Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

But at the time of the premiere of Figaro, Salieri was busy with his new French opera Les Horaces.

In new episodes after the 2011 revival Beavis is now allowed to say fire again ; the first words uttered by Beavis in the first video segment of the 2011 premiere episode were: " Fire!

In May 2000, Rick Berman, executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager, revealed that a new series would premiere following the final season of Voyager.

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.

Following the game ABC premiered the television drama Extreme starring James Brolin ; this was the last series to premiere following the Super Bowl until Family Guy premiered following Super Bowl XXXIII and is one of only four in the last fourteen years to premiere following a Super Bowl ( joining Family Guy, its spinoff American Dad !, and Undercover Boss which premiered following Super Bowl XLIV ), since the networks have preferred to have new episodes of established shows to catch as much of the post-game audience as possible.

Previously, networks typically used the occasion to premiere a new show, with little success.

In 1998 Saturday Night received a professional recording, followed by a revised version with two new songs and an Off-Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre in 2000 and a full British premiere with the new songs in 2009 at London's Jermyn Street Theatre.

Iolanthe, the first opera to premiere at the new Savoy Theatre, had a successful initial run in London of 398 performances, spanning the holiday seasons of both 1882 and 1883.

The following month, Prince let Minneapolis-area public radio station 89. 3 The Current premiere his new song " Cause and Effect " as a gesture in support of independent radio.

In 1972, Edward Downes, formerly associated with London's Royal Opera House, became Musical Director, and his first new production was the Australian premiere of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, followed closely by Prokofiev's War and Peace as the opening night performance of the Sydney Opera House, a short time before the building's official opening.

The new moving-coil speaker system was installed in New York's Warners Theatre at the end of July and its patent submission, for what Western Electric called the No. 555 Receiver, was filed on August 4, just two days before the premiere of Don Juan.

The new play, now revised and updated, had its premiere in Chesterfield in January 2011 and then embarked on a UK tour.

John J. O ' Connor of The New York Times wrote of the series ' premiere, " With this new series, Daria triumphantly gets the last laugh " and " As far as MTV and Beavis and Butt-head are concerned, Daria is an indispensable blast of fresh air.

In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?

On April 15, 2008, before the season premiere of Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel started using a new logo, new graphics and the new tagline " The World is Just Awesome ".

Generally most of the network's series run new episodes through the summer and original movies premiere in these months to take advantage of the largest possible children's audience, as do most children's networks.

Rizzoli & Isles premiered in July 2010 and set a new ad-supported cable viewership record for a series premiere.

This was the premiere episode of a new BBC series Comedy Playhouse, which became an important proving ground for many successful TV comedy series.

In the winter of 2007, Feldman's new film, Terror Inside, was released after the premiere of the A & E show.

Many of Honegger's works were championed by his long time friend Georges Tzipine, who conducted the premiere recordings of some of them ( Cris du Monde oratorio, Nicolas de Flüe ).

Beecham conducted the full premiere of A Mass of Life in London in 1909 ( he had premiered Part II in Germany in 1908 ); he staged the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden in 1910 ; and he mounted a six-day Delius festival in London in 1929, as well as making gramophone recordings of many of Delius's works.

Lloyd Webber has given more than 50 works their premiere recordings and has inspired new compositions for cello from composers as diverse as Malcolm Arnold ( Fantasy for Cello, 1986, and Cello Concerto, 1989 ), Joaquín Rodrigo ( Concierto como un divertimento, 1982 ) James MacMillan ( Cello Sonata No. 2, 2001 ), and Philip Glass ( Cello Concerto, 2001 ).

Richard Adeney was closely associated with Benjamin Britten, and performed in many performances and recordings of the composer's works, notably in 1962 with the Melos Ensemble in the premiere and recording of the War Requiem that Britten conducted himself.

This included world premiere recordings of the original orchestrations of both symphonies and other works, which were conducted by Igor Buketoff and Samuel Adler.

This list comprises a selection of some significant premiere and other recordings by musicians who have become closely associated with Alkan's works.

This group subsequently made world premiere recordings of the Nonet, Fantasiestücke for string quartet and Six Negro Folksongs for piano trio, which were released in 1998 by Afka Records.

(*) The world premiere recordings of these pieces was made by Dennis Hennig

Flagstad added " September ", " Beim Schlafengehen ", and " Im Abendrot " to her repertoire, and recordings ( technologically superior to those taken at the premiere ) exist of these performed in concert ; she did not, however, sing " Fruhling " again.

The conductor Antal Doráti made premiere recordings of several of Petterson's symphonies and contributed to his rise to fame during the seventies.

The symphony ( of nearly 37 minutes duration ) is coupled with two other premiere recordings of British orchestral works, Alexander MacKenzie's Tone Poem, ' La Belle Dame sans Merci ', and Josef Holbrooke's Pantomime Suite op. 16 on CC9034CD.

The only recordings of this version are by Hans Knappertsbusch, Leon Botstein and Takeo Noguchi, together with the recording premiere of the scherzo by Dol Dauber ( see Discography below ).

The CD, catalogue number CC9041CD, contains several premiere recordings and is on release 31 August 2012.

The premiere was one of Britten's few critical failures, and the opera was not included in the series of complete Decca recordings conducted by the composer.

In the spring of 2006, Concierto Barroco was released by EMI in Europe and Koch International in the United States, containing world premiere recordings of new works for guitar and orchestra by Roberto Sierra and Arvo Pärt, as well as two guitar concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.

Jadassohn composed four delightful Serenades for Orchestra and the first three received their premiere recordings from Cameo Classics in 2011, along with his Serenade for Flute and Strings ( Soloist Rebecca Hall ) with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, and his Serenade No. 4 will complete the recorded set in 2012,

She became known in the 1970s in particular for her premiere recordings of the 10 sonatas of Scriabin and the complete solo piano works of Rachmaninoff, for her Ravel recordings and in the last 16½ years before her death for her series in the Metropolitan Museum of Art “ Concerts with Commentary ”.

In 1970 Laredo made her famous premiere recordings of Scriabin's 10 sonatas on three LPs for Connoisseur Society ( reissued in 1984 by Nonesuch Records on a three-LP box and in 1996 on a double CD ).

On the other hand, Eugen Jochum used Haas's edition for his first recording, made in 1949, before Nowak published his edition, and Nowak's for his subsequent recordings, while Wilhelm Furtwängler, despite having given the premiere of the Haas score, reverted to the 1892 edition in his final years.

All seven of Arnell's numbered symphonies together with the Sinfonia Quasi Variazioni, the Piano Concerto ( soloist David Owen Norris ), the two Violin Concertos ( soloist Lorraine MacAslan ), Lord Byron: a Symphonic Portrait, Robert Flaherty Impression, Prelude The Black Mountain and the early Overture The New Age, received their world premiere recordings by conductor Martin Yates and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra between 2005 and 2008.

The premiere recordings of the ballets The Angels, Harlequin in April and The Great Detective, together with Punch and the Child, were recorded by Martin Yates and the BBC Concert Orchestra in 2008-09.

Recent Broadway cast recordings from PS Classics include Xanadu, The Frogs, the revivals of 110 in the Shade, Pacific Overtures, Fiddler On The Roof, and Nine, as well as the premiere recordings of Grey Gardens, A Year with Frog and Toad, My Life With Albertine, Zanna, Don't !, Through The Years, Striking 12, Only Heaven and First Lady Suite.