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

Contents

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)

    • 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 with Shirley Verrett, James McCracken, and Ruth Welting
  • Madama Butterfly – Puccini
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
  • Don Giovanni – Mozart
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann – Offenbach

    • 1985

  • Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck

    • 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 – Robert DiDomenica (world premiere)

    • References

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