On this day in 1959 Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck had its Metropolitan Opera premiere (in English)
Happy 86th birthday composer John Corigliano
On this day in 1974 Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani had its Metropolitan Opera stage premiere.
On this day in 1963 (much against Rudolf Bing‘s will) the Metropolitan Opera presented a new production of Adriana Lecouvreur.
On this day in 1956 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with Maria Callas in Norma.
On this day in 1956 Maria Callas made her Met debut as Norma.
On the 21st of this month Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani will celebrate her 95th birthday and Trove Thursday salutes her versatility with two markedly different 20th century works: Menotti’s The Consul and Mascagni’s Il Piccolo Marat, one of many collaborations with her husband Nicola Rossi-Lemeni.
Sixty years ago today, Berg’s Wozzeck was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera.
Use bodily force and get your friends to one of the next five performances of the Met’s new production of Adriana Lecouvreur. It is everything!
On this day in 1957, Renata Tebaldi sang the title role in a new production of La traviata at the Met, directed by Tyrone Guthrie.
On this day in 1966, the Metropolitan Opera debut of tenor Alfredo Kraus as the Duke of Mantua.
With help from the Met’s invaluable performance archive, here is a look back at just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on October 31st through the years at the Met.
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