Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

* He married 1908, Cleope Teresa Magliano ( 1888 – 1926 ), a dancer with the Ballet Opera of Monte Carlo.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera ( Chicago 1998 ), ISBN 0-226-71125-0 – ISBN 978-0-226-71125-6 ( preview at Google Book Search )

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

* 1991 – Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera inaugurates The Gene Kelly Awards, given annually to high school musicals in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Gaston Lerouxs The Phantom of the Opera ( 1909 – 1910 ) is another well-known example of gothic fiction from the early twentieth century.

* 1911 – Richard Strauss ' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1981 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

* 1948 – John Ford, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera )

* 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( Earth Opera and Old and in the Way )

* 1734 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

* 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place ; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.

* 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time.

* Rosa-A Horse Drama: The Death of a Composer ( 1993 – 94 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 sopranos, tenor, 2 baritones, female speaker, 8 mixed voices, orchestra.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

* 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

The Italian Methodist Church (" OPCEMI – Opera per le Chiese Evangeliche Metodiste in Italia ) is small, with c. 5, 000 members.

* 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier.

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Gilliam made his opera debut at London's English National Opera in May 2011, directing The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.

Commemorations of Berlioz include the 2000-seat Opera Berlioz at the Corum arts centre in Montpellier, Berlioz Point in Antarctica and asteroid 69288 Berlioz.

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & various artists for Berlioz: Les Troyens

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), various artists & the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens

A version in French with recitatives was prepared by Hector Berlioz for a production at the Paris Opera in 1841.

The musical style shows the influence of Gluck and looks forwards to the works of Berlioz, Wagner and French Grand Opera.

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & various artists for Berlioz: Les Troyens

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), various artists & the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens

In November 2008, Lepage directed a staged version of Hector Berlioz ' The Damnation of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Historic Archive – Berlioz, Les Troyens, Covent Garden Opera / Rafael Kubelík

* French Opera Arias: Arias by Berlioz, Gounod, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas, with conductor Sir John Pritchard, CBS 1976.

From 1881 to 1903 he was conductor at the Karlsruhe Opera, and made a wide reputation for his activity there, particularly in producing the works of Wagner, Hector Berlioz and Emmanuel Chabrier, whose operas he championed ; Mottl also orchestrated Chabrier's Bourrée fantasque and Trois valses romantiques.

He also wrote weekly articles for The Manchester Guardian ( 1919 – 24 ) and Glasgow Herald ( 1924-28 ) and contributed to The Musical Times between 1910 and 1955 on subjects as varied as Claude Debussy ; Women and Music ; Elgar ; Johannes Brahms ; Beethoven's " Unsterbliche Geliebte "; Bayreuth ; Franz Liszt ; J. S. Bach ; Bantock ; Hugo Wolf ; Arnold Schoenberg ; Russian Opera and Russian Nationalism ; Hector Berlioz ; Enrique Granados ; and Modest Mussorgsky.

* Much Ado About Nothing et Beatrice & Benedicte, by William Shakespeare, combined with the Berlioz Opera, directed by Jean-Louis Thamin.

Other somewhat less often performed include Les vêpres siciliennes ( 1855 ) and Don Carlos ( 1867 ), both commissioned by the Paris Opera and initially given in French.

The play Ossian, ou Les bardes by Le Sueur was a sell-out at the Paris Opera in 1804, and transformed his career.

It is considered the most successful adaptation of any novel except for " The Phantom of the Opera " and " Les Misérables.

Dame Joan Sutherland gave her farewell performances for the Australian Opera in 1990 in a production of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

Don Procopio was revived in Monte Carlo in 1906 ; An Italian version of Les pêcheurs de perles was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 13 November 1916, with Caruso in the leading tenor role ; it has since become a staple at many opera houses.

* Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perles Ileana Cotrubaş ( Leila ), Alain Vanzo ( Nadir ), Guillermo Sarabia ( Zurga ), Roger Soyer ( Nourabad ), Paris Opera Orchestra and chorus, Georges Pretre, conductor.

In the follow-up, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, the League's encounter with Les Hommes is halted once Fantômas detonates a bomb which destroys the Opera Garnier, after saying in unaccented English, " I win ".

In fact Véron refunded the money under a further agreement, when the opera was delivered in late 1834 ; but Veron himself was replaced as director of the Opera by Henri Duponchel before Les Huguenots was premiered on 29 February 1836.

Albani made her debut with New York's Metropolitan Opera on 20 November 1891 as Valentine in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, a performance which took place while the company was on tour in Chicago.

EMI digitized the collection and released it on three compact discs in February 2009 as “ Les Urnes de l ' Opera ”.

He is the producer of shows such as Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Martin Guerre, Miss Saigon and Cats.

Following Les Troyens in 1935, the Glasgow Grand Opera Society mounted the opera alongside a production of Béatrice et Bénédict in 1936, conducted by Erik Chisholm.

Incorporated within the production programming of Animating Opera is the America staged premiere of Messiaen's Saint-François d ' Assise, the complete version of Berlioz's Les Troyens, Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, as well as a commission for a new work by John Adams and Peter Sellars entitled Doctor Atomic, which premiered on October 1, 2005.

Except for a few outposts of rock, like Little Shop of Horrors ( 1982 ) and Chess ( 1986 ), audience tastes turned to shows with European pop scores, like Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera, as well as to more nostalgic fare.

Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera ( as " The Phantom "), The Secret Garden ( as " Archibald Craven "), Annie ( as Daddy Warbucks ), Guys and Dolls ( as " Sky Masterson "), My Fair Lady ( as " Henry Higgins "), Jekyll and Hyde ( original gothic thriller cast recording only, as " Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde "), Man of La Mancha ( as Don Quixote ), and A Little Night Music ( as Frederik Egerman ), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables ( as Enjolras ).

In 1935, Les Troyens was first performed outside of France by Glasgow Grand Opera Society.

The first American stage performance of Les Troyens ( an abbreviated version, sung in English ) was given by Boris Goldovsky with the New England Opera Theater on March 27, 1955, in Boston.

The first complete American production of Les Troyens was given in February 1972 by Sarah Caldwell with her Opera Company of Boston, at the Aquarius Theater.

In 1973, Rafael Kubelík conducted the first Metropolitan Opera staging of Les Troyens, in the opera's first performances in New York City and the third staging in the United States.

To mark the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth in 2003, Les Troyens was revived in productions at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris ( conducted by John Eliot Gardiner ), Amsterdam ( conducted by Edo de Waart ), and at the Metropolitan Opera ( with the American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson as Dido, conducted by James Levine ).

Three years later, the production of Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffmann followed at the Hamburg State Opera, and in 1990 Così fan tutte was performed in Amsterdam.