# List of premieres at the Metropolitan Opera

Throughout its history the Metropolitan Opera has taken a leading role at introducing both original stage works to the world and bringing works from around the globe to the United States for the first time. The following is a list of works that have premiered at the Met. All works are operas unless otherwise stated.

## World premieres

| Opera | Composer | Date of premiere |
| La fanciulla del West | Giacomo Puccini | 1910-12-10 |
| Königskinder | Engelbert Humperdinck | 1910-12-28 |
| Mona | Horatio Parker | 1912-03-14 |
| Cyrano | Walter Damrosch | 1913-02-27 |
| Madeleine | Victor Herbert | 1914-01-24 |
| Madame Sans-Gêne | Umberto Giordano | 1915-01-25 |
| Goyescas | Enrique Granados | 1916-01-28 |
| The Canterbury Pilgrims | Reginald de Koven | 1917-03-08 |
| Shanewis | Charles Wakefield Cadman | 1918-03-23 |
| The Dance in Place Congo (ballet) | Henry F. Gilbert | 1918-03-23 |
| Il trittico | Giacomo Puccini | 1918-12-14 |
| The Legend | Joseph Carl Breil | 1919-03-12 |
| The Temple Dancer | John Adam Hugo | 1919-03-12 |
| L'oiseau bleu | Albert Wolff | 1919-12-27 |
| Cleopatra's Night | Henry Kimball Hadley | 1920-01-31 |
| Skyscrapers (ballet) | John Alden Carpenter | 1926-02-19 |
| The King's Henchman | Deems Taylor | 1927-02-17 |
| Peter Ibbetson | Deems Taylor | 1931-02-07 |
| The Emperor Jones | Louis Gruenberg | 1933-01-07 |
| Merry Mount | Howard Hanson | 1934-02-10 |
| In the Pasha's Garden | John Laurence Seymour | 1935-01-24 |
| The Man Without a Country | Walter Damrosch | 1937-05-12 |
| The Island God | Gian Carlo Menotti | 1942-02-20 |
| The Warrior | Bernard Rogers | 1947-01-11 |
| Vanessa | Samuel Barber | 1958-01-15 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Samuel Barber | 1966-09-16 |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Marvin David Levy | 1967-03-17 |
| The Ghosts of Versailles | John Corigliano | 1991-12-19 |
| The Voyage | Philip Glass | 1992-10-12 |
| The Great Gatsby | John Harbison | 1999-12-20 |
| An American Tragedy | Tobias Picker | 2005-12-02 |
| The First Emperor | Tan Dun | 2006-12-21 |
| The Hours | Kevin Puts | 2022-11-22 |

## United States premieres

| Opera | Composer | Date of premiere |
| La Gioconda | Amilcare Ponchielli | 1883-12-20 |
| Carmen | Georges Bizet | 1884-01-09 |
| Fidelio | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1884-11-19 |
| Die Walküre | Richard Wagner | 1885-01-30 |
| Die Königin von Saba | Karl Goldmark | 1885-12-02 |
| Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Richard Wagner | 1886-01-04 |
| Das goldene Kreuz | Ignaz Brüll | 1886-11-19 |
| Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner | 1886-12-01 |
| Merlin | Karl Goldmark | 1887-01-03 |
| Siegfried | Richard Wagner | 1887-11-09 |
| Der Trompeter von Säkkingen | Viktor Nessler | 1887-11-23 |
| Euryanthe | Carl Maria von Weber | 1887-12-23 |
| Fernand Cortez | Gaspare Spontini | 1888-01-06 |
| Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner | 1888-01-25 |
| Das Rheingold | Richard Wagner | 1889-01-04 |
| Tannhäuser | Richard Wagner | 1889-01-30 |
| Der Barbier von Bagdad | Peter Cornelius | 1890-01-03 |
| Asrael | Alberto Franchetti | 1890-11-26 |
| Il Vassallo di Szigeth | Antonio Smareglia | 1890-12-12 |
| Diana von Solange | Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1891-01-09 |
| Werther | Jules Massenet | 1894-03-29 |
| Elaine | Herman Bemberg | 1894-12-17 |
| Manon | Jules Massenet | 1895-01-16 |
| Falstaff | Giuseppe Verdi | 1895-02-04 |
| La Navarraise | Jules Massenet | 1895-12-11 |
| Ero e Leandro | Luigi Mancinelli | 1899-03-10 |
| Tosca | Giacomo Puccini | 1901-02-04 |
| Messaline | Isidore de Lara | 1902-01-22 |
| Manru | Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1902-02-14 |
| Der Wald | Ethel Smyth | 1903-03-11 |
| Parsifal | Richard Wagner | 1903-12-24 |
| Fedora | Umberto Giordano | 1906-12-05 |
| La damnation de Faust | Hector Berlioz | 1906-12-07 |
| Salome | Richard Strauss | 1907-01-22 |
| Tiefland | Eugen d'Albert | 1908-11-23 |
| Le Villi | Giacomo Puccini | 1908-12-17 |
| La Wally | Alfredo Catalani | 1909-01-06 |
| Germania | Alberto Franchetti | 1910-01-22 |
| L'attaque du moulin | Alfred Bruneau | 1910-02-08 |
| The Queen of Spades | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1910-03-05 |
| Armide | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1910-11-14 |
| Ariane et Barbe-bleue | Paul Dukas | 1911-03-29 |
| Lobetanz | Ludwig Thuille | 1911-11-18 |
| Le donne curiose | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1912-01-03 |
| Versiegelt | Leo Blech | 1912-01-20 |
| La Vita Nuova (cantata) | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1912-01-28 |
| L'Orfeo | Claudio Monteverdi | 1912-04-14 |
| Boris Godunov | Modest Mussorgsky | 1913-03-19 |
| Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss | 1913-12-09 |
| L'amore dei tre re | Italo Montemezzi | 1914-01-02 |
| Julien | Gustave Charpentier | 1914-02-26 |
| L'amore medico | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1914-03-25 |
| L'Oracolo | Franco Leoni | 1915-02-04 |
| Prince Igor | Alexander Borodin | 1915-12-30 |
| Iphigénie en Tauride | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1916-11-25 |
| Francesca da Rimini | Riccardo Zandonai | 1916-12-22 |
| Mârouf, savetier du Caire | Henri Rabaud | 1917-12-19 |
| The Legend of Saint Elisabeth (a staged oratorio) | Franz Liszt | 1918-01-03 |
| Lodoletta | Pietro Mascagni | 1918-01-12 |
| The Golden Cockerel | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1918-03-06 |
| La reine Fiammette | Xavier Leroux | 1919-01-24 |
| Eugene Onegin | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1920-03-24 |
| Il Carillon Magico (ballet) | Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli | 1920-12-02 |
| Der Polnische Jude | Karel Weis | 1921-03-09 |
| Die tote Stadt | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1921-11-19 |
| The Snow Maiden | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1922-01-23 |
| Così Fan Tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1922-03-24 |
| Anima Allegra | Franco Vittadini | 1923-02-14 |
| Mona Lisa | Max von Schillings | 1923-03-01 |
| I Compagnacci | Primo Riccitelli | 1924-01-02 |
| Jenufa | Leoš Janáček | 1924-12-06 |
| Giovanni Gallurese | Italo Montemezzi | 1925-02-19 |
| La cena delle beffe | Umberto Giordano | 1926-01-02 |
| La vida breve | Manuel de Falla | 1926-03-06 |
| Le Rossignol | Igor Stravinsky | 1926-03-06 |
| Turandot | Giacomo Puccini | 1926-11-16 |
| Violanta | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1927-11-05 |
| Madonna Imperia | Franco Alfano | 1928-02-08 |
| La Rondine | Giacomo Puccini | 1928-03-10 |
| Die ägyptische Helena | Richard Strauss | 1928-11-06 |
| La campana sommersa | Ottorino Respighi | 1928-11-24 |
| Jonny spielt auf | Ernst Krenek | 1929-01-19 |
| Fra Gherardo | Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1929-03-21 |
| Sadko | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1930-01-25 |
| The Fair at Sorochyntsi | Modest Mussorgsky | 1930-11-29 |
| Le Preziose Ridicole | Felice Lattuada | 1930-12-10 |
| Schwanda the Bagpiper | Jaromír Weinberger | 1931-11-07 |
| La Notte di Zoraima | Italo Montemezzi | 1931-12-02 |
| Simon Boccanegra | Giuseppe Verdi | 1932-01-28 |
| Il Signor Bruschino | Gioacchino Rossini | 1932-12-09 |
| Caponsacchi | Richard Hageman | 1937-02-04 |
| Alceste | Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1941-01-24 |
| The Rake's Progress | Igor Stravinsky | 1953-02-14 |
| Arabella | Richard Strauss | 1955-02-10 |
| Atlàntida (cantata) | Manuel de Falla | 1962-09-29 |
| The Last Savage | Gian Carlo Menotti | 1964-01-23 |
| The Happy Prince | Malcolm Williamson | 1967-08-21 |
| Syllabaire pour Phèdre | Maurice Ohana | 1973-02-17 |
| Death in Venice | Benjamin Britten | 1974-10-18 |
| Le siège de Corinthe | Gioacchino Rossini | 1975-04-07 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Franco Alfano | 2005-05-13 |
| Two Boys | Nico Muhly | 2013-10-21 |
| The Exterminating Angel | Thomas Adès | 2017-10-26 |
| Marnie | Nico Muhly | 2018-10-19 |