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A lyrical work inspired by Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, this was Thomas's most successful opera along with Hamlet. [112] 1866 The Bartered Bride (Bedřich Smetana). Smetana's folk comedy is the most widely performed of all his operas. [113] 1867 Don Carlos (Verdi). Verdi's French grand opera, after Schiller, is now one of ...
The Operabase rankings of the most performed operas formed the basis of a set of music questions in an edition of the BBC's University Challenge, broadcast in July 2014. Competitors were asked to identify three operas in the Operabase list from sound clips of Maria Callas. [13]
The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, [3] conducted by the 28-year-old Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide. [4]
Despite these opinions, Madama Butterfly has been successfully performed in Japan in various adaptions from 1914. [24] Today Madama Butterfly is the sixth most performed opera in the world [25] and considered a masterpiece, with Puccini's orchestration praised as limpid, fluent and refined. [26] [27]
Allison, John (ed.), Great Opera Houses of the World, supplement to Opera magazine, London 2003; Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendôme Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8; Lynn, Karyl Charna, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses, Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-945465-81-5
Work Premiere Number of performances Last performance La muette de Portici, (): 1828: 489: 1882 Guillaume Tell, (): 1829: 911: 1930 Robert le diable (): 1831: 751: 1892; revived in 1984
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. The most renowned figure of late 18th-century opera is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage ...