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)Porter, Andrew. "Musical Events: Proper Bostonian" The New Yorker, 2 June 1973, pp. 102–108. Subscription required. Accessed 27 January 2010.
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 – HumperdinckThe remainder of the season was cancelled due to Sarah Caldwell's hospitalization with severe pneumonia .
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)
References Notes
Sources
Further reading Caldwell, Sarah & Rebecca Matlock (2008). Challenges: A Memoir of My Life in Opera. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. .