This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.

He also received a contract for the production of his new opera The Love for Three Oranges but, due to illness and the death of the director, the premiere was postponed and took place in Chicago on 30 September 1921.

Paisiello conducted the music of the court in the Tuileries with a stipend of 10, 000 francs and 4800 for lodging, but he entirely failed to conciliate the Parisian public, who received his opera Proserpine so coldly that, in 1803, he requested and with some difficulty obtained permission to return to Italy, upon the plea of his wife's ill health.

The opera received its Canadian premiere at the opera house in Vancouver on 9 February 1891 with Emma Juch as Elsa.

Meanwhile, Pushkin's drama ( 18 of the published 24 scenes, condensed into 16 ) finally received its first performance in 1870 at the Mariinsky Theatre, three years in advance of the premiere of the opera in the same venue, using the same scene designs by Matvey Shishkov that would be recycled in the opera.

The Postlude to Act I of Leonard Bernstein's opera Quiet Place received its New York premiere at the 1985 concert.

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

After the unfavourable reception that the opera received on opening night, Gilbert and Sullivan made numerous significant cuts and alterations :< ref > A copy of the libretto, including material cut before the first night and during the initial run, is at at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive .</ ref > Sullivan recorded in his diary:

The opera received its premiere as part of the complete cycle on 13 August 1876, in the Bayreuther Festspielhaus.

The opera received its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on June 13, 2010, in a co-production with American Lyric Theater and Wexford Festival Opera.

The book was generally very well received as a fast-paced space opera with a morally ambiguous hero and lots of grand scenery and devices.

Khovanshchina, a more obscure opera, was unfinished and unperformed when Mussorgsky died, but it was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and received its premiere in 1886 in Saint Petersburg.

However, in April Bizet received an offer, which originated from Count Walewski, to write a three-act opera, Les pêcheurs de perles, using a libretto by Michel Carré and Eugène Cormon.

In 1996, she toured nationally with the stage play Master Class about opera singer Maria Callas was well received. On October 2, 1996, Dunaway was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

The following opera, I Lituani ( The Lithuanians ) ( 1874 ), was also well received, being performed later at Saint Petersburg ( as Aldona-November 20, 1884 ).

The opera received its Paris premiere at the Éden-Théâtre on 31 October 1890 with Rosine Bloch as Dalila and Talazac singing Samson once again, this time with a much warmer reception by Paris audiences.

The ceremonial opera Libuše was received with thunderous applause for the composer ; by this time ( 1881 ) the disputes around his music had declined, and the public was ready to honour him as the founder of Czech music.

This success received a blow in March 1789, when an opera, Holger Danske, which he had written, was received with heated controversy and a nationalist reaction against him ( as an associate of Germans ) set in.

Later the opera received a new production by stage director Markus Bothe at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Volksoper Wien, and had its North American premiere at the Washington National Opera in October 2006.

In 2007 an opera in Scots Gaelic called St Kilda: A European Opera about the story of the islands received funding from the Scottish Government.

The doyen of English critics, Ernest Newman, praised it highly: " here is a composer with real talent for opera ... in Mr. Priestley he has been fortunate enough to find an English Boito ", but generally it received a polite rather than a rapturous reception.

When he first received the commission, Berg was working on his opera Lulu, and he did not begin work on the concerto for some months.

Ballets were used in opera from its beginning.

The opera with its dark overture, lavish choral writing, many ballet scenes, and electrifying finale depicting a glimpse of hellish torture kept the opera on the stage in Paris for over forty years.

His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

The opera had its premiere in Leipzig in March 1930 and played in Berlin in December of the following year.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

The ghostly music may have had its roots in sketches for a Macbeth opera that Beethoven was contemplating at the time.

Its style is clearly reflective of the mature Haydn and Mozart, and its instrumentation gave it a weight that had not yet been felt in the grand opera.

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

ITV's other flagship soap opera Crossroads saw a marked increase in viewers at this time, as its established cast, such as Meg Richardson ( Noele Gordon ), grew in popularity.

The arrival of Channel 4 and its edgy new soap opera Brookside in 1982 was one of the biggest changes for Coronation Street.

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

At larger theaters or opera houses, the dramaturg works on the historical and cultural research into the play or opera and its setting.

Since 2003, the modern opera house is home to Theater Erfurt and its Philharmonic Orchestra.

* 1607 – L ' Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.

* 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

* 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.

The music is remarkable for its freedom from the conventions discovered and utilized by Rossini in his earlier works, and marks a transitional stage in the history of opera, the overture serving as a model for romantic overtures throughout the 19th century.