In 1851, the first performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" was given in Venice.
In 1926, Arturo Toscanini conducted the first performance of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" at La Scala, Milan.
The convention center may well become Songdo's signature for its arching, multipeaked structure that evokes Sydney's opera house.
Last year, for example, the BLO put on Peter Maxwell Davies's opera "The Lighthouse" at the John F.
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Still, today's opera composers aren't the first to begin thinking outside the box.
The neatly printed "Dido" is an 18th century volume that's one of the oldest surviving manuscripts of Purcell's opera.
Like Mozart's opera, it involves a double love story, in which two happy couples don't necessarily trust each other.
Humperdinck's opera is in three acts, and begins with a popular overture introducing many of the score's main themes.
Pountney denied telling the Getty family that he would put on Gordon Getty's opera after they offered a donation.
In 1920 it inspired Erich Korngold's opera "Die Tote Stadt, " which is periodically revived in opera houses around the world.
It does away with the pestilent dragon of the original legend, as well as the love potions of Wagner's opera.
Her repertoire also included art songs and arias, the most ambitious of which is probably "Elsa's Dream" from Wagner's opera Lohengrin.
He moved on to the stage in London's West End, acting in shows including Lock Up Your Daughters and The Beggar's Opera.
However, its addition, combined with some staging choices by director Andrew Eggert, ended up diluting the theatrical force of Mr. MacMillan's opera.
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Puccini's opera is based on Victorien Sardou's play "La Tosca, " which was written for the actress Sarah Bernhardt in the late 19th century.
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The Theatres Trust has also removed some buildings which appeared on last year's list, including Blackpool's Opera House, saved from demolition by extra funding.
Meanwhile, a film version of Bizet's opera Carmen - translated into the South African language Xhosa - has received a warm reception at the festival.
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Sir Richard Eyre's long-awaited report on the crisis in London's opera and ballet, released on June 30th, confirmed the financial diagnosis and begged the government for more money.
And John Fulljames directs "American Lulu, " composer Olga Neuwirth's New Orleans jazz reworking of the first two acts of Alban Berg's opera, with a third act entirely her own (Sept. 14-24).
This year Opus Arte is planning to bring the ROH's opera and ballet performances to cinema screens across Europe (both pre-recorded and live) in partnership with Arts Alliance Media, a digital-technology company.
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Located in the hunt country of Virginia, about an hour from Washington, the 61-acre property, named "Fidelio" after Beethoven's opera, has a 12, 000-square-foot neoclassical villa with six bedrooms, five baths and two half-baths.
That message was stressed in a message from the prime minister in the programme for Wednesday night's event, in which he underlined the government's wish to see the venue become a people's opera house.
The drama's title character is a notorious figure from Greek mythology, a sorceress whose main claim to fame is the event that brings down the curtain on Cherubini's opera: She murders her own children.
Beethoven's opera Fidelio will be set on a spaceship in a production by media artist Gary Hill, while da Vinci's groundbreaking anatomical drawings will be shown alongside the very latest medical imagery in The Mechanics of Man.
The hitches continued last week when six performances of Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre scheduled for this month were cancelled as it was found the venue's opening programme was too crowded, and some of the new equipment was not working properly.
For its third production this season, Gioachino Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" (1818), the itinerant New York City Opera returned to New York City Center, where it was born as "the people's opera" in 1944 and spent the first two decades of its life.
He said it was no longer true that La Scala got the lion's share of the government fund for the performing arts, which has to be shared out among all 13 of Italy's opera houses - not to mention the crisis-ridden film industry and the nation's main orchestras.
The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).
Among his recent roles are Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center revival of "South Pacific" that recently toured Australia (a role that has been played by opera singers), and Stanley Kowalski in the coming modern-opera production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at Chicago's Lyric Opera and New York's Carnegie Hall in March.
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