In 1946, fifty years after the opera's premiere, Toscanini conducted a performance of it on radio with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

On 2 October 1897 the same company gave the opera's first staging at the Royal Opera House in London and on 14 October 1897 in Los Angeles for the opera's United States premiere.

The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics.

The Santa Fe Opera's John Crosby had previously negotiated with the opera's publisher, Alfred Kalmus of Universal Edition, to present the American premiere of the complete version and " on July 28th 1979, nearly forty-four years after Berg's death, Lulu Nancy Shade was finally performed in its entirety in the USA "..

This was followed by the opera's United States premiere at Carnegie Hall in a concert version on 25 March 1892.

Gunsbourg remained for sixty years overseeing such premiere productions as Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893 and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, the title role of which he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.

Jocelyn Herbert was commissioned to design the sets and costumes for the opera's premiere.

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, one venue of the AT & T Performing Arts Center, became the opera's new home for the inaugural 2009-2010 Season, which includes the world premiere of Moby-Dick by composer Jake Heggie.

Apart from Borgatti, famous Cheniers in the period between the opera's premiere and the outbreak of World War II included Francesco Tamagno ( who studied the work with Giordano ), Giovanni Zenatello, Giovanni Martinelli, Aureliano Pertile, Francesco Merli, Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Antonio Cortis.

According to Ringer, Striggio's original ending was almost certainly used at the opera's premiere, but there is no doubt that Monteverdi believed the revised ending was aesthetically correct.

Gunsbourg remained for sixty years, overseeing such premiere productions as Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893, and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, whose title role he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.

The NYCO subsequently toured Ariadne to His Majesty's Theatre, Montreal, so giving the opera's Canadian premiere.

Other roles in her repertoire included Olympia in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman, Philine in Ambroise Thomas's Mignon, Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula, Marie in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, the title role in Delibes ' Lakmé, the Queen in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, and the title role in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix, ( a role she sang in the opera's Met premiere on March 1, 1934 ).

Upon the opera's premiere in 1939, the work was received with wide enthusiasm by American music critics.

The singer who played Cio-Cio San at the opera's premiere in 1904 was named Rosina Storchio though the alternate spelling indicates that this is likely an unintentional reference.

The opera's British premiere took place on 12 May 1846 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London with Verdi in attendance.

For the opera's first production in Rome, three months after the Milan premiere, the plot had to be cleared of any direct religious connotations by order of the papal censor.

Later analysis by Christopher Patton stated that one underlying cause of the opera's failure at the premiere was the contrast between writing for the intimate medium of television, the originally intended medium of the work, versus the more public and larger-scale setting of an opera house.

He placed the action at the time of the opera's premiere, 1842 in Milan.

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte was the booking manager for Oscar Wilde, a then lesser-known proponent of aestheticism, and dispatched Wilde on an American lecture tour in conjunction with the opera's U. S. run, so that American audiences might better understand what the satire was all about.

The opera's first performance, with Matt Kelly portraying Brood, was 12 November 2010 in Houston, Texas.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

In England, opera's antecedent was the 17th century jig.

The soap opera's distinctive open plot structure and complex continuity was increasingly incorporated into American prime time television programs of the period.

Before this run was concluded, Bizet died suddenly, and thus knew nothing of the opera's later celebrity.

The opera's final ensemble was generally omitted until the mid-20th century, and does not appear in the Viennese libretto of 1788.

The opera's first performance abroad was in Riga on 5 February 1855.

Public reaction was lukewarm, and the opera's run ended after 18 performances.

The libretto was duly translated into German for the production and the opera's first performance was given on 2 December 1877 at the Grossherzogliches Theatre ( Grand Ducal Theater ).

The opera's first performance was a failure ; it was held on one of the hottest evenings of the year, on the eve of the Austro-Prussian War with Bohemia under imminent threat of invasion by Prussian troops.

The composer undertook further work on the opera in early 1831 adding ballet episodes, including the " Ballet of Nuns ", which was to prove one of the opera's great sensations, becoming an early example of the ballet blanc genre.

Since the 1960s, Sinfonia Lahti's reputation as one of the most important Scandinavian orchestras was cemented by conductor Osmo Vänskä ; this helped to cause a boom in opera's popularity during the 1980s, while the form was increasingly seen as archaic elsewhere.

Mao's wife, on the other hand, was to be " not just a shrieking coloratura, but also someone who in the opera's final act can reveal her private fantasies, her erotic desires, and even a certain tragic awareness.

The opera's satiric treatment of scandal in the monarchy and of limited liability entities that are not required to honour their obligations, was effective in 1893 and still resonates today.

In the United States a concert performance had been given on 16 February 1972 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, but the opera's first fully staged American performance was in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985.

The composer had never completed the work, but, after the success of his later operas, Šárka was revised and the orchestration completed by his pupil Osvald Chlubna who had been given the task in preparation for the opera's eventual publication.

The opera's first performance was given at the Opera House, Mannheim, on 18 February 1964, when it was conducted by Georg Calder.

The Death of Klinghoffer ( 1991 ): The opera's story begins with the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and details the murder of a passenger named Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, physically disabled American Jew.

" After the 2001 cancellation of performances of excerpts from " Klinghoffer " by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, debate has continued about the opera's content and social worth.

The opera's immense popularity, with some 229 productions worldwide in the following three years, is illustrated by the fact that " in Naples, for example, where the opera in its first three years had eleven stagings in six theaters, the performances totaled 190 ".

Like the 1849 play by Murger and Théodore Barrière, the opera's libretto focuses on the relationship between Rodolfo and Mimì, ending with her death.

The opera's original title, La maledizione ( The Curse ), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement.

The opera's plot concerns the consequences of the spear's loss by the Knights of the Grail and its recovery by Parsifal.

On July 14, 1993, the United States Postal Service recognized the opera's cultural significance by issuing a commemorative 29-cent postage stamp.

For example, the music within the first of the opera's " Knee Plays " features repeated numbers accompanied by an electric organ.

Invented by Figaro Systems of Santa Fe, and only the second one after the Metropolitan opera's MetTitles installed in 1995, the system provides individual screens in front of each patron's seat, showing a translation of the sung text in either English or Spanish with the possibility of handling up to six other languages.

It was also adapted as a film by the opera's name, released in 1959.

The opera's first, ornate production, costing 150, 000 francs, was conducted by François Antoine Habeneck.

The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Telephone at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, February 18-20, 1947 by the Ballet Society.

In spite of changes made by Hollingworth to rectify the soap opera's early problems ( ratings improved over the course of the show's run, as did the quality of the storylines ), it was claimed that this was not enough to justify its continued production, and incoming Controller of BBC1 Alan Yentob cancelled the programme, which had been commissioned by his predecessor Jonathan Powell.

The opera's libretto was written by David Henry Hwang and the composer.