... and operas were being written apace ... here are some of the operas seen in New York. Interesting because the Met, in its 4000 seat barn, seems to ignore most of whats going in world opera since - well - maybe 1960? 1950?
Below interesting operas, some good, some not so good, many worth seeing today, that Met did between its opening and World War II. (see below for SINCE World War 2
BEFORE WW2 ends 1882-1945 (63 years) 93 works
Flotow's MARTHA
Boito's wonderful MEFISTOFELE
Thomas' MIGNON
Meyerbeer's int'l hit ROBERT LE DIABLE
Weber's DER FREISCHUTZ
Boildieu's LA DAME BLANCHE
Halevy's LA JUIVE
Rossini's WILLIAM TELL
Goldmark's QUEEN OF SHEBA
Brull THE GOLDEN CROSS
Wagner's RIENZI
Goldmark MERLIN
Nessler TRUMPTER OF SAKKINGEN
Smareglia Il Vassalo di Szigeth
Meyerbeer DINORAH
Delibes LAKME
Meyerbeer L'AFRICAINE
Bemberg ELAINE
Massenet LE CID
Nikolai THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Reyer SALAMMBO
Paderewski MANRU
de Lara MESSALINE
Ethel Smyth DER WALD
Auber FRA DIAVOLO
Mascagni IRIS
Catalani LA WALLY
Smetana THE BARTERED BRIDE
D'Albert TIEFLAND
Flotow ALLESANDRO STRADELLA
Franchetti GERMANIA
Bruneau LATTAQUE DU MOULIN
Lecoq LA FILLE DU MADAME ANGOT
Converse THE PIPE OF DESIRE
Lortzing ZAR UND ZIMMERMAN
Dukas ARIANE ET BARBE-BLEU
Humperdinck KONIGSKINDER (WP)
Wolf-Ferrari LE DONNA CURIOUSE
Thuille LOBETANZ
Parker MONA (WP)
Blech VERSIEGELT
Wolf GFerrari SECRET IOF SUSANNA
Charpentier JULIEN
Montemezzi THE LOVE OF THREE KINGS
Wolf Ferrari LAMORE MEDICO
Victor Herbert MADELEINE
Giordano MADAME SANS GENE
Albeniz GOYESCAS
Goetz THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
de Koven CANTERBURY PILGRIMS
Rimsky Korsakov LE COQ D'OR
Mascagni LODOLETTA
Rabaud MAROUF
Liszt SAINT ELIZABETH
Brothers Ricci CRISPINO E LO COMARE
leroux LA REINE FIAMMETE
Gounod MIREILLE
Weber OBERON
Hadley CLEOPATRA'S NIGHT
Leoncavallo ZAZA
Weis THE POLISH JEW
Korngold DIE TOTE STADT
Lalo LE ROI D'YS
Catalani LORELEY
Rimsky Korsakov THE SNOW MAIDEN
von Schillings MONA LISA
Riccitelli I COMPAGNACCI
Mascagni L'AMICO FRITZ
Montemezzi GIOVANNI GALLURESE
Cornelius THE BARBER OF BAGHDAD
Massenet DON QUICHOTTE
Wolf Ferrari JEWELS OF THE MADONNA
Giordano LA CENE DELLA BEFFE
Spontini LA VESTALE
Deems Taylor THE KING'S HENCHMAN
Alfano MADONNA IMPERIA
Korngold VIOLANTA
Krenek JONNY SPIELT AUF
Respighi LA CAMPANA SOMMERSA
Rimskly Korsakove SADKO
Mascagni IRIS
Deems Taylor PETER IBBOTSON
Mussorgsky FAIR AT SOROCHNITZY
von Supper DONNA JUANITA
Montemezzi NIGHT OF ZORAIMA
Weinberger SCHWANDA THE BAGPIPER
Gruenberg THE EMPEROR JONES
Donizetti LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
Hanson MEERY MOUNT
Cimarosa MATRIMONIO SEGRETO
Damrosch MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Menotti AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL
Menotti THE ISLAND GOD
rogers Corwin THE WARRIOR
SINCE WORLD WAR II AT THE MET
(1946-2014, 68 years) 31 works
Barber VANESSA
Menotti THE LAST SAVAGE
Barber ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Levy MOURNING BECOMES ELEKTRA
Britten DEATH IN VENICE
Rossini SIEGE OF CORINTH
Massenet ESCLARMONDE
Britten BILLY BUDD
Zandonai FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Handel RINALDO
Corgliano GHOSTS OF VERSAILLE
Glass THE VOYAGE
Verdi I LOMBARDI
Verdi STIFFELIO
Britten A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM
Schoenberg MOSES UND ARON
Harbison THE GREAT GATSBY
Busoni DOKTOR FAUST
Prokofiev THE GAMBLER
Wolf Ferrari SLY
Previn A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Prokofiev WAR & PEACE
Alfano CYRANO
Picker AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Tchaikivsky MAZEPPA
Glass SATYAGRAHA
Adams DOCTOR ATOMIC
Janacek FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD
Ades THE TEMPEST
Muny TWO BOYS
Glinka PRINCE IGOR
Composers of note whom the Met has ignored:
Michael Tippett, von Einem, Salinnen, Kokkonen, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Ligeti, Paulus, Henze, Messiaen, Argento, Birtwistle, Rihm, Maxwell davies, Rautavaara, Schnittke, Bryars, Saariaho, Heggie, Turnage, Goolijov, Neuwirth, Dove, Wouorronin
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