📆December 14, 1925 Alban Berg's first opera "Wozzeck" #premieres with the #BerlinStateOpera in #Berlin, Germany
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📆December 14, 1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" (The Triptych) #premieres in #NYC
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📆December 13, 1895 First complete performance of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony ("Resurrection"), in Berlin, Germany, conducted by the composer
#Mahler #Composer #Conductor #Symphony #Resurrection
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📆December 12, 1792 In #Vienna, Ludwig van #Beethoven (22 Yr old) receives his first #lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph #Haydn (60 Yr old)
#Music #Composition
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📆December 11, 1882 #Boston's #BijouTheatre, the first #Americanplayhous lit exclusively by #electricity, holds its first performance: W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "Iolanthe"
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📆December 10, 1854 Hector Berlioz premieres his #oratorio #L'enfanceduChrist (The Childhood of Christ), #conducting #musicians and #soloists from the #Opéra-Comique, at the #SalleHerz, Paris
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📆December 9, 1905 Richard Strauss' opera "Salome" premieres in #Dresden
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📆December 9, 1842 Mikhail Glinka's opera "Russlan and Ludmilla" premieres at the #ImperialBolshoiKamennyTheatre, in St. Petersburg, Russia
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📆December 8, 1849 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in #Naples
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📆December 8, 1813 Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres in #Vienna with Beethoven conducting
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📆December 7, 1732 The Royal Opera House opens at #CoventGarden, London, England
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📆December 7, 1889 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera “The Gondoliers” premieres at the #SavoyTheatre, #London
#Opera #TheGondoliers #Composer #WSGilbert #Dramatist #ArthurSullivan
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📆December 6, 1846 Hector Berlioz's dramatic #oratorio "La Damnation de Faust" #premieres, conducted by the composer at the #OpéraComique, #Paris
#Opera #LaDamnationFaust#HectorBerlioz #Composer #Conductor
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📆December 5, 1890 Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens #premieres in #Karlsruhe, #Germany
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📆December 5, 1602 #GiulioCaccini and #OttarioRinuccini's opera Euridice #premieres at the #PittiPalace, in #Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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📆December 4, 1843 Robert Schumann's oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri #premieres in #Leipzig
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📆December 3, 1954 William Walton's opera Troilus & Cressida #premieres in #London
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📆December 2,
1877 Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) #premieres at the #DucalTheatre, #Weimar
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📆December 2, 1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Favorita #premieres in #Paris
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📆December 1, 1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, #debuts as a pianist in #Vienna
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📆December 1, 1951 Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd #premieres in #London
#Opera #BillyBudd #Britten
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📆Nov 30, 1885 “Le Cid" is an #opera composed by Jules #Massenet, premiered at the #ParisOpéra. The opera is based on the play by #PierreCorneille and features a French #libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery, Louis Gallet, and Édouard Blau.
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📆November 29, 1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) is the first opera #performed in #Italian in the US, staged at NYC's Park Theater
#Opera #Rossini
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📆November 28, 1909 Sergei #Rachmaninoff's #PianoConcerto No. 3, one of the genre's most difficult, #premieres at the New Theatre in NYC with the #composer as #soloist and the #NYSymphony Society conducted by #WalterDamrosch
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📆November 27, 1903 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Die Neugierigen Frauen #premieres in #Munich, Germany
#Opera #Ferrari #DieNeugierigenFrauen
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📆November 26, 1908 Philipp Mohler, #German composer, born in #Kaiserslautern. (Died Sept11, 1982 Frankfurt, Germany)
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📆November 25, 1907 Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs has its first #American performance in #ManhattanOperaHouse, NYC
#Opera #Massenet #Thais #Performance #NYC
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📆November 25, 1902 Franz Lehar's opera Wiener Frauen #premieres in #Vienna
#Opera #Lehar #WienerFrauen
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📆November 24, 1800 Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen" #premieres in #Freiburg
#Opera #Weber #DasWaldmadchen
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📆November 23, 1903 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the #MetropolitanOpera House, in New York in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto"
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