, or How to Get Your Money (Welsh), London
- 14.X.1911: Conchita (Zandonai), Milano
- 16.X.1811: Kamtchatka, or The Slave's Tribute (Welsh), London
- 17.X.1711: Armida in Damasco (Rampini), Venezia
- 17.X.1861: Apothicaire et perruquier (Offenbach), Paris
- 18.X.1711: La virtů in trionfo o sia La Griselda (Predieri), Bologna
- 18.X.1961: La sugestión (Garrido), Santiago
- 20.X.1911: Die kleine Freundin (Starus), Wien
- 21.X.1961: Ruy Blas (Glover), London
- 21.X.1961: Die Ameise (Ronnefeld), Düsseldorf
- 22.X.1811: Franz Liszt, Raiding, c. Sopron
- 22.X.1811: Les Femmes vengées (Blangini), Paris
- 24.X.1811: Ferdinand Hiller, Frankfurt am Main
- 25.X.1811: Richard Michael Levey, Dublin
- 26.X.1761: Arcadia, or The Shepherd's Wedding (Stanley), London
- 26.X.1811: L'equivoco stravagante (Rossini), Bologna
- 26.X.1961: The Crucible (Ward), New York
- 1.XI.1761: Antonín Volanek, Jaromer
- 4.XI.1761: Catone in Utica (J C Bach), Napoli
- 4.XI.1761: L'Éloge de la vertu, ou Le tribut des coeurs (Vitzthumb), Bruxelles
- 4.XI.1761: L'isola disabitata (Jommelli), Ludwigsburg
- 4.XI.1811: Le Magiciein sans magic (Isouard), Paris
- 4.XI.1911: Osami Shimizu, Osaka
- 4.XI.1961: Daron Hagen, Milwaukee
- 6.XI.1811: Up to Town (Welsh et al.), London
- 9.XI.1811: Palac Lucypera (Kurpinski), Warszawa
- 9.XI.1911: Der Bergsee (Bittner), Wien
- 12.XI.1811: Berenice, regina d'Armenia (Zingarelli), Roma
- 12.XI.1861: Natasha, or The Volga Brigands (Vilboa), Moskva
- 13.XI.1811: Yuri Arnold, St Peterburg
- 14.XI.1711: La forza del sangue (Lotti), Venezia
- 14.XI.1811: Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn, Elbing
- 15.XI.1811: Marie Léopoldin Blahetka, Guntramsdorf, c. Wien
- 15.XI.1811: Der Zweikampf mit der Geliebten (Spohr), Hamburg
- 16.XI.1861: Václav Suk, Kladno
- 18.XI.1761: Il caffč di campagna (Galuppi), Venezia
- 23.XI.1811: L'Enfant prodigue (Gaveaux), Paris
- 23.XI.1911: Der Kuhreigen (Kienzl), Wien
- 23.XI.1961: Sunrise (Gedzhadze), Tbilisi
- 24.XI.1911: Erik Bergman, Nykarleby
- 24.XI.1911: Eva (Lehár), Wien
- 25.XI.1961: The Harvest (Giannini), Chicago
- 27.XI.1861: La Baronne de San Francisco (Caspers), Paris
- 29.XI.1861: Spyridon Samaras, Corfu
- 30.XI.1811: Angelo Catelani, Guastalla
- 30.XI.1811: Ludwig Thuille, Bolzano
- 30.XI.1861: The Puritan's Daughter (Balfe), London
- 1.XII.1861: Belfagor (Pacini), Firenze
- 1.XII.1961: The Libretto (Gillis), Norman, Okla.
- 3.XII.1861: Mazeppa (Pedrotti), Bologna
- 3.XII.1911: Nino Rota, Milano
- 8.XII.1811: Louis Schindelmeisser, Königsberg
- 9.XII.1761: Le Cadi dupé (Gluck), Wien
- 10.XII.1861: Le Roman comique (Offenbach), Paris
- 13.XII.1911: Los juglares (Giménez), Madrid
- 13.XII.1961: The Nativity according to St Luke (Thompson), Cambridge, Mass.
- 15.XII.1811: Seraphine, oder Grossmut und Liebe (Tomásek), Praha
- 15.XII.1911: Bérénice (Magnard), Paris
- 16.XII.1811: Barbe-bleu, ou Les Enchantements d'Alcine (F Foignet), Paris
- 16.XII.1911: Oce nas (Zajc), Zagreb
- 17.XII.1811: Amphion, ou Les Amazones (Méhul), Paris
- 17.XII.1861: Fritz Volbach, Wipperfürth, c. Köln
- 17.XII.1961: Das lange Weihnachtsmahl (Hindemith), Mannheim
- 19.XII.1861: Szép Ilonka (Mosonyi), Pest
- 20.XII.1861: Del palacio á la taberna (Gaztambide), Madrid
- 20.XII.1961: A compadecida (Siqueira), Rio de Janeiro
- 20.XII.1961: Fortuna (Thorne), New York
- 20.XII.1961: Zlatnata ptica (Goleminov), Sofia
- 21.XII.1911: Paul Burkhard, Zürich
- 22.XII.1911: The Eternal Waltz (Fall), London
- 23.XII.1911: Der Frauenfresser (Eysler), Wien
- 23.XII.1911: I gioielli della Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari), Berlin
- 24.XII.1811: Ninette ŕ la cour (H Berton), Paris
- 24.XII.1961: Novellis, Novellis (La Montaine), Washington
- 25.XII.1711: Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (*), Narbonne
- 25.XII.1961: Ne tol'ko lyubov' (Shchedrin), Moskva
- 26.XII.1761: Merope (Gasparini), Venezia
- 26.XII.1811: Nitteti (Pavesi), Torino
- 27.XII.1811: Die Ruinen zu Paluzzi (A Romberg), Hamburg
- 29.XII.1911: L'Aube rouge (Erlanger), Rouen
- 30.XII.1761: Le Triomphe du temps (Philidor), Paris
- 30.XII.1861: La Voix humaine (Alary), Paris
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