# Opera Company of Boston productions

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

## 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)