There is some evidence that the sets for the Met's production had been taken from some of their other operas, and at the second performance that season the work was given in concert, with the ballet sequences omitted ; in this form the work traveled to Boston, where it was performed on 3 March 1895.

This occurs in the Met's productions of operas such as Aida and Tales of Hoffman.

In addition, the Met's online archive database provides links to all Rhapsody, Sirius XM, and Met Player operas, with complete program and cast information.

Her work was documented in thirty-five live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts of complete operas ( a number of which, including roles she never recorded commercially — Giulietta, Brangäne, Waltraute, Geschwitz — have been restored in recent years for the Met's satellite radio channel ); she also starred in broadcasts from San Francisco Opera ( including Poppea and Caesar ), Lyric Opera of Chicago ( including Romeo and the Rheingold Fricka ), and other houses.

Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Many of his operas, especially the later ones from 1851 onwards, are a staple of the standard repertoire.

The Marriage of Figaro is now regarded as a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire, and it appears as number six on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

Aida continues to be a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and appears as number 13 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

As a staple of the operatic repertoire, Barber appears as number nine on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

A staple of the standard operatic repertoire, Don Giovanni is currently tenth on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

Turandot is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and it appears as number 15 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

Since then, Lucia di Lammermoor has remained a staple of the standard operatic repertoire, and appears as number nineteen on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.

Young proceeded to develop the company's core repertoire, including more German operas in the repertoire and diversifying the types of productions mounted and the standards of international and local artists employed.

Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire.

His recordings include the lute songs of Dowland, operas by Handel, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, songs and semioperas by Purcell ( such as The Fairy Queen ), traditional English folk songs, works by Thomas Tallis, and the Bach alto repertoire.

By the end of the 18th century, his operas had vanished from the repertoire.

Toscanini conducted the world premieres of many operas, four of which have become part of the standard operatic repertoire: Pagliacci, La bohème, La fanciulla del West and Turandot ; he took an active role in Alfano's completion of Puccini's Turandot.

The influence of Meyerbeer has also been detected in the operas of Antonín Dvořák and other Czech composers, and in the operas of Russian composers including Rimsky-Korsakov and the young Tchaikovsky, who thought Les Huguenots ' one of the greatest works in the repertoire '.

Meyerbeer's costly operas, requiring grand casts of leading singers, were gradually dropped from the repertoire in the early 20th century.

Her repertoire focused on the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner.

Though obscure today, Spohr's operas Faust ( 1816 ), Zemire und Azor ( 1819 ) and Jessonda ( 1823 ) remained in the popular repertoire through the 19th century and well into the 20th when Jessonda was banned by the Nazis because it depicted a European hero in love with an Indian princess.

In addition to the core operatic repertoire, ENO has presented a wide range of works, from early operas by Monteverdi to new commissions, operetta and Broadway shows.

In the 1930s, the company presented standard repertoire works including operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, lighter works by Balfe, Donizetti, Offenbach and Johann Strauss, some novelties, among which were operas by Holst, Ethel Smyth and Charles Villiers Stanford, and an unusual attempt at staging an oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah.

His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček.

Network daytime schedules consist of talk shows and soap operas, with one network ( CBS ) still carrying game shows and a handful of other games airing in syndication ; local news may air at midday.

), the operas of Ankang consist of more than a thousand traditional plays.

Usually those four works consist of two operas and two musicals.

While not soaps in the traditional sense, these shows managed to appeal to wide audiences with their high drama mixed with humor, and are soap operas by definition.

As to the current status of Cui the composer, in the last few decades one of his children's operas ( of which he composed four ) entitled Puss-in-Boots ( from Perrault ) has had wide appeal in Germany.

The BBC Television Service ( renamed " BBC tv " in 1960 ) showed popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.

Carla Estrada is considered by many, including personal friend Cristina Saralegui, to be the greatest soap opera producer in Mexico, and her soap operas generally have wide international acceptance.

In his early career he appeared in a number of motion pictures, including some filmed operas such as The Barber of Seville and also the popular 1948 British drama set in wartime Italy, The Glass Mountain, which made him known to a wide public.

Joly Braga Santos also wrote three operas, chamber music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, film scores, and several choral works based on poems from the great classical and modern Portuguese and Spanish poets such as Camões, Antero de Quental, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Fernando Pessoa, Garcilaso de la Vega, Antonio Machado and Rosalía de Castro.

Two large theaters ( San Martín and Alberdi ) and several smaller and independent theaters offer a wide array of events, including plays, concerts, operas, and ballet, all year round.

In 1957 she started the Boston Opera Group, which became the Opera Company of Boston, where she staged a wide range of operas, establishing a reputation for producing difficult works under pressure.

Under her leadership, the company presented a repertoire of more than 75 operas that came from a wide array of musical periods and styles, including a large number of works previously unheard in the United States, and a significant amount of contemporary operas.

He thus had direct experience of a wide range of operas by Mozart, Weber, Rossini, Lortzing, Verdi, Wagner and Smetana.

The house presents a wide range of operas during its seasons, including contemporary works, although in the first years of the new century financial pressures have made the programming somewhat more conservative and favoring more 19th Century operas.

In addition to the missed cues, the skit was notorious for overusing loud and plangent organ music, a reference to a time when soap operas would have in-house organists play dramatic music as well as the show's theme song ( when this skit first ran, organ music was still in wide use on the serials ).

His extensive output includes five symphonies, five operas, two piano concertos, concertos for violin, viola and cello, and a wide range of chamber and choral works.

He also composed twenty-one operas, in a wide variety of styles, which premiered mostly in Germany.

He is associated particularly with the Wagnerian repertoire, but he performs a wide range of operas from the German, French and Italian canons.

The album featured a wide array of musical styles, ranging from folk to progressive metal, and established Lucassen as a notable composer of rock operas.

Journet went on to sing a wide range of roles in operas by Richard Wagner and major French and Italian composers during a distinguished, 40-year career.

" Heard weekdays at 3 p. m., this hour-long program played selections from a wide variety of operas, both famous and obscure.

Cultural economics includes a wide variety of activities that do not necessarily involve mediated dissemination such as museums, symphonies, operas, and festivals.

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.

* Valery Gergiev, who has recorded a wide array of Russian operas with the Kirov Opera, released a recording taped from a series of performances at the Kirov opera, with Sergei Leiferkus and Galina Gorchakova as Ruprecht and Renata.