ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA (formerly SADLERS WELLS OPERA at the Coliseum) Catalogue of Productions 1968 - 1975

 

 

BARTÓK, Béla

 

BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE

(Judith, Bluebeard)

22 March 1972: Ava June, Don Garrard: Charles Mackerras: Glen Byam Shaw, Ralph Koltai

 

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van

 

FIDELIO

(Leonora, Marcellina, Florestan, Jacquino, Don Pizarro, Rocco, Don Fernando, 1. Prisoner, 2. Prisoner)

27 November 1970: Ava June, Anne Evans, Hugh Beresford, Maurice Arthur, Norman Bailey, Don Garrard, Robert Lloyd, Meston Reid, Maurice Bowen: Charles Mackerras: Basil Coleman, Tony Abbott, John & Ann Bloomfield

 

LEONORA

(Leonora, Marcellina, Florestan, Jacquino, Don Pizarro, Rocco, Don Fernando, 1. Prisoner, 2. Prisoner)

18 March 1970: Pauline Tinsley, Wendy Baldwin, Hugh Beresford, David Hillman, Norman Bailey, Don Garrard, Gwynne Howell, Meston Reid, Maurice Bowen: Charles Mackerras: Basil Coleman, Tony Abbott, John & Ann Bloomfield

 

BERLIOZ, Hector

 

THE DAMNATION OF FAUST

(Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Brander)

14 August 1969: Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx, Margaret Curphey, Gwynne Howell: Charles Mackerras: Michael Geliot, Wilfried Minks and Annena Stubbs

 

BIZET, Georges

 

CARMEN

(Carmen, Don José, Escamillo, Micaela, Frasquita, Mercedes, Dancairo, Remendado, Zuniga, Morales)

6 May 1970: Ann Howard, David Hughes, Geoffrey Chard, Lorna Haywood, Wendy Baldwin, Shirley Chapman, David Bowman, Emile Belcourt, John Kitchiner, Norman Welsby: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

CROSSE, Gordon

 

THE STORY OF VASCO

(Marguerite, Vasco, Lieutenant September, Caesar, Rondo, Troppo, Monsieur Corfan, Aide-de-Camp, The Mirador, Major Braun, Lieutenant Latour, Lieutenant Hans, Sergeant Caquot, Sergeant Paraz, Sergeant Alexander, Lieutenant Barbaris, A Widow)

13 March 1974 (WP): Josephine Barstow, John Brecknock, Tom McDonnell, John Fryatt, Brian Burrows, Harry Coghill, Harold Blackburn, Raymond Scally, Neil Howlett, Eric Shilling, Peter Tracey, Ashton Smith, Denis Dowling, Glyn Adams, Gerald Holding, Stuart Kale, Jean Manning: Sir Charles Groves: Michael Elliott & Richard Negri, Richard Negri

 

DONIZETTI, Gaetano

 

MARY STUART

(Queen Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Hannah Kennedy, Dudley, Talbot, Cecil)

13 December 1973: Pauline Tinsley, Janet Baker, Audrey Gunn, Keith Erwen, Dan Garrard, Christian du Plessis: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Desmond Heeley

 

HANDEL, Georg Friedrich

 

SEMELE

(Semele, Iris, Ino, Juno, Cupid, Athamas, Jupiter, Apollo, High Priest, Cadmus, Somnus)

21 October 1970: Elizabeth Harwood/Lois McDonall, Elizabeth Tippett, Georgetta Psaros, Gillian Knight, Wendy Eathorne, James Bowman, Alexander Young, Emil Belcourt, Gwynne Howell, Stafford Dean, Harold Blackburn: Charles Mackerras: Filippo Sanjust

 

HENZE, Hans Werner

 

THE BASSARIDS

(Dionysus, Pentheus, Cadmus, Tiresias, Guard Captain, 1. 2. 3. Male Bacchant, Agave, Autonoe, Beroe, Venus, Prosperine, Calliope, Adonis)

10 October 1974: Gregory Dempsey, Norman Welsby, Dennis Wicks, Kenneth Woollam, Tom McDonnell, Malcolm Rivers, Ashton Smith, Harry Coghill, Katherine Pring, Josephine Barstow, Anne Collins, Katherine Pring, Josephine Barstow, Kenneth Woollam, Tom McDonnell

 

JANÁČEK, Leoš

 

KATYA KABANOVA

(Katerina Kabanova, Varvara, Kabanicha, Glasha, Boris Grigorievitch, Tichon Kabanov, Vanya, Dikoy, Feklusha, Kuligin)

12 September 1973: Lorna Haywood, Barbara Walker, Sylvia Fisher, Sheila Rex, Kenneth Woollam, Robert Ferguson, Paul Crook, Dennis Wicks, Audrey Gunn, Christian du Plessis: Charles Mackerras: John Blatchley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

LÉHAR, Franz

 

THE MERRY WIDOW

(Hanna Glawari, Valencienne, Sylvanie, Praskowia, Count Danilo, Camille de Rousillon, Barpn Mirko Zeta, Bogdanowitsch, Kromow, Vicomte Cascada, Raoul de St. Brioche)

7 December 1972: Lorna Haywood, Ann Hood, Barbara Walker, Sheila Rex, John Wakefield, John Brecknock, Denis Dowling, Ashton Smith, Harry Coghill, Peter Lyon, Terry Jenkins: Henry Krips: John Cox, Elisabeth Dalton

 

LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero

 

PAGLIACCI

(Tonio, Beppe, Nedda, Canio, Silvio, 1. Villager, 2. Villager)

29 September 1971: Derek Hammond Stroud, Robin Donald, Lorna Haywood, Kevin Mills, Norman Welsby, Keith Bonnington, Frank Harvey

 

MASCAGNI, Pietro

 

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

(Santuzza, Mamma Lucia, Alfio, Turiddu, Lola)

29 September 1971: Rita Hunter, Anne Collins, Malcolm Rivers, Robert Ferguson, Georgetta Psaros: John Barker: John Blatchley, Annena Stubbs

 

MONTEVERDI, Claudio

 

THE CORONATION OF POPPEA

(Poppea, Octavia, Drusilla, Handmaid, Fortune, Virtue, Love, Nero, Arnalta, Otho, Seneca, Page to Octavia, Liberto, Lucano, 1. Soldier, 2. Soldier)

24 November 1971: Janet Baker, Katherine Pring, Barbara Walker, Iris Saunders, Barbara Walker, Shirley Chapman, Elizabeth Gale, Robert Ferguson, Anne Collins, Tom McDonnell, Clifford Grant, John Brecknock, Norman Welsby, Emile Belcourt, Robin Donald, John Delaney

 

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus

 

DON GIOVANNI

(Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Don Giovanni, Don Ottavio, Leporello, Masetto, Commendatore)

21 August 1968: Donna-Faye Carr, Pauline Tinsley, Margaret Neville, Leonard Delany, Donald Pilley, Stafford Dean, Norman Welsby, Don Garrard: Mario Bernardi: John Gielgud

 

THE MAGIC FLUTE

(Pamina, Queen of Night, Papagena, 1. Lady, 2. Lady, 3. Lady, Tamino, Monostatos, Papageno, Sarastro, Speaker, 1. Priest, 2. Priest, 1. Man in Armour, 2. Man in Armour)

16 January 1975: Barbara Walker, Margaret Haggart, Sandra Dugdale, Anne Conoley, Ann Hood, Anne Collins, John Brecknock, Paul Crook, Alan Opie, Neil Warren-Smith, Geoffrey Chard, Terry Jenkins, Harry Coghill, Tom Swift, William Mason: Charles Mackerras: Anthony Besch, John Stoddart

 

THE SERAGLIO

(Constanze, Blonde, Belmonte, Pedrillo, Osmin, Pasha Selim)

10 March 1971: Lois McDonall, Norma Burrowes, Alexander Young, John Fryatt, Richard Van Allan, Conrad Phillips: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

OFFENBACH, Jacques

 

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

(Antonia/Olympia/Giulietta/Stella. Voice of Olympia, The Spirit of Antonia’s Mother, The Muse/Niklausse, Hoffmann, Lindorf/Coppelius /Dr. Miracle/Dapertutto, Andreas/Cochenille /Franz/Pittichinaccio, Spalanzani, Luther, Crespel, Peter Schlemil, Nathaniel, Hermann, Wilhelm, Two Voices on the Lagoon)

20 August 1970: Anne Evans, Rhonda Bruce, Anne Collins, Katherine Pring, William McAlpine, Geoffrey Chard, Francis Egerton, John Fryatt, David Bowman, Eric Stannard, Norman Welsby, Robin Donald, Peter Garrett, Simon Vaughan, Georgetta Psaros, Anne Collins: Nicholas Braithwaite: Colin Graham, David Collis

 

PENDERECKI, Krzysztof

 

THE DEVILS OF LOUDON

(Jeanne des Anges, Sister Claire, Sister Louise, Sister Gabrielle, Urbain Grandier, Father Barré, Father Rangier, Father Mignon, Father Ambrose, Jean D’Armagnac, Guillaume de Cerisay, Adam, Mannoury, Philippe Trincant, Ninon, Baron de Laubardemont, Prince Henri de Condé, Bontemps, Clerk of the Court, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Beherit)

1 November 1973: Josephine Barstow, Anne Conoley, Shelagh Squires, Maurine London, Geoffrey Chard, Harold Blackburn, George Gordon, Robert Ferguson, Dennis Wicks, Denis Dowling, Stephen Turner, Gregory Dempsey, Eric Shilling, Sandra Dugdale, Della Jones, Paul Crook, Ashton Smith, William Mason, Carl Oatley, Denis Dowling, Dennis Wicks, Maurice Bowen: Nicholas Braithwaite: John Dexter: John Napier

 

PROKOFIEV, Sergey

 

WAR AND PEACE

(Andrei, Natasha, Sonya, Madame Akhrosimova, Rostov, Pierre, Helene, Anatol, Dolokhov, Denisov, Kutuzov, Napoleon, Karataev)

11 October 1972: Tom McDonnell, Josephine Barstow, Kathleen Smales, Anne Collins, Eric Shilling, Kenneth Woollam, Ann Hood, John Brecknock, Malcolm Rivers, Norman Welsby, Norman Bailey, Raymond Myers, Gregory Dempsey

 

PUCCINI, Giacomo

 

MADAM BUTTERFLY

(Madam Butterfly, Suzuki, Kate Pinkerton, Lt. Pinkerton, Sharpless, Yamadori, Bonze)

28 February 1974: Ava June, Sarah Walker, Shelagh Squires, Robert Ferguson, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Ashton Smith, Clifford Grant: David Lloyd-Jones: Colin Graham, John Fraser

 

ROSSINI, Gioacchino

 

THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS

(Isabella, Karima, Zulma, Lindoro, Mustapha, Taddeo, Ali)

15 October 1968: Patricia Kern, Wendy Baldwin, Ann Robson, John Winfield, Harold Blackburn, Julian Moyle, David Bowman: Mario Bernardi: Wendy Toye, Peter Whiteman

 

STRAUSS, Richard

 

DER ROSENKAVALIER

(The Feldmarschallin, Octavian, Sophie, Marianne Leitmetzerin, Annina, Baron Ochs, Faninal, Valzacchi, A Tenor, Major-Domo to the Princess, A Landlord, A Commissar of Police)

29 January 1975: Anne Evans, Josephine Barstow, Valerie Masterson, Judith Turner, Sarah Walker, Neil Warren-Smith, Eric Shilling, Paul Crook, Tom Swift, Terry Jenkins, Jon Sydney, Denis Dowling: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, David Walker

 

SULLIVAN, Arthur

 

PATIENCE

(Reginald Bunthorne, Colonel Calverley, Archibald Grosvenor, Major Murgatroyd, Duke of Dunstable, Lady Angela, Lady Saphir, Lady Ella, Lady Jane, Patience)

9 October 1969: Derek Hammond Stroud, Eric Shilling, Emile Belcourt, Alan Charles, John Delaney, Shirley Chapman, Dorothy Nash, Pamela Fasso, Heather Begg, Wendy Baldwin: Kenneth Montgomery: John Cox, John Stoddart

 

VERDI, Giuseppe

 

DON CARLOS

(Elisabeth de Valois, Thibault, Don Carlos, Count of Lerma, A Monk, Rodrigo, Philip II, Princess Eboli, Countess of Aremberg, Royal Herald, 1. 2, 3. 4. 5. 6 Flemish Nobleman, A Heavenly Voice, Grand Inquisitor)

21 August 1974: Margaret Curphey, Anne Conoley, Joseph Gabriels, John Kitchiner, Gwynne Howell, Benjamin Luxon, Clifford Grant, Katherine Pring, Mary Self, Kenneth Woollam, Harry Coghill, Kenneth Francis, Tom McDonnell, Alan Opie, Ashton Smith, Patrick Wheatley, Audrey Gunn, Richard Van Allan: Charles Mackerras: Colin Graham, Christopher Morley, Ann Curtis

 

THE FORCE OF DESTINY

(Leonora di Vargas, Preziosilla, Curra, Don Alvaro, Don Carlo di Vargas, Father Superior, Melitone, Marquis of Calatrava, Trabucco, The Alcalde, A Surgeon)

8 December 1968: Pauline Tinsley, Joyce Blackham, Anna Cooper, Donald Smith, Robert Bickerstaff, Don Garrard, Derek Hammond Stroud, Eric Stannard, John Fryatt, Gerwyn Morgan, Tom McDonnell: Bryan Balkwill: Colin Graham, David Collis

 

LA TRAVIATA

(Violetta Valery, Flora Bervoix, Annina, Alfredo Germont, Gaston, Giorgio Germont, Baron Douphol, Marquis d’Obigny, Doctor Grenville)

14 March 1973: Josephine Barstow, Ann Hood, Shelagh Squires, John Brecknock, Paul Crook, Geoffrey Chard, Thomas Lawlor, Kenneth Francis, Harry Coghill: Nicholas Braithwaite: John Copley, David Walker

 

IL TROVATORE

(Leonora, Inez, Azucena, Manrico, Count of Luna, Ferrando)

23 August 1972: Rita Hunter, Anne Collins, Gabrielle Lavigne, Jon Sydney, Norman Bailey, David Gwynne: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

 

WAGNER, Richard

 

LOHENGRIN

(Elsa, Ortrud, Lohengrin, Telramund, King Henry, Herald, 1. Knight, 2. Knight, 3, Knight, 4. Knight)

12 August 1971: Margaret Curphey, Ann Howard, Alberto Remedios, Raimund Herincx, Clifford Grant, Terence Sharpe, Robin Donald, John Delaney, Tom McDonnell, Robert Lloyd: Charles Mackerras: Colin Graham: Michael Knight

 

THE RHINEGOLD

(Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Alberich, Fricka, Wotan, Freia, Fasolt, Fafner, Froh, Donner, Loge, Mime, Erda)

1 March 1972: Barbara Walker, Elizabeth Tippett, Georgette Psaros, Derek Hammond Stroud, Ann Howard, Norman Bailey, Lois McDonall, Robert Lloyd, Clifford Grant, Robert Ferguson, Norman Welsby, Emile Belcourt, Gregory Dempsey, Anne Collins: Charles Mackerras: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

SIEGFRIED

(Siegfried, Mime, The Wanderer, Alberich, Fafner, Brünnhilde, Woodbird, Erda)

8 February 1973: Alberto Remedios, Gregory Dempsey, Don Garrard, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Clifford Grant, Rita Hunter, Valerie Masterson, Anne Collins: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

(Brünnhilde, Gutrune, Waltraute, Siegfried, Gunther, Hagen, Alberich, 1. Norn, 2. Norn, 3. Norn, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde)

29 January 1971: Rita Hunter, Catherine Wilson, Katherine Pring, Alberto Remedios, Norman Bailey, Clifford Grant, Derek Hammond Stroud, Georgetta Psaros, Anne Collins, Janice Chapman, Barbara Walker, Anne Evans, Georgetta Psaros: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

THE VALKYRIE

(Siegmund, Sieglinde, Hunding, Wotan, Brünnhilde, Fricka, Gerhilde, Ortlinde, Waltraute, Schwertleite, Helmwige, Siegrune, Grimgerde, Roßweiße)

29 January 1970: Alberto Remedios/Hugh Beresford, Ava June, Clifford Grant, Norman Bailey, Rita Hunter, Ann Howard, Margaret Curphey, Donna Faye Carr, Patricia Purcell, Katherine Pring, Janice Chapman, Ann Robson, Anna Cooper, Gillian Knight: Reginald Goodall: Glen Byam Shaw & John Blatchley, Ralph Koltai

 

WILLIAMSON, Malcolm

 

LUCKY PETER’S JOURNEY

(Nisse/Robin/1. Friend/1. Saint, Nilla/Spring Bird /2. Friend/2. Saint, Peter, Lisa, Good Fairy, Loki, Staffen, The Steward)

18 December 1969: April Cantelo, Jennifer Vyvyan, Geoffrey Chard, Shirley Chapman, Ailene Fischer, John Delaney, Harold Blackburn, Emile Belcourt: John Barker: John Cox, Dacre Punt

 

 

 

ROYAL OPERA, LONDON - A Catalogue of New Productions 1947 - 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROYAL OPERA, LONDON

NEW PRODUCTIONS  1947 – 2023

 

 

This catalogue lists all new productions on the main stage of Covent Garden.

It lists the main roles for each opera, followed by each new production of the opera, with the major singers of the roles, followed by the conductor, and the production team.

 

 

ADÈS, Thomas

 

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Lucia, Leticia Meynar, Leonora Palma, Edmundo, Doctor Carlos Conde)

24 April 2017: Amanda Echalaz, Audrey Luna, Anne Sofie von Otter, Charles Workman, John Tomlinson: Thomas Adès: Tom Cairns, Hildegard Bechtler

 

THE TEMPEST (Ariel, Miranda, Caliban, Ferdinand, Prospero, Trinculo, King of Naples, Antonio, Stefano, Gonzalo)

10 September 2004: Cyndia Sieden, Christine Rice, Ian Bostridge, Toby Spence, Simon Keenlyside, Lawrence Zazzo, Philip Langridge, John Daszak, Stephen Richardson, Gwynne Howell: Thomas Adès: Tom Cairns, Moritz Junge

 

ALFANO, Franco

 

CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Roxane, Cyrano de Bergerac, Christian, De Guiche, Carbon, Ragueneau)

8 May 2006: Sondra Radvanovsky, Plácido Domingo, Raymond Very, Roman Trekel, Clive Bayley, Carmelo Corrado Caruso: Mark Elder: Francesca Zambello, Peter Davison, Anita Yavich

 

BALFE, Michael

 

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL (Arline, Thaddeus, Count Arnheim, Queen of the Gipsies, Devilshoof, Florestein)

15 August 1951: Roberta Peters, Anthony Marlowe, Jess Walters, Edith Coates, Howell Glynne, Murray Dickie: Thomas Beecham: dennis Arundell, Frederick Crooke, Beatrice Dawson

 

BARTÓK, Béla

 

DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE (Duke Bluebeard, Judit)

27 February 2002: Willard White, Katarina Dalayman: Lothar Zagrosek: Willy Decker, John F Macfarlane

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van

 

FIDELIO (Florestan, Leonore, Don Pizarro, Rocco, Don Fernando, Marzelline, Jacquino)

9 December 1948: Thorsteinn Hannesson, Sylvia Fisher, Tom Williams, David Franklin, Marian Nowakowski, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dennis Stephenson: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, Rex Whistler, pre-war costume designs

24 February 1961: Jon Vickers, Sena Jurinac, Hans Hotter, Gottlob Frick, Forbes Robinson, Elsie Morison, John Dobson: Otto Klemperer: Otto Klemperer, Hainer Hill

2 July 1986: James King, Elzabeth Connell, Hartmut Weller, Gwynne Howell, Manfred Schenk, Marie McLaughlin, Laurence Dale: Colin Davis: Andrei Serban, Sally Jacobs

21 November 1990: Josef Protschka, Gabriela Beňačková, Monte Pederson, Robert Lloyd, Hans Tschammer, Marie McLaughlin, Neill Archer: Christoph von Dohnányi: Adolf Dresen, Margit Bardy

27 May 2007: Endrik Wottich, Karita Mattila, Terje Stensvold, Eric Halfvarson, Robert Lloyd, Ailish Tynan, Robert Murray: Antonio Pappano: Jürgen Flimm, Robert Israel, Florence von Gerkan

1 March 2020: Jonas Kaufmann, Lise Davidsen, Simon Neal, Georg Zeppenfeld, Egils Siliņš, Amanda Forsythe, Robin Tritschler: Antonio Pappano: Tobias Kratzer, Rainer Sellmaier

 

BELLINI, Vincenzo

 

I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI (Giuletta, Romeo, Tebaldo)

26 March 1984: Edita Gruberova, Agnes Baltsa, Dano Raffanti: Riccardo Muti: Pier Luigi Pizzi#

 

NORMA: (Norma, Adalgisa, Pollione, Oroveso)

8 November 1952: Maria Callas, Ebe Stignani, Mirto Picchi, Giacomo Vaghi: Vittorio Gui: Gianfranco Enriquez, Alan Barlow

30 November 1967: Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Franco Tagliavini, Joseph Rouleau: Richard Bonynge: Sandro Sequi, Luigi Pizzi

 

10 February 1987: Margaret Price, Alicia Nafé, Giuseppe Giacomini, Gwynne Howell: John Pritchard: John Copley, Don, Bob Ringwood

12 September 2016: Sonya Yoncheva, Sonia Ganassi, Joseph Calleja, Brindley Sherratt: Antonio Pappano: Àlex Ollé, Valentina Carrasco, Alfons Flores

 

I PURITANI (Elvira, Arturo, Riccardo, Giorgio, Gualtiero)

20 March 1964: Joan Sutherland, Charles Craig, Gabriel Bacquier, Joseph Rouleau, David Kelly: Richard Bonynge: Franco Zeffirelli

12 May 1992: June Anderson, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Robert Lloyd, Mark Beesley: Daniele Gatti: Jonathan Eaton, Michael Yeargan

 

LA SONNAMBULA (Amina, Elvino, Rodolfo, Lisa)

19 October 1960: Joan Sutherland, Agostino Lazzari, Joseph Rouleau, Jeannette Sinclair: Tullio Serafin: Enrico Medioli, Filippo Sanjust

16 March 2002: Elena Kelessidi, Juan Diego Flórez, Alastair Miles, Inger Dam-Jansen: Maurizio Benini: Marco Arturo Marelli, Dagmar Niefind-Marelli

 

BENJAMIN, George

 

LESSONS IN LOVE AND VIOLENCE (Isabel, Mortimer, King, Gaveston/Stranger, Boy/Young King)

10 May 2018: Barbara Hannigan, Peter Hoare, Stéphane Degout, Gyula Orendt, Samuel Boden: George Benjamin: Katie Mitchell, Vicki Mortimer

 

WRITTEN ON SKIN (Agnès, The Protector, Angel #1/The Boy, Angel #2/Marie, Angel #3/John)

8 March 2013: Barbara Hannigan, Christopher Purves, Bejun Mehta, Victoria Simmonds, Allan Clayton: George Benjamin: Katie Mitchell, Vicki Mortimer

 

BERG, Alban

 

LULU (Lulu, Gräfin Geschwitz, Dr. Schoen/Jack the Ripper, Alwa, An Animal Trainer/Rodrigo, The Painter/Negro, Schigolch/Police Commissioner, The Prince/The Marquis/The Man Servant)

16 February 1981: Karan Armstrong, Glenys Linos, Günter Reich, Ryszard Karczykowski, Jonathan Summers, Robin Leggate, Erik Saedén, Emile Belcourt: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Timothy O'Brien

4 June 2009: Agneta Eichenholz, Jennifer Larmore, Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Peter Rose, Will Hartmann, Gwynne Howell, Philip Langridge: Antonio Pappano: Christof Loy: Herbert Murauer

 

WOZZECK (Wozzeck, Marie, Tambourmajor, The Captain, The Doctor)

22 January 1952: Marko Rothmüller, Christel Goltz, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Parry Jones, Frederick Dalberg: Erich Kleiber: Sumner Austin, Caspar Neher

15 October 2002: Matthias Goerne, Katarina Dalayman, Kim Begley, Graham Clark, Eric Halfvarson: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

BERIO, Luciano

 

UN RE IN ASCOLTO (Prospero, Director, Protagonista, Venerdi)

9 February 1989: Donald McIntyre, Robert Tear, Kathryn Harries, Graham Valentine: Luciano Berio: Graham Vick, Chris Dyer

 

BERLIOZ, Hector

 

BENVENUTO CELLINI (Benvenuto Cellini, Teresa, Giacomo Balducci, Ascanio, Fieramosca, Francesco)

15 December 1966: Nicolai Gedda, Elizabeth Vaughan, Napoleon Bisson, Yvonne Minton, Robert Massard, John Dobson: John Pritchard: John Dexter, Beni Montresor

 

LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Faust, Méphistophélès, Marguerite)

8 March 1993: Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Olga Borodina: Colin Davis: Harry Kupfer, Hans Schavernoch, Reinhard Heinrich

 

LES TROYENS: (Aeneas (Enee), Dido, Cassandra, Choroebus, Anna, Narbal)

6 June 1957: Jon Vickers, Blanche Thebom, Amy Shuard, Jess Walters, Lauris Elms, David Kelly: Rafael Lubelik: John Gielgud, Mariano Andren

17 September 1969: Jon Vickers, Josephine Veasey, Anja Silja, Peter Glossop, Heather Begg, Michael Langdon: Colin Davis: Minos Volanakis, Nicholas Georgiadis

25 June 2012: Bryan Hymel, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Fabio Capitanucci, Hanna Hipp, Brindley Sherratt: Antonio Pappano: David McVicar, Es Devlin, Moritz Junge

 

BIRTWISTLE, Harrison

 

GAWAIN (Gawain, Green Knight, Morgan le Fay, Lady de Hautdesert)

30 May 1991: François Le Roux, John Tomlinson, Marie Angel, Elizabeth Laurence: Elgar Howarth: Di Trevis, Alison Chitty

 

THE MINOTAUR (The Minotaur, Ariadne, Theseus, Hiereus, Ker)

15 April 2008: John Tomlinson, Christine Rice, Johan Reuter, Philip Langridge, Amanda Echalaz: Antonio Pappano: Stephen Langridge, Alison Chitty

 

BIZET, Georges

 

CARMEN (Carmen, Don José, Escamillo, Micaela)

14 January 1947: Edith Coates, Kenneth Neate, Dennis Noble, Muriel Rae: Karl Rankl: Henry Cass, Edward Burra

2 November 1953: Nell Rankin, James Johnston, Marko Rothmüller, Frances Yeend: John Pritchard: Anthony Asquith, Georges Wakhevitch

4 July 1973: Shirley Verrett, Plácido Domingo, José Van Dam, Kiri Te Kanawa: Georg Solti: Michael Geliot, Jenny Beavan, David Fielding

26 April 1991: Maria Ewing, Luis Lima, Gino Quilico, Leontina Vaduva: Zubin Mehta: Nuria Espert, Gerardo Vera, Franca Squarciapino

8 December 2006: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Norah Amsellem: Antonio Pappano: Francesca Zambello, Tanya McCallin

6 February 2018: Anna Goryachova, Francesco Meli, Kostas Smoriginas, Kristina Mkhitaryan: Jakub Hrůša: Barrie Kosky, Katrin Lea Tag

 

BLISS, Arthur

 

THE OLYMPIANS: (Madelaine, Hector, Mars, Jupiter)

29 September 1949: Shirley Russell, James Johnston, David Franklin, Kenneth Schon: Karl Rankl: Peter Brook, John Bryan

 

BORODIN, Alexander

 

PRINCE IGOR (Prince Igor Sviatoslavich, Jaroslavna, Vladimir Yaroslavich (Galitsky), Kontchakovna, Vladimir Igorevich, Kontchak)

1 February 1990: Sergei Leiferkus, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Alexei Steblianko, Elena Zaremba, Nicola Ghiuselev, Paata Burchuladze: Bernard Haitink: Andrei Serban, Liviu Ciulei, Deirdre Clancy

 

BRITTEN, Benjamin

 

ALBERT HERRING (Lady Billows, Albert Herring, Miss Wordsworth, Nancy, Mrs. Herring, Florence Pike, Mr. Upfold, Sid, Mr. Gedge, Superintendent Budd)

1 May 1989: Pauline Tinsley, John Graham-Hall, Elizabeth Gale, Eirian James, Patricia Kern, Felicity Palmer, Alexander Oliver, Jeffrey Black, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Richard Van Allan: Roger Norrington: Peter Hall, John Gunter

 

BILLY BUDD: (Captain Vere, Billy Budd, Mr. Redburn, Mr. Flint, John Claggart, Lieutenant Ratcliffe)

1 December 1951: Peter Pears, Theodor Uppman, Hervey Alan, Geraint Evans, Frederick Dalberg, Michael Langdon: Benjamin Britten: Basil Coleman, John Piper (original version)

9 January 1964: Richard Lewis, Robert Kerns, John Shaw, Ronald Lewis, Forbes Robinson, David Kelly: Georg Solti: Basil Coleman, John Piper (revised version)

30 May 1995: Graham Clark, Rodney Gilfry, David Wilson-Johnson, Gidon Saks, John Tomlinson, Roderick Earle: Robert Spano: Francesca Zambello, Alison Chitty (original version)

23 April 2019: Toby Spence, Jacques Imbrailo, Thomas Ollemans, David Soar, Brindley Sherratt, Peter Kellner: Ivor Bolton: Deborah Warner, Michael Levine, Chloé Obolensky (revised version)

 

DEATH IN VENICE (Aschenbach, Hotel Manager etc.)

10 March 1992: Philip Langridge, Alan Opie: Steuart Bedford, Colin Graham

7 November 2020: Mark Padmore, Gerald Finley: Richard Farnes: Sir David McVicar, Vicki Mortimer

 

GLORIANA: (Queen Elizabeth the First, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Walter Raleigh, Frances, Countess of Essex, Lord Mountjoy, Penelope. Lady Rich)

8 June 1953: Joan Cross, Peter Pears, Arnold Matters, Frederick Dalberg, Monica Sinclair, Geraint Evans, Jennifer Vyvyan: John Pritchard: Basil Coleman, John Piper

20 June 2013: Susan Bullock, Toby Spence, Jeremy Carpenter, Clive Bayley, Patricia Bardon, Mark Stone, Kate Royal

 

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Oberon, Tytania, Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia, Helena, Bottom, Flute, Puck)

2 February 1961: Russell Oberlin, Joan Carlyle, André Turp, Louis Quilico, Marjorie Thomas, Irene Salemka, Geraint Evans, John Lanigan, Nicholas Chagrin: Georg Solti: John Gielgud, John Piper

17 June 1986: James Bowman, Lillian Watson, Kim Begley, Jonathan Summers, Claire Powell, Felicity Lott, Stafford Dean, Alexander Oliver, Mark Rylance: Roderick Brydon: Christopher Renshaw, Robin Don

25 November 2005: William Towers, Gillian Keith, Robert Murray, Grant Doyle, Tove Dahlberg, Katie Van Kooten, Darren Jeffery, Andrew Kennedy, Jami Reid-Quarrell: Richard Hickox: Olivia Fuchs, Niki Turner

 

OWEN WINGRAVE (Owen Wingrave, Kate Julian, Spencer Coyle, Miss Wingrave, Mrs. Coyle, Mrs. Julian, General Sir Philip Wingrave, Lechmere)

10 May 1973: Benjamin Luxon, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Sylvia Fisher, Heather Harper, Janice Chapman, Peter Pears, Nigel Douglas: Steuart Bedford: Colin Graham, John Piper, Charles Knode

 

PETER GRIMES (Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford, Captain Balstrode, Mrs. Sedley, Auntie, Swallow)

6 November 1947: Peter Pears, Joan Cross, Tom Williams, Constance Shacklock, Edith Coates, Owen Brannigan: Karl Rankl: Tyrone Guthrie, Tanya Moiseiwitch

14 November 1953: Peter Pears, Sylvia Fisher, Geraint Evans, Valetta Iacopi, Jean Watson, Howell Glynne: Reginald Goodall: John Cranko, Roger Ramsdell

9 July 1975: Jon Vickers, Heather Harper, Geraint Evans, Heather Begg, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Forbes Robinson: Colin Davis: Elijah Moshinsky, Timothy O'Brien, Tazeena Firth

3 July 2004: Ben Heppner, Alan Opie, Janice Watson, Sarah Walker, Anne Collins, Matthew Best: Antonio Pappano: Willy Decker, John F. Macfarlane

17 March 2022: Allan Clayton, Maria Bengtsson, Bryn Terfel, Rosie Aldridge, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, John Tomlinson: Mark Elder: Deborah Warner, Michael Levine, Luis F Carvalho

 

THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Governess, Peter Quint, Miles, Flora, Mrs. Gross, Miss Jessel)

7 January 2002: Joan Rodgers, Ian Bostridge, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise, Jane Henschel, Vivian Tierney: Daniel Harding: Deborah Warner, Jean Kalman, Tom Pye, John Bright

 

CAVALLI, Francesco

 

LA CALISTO (Calisto, Endimione, Diana,

Giunone, Giove, Satirino, Mercurio, Linfea, Pane, Sylvano)

23 September 2008: Sally Matthews, Lawrence Zazzo, Monica Bacelli, Véronique Gens, Umberto Chiummo, Dominique Visse, Markus Werba, Ed Lyon, Clive Bayley: Ivor Bolton: David Alden, Paul Steinberg, Buki Shiff

 

CHABRIER, Emmanuel

 

L’ETOILE (Lazuli, La Princesse Laoula, Le Roi Ouf I, Aloes, Herisson de Porc Epic, Siroco, Tapioca)

29 June 2015: Kate Lindsey, Hélène Guilmette, Christophe Mortagne, Julie Boulianne, François Piolino, Simon Bailey, Aimery Lefèvre: Mark Elder: Mariame Clément, Julia Hansen

 

CHERUBINI, Luigi

 

MEDEA: (Medea, Jason, Glauce (Dirce),

Creon)

17 June 1959: Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Nicola Zaccaria: Nicola Rescigno: Alexis Minotis, John Tsarouchis

6 November 1989: Rosalind Plowright, Alexei Steblianko, Renée Fleming, Robert Lloyd: Mark Ermler: Mike Ashman, Bernard Culshaw

 

CILEA, Francesco

 

ADRIANA LECOUVREUR (Adriana Lecouvreur, Princesse De Bouillon, Maurizio, Michonnet, L’Abate, Prince De Bouillon)

18 November 2010: Angela Gheorghiu, Michaela Schuster, Jonas Kaufmann, Alessandro Corbelli, Bonaventura Bottone, Maurizio Muraro: Mark Elder: David McVicar, Charles Edwards, Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

DEBUSSY, Claude

 

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE (Pelleas, Melisande, Golaud, Arkel, Yniold, Genevieve)

1 December 1969: George Shirley, Elisabeth Söderström, Donald McIntyre, David Ward, Anthony Britten, Yvonne Minton: Pierre Boulez: Václav Kašlík, Josef Svoboda, Jan Skalický

24 March 1993: François Le Roux, Frederica von Stade, Victor Braun, Robert Lloyd, Patrizia Pace, Yvonne Minton: Claudio Abbado: Antoine Vitez, Yannis Kokkos

11 May 2007: Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gerald Finley, Robert Lloyd, George Longworth, Catherine Wyn-Rogers: Simon Rattle: Stanislas Nordey, Emmanuel Clolus, Raoul Fernandez

 

DONIZETTI, Gaetano

 

ANNA BOLENA (Anna Bolena, Giovanna Seymour, Riccardo, Smeton, Enrico VIII)

30 May 1988: Joan Sutherland, Susanne Mentzer, John Aler, Eirian James, Dimitri Kavrakos: Richard Bonynge: John Pascoe

 

DON PASQUALE (Don Pasquale, Norina, Ernesto, Dr. Malatesta)

9 February 1973: Geraint Evans, Elizabeth Harwood, Ryland Davies, Gabriel Bacquier: John Pritchard:              Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

27 November 2004: Simone Alaimo, Tatiana Lisnic, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli: Bruno Campanella: Jonathan Miller, Isabella Bywater

14 October 2019: Bryn Terfel, Olga Peretyatko, Ioan Hotea, Markus Werba: Evelino Pidò: Damiano Michieletto, Paolo Fantin, Agostino Cavalca

 

L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Adina, Nemorino, Belcore, Dulcamara)

18 December 1975: Yasuko Hayashi, José Carreras, Thomas Allen, Geraint Evans: John Pritchard: John Copley, Beni Montresor

13 November 2007: Aleksandra Kurzak, Stefano Secco, Ludovic Tézier, Paolo Gavanelli: Mikko Franck: Laurent Pelly, Chantal Thomas

 

LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT (Marie, Tonio, Sergeant Sulpice, Marquise de Birkenfeld)

2 June 1966: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Spiro Malas, Monica Sinclair: Richard Bonynge: Sandro Sequi, Anna Anni, Marcel Escoffier

11 January 2007: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli, Felicity Palmer: Bruno Campanella: Laurent Pelly, Chantal Thomas, Laurent Pelly

 

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Lucia, Edgardo, Enrico (Ashton), Raimondo)

17 February 1959: Joan Sutherland, Kenneth Neate, Geraint Evans, Michael Langdon: Tullio Serafin: Franco Zeffirelli

29 November 2003: Andrea Rost, Marcelo Álvarez, Anthony Michaels-Moore, John Relyea: Evelino Pidò: Christof Loy, Herbert Murauer

7 April 2016: Diana Damrau, Charles Castronovo, Ludovic Tézier, Kwangchul Youn: Daniel Oren: Katie Mitchell, Vicki Mortimer

 

LUCREZIA BORGIA (Don Alfonso, Lucrezia Borgia, Gennaro, Maffio Orsini)

26 March 1980: Stafford Dean, Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Anne Howells: Richard Donynge: John Copley, John Pascoe, Michael Stennett

 

MARIA STUARDA (Maria Stuarda, Elisabetta, Talbot, Earl of Leicester)

15 December 1977: Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, David Ward, Stuart Burrows: Richard Bonynge: John Copley, Desmond Heeley, José Varona

5 July 2014: Joyce DiDonato, Carmen Giannattasio, Matthew Rose, Ismael Jordi: Bertrand de Billy: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier,  Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

DVOŘÁK, Antonín

 

RUSALKA (Rusalka, The Prince, Vodnik, Jezibaba, The Foreign Princess)

27 February 2012: Camilla Nylund, Bryan Hymel, Alan Held, Agnes Zwierko, Petra Lang: Yannick Nézet-Séguin: Sergio Morabito, Barbara Ehnes, Anja Rabes

21 February 2023: Asmik Grigorian, David Butt Philip, Emma Bell, Sarah Connolly, Aleksei Isaev

 

ENESCU, George

 

OEDIPE (Oedipe, The Watchman, Phorbas, Tirésias, Jocaste)

23 May 2016: Johan Reuter, Stefan Kocan, In Sung Sim, John Tomlinson, Sarah Connolly

 

GERSHWIN, George

 

PORGY AND BESS (Porgy, Bess, Crown, Sporting Life, Clara, Jake, Serena, Maria)

9 October 1992: Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Gregg Baker, Damon Evans, Tinuke Olafimihan, Gordon Hawkins, Cynthia Clarey, Marietta Simpson: Andrew Litton: Trevor Nunn, John Gunter, Sue Blane

 

GIORDANO, Umberto

 

ANDREA CHÉNIER (Madeleine de Coigny, Andrea Chenier, Charles Gerard (Carlo), Bersi, Incredibile, Mathieu, Roucher)

10 February 1984: Rosalind Plowright, José Carreras, Bernd Weikl, Cynthia Buchan, John Dobson, Richard Van Allan, Jonathan Summers: Richard Armstrong: Michael Hampe, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino

20 January 2015: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Željko Lučić, Denyce Graves, Carlo Bosi, Adrian Clarke, Roland Wood: Antonio Pappano: David McVicar, Robert Jones, Jenny Tiramani

 

FEDORA (Princess Fedora Romanov, Count Loris Ipanov, De Siriex, Countess Olga Sukarev, Grech)

9 May 1994: Mirella Freni, José Carreras, Jonathan Summers, Judith Howarth, Roderick Earle: Edward Downes: Lamberto Puggelli, Luisa Spinatelli

 

GLUCK, Christoph Willibald

 

ALCESTE (Alceste, Admetus, High Priest, Hercules)

26 November 1981: Janet Baker, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Jonathan Summers: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Roger Butlin, Michael Stennett

 

ORFEO ED EURIDICE (Orfeo, Euridice, Amore)

3 February 1953: Kathleen Ferrier, Veronica Dunne, Adele Leigh: John Barbirolli: Frederick Ashton, Sophie Fedorovitch

12 June 1969: Yvonne Minton, Pilar Lorengar, Elizabeth Robson: Georg Solti: John Copley, Philip Prowse

5 July 1991: Jochen Kowalski, Gillian Webster, Jeremy Budd: Hartmut Haenchen: Harry Kupfer, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Hans Schavernoch

14 September 2015: Juan Diego Flórez, Lucy Crowe, Amanda Forsythe: John Eliot Gardiner: Hofesh Shechter, John Fulljames, Conor Murphy

 

IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE (Iphigenie, Oreste, Pylade, Thoas, Diana)

14 September 1961: Rita Gorr, Robert Massard, André Turp, Louis Quilico, Margareta Elkins: Georg Solti: Göran Gentele, Carl Toms,

10 September 2007: Susan Graham, Simon Keenlyside, Paul Groves, Clive Bayley, Cécile van de Sant: Ivor Bolton: Robert Carsen, Tobias Hoheisel

 

GOEHR, Alexander

 

ARIANNA (Arianna, Amore, Venere, Teseo, Bacco)

15 September 1995: Susan Graham, Anna Maria Panzarella, Sheila Nadler, J. Patrick Raftery, Axel Köhler: Ivor Bolton: Francesca Zambello, Alison Chitty

 

GOUNOD, Charles

 

FAUST (Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Valentin)

22 November 1974: Stuart Burrows, Norman Treigle, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen: John Matheson: John Copley, Desmond Heeley

11 June 2004: Roberto Alagna, Bryn Terfel, Angela Gheorghiu, Simon Keenlyside: Antonio Pappano: David McVicar, Charles Edwards, Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Romeo, Juliette, Mercutio, Friar Laurent, Count Capulet)

28 October 1994: Roberto Alagna, Leontina Vaduva, François Le Roux, Robert Lloyd, Peter Sidhom: Charles Mackerras: Nicolas Joël, Carlo Tommasi

 

HAAS, Georg Friedrich

 

MORGEN UND ABEND (Johannes, Olai, Erna, Signe, Peter)

13 November 2015: Christoph Pohl, Klaus Maria Braundauer, Helena Rasker, Sarah Wegener, Will Hartmann: Michael Boder: Graham Vick, Richard Hudson

 

HANDEL, Georg Friedrich

 

ACIS AND GALATEA (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus, Damon)

31 March 2009: Danielle de Niese, Charles Workman, Matthew Rose, Paul Agnew: Christopher Hogwood: Wayne McGregor, Hildegard Bechtler

 

AGRIPPINA (Agrippina, Poppea, Nerone, Ottone, Claudio, Narciso, Pallante, Lesbo)

23 September 2019: Joyce DiDonato, Lucy Crowe, Franco Fagioli, Iestyn Davies, Gianluca Buratto, Eric Jurenas, Andrea Mastroni: Maxim Emelyanychev: Barrie Kosky, Rebecca Ringst, Klaus Bruns

 

ALCINA (Alcina, Ruggiero, Morgana, Bradamante, Oronte)

8 March 1962: Joan Sutherland, Margareta Elkins, Elizabeth Vaughan, Monica Sinclair, Kenneth MacDonald: Bryan Balkwill: Franco Zeffirelli

18 December 1992: Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Judith Howarth, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Anthony Rolfe Johnson: John Fisher: Stephen Wadsworth, Thomas P Lynch, Dunya Ramicova

8 November 2022: Lisette Oropesa, Emily D’Angelo,  Mary Bevan, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Rupert Charlesworth: Christian Curnyn: Richard Jones, Antony McDonald

 

ORLANDO (Orlando, Angelica, Dorinda, Medoro, Zoroastro)

6 October 2003: Alice Coote, Barbara Bonney, Camilla Tilling, Bejun Mehta, Jonathan Lemalu: Harry Bicket: Francesco Negrin, Anthony Baker

 

SAMSON (Dalila, Micah, Samson, Manoah, Israelite Woman, Harapha)

15 November 1958: Elisabeth Lindermeier, Lauris Elms, Jon Vickers, Joseph Rouleau, Joan Sutherland, David Kelly: Raymond Leppard: Herbert Graf, Oliver Messel

20 February 1985: Carol Vaness, Sarah Walker, Jon Vickers, Marie McLaughlin, Robert Lloyd: Julius Rudel: Elijah Moshinsky, Timothy O'Brien

 

SEMELE (Semele, Jupiter, Juno, Athamas, Somnus)

25 November 1982: Valerie Masterson, Robert Tear, Kathleen Kuhlmann, John York Skinner, Gwynne Howell: Charles Mackerras: John Copley, Henry Bardon, David Walker

 

TAMERLANO (Tamerlano, Bajazet, Asteria, Andronico, Irene)

5 March 2010: Christianne Stotijn, Kurt Streit, Christine Schäfer, Sara Mingardo, Renata Pokupić: Ivor Bolton: Graham Vick, Richard Hudson

 

THEODORA (Theodora, Didymus, Irene, Septimius, Valens)

31 January 2022: Julia Bullock, Jakub Józef Orlinski,  Joyce DiDonato, Ed Lyon, Gyula Orendt: Harry Bicket: Katie Mitchell, Chloe Lamford, Sussie Juhlin-Wallén

 

HAYDN, Joseph

 

L'ANIMA DEL FILOSOFO (Euridice, Orfeo, Genio, Creonte, Pluto)

15 October 2001: Cecilia Bartoli, Roberto Saccà, Cecilia Bartoli, Gerald Finley, Brindley Sherratt: Christopher Hogwood: Jürgen Flimm, George Tsypin, Florence von Gerkan

 

HENZE, Hans Werner

 

BOULEVARD SOLITUDE (Manon Lescaut, Lescaut, Armand des Grieux, Lilaque père, Lilaque fils)

20 March 2001: Alexandra von der Weth, Wolfgang Rauch, Pär Lindskog, Chris Merritt, Graeme Broadbent: Bernhard Kontarsky: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Tobias Hoheisel

 

WE COME TO THE RIVER (General)

12 July 1976: Norman Welsby: David Atherton: Hans Werner Henze, Jürgen Henze

 

HINDEMITH, Paul

 

MATHIS DER MALER (Albrecht von Brandenburg, Mathis, Ursula, Regina, Lorenz von Pommersfelden, Wolfgang Capito, Hans Schwalb, Grafin von Helfenstein)

16 November 1995: Stig Andersen, Alan Titus, Inga Nielsen, Christiane Oelze, Peter Rose, Robert Tear, Thomas Young, Yvonne Minton: Esa-Pekka Salonen: Peter Sellars, George Tsypin, Dunya Ramicova

 

HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert

 

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Hansel, Gretel, The Witch, Gertrude, Peter)

9 December 2008: Angelika Kirchschlager, Diana Damrau, Anja Silja, Elizabeth Connell, Thomas Allen: Robin Ticciati: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

11 December 2018: Hanna Hipp, Jennifer Davis, Gerhard Siegel, Michaela Schuster, James Rutherford: Sebastian Weigle: Antony McDonald    

 

JANÁČEK, Leoš

 

THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN (The Vixen, The Forester, Fox Golden-Strip (Lisak), The Parson, The Schoolmaster, Harasta)

7 June 1990: Lillian Watson, Thomas Allen, Diana Montague, Gwynne Howell, Robert Tear, Nicholas Folwell: Simon Rattle: Bill Bryden, William Dudley

 

FROM THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD (Gorjančikov, Aljeja, Filka Morozov, Prison Governor, Skuratov, Šapkin, Šiškov)

7 March 2018: Willard White, Štefan Margita, Alexander Vassiliev, Ladislav Elgr, Peter Hoare, Johan Reuter: Mark Wigglesworth: Krzyszytof Warlikowski, Małgorzata Szczęśniak

 

JENŮFA (Jenůfa, Laca Klemeň, Kostelnička Buryjova, Števa Buryja)

10 December 1956: Amy Shuard, John Lanigan, Sylvia Fisher, Edgar Evans: Rafael Kubelik: Christopher West, Jan Brazda

17 November 1986: Ashley Putnam, Philip Langridge, Eva Randová, Neil Rosenshein: Bernard Haitink: Yuri Lyubimov, Paul Hernon, Clare Mitchell

28 September 2001: Karita Mattila, Jorma Silvasti, Anja Silja, Jerry Hadley: Bernard Haitink: Olivier Tambosi, Frank Philipp Schlössmann

28 September 2021: Asmik Grigorian, Nicky Spence,  Karita Mattila, Saimir Pirgu: Henrik Nánási: Claus Guth, Michael Levine, Gesine Völlm

 

KÁT'A KABANOVÁ (Katya, Boris Grigoryevich,

Kabanicha, Vanya Kudrjasch, Varvara, Dikoy, Tichon)

4 March 1994: Elena Prokina, Keith Olsen, Eva Randová, Christopher Ventris, Monica Groop, Gwynne Howell, Kim Begley: Bernard Haitink: Trevor Nunn, Maria Bjørnson

4 February 2019: Amanda Majeski, Pavel Cernoch, Susan Bickley, Andrew Tortise, Emily Edmonds, Clive Bayley, Andrew Staples: Edward Gardner: Richard Jones, Antony McDonald

 

KORNGOLD, Eric Wolfgang

 

DIE TOTE STADT (Marie/Mariette, Paul, Fritz)

27 January 2009: Nadja Michael, Stephen Gould, Gerald Finley: Ingo Metzmacher: Willy Decker, Wolfgang Gussmann

 

LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero

 

PAGLIACCI (Canio, Nedda, Tonio, Silvio)

16 December 1959: Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Geraint Evans, Hugh Beresford: Bryan Balkwill: Franco Zeffirelli

7 July 2003: Plácido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, Lado Ataneli, Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Antonio Pappano: Franco Zeffirelli, Raimonda Gaetani

3 December 2015: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Carmen Giannattasio, Dmitri Platanis, Dionysios Sourbis: Antonio Pappano: Damiano Michieletto, Paolo Fantin, Carla Teti

 

MAAZEL, Lorin

 

1984 (Winston, Julia, O’Brien, Gym Instructor, Syme)

3 May 2005: Simon Keenlyside, Nancy Gustafson, Richard Margison, Diana Damrau, Lawrence Brownlee: Lorin Maazel: Robert Lepage, Carl Fillion, Yasmina Giguère

 

MASCAGNI, Pietro

 

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: (Turiddu, Santuzza, Alfio)

16 December 1959: Charles Craig, Amy Shuard, Otakar Kraus: Edward Downes: Franco Zeffirelli

3 December 2015: Aleksandrs Antonenko, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Dmitri Platanias: Antonio Pappano: Damiano Michieletto, Paolo Fantin, Carla Teti

 

MARTINŮ, Bohuslav

 

THE GREEK PASSION (Manolios, Katerina, Grigoris, Kostandis, Fotis, Yannakos, Lenio, Nikolios, Panait)

25 April 2000: Jorma Silvasti, Marie McLaughlin, Esa Ruuttunen, Roderick Earle, Gwynne Howell, Timothy Robinson, Jenny Grahn, Peter Wedd, Robin Leggate: Charles Mackerras: David Pountney, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

MASSENET, Jules

 

CENDRILLON (Cinderella, Prince Charming, The Fairy Godmother, Pandolfe, Mme. De la Haltiere)

5 July 2011: Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Eglise Gutiérrez, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Ewa Podles: Bertrand de Billy, Laurent Pelly, Barbara de Limburg

 

CHÉRUBIN (Chérubin, Philosopher, L'Ensoleillad, Nina)

14 February 1994: Susan Graham, Robert Lloyd, Maria Bayo, Angela Gheorghiu: Mario Bernardi: Tim Albery, Antony McDonald

 

ESCLARMONDE (Esclarmonde, Roland, Phorcas, Parseis, Bishop of Blois, Eneas, Cleomer)

28 November 1983: Joan Sutherland, Ernesto Veronelli, Gwynne Howell, Diana Montague, Jonathan Summers, Ryland Davies, Geoffrey Moses: Richard Bonynge: Lotfi Mansouri, Beni Montresor

 

MANON (Manon Lescaut, Chevalier des Grieux, Lescaut, Comte des Grieux, Guillot de Morfontaine, De Bretigny)

30 January 1947: Virginia MacWatters, Heddle Nash, Dennis Noble, Jess Walters, Hubert Norville, Bruce Dargavel: Reginald Goodall: Frederick Ashton, James Bailey

2 June 1987: Julia Migenes, Neil Shicoff, J Patrick Raferty, Robert Lloyd, Alexander Oliver, William Dooley: Jeffrey Tate: Rudolf Noelte, Peter Rice

22 June 2010: Anna Netrebko, Vittorio Grigolo, Russell Braun, Christof Fischesser, Christophe Mortagne, William Shimell: Antonio Pappano: Laurent Pelly, Chantal Thomas

 

WERTHER (Werther, Charlotte, Sophie, Albert, Bailli)

21 May 1979: Alfredo Kraus, Viorica Cortez, Isobel Buchanan, Jonathan Summers, Robert Lloyd: Michel Plasson: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis, Michael Stennett

20 September 2004: Marcelo Álvarez, Ruxandra Donose, Sally Matthews, Ludovic Tézier, Jonathan Veira: Antonio Pappano: Benoit Jacquot, Charles Edwards, Christian Gasc

 

MAW, Nicholas

 

SOPHIE'S CHOICE (Sophie, Nathan Landau, Narrator, Stingo, Wanda, Höss)

7 December 2002: Angelika Kirchschlager, Rodney Gilfry, Dale Duesing, Gordon Gietz, Stephanie Friede, Jorma Silvasti: Simon Rattle: Trevor Nunn, Rob Howell

 

MAXWELL DAVIES, Peter

 

TAVERNER (John Taverner, Rose Parrowe, Priest Confesor, Cardinal, Jester, White Abbot, Richard Taverner)

12 July 1972: Ragnar Ulfung, Gillian Knight, James Bowman, Benjamin Luxon, Raimund Herincx, Gwynne Howell: Edward Downes: Michael Geliot, Ralph Koltai

 

MEYERBEER, Giacomo

 

L’AFRICAINE (Selika, Ines, Vasco Da Gama, Nelusko, Don Pedro, Don Alvar)

13 November 1978: Grace Bumbry, Margherita Rinaldi, Plácido Domingo, Silvano Carroli, Richard Van Allan, Robin Leggate: Peter Maag: Franco Enriquez, Fiorella Mariani

 

LES HUGUENOTS (Marguerite de Valois, Comte de St Bris, Valentine, Raoul de Nangis, Marcel, Urbain, Comte de Nevers)

5 November 1991: Judith Howarth, Richard Van Allan, Amanda Thane, Richard Leech, Gwynne Howell, Jennifer Larmore, Jeffrey Black: David Atherton: John Dew, Gottfried Pilz

 

ROBERT LE DIABLE (Princess Isabelle, Alice, Duke Robert, Bertram, Raimbaut, Alberti)

6 December 2012: Patrizia Ciofi, Marina Poplavskaya, Bryan Hymel, John Relyea, Jean-François Borras, Nicolas Courjal: Daniel Oren: Laurent Pelly, Chantal Thomas, Jean-Jacques Delmotte

 

MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus

 

LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Tito, Vitellia, Sextus, Servilia, Annius)

22 April 1974: Eric Tappy, Janet Baker, Yvonne Minton, Teresa Cahill, Anne Howells: Colin Davis: Anthony Besch, John Stoddart

22 January 2000: Vinson Cole, Patricia Schumann, Vesselina Kasarova, Christiane Oelze, Ruxandra Donose: Nicholas McGegan: Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Ursel Herrmann

7 September 2002: Bruce Ford, Barbara Frittoli, Vesselina Kasarova, Anna Netrebko, Katarina Karnéus: Colin Davis: Stephen Lawless, Benoît Dugardyn, Sue Willmington

17 May 2021: Edgaras Montvidas, Nicole Chevalier, Emily D’Angelo, Christina Gansch, Angela Brower: Mark Wigglesworth: Richard Jones, Ultz

 

COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Fiordiligi, Dorabella, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Don Alfonso, Despina)

4 July 1968: Pilar Lorengar, Josephine Veasey, Luigi Alva, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Keith Engen, Lucia Popp: Georg Solti: John Copley, Henry Bardon, David Walker

6 March 1989: Margaret Marshall, Susanne Mentzer, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Andreas Schmidt, Claudio Desderi, Anne Howells: Jeffrey Tate: Johannes Schaaf, Hans Schavernoch, Lore Haas

18 January 1995: Amanda Roocroft, Susan Graham, Bruce Ford, Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Allen, Ann Murray: Evelino Pidò: Jonathan Miller, Tim Blazdell, Andrew Jameson, Colin Maxwell, Catherine Smith, Anthony Waterman, Giorgio Armani

22 September 2016: Corinne Winters, Angela Brower, Daniel Behle, Alessio Arduini, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Sabina Puértolas: Semyon Bychkov: Jan Philipp Gloger, Ben Baur, Karin Jud

 

DON GIOVANNI (Don Giovanni, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Don Ottavio, Leporello, Zerlina, Masetto, Commendatore)

9 February 1962: Cesare Siepi, Leyla Gencer, Sena Jurinac, Richard Lewis, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Robert Savoie, David Ward: Georg Solti: Franco Zeffirelli

18 April 1973: Peter Glossop, Gwyneth Jones, Wendy Fine, Stuart Burrows, Geraint Evans, Teresa Cahill, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell: Colin Davis: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis

6 July 1981: Ruggero Raimondi, Gundula Janowitz, Kiri Te Kanawa, Stuart Burrows, Richard Van Allan, Merja Wirkkala, John Tomlinson, Gwynne Howell: Colin Davis: Peter Wood, William Dudley, David Walker

5 February 1992: Thomas Allen, Carol Vaness, Patricia Schuman, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Claudio Desderi, Marta Marquez, Bryn Terfel, Robert Lloyd: Bernard Haitink: Johannes Schaaf, Peter Pabst

22 February 2002: Bryn Terfel, Adrianne Pieczonka, Melanie Diener, Rainer Trost, Alan Held, Rebecca Evans, Ashley Holland, Robert Lloyd: Colin Davis: Francesca Zambello, Maria Bjørnson

1 February 2014: Mariusz Kwiecień, Malin Byström, Véronique Gens, Antonio Poli, Alex Esp0sito, Elizabeth Watts, Dawid Kimberg, Alexander Tsymbalyuk: Nicola Luisotti: Kasper Holten, Es Devlin, Luke Halls, Anja Vang Kragh

 

DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (Konstanze, Blondchen, Belmonte, Pedrillo, Osmin, Pasha Selim)

9 November 1987: Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Deon van der Walt, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias: Georg Solti: Elijah Moshinsky, Sidney Nolan, Timothy O'Brien

 

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA (Don Anchises, Sandrina, Count Belfiore, Arminda, Ramiro, Serpetta, Nardo)

Kurt Streit, Genia Kühmeier, Robert Murray, Camilla Tilling, Sophie Koch, Patrizia Biccirè, Christopher Maltman: John Eliot Gardiner: Annika Haller, Herbert Murauer

 

IDOMENEO, RÈ DI CRETA (Idomeneo, Idamante, Ilia, Elettra, Arbace)

9 March 1978: Stuart Burrows, Janet Baler, Yvonne Kenny, Magdalena Cononovici, John Lanigan: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Stefanos Lazaridis

27 November 1989: Philip Langridge, Ann Murray, Sylvia McNair, Elizabeth Connell, Robert Tear: Jeffrey Tate: Johannes Schaaf, Hans Schavernoch, Lore Haas

3 November 2014: Matthew Polenzani, Franco Fagioli, Sophie Bevan, Malin Byström, Stanislas de Barbeyrac: Marc Minkowski: Martin Kušej, Annette Murschetz, Heide Kastler

 

MITRIDATE, RÈ DI PONTO (Mitridate, Aspasia, Sifare, Farnace, Ismene)

5 December 1991: Bruce Ford, Yvonne Kenny, Ann Murray, Jochen Kowalski, Lillian Watson: Hartmut Haenchen: Graham Vick, Paul Brown

 

LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Count Almaviva, Countess Almaviva, Figaro, Susanna, Cherubino, Doctor Bartolo, Marcellina)

22 January 1949: Hans Braun, Sylvia Fisher, Geraint Evans, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eugenia Zareska, Howell Glynne, Edith Coates: Karl Rankl: Peter Brook, Rolf Gérard

25 May 1963: Tito Gobbi, Ilva Ligabue, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Teresa Berganza, Michael Langdon, Monica Sinclair: Georg Solti: Oscar Fritz Schuh, Teo Otto, Erni Kniepert

1 December 1971: Victor Braun, Kiri Te Kanawa, Geraint Evans, Reri Grist, Patricia Kern, Noel Mangin, Heather Begg: Colin Davis: John Copley, Stefanos Lazaridis, Michael Stennett

8 October 1987: Thomas Allen, Karita Mattila, Claudio Desderi, Marie McLaughlin, Stella Kleindienst, Dimitri Kavrakos, Sarah Walker: Bernard Haitink: Johannes Schaaf, Xenia Hausner, Peter Pabst

31 January 2006: Gerald Finley, Dorothea Röschmann, Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Rinat Shaham, Jonathan Veira, Graciela Araya: Antonio Pappano, David McVicar, Tanya McCallin

 

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Tamino, Pamina, Die Königin der Nacht, Sarastro, Papageno, Papagena, Monostatos, The Speaker, First Lady, Second Lady, Third Lady)

 

20 March 1947: Kenneth Neate, Victoria Sladen, Audrey Bowman, Oscar Natzka, Graham Clifford, Olive Dyer, Hubert Norville, Bruce Dargavel, Doris Dorée, Elizabeth Abercrombie, Constance Shacklock: Karl Rankl: Malcolm Baker-Smith, Oliver Messel

19 January 1956: Richard Lewis, Elsie Morison, Irene Jordan, Keith Engen, Jess Walters, Adele Leigh, Alexander Young, Inia Te Wiata, Amy Shuard, Una Hale, Noreen Berry: Rafael Kubelik: Christopher West, John Piper

4 January 1962: Richard Lewis, Joan Carlyle, Joan Sutherland, David Kelly, Geraint Evans, Jenifer Eady, Robert Bowman, Hans Hotter, Judith Pierce, Josephine Veasey, Monica Sinclair: Otto Klemperer: Otto Klemperer, Georg Eisler

5 July 1966: John Wakefield, Joan Carlyle, Sylvia Geszty, David Ward, Geraint Evans, Elizabeth Robson, John Dobson, Forbes Robinson, Lorna Haywood, Yvonne Minton, Maureen Guy: Georg Solti: Peter Hall: John Bury

15 February 1979: Robin Leggate, Ileana Cotrubas, Donat Zdzislawa, Robert Lloyd, Thomas Allen, Lillian Watson, Paul Crook, Donald McIntyre, Lorna Haywood, Ann Murray, Elizabeth Bainbridge: Colin Davis: August Everding, Jürgen Rose

15 November 1993: Kurt Streit, Amanda Roocroft, Sumi Jo, Robert Lloyd, Peter Coleman-Wright, Tinuke Olafimihan, Robin Leggate, Gordon Hawkins, Lynda Russell, Leah-Marian Jones, Catherine Wyn-Rogers: Andrew Parrott: Martin Duncan, Ken Lee

25 January 2003: Will Hartmann, Dorothea Röschmann, Diana Damrau, Franz-Joseph Selig, Simon Keenlyside, Ailish Tynan, Adrian Thompson, Thomas Allen, Gillian Webster, Christine Rice, Yvonne Howard: Colin Davis: David McVicar, John F. Macfarlane

 

MUSSORGSKY, Modest

 

BORIS GODUNOV (Boris Godunov, Dimitri (Grigori), Marina Mnishek, Varlaam, Prince Shuisky, Pimen, Rangoni, A Simpleton (The Idiot))

12 May 1948: Paolo Silveri, Edgar Evans, Constance Shacklock, Howell Glynne, Hubert Norville, David Franklin, Tom Williams, Richard Lewis: Karl Rankl: Peter Brook, Georges Wakhevitch (1874 version)

21 October 1950: Ludwig Weber, Edgar Evans, Constance Shacklock, Michael Langdon, Parry Jones, Norman Walker, John Cameron, Dennis Stephenson: Warwick Braithwaite: Peter Brook, Georges Wakhevitch (Rimsky-Korskakov version)

31 October 1958: Boris Christoff, Josip Gostic, Regina Resnik, David Kelly, John Lanigan, Joseph Rouleau, Otakar Kraus, Duncan Robertson: Rafael Kubelik: Herbert Graf, Georges Wakhevitch (1874 version)

31 October 1983: Robert Lloyd, Michel Svetlev, Eva Randová, Aage Haugland, Philip Langridge, Gwynne Howell, John Shirley-Quirk, Patrick Power: Claudio Abbado: Andrei Tarkovsky, Nicolas Dvigoubsky (1874 version)

14 March 2016: Bryn Terfel, David Butt Philip, XX, John Tomlinson, John Graham-Hall, Ain Anger, XX, Andrew Tortise: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Miriam Buether, Nicky Gillibrand (original version)

 

KHOVANSHCHINA (Prince Ivan Khovansky, Prince Galitzin, Dossifej, Marfa (Martha), Prince Andrej Khovansky, The Boyar Shaklovity, Emma)

18 June 1963: David Ward, Charles Craig, Joseph Rouleau, Monica Sinclair, André Turp, Forbes Robinson, Elizabeth Vaughan: Constantin Silvestri: Vlado Habunek, Bozidar Rasica

 

NIELSEN, Carl

 

MASKARADE (Leander, Henrik, Jeronimus, Leonora, Pernille, Magdelone, Leonard, Arv)

19 September 2005: Michael Schade, Kyle Ketelsen, Brindley Sherratt, Emma Bell, Gail Pearson, Kari Hamnøy, Robin Leggate, Adrian Thompson: Michael Schønwandt: David Pountney, Johan Engels, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

OFFENBACH, Jacques

 

LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN: (Hoffmann, Antonia, Olympia, Giulietta, Coppelius, Dapertutto, Dr. Miracle, Lindorf, Nicklausse/Muse)

26 October 1954: Julius Patzak, Elsie Morison, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Eleanor Houston, Hermann Uhde, Hermann Uhde, Hermann Uhde, Hermann Uhde, Barbara Howitt: Edward Downes: Günther Rennert, Georges Wakhevitch

15 December 1980: Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Luciana Serra, Agnes Baltsa, Geraint Evans, Siegmund Nismgern, Nicolai Ghiuselev, Robert Lloyd, Claire Powell: Georges Prêtre: John Schlesinger, William Dudley, Maria Bjørnson

 

PFITZNER, Hans

 

PALESTRINA (Palestrina, Borromeo, Morone, Novagerio, Pope Pius IV, Ighino, Silla, Müglitz)

28 January 1997: Thomas Moser, Alan Held, Thomas Allen, Kim Begley, René Pape, Ruth Ziesak, Randi Stene, Gwynne Howell: Christian Thielemann: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Tobias Hoheisel, Bettina J Walter

 

POULENC, Francis

 

LES DIALOGUES DES CARMÉLITES (Mme. De Croissy, Mme. Lidoine, Mother Marie, Sister Constance, Blanche, Marquis de la Force, The Chevalier)

16 January 1958: Jean Watson, Joan Sutherland, Sylvia Fisher, Jeannette Sinclair, Elsie Morison, Jess Walters, John Lanigan: Rafael Kubelik: Margherita Wallmann, Georges Wakhevitch

 

PROKOFIEV, Sergey

 

THE FIERY ANGEL (Ruprecht, Renata, Agrippa Von Nettelsheim, Mephistopheles, The Mother Superior,

The Inquisitor)

14 April 1992: Sergei Leiferkus, Galina Gorchakova, Ian Caley, Robert Tear, Anne Collins, Paata Burchuladze: Edward Downes: David Freeman, David Roger

 

THE GAMBLER (The General, Pauline, Alexey, Babulenka, The Marquis)

11 February 2010: John Tomlinson, Angela Denoke, Roberto Saccà, Susan Bickley, Kurt Streit: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Antony McDonald, Nicky Gillibrand

 

PUCCINI, Giacomo

 

LA BOHÈME (Rodolfo, Mimi, Marcello, Musetta, Colline, Schaunard)

15 October 1948: Rudolf Schock, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Paolo Silveri, Ljuba Welitsch, David Franklin, Geraint Evans: Karl Rankl: Peter Brook, pre-war designs

6 February 1974: Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Peter Glossop, Wendy Fine, Gwynne Howell, Thomas Allen: Silvio Varviso: John Copley, Julie Trevelyan Oman

11 September 2017: Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Mariusz Kwiecien, Simona Mihai, Luca Tittoto, Florian Sempey: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Stewart Laing

 

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Minnie, Jack Rance, Dick Johnson, Nick, Sonora, Ashby)

24 May 1977: Carol Neblett, Silvano Carroli, Plácido Domingo, Francis Egerton, Jonathan Summers, Robert Lloyd: Zubin Mehta: Piero Faggioni, Kenneth Adam

 

GIANNI SCHICCHI (Gianni Schicci, Rinuccio, Lauretta, Zita, Gherardo, Nella, Simone)

16 June 1962: Geraint Evans, André Turp, Joan Carlyle, Edith Coates, Robert Bowman, Elizabeth Vaughan, Michael Langdon: Georg Solti: Peter Ustinov, Fabrizio Clerici

30 March 2007: Bryn Terfel, Saimir Pirgu, Dina Kuznetsova, Elena Zilio, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Joan Rodgers, Gwynne Howell: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, John F Macfarlane, Nicky Gillibrand

 

MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Cio-Cio-San, Lt. Pinkerton, Suzuki, Sharpless, Goro)

17 January 1950: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kenneth Neate, Monica Sinclair, Tom Williams, David Tree: Warwick Braithwaite, Robert Helpmann, Sophie Fedorovitch

31 October 1988: Catherine Malfitano, Arthur Davies, Miao Qing, Jonathan Summers, John Dobson: Michael Schønwandt: Nuria Espert, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino

18 March 2003: Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Marco Berti, Enkelejda Shkosa, Lucio Gallo, Peter Hoare: Antonio Pappano: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

MANON LESCAUT (Manon Lescaut, Lescaut, Chevalier des Grieux, Geronte di Ravoir)

27 November 1968: Marie Collier, Robert Massard, Robert Ilosfalvy, Forbes Robinson: Istvan Kertesz: Ande Anderson, Tom Lingwood

3 May 1983: Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Plácido Domingo, Forbes Robinson: Giuseppe Sinopoli: Götz Friedrich, Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Aliute Meczies

17 June 2014: Kristine Opolais, Christopher Maltman, Jonas Kaufmann, Maurizio Muraro: Antonio Pappano: Jonathan Kent, Paul Brown

 

LA RONDINE (Magda, Ruggero, Lisette, Prunier, Rambaldo)

7 May 2002: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Cinzia Forte, Charles Workman, Darren Jeffrey: Gianluigi Gelmetti: Nicolas Joël, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino

 

SUOR ANGELICA (Suor Angelica, The Princess)

12 April 1965: Joan Carlyle, Sylvia Fisher: John Pritchard: John Copley, Henry Bardon, David Walker

12 September 2011: Ermonela Jaho, Anna Larsson: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Miriam Buether, Nicky Gillibrand

 

IL TABARRO (Michele, Luigi, Giorgetta, Talpa, Frugola)

12 April 1965: Tito Gobbi, Chaderrles Craig, Marie Collier, Eric Garrett, Elizabeth Bainbridge: John Pritchard: Ande Anderson, Michael Annals

12 September 2011: Lucio Gallo, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jeremy White, Irina Mishura: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Ultz, Nicky Gillibrand

 

TOSCA: (Tosca, Cavaradossi, Scarpia)

18 November 1950: Hilde Zadek, Walter Midgley, Marko Rothmüller: Warwick Braithwaite: Christopher West, pre-war designs

21 January 1964: Maria Callas, Renato Cioni, Tito Gobbi: Carlo Felice Cillario: Franco Zeffirelli, Renzo Mongiardino, Marcel Escoffier

13 June 2006: Angela Gheorghiu, Marcelo Álvarez, Bryn Terfel: Antonio Pappano: Jonathan Kent, Paul Brown

 

TURANDOT: (Princess Turandot, Calaf, Liu, Timur, Ping, Pang, Pong)

29 May 1947: Eva Turner, Walter Midgley, Vera Terry, Oscar Natzka, Grahame Clifford, Edgar Evans, Hubert Norville: Constant Lambert: Michael Benthall, Leslie Hurry

28 February 1963: Amy Shuard, Bruno Prevedi, Raina Kabaivanska, Joseph Roouleau, Peter Glossop, Kenneth MacDonald, John Lanigan: Edward Downes: Sandro Sequi, Cecil Beaton

9 July 1984: Gwyneth Jones, Plácido Domingo, Yoko Watanabe, Robert Lloyd, William Workman, Kim Begley, Laurence Dale: Colin Davis: Andrei Serban, Sally Jacobs (first performed at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles)

 

PURCELL, Henry

 

DIDO AND AENEAS (Dido, Belinda, Sorceress, Aeneas)

31 March 2009: Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Sara Fulgoni, Lucas Meacham: Christopher Hogwood: Wayne McGregor, Hildegard Bechtler

 

KING ARTHUR (Cold Genius/Aeolus/Comus, Venus, Tenor, She, Honour, He)

3 May 1995: Petteri Salomaa, Véronique Gens, Mark Padmore, Sandrine Piau, Claron McFadden, Jonathan Best: William Christie: Graham Vick, Paul Brown

 

RAVEL, Maurice

 

L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILÈGES (The Child, The Princess, The Mother, The Little Old Man (Arithmetic), The Teapot, The Comtoise (Grandfather) Clock, The Armchair, The White Cat)

19 September 1983: Ann Murray, Joan Rodgers, Anne Collins, Francis Egerton, Philip Langridge, David Wilson-Johnson, Joseph Rouleau, Della Jones: David Atherton: John Dexter, David Hockney

 

L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE (Concepcion,

Ramiro, Gonzalve, Don Inigo Gomez)

16 June 1962: Mary Costa, John Shaw, Alexander Young, Robert Savoie: Georg Solti: Peter Ustinov, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

30 March 2007: Christine Rice, Christopher Maltman, Yann Beuron, Andrew Shore: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, John F Macfarlane, Nicky Gillibrand

 

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai

 

THE GOLDEN COCKEREL: (King Dodon, The Queen of Shemakha, General Polkan, Amelfa, The Astrologer)

7 January 1954: Howell Glynne, Mattiwilda Dobbs, Frederick Dalberg, Barbara Howitt, Hugues Cuenod: Igor Markevitch: Robert Helpmann, Loudon Sainthill

 

THE TSAR’S BRIDE (Gregor Gregorjevitsch Grjasnoy, Ljubasha, Marfa, Sobakin, Lykov, Domna Ivanova Saburova, Jelissei Bomelius)

14 April 2011: Johan Reuter, Ekaterina Gubanova, Marina Poplavskaya, Paata Burchuladze, Dmytro Popov, Elizabeth Woollett, Vasily Gorshkov: Mark Elder, Paul Curran, Kevin Knight

 

RODNEY BENNETT, Richard

 

VICTORY (Heyst, Lena)

13 April 1970: Donald McIntyre, Anne Howells: Edward Downes: Colin Graham, Alix Stone

 

ROSSINI, Gioachino

 

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: (Rosina, Count Almaviva, Figaro, Doctor Bartolo, Don Basilio)

16 May 1960: Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Rolando Panerai, Fernando Corena, Ivo Vinco: Carlo Maria Giulini: Maurizio Sarrazin, Jean-Denis Malclès

22 March 1985: Alicia Nafé, Deon van der Walt, Thomas Allen, Enzo Dara, Samuel Ramey: Gabriele Ferro: Michael Hampe, Peter Davison, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino

19 December 2005: Joyce DiDonato, Toby Spence, George Petean, Bruno Praticò, Raymond Aceto: Mark Elder: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

LA CENERENTOLA (Angelina, Don Ramiro, Dandini, Don Magnifico, Clorinda, Tisbe, Alidoro)

24 April 1990: Agnes Baltsa, Deon van der Walt, François Le Roux, Claudio Desderi, Daniela Lojarro, Eirian James, Donald Maxwell: Carlo Rizzi: Andreas Homoki, Mauro Pagano

16 December 2000: Sonia Ganassi, Juan Diego Flórez, Marcin Bronikowski, Simone Alaimo, Nicole Tibbels, Lean-Marian Jones, Michele Pertusi: Mark Elder: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

LA DONNA DEL LAGO (Elena, Uberto, Malcolm Graeme, Douglas D'Angus, Roderigo di Dhu)

27 June 1985: Frederica von Stade, Chris Merritt, Marilyn Horne, Dimitri Kavrakos, David Rendall: Lawrence Foster: Frank Corsaro, Ming Cho Lee, Jane Greenwood

17 May 2013: Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Daniela Barcellona, Simon Orfila, Colin Lee: Michele Mariotti: John Fulljames, Dick Bird, Yannis Thavoris

GUILLAUME TELL (Guillaume Tell, Mathilde, Arnold, Hedwige, Jemmy, Rudolph)

29 June 1990: Gregory Yurisich, Lella Cuberli, Chris Merritt, Ewa Podles, Linda Kitchen, Ian Caley: Michel Plasson: John Cox, Robin Wagner, Liz da Costa

29 June 2015: Gerald Finley, Malin Byström, John Osborn, Enkelejda Shkosa, Sofia Fomina, Michael Colvin: Antonio Pappano: Damiano Michieletto, Paolo Fantin, Carla Teti

 

L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI (Isabella, Lindoro, Mustafà, Taddeo, Elvira)

2 January 1988: Agnes Baltsa, Deon van der Walt, Paolo Montarsolo, Alessandro Corbelli, Judith Howarth: Gabriele Ferro: Sonja Frisell, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

 

MATILDE DI SHABRAN (Matilde, Corradino, Ginardo, Edoardo, Contessa d’Arco, Isidoro)

23 October 2008: Aleksandra Kurzak, Juan Diego Flórez, Carlo Lepore, Vesselina Kasarova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Alfonso Antoniozzi: Carlo Rizzi: Mario Martone, Sergio Tramonti, Ursula Patzak

 

MOSÈ IN EGITTO (Elcia, Osiride, Faraone, Mosè, Amaltea, Aronne)

23 May 1994: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Bruce Ford, Simone Alaimo, Ruggero Raimondi, Ann Murray, Justin Lavender: Paolo Olmi: Hugo de Ana

 

OTELLO (Otello, Desdemona, Iago, Roderigo, Emilia)

31 January 2000: Bruce Ford, Mariella Devia, Octavio Arévalo, Juan Diego Flórez, Leah-Marian Jones: Gianluigi Gelmetti: Pier Luigi Pizzi

 

SEMIRAMIDE (Semiramide, Arsace, Assur, Idreno, Oroe)

19 November 2017: Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Michele Pertusi (Act 1)/ Mirco Palazzi, Lawrence Brownlee, Bálint Szabó

 

IL TURCO IN ITALIA (Fiorilla, Geronio, Narciso, Selim, Prosdocimo, Zaida)

28 May 2005: Cecilia Bartoli, Alessandro Corbelli, Barry Banks, lldebrando D'Arcangelo, Thomas Allen, Heather Shipp: Adam Fischer: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

IL VIAGGIO A REIMS (Corinna, Contessa di Folleville, Madama Cortese, Marchesa Melibea, Cavalier Belfiore, Conte di Libenskof, Barone di Trombonok, Lord Sidney, Don Profondo, Maddalena, Don Alvaro, Don Prudenzio)

4 July 1992: Sylvia McNair, Renée Fleming, Montserrat Caballé, Della Jones, John Aler, Bonaventura Bottone, Andrew Shore, Alastair Miles, Gregory Yurisch, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Peter Coleman-Wright, Jeremy White: Carlo Rizzi: John Cox, Mark Thompson

 

SAINT-SAËNS, Camille

 

SAMSON ET DALILA (Samson, Dalila, High Priest of Dagon, Abimelech)

28 September 1981: Jon Vickers, Shirley Verrett, Jonathan Summers, John Tomlinson: Colin Davis: Elijah Moshinsky, Sidney Nolan

26 May 2022: Seokjong Baek, Elīna Garanča, Łukasz Goliński, Blaise Malaba: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Hyemi Shin, Nicky Gillibrand

 

SALLINEN, Aulis

 

THE KING GOES FORTH TO FRANCE (King, Prime Minister, The Nice Caroline, Caroline with the Thick Mane, The Anne who Steals, The Anne who Strips, Guide, English Archer, Froissart)

1 April 1987: Mikael Melbye, Stafford Dean, Eileen Hannan, Sarah Walker, Valerie Masterson, Jane Turner, Kim Begley, Donald Maxwell, Ian McDiarmid: Okko Kamu: Nicholas Hytner, Bob Crowley

 

SCHOENBERG, Arnold

 

ERWARTUNG (The Woman)

16 June 1962: Amy Shuard: Georg Solti: Peter Ustinov, Günther Schneider-Siemssen

27 February 2002: Inga Nielsen: Lothar Zagrosek: Willy Decker, John F Macfarlane

 

MOSES UND ARON (Moses, Aron)

28 June 1965: Forbes Robinson, Richard Lewis: Georg Solti: Peter Hall, John Bury

 

SEARLE, Humphrey

 

HAMLET (Hamlet, Ophelia, Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, Polonius)

18 April 1969:  Victor Braun, Anne Howells, Ronald Dowd, Patricia Johnson, David Hughes, David Kelly: Edward Downes: Donald McWhinnie, Leslie Hurry

 

SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitry

 

KATERINA ISMAILOVA (Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov, Katerina Lvovna Ismailova, Sergey, Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov, A Shabby Peasant, Chief of Police, Sonyetka)

2 December 1965: Otakar Kraus, Marie Collier, Charles Craig, Edgar Evans, John Lanigan, Robert Savoie, Janet Coster: Edward Downes: Vlado Habunek, Bozidar Rasica

 

LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK DISTRICT (Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov, Katerina Lvovna Ismailova, Sergey, Zinovy Borisovich Ismailov, A Shabby Peasant, Chief of Police, Sonyetka)

1 April 2004: John Tomlinson, Katarina Dalayman, Christopher Ventris, Stefan Margita, Peter Bronder, Roderick Earle, Christine Rice: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, John F Macfarlane, Nicky Gillibrand

 

THE NOSE (Platon Kuzmich Kovalyev, Ivan Yakovlevich, Captain of Police, Ivan, The Nose)

20 October 2016: Martin Winkler, John Tomlinson, Alexander Kravets, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Ilan Galkoff: Ingo Metzmacher: Barrie Kosky, Klaus Grünberg, Buki Shiff

 

SMETANA, Bedřich

 

THE BARTERED BRIDE (Marie (Marenka), Hans (Jenik), Kecal (Ketsal), Vasek (Vashek), Ludmila, Krusina)

4 May 1955: Elsie Morison, John Lanigan, Frederick Dalberg, Peter Pears, Noreen Berry, Jess Walters: Rafael Kubelik: Christopher West, Jan Brazda

7 November 2001: Susan Gritton, Paul Charles Clarke, Jeremy White, Timothy Robinson, Yvonne Howard, Alan Opie: Charles Mackerras: Francesca Zambello, Alison Chitty

 

STEFFANI, Agostino

 

NIOBE REGINA DI TEBE (Niobe, Anfione, Nerea, Creonte, Clearte, Tiberino, Manto, Tiresi, Poliferno)

23 September 2010: Véronique Gens, Jacek Laszczkowski, Delphine Galou, Iestyn Davies. Tim Mead, Lothar Odinius, Amanda Forsythe, Bruno Taddia, Alastair Miles: Thomas Hengelbrock: Lukas Hemle. Raimund Bauer, Andrea Schmidt-Futterer

 

STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz

 

DONNERSTAG AUS LICHT (Michael, Eve, Lucifer)

16 September 1985: Julian Pike, Annette Meriweather, Nicholas Isherwood: Peter Eötvös: Michael Bogdanov, Maria Bjørnson

 

STRAUSS, Johann II

 

DIE FLEDERMAUS (Eisenstein, Rosalinde, Adele, Prince Orlofsky, Alfred, Dr. Falke, Frosch, Frank)

31 December 1977: Hermann Prey, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hildegard Heichele, Robert Tear, Ryszard Karczykowski, Benjamin Luxon, Josef Meinrad, Michael Langdon: Zubin Mehta: Leopold Lindtberg, Julia Trevelyan Oman

 

STRAUSS, Richard

 

ARABELLA (Arabella, Zdenka, Matteo, Mandryka, The Fiakermilli, Graf Waldner)

29 January 1965: Lisa Della Casa, Joan Carlyle, Alexander Young, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jenifer Eddy, Michael Langdon: Georg Solti: Rudolf Hartmann, Peter Rice

21 May 2004: Karita Mattila, Barbara Bonney, Raymond Very, Thomas Hampson, Diana Damrau, Artur Korn: Christoph von Dohnányi: Peter Mussbach, Erich Wonder, Andrea Schmidt-Futterer

 

ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Ariadne/Prima Donna, Baccus/Tenor, Zerbinetta, Composer, Music Teacher, Scaramuccio, Harlekin, Brighella, Truffaldin)

6 December 1976: Heather Harper, Peter Lindroos, Ruth Welting, Yvonne Minton, Geraint Evans, Paul Crook, Thomas Allen, Francis Egerton, Paul Crook: Edo de Waart: John Copley, Philip Prowse

17 June 1985: Jessye Norman, James King, Kathleen Battle, Ann Murray, Norman Bailey, Kim Begley, Olaf Baer, Wilfried Gahmlich, Eric Garrett: Jeffrey Tate: Jean-Louis Martinoty, Hans Schavernoch, Lore Haas

6 September 2002: Petra Lang, Robert Brubaker, Marlis Petersen, Sophie Koch, Thomas Allen, Timothy Robinson, Nathan Gunn, Jeremy White: Antonio Pappano: Christof Loy, Herbert Murauer

 

CAPRICCIO (The Countess, The Count, Clairon, Flamand, Oliver, La Roche, Italian Soprano, Italian Tenor)

7 January 1991: Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anne Howells, William Shimell, Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig, Lillian Watson, Bonaventura Bottone: Jeffrey Tate: John Cox, Mauro Pagano, Gianni Versace

 

ELEKTRA (Klytemnestra, Elektra, Chrysothemis, Orest, Aegisth)

13 May 1953: Edith Coates, Erna Schlüter, Annelies Kupper, Hans Braun, Edgar Evans: Erich Kleiber: Rudolf Hartmann, Isabel Lambert

3 March 1990: Marjana Lipovšek, Eva Marton, Nadine Secunde, Robert Hale, Robert Tear: Georg Solti: Götz Friedrich, Hans Schavernoch, Lore Haas

31 March 2003: Felicity Palmer. Lisa Gasteen, Anne Schwanewilms, John Tomlinson, Siegfried Jerusalem: Semyon Bychkov: Charles Edwards, Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN (The Emperor, The Empress, The Nurse, Barak, Barak's Wife, A Spirit Messenger)

14 June 1967: James King, Hildegard Hillebrecht, Regina Resnik, Donald McIntyre, Inge Borkh, Forbes Robinson: Georg Solti: Rudolf Hartmann, Josef Svoboda, Carl Toms

16 November 1992: Paul Frey, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Jane Henschel, Franz Grundheber, Gwyneth Jones, Robert Hayward: Bernard Haitink: John Cox, David Hockney, Ian Falconer

14 March 2014: Johan Botha, Emily Magee, Michaela Schuster, Johan Reuter, Elena Pankratova, Ashley Holland: Semyon Bychkov: Claus Guth, Christian Schmidt

 

DER ROSENKAVALIER (Marschallin, Baron Ochs, Octavian, Sophie, Herr von Faninal, Italian Singer, Marianne, Valzacchi, Annina)

22 April 1947: Doris Dorée, David Franklin, Victoria Sladen, Virginia MacWatters, Grahame Clifford, Kenneth Neate, Muriel Burnett, Hubert Norville, Constance Shacklock: Karl Rankl: Joan Cross, Robin Ironside

21 April 1966: Sena Jurinac, Michael Langdon, Josephine Veasey, Joan Carlyle, Ronald Lewis, Kenneth MacDonald, Margaret Kingsley, John Dobson, Yvonne Minton: Georg Solti: Luchino Visconti, Ferdinando Scarfiotti

4 December 1984: Kiri Te Kanawa, Aage Haugland, Agnes Baltsa, Barbara Bonney, Jonathan Summers, Yordi Ramiro, Phyllis Cannan, Robert Tear, Cynthia Buchan: Georg Solti: John Schlesinger, William Dudley, Maria Bjørnson

17 December 2016: Renée Fleming, Matthew Rose, Alice Coote, Sophie Bevan, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Giorgio Berrugi, Miranda Keys, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Helene Schneiderman: Andris Nelsons: Robert Carsen, Paul Steinberg, Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

SALOME: (Salome, Herod Antipas, Jokanaan, Herodias, Narraboth)

11 November 1949: Ljuba Welitsch, Franz Lechleitner, Kenneth Schon, Constance Shacklock, Edgar Evans: Karl Rankl: Peter Brook, Salvador Dali

25 January 1951: Christel Goltz, Arthur Carron, Marko Rothmüller, Constance Shacklock, Edgar Evans: Karl Rankl: Christopher West, Clement Glock

12 June 1970: Grace Bumbry, Ragnar Ulfung, Norman Bailey, Josephine Veasey, Ermanno Mauro: Georg Solti: August Everding, Andrzej Majewski

8 April 1988: Maria Ewing, Robert Tear, Robert Hale, Helga Dernesch, Robin Leggate: Christoph von Dohnányi: Peter Hall, John Bury

11 March 1995: Catherine Malfitano, Kenneth Riegel, Bryn Terfel, Anja Silja, Robin Leggate: Christoph von Dohnányi: Luc Bondy, Erich Wonder, Susanne Raschig

21 February 2008: Nadja Michael, Robin Leggate, Michael Volle, Michaela Schuster, Joseph Kaiser: Philippe Jordan: David McVicar, Es Devlin

 

DIE SCHWEIGSAME FRAU (Sir Morosus, The Barber, Henry Morosus, Aminta, Housekeeper, Isotta, Carlotta)

20 November 1961: David Ward, Joseph Ward, Kenneth MacDonald, Barbara Holt, Monica Sinclair, Elizabeth Vaughan, Noreen Berry

 

STRAVINSKY, Igor

 

THE RAKE’S PROGRESS (Tom Rakewell,

Ann Trulove, Nick Shadow, Baba the Turk, Trulove, Mother Goose)

18 June 1979: Robert Tear, Helen Donath, Donald Gramm, Patricia Johnson, Robert Lloyd, Patricia Payne: Colin Davis: Elijah Moshinsky, Timothy O'Brien, Tazeena Firth, Timothy O'Brien

7 July 2008: Charles Castronovo, Sally Matthews, John Relyea, Patricia Bardon, Darren Jeffrey, Kathleen Wilkinson: Thomas Adès: Robert Lepage, Carl Fillion, François Barbeau

 

LE ROSSIGNOL (The Fisherman, The Nightingale, The Cook, The Chamberlain, The Bonze, The Emperor of China, Death)

19 September 1983: Philip Langridge, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Anne Howells, Richard Van Allan, Joseph Rouleau, David Wilson-Johnson, Alfreda Hodgson: David Atherton: John Dexter, David Hockney

 

SZYMANOWSKI, Karol

 

KRÓL ROGER (Roxana, Shepherd, Roger II)

1 May 2015: Georgia Jarman, Saimir Pirgu, Mariusz Kwiecien: Antonio Pappano: Kasper Holten, Steffen Aarfing

 

TAVENER, John

 

THÉRÈSE (Thérèse, Rimbaud, Christ/Father, Pranzini)

1 October 1979: Vivien Townley, Robert Tear, Keith Lewis, Joseph Rouleau: Edward Downes: David Williams, Alan Barlow

 

TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Ilyich

 

CHEREVICHKI (THE TSARINA’S SLIPPERS) (Vakula, Oxana, Devil, Solokha, His Excellency, Chub, Pan Golova)

20 November 2009: Vsevolod Grivnov, Olga Guryakova, Maxim Mikhailov, Larissa Diadkova, Sergei Leiferkus, Vladimir Matorin, Alexander Vassiliev: Alexander Polianichko: Francesca Zambello, Mikhail Mokrov, Tatiana Noginova

 

EUGENE ONEGIN (Tatiana, Eugene Onegin, Lenski, Olga, Prince Gremin)

10 February 1971: Ileana Cotrubas, Victor Braun, Robert Tear, Yvonne Minton, Don Garrard: Georg Solti: Peter Hall, Julia Trevelyan Oman

13 July 1993: Galina Gorchakova, Sergei Leiferkus, Gegam Grigorian, Louise Winter, Nicolai Ghiaurov: Valery Gergiev: John Cox, Timothy O’Brien

16 March 2006: Amanda Roocroft, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rolando Villazón, Nino Surguladze, Eric Halfvarson: Philippe Jordan: Steven Pimlott, Antony McDonald

4 February 2013: Krassimira Stoyanova, Simon Keenlyside, Pavol Breslik, Elena Maximowa, Peter Rose: Robin Ticciati: Kasper Holten, Mia Stensgaard, Katrina Lindsay

 

THE QUEEN OF SPADES: (The Countess, Lisa, Herman, Pauline, Count Tomsky, Prince Yeletsky)

21 December 1950: Edith Coates, Hilde Zadek, Edgar Evans, Monica Sinclair, Marko Rothmüller, Jess Walters: Erich Kleiber: Michael Benthall, Oliver Messel

12 May 2001: Josephine Barstow, Karita Mattila, Vladimir Galouzine, Viktoria Vizin, Nikolai Putilin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Bernard Haitink: Francesca Zambello, Peter J. Davison, Nicky Gillibrand

13 January 2019: Felicity Palmer, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anna Goryachova, John Lundgren, Vladimir Stoyanov: Antonio Pappano: Stefan Herheim, Philipp Fürhofer

 

THOMAS, Ambroise

 

HAMLET (Hamlet, Claudius, Ophélie, Gertrude, Laërte)

12 May 2003: Simon Keenlyside, Robert Lloyd, Natalie Dessay, Yvonne Naef, Yann Beuron: Louis Langrée: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier, Christian Fenouillat, Agostino Cavalca

 

TIPPETT, Michael

 

THE ICE BREAK (Nadia, Lev / Reader, Hannah, Yuri, Olympion)

7 July 1977: Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, Beverly Vaughn, Tom McDonnell, Clyde Walker: Colin Davis: Sam Wanamaker, Ralph Koltai

 

KING PRIAM (Priam, Paris, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, Hermes, Achilles, Hector, Old Man)

5 June 1962: Forbes Robinson, John Dobson, Marie Collier, Josephine Veasey, Margreta Elkins, John Lanigan, Richard Lewis, Victor Godfrey, David Kelly: John Pritchard: Sam Wanamaker, Sean Kenny

 

THE KNOT GARDEN (Denise, Thea, Dov, Mangus, Flora, Faber, Mel)

2 December 1970: Josephine Barstow, Yvonne Minton, Robert Tear, Thomas Hemsley, Jill Gomez, Raimund Herincx, Thomas Carey: Colin Davis: Peter Hall, Timothy O'Brien, Tazeena Firth

29 April 1988: Anna Steiger, Anne Howells, Christopher Gillett, Alan Opie, Linda Kitchen, Rodney Macann, Arthur Thompson: Sian Edwards: Nicholas Hytner, Bob Crowley

 

THE MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE (Mark, Jennifer, King Fisher, Bella, Jack, Sosostris)

27 January 1955: Richard Lewis, Joan Sutherland, Otakar Kraus, Adele Leigh, John Lanigan, Oralia Dominguez: John Pritchard: Christopher West, Barbara Hepworth

10 April 1968: Alberto Remedios, Joan Carlyle, Raimund Herincx, Elizabeth Harwood, Stuart Burrows, Helen Watts: Colin Davis: Ande Anderson, Tony Walton

16 January 1996: Stephen O’Mara, Cheryl Barker, John Tomlinson, Lillian Watson, Christopher Ventris, Catherine Wyn-Rogers: Bernard Haitink: Graham Vick, Paul Brown

 

TURNAGE, Mark-Anthony

 

ANNA NICOLE (Anna Nicole, Virgie, Stern, J. Howard Marshall II, Cousin Shelley, Aunt Kay, Doctor Yes, Billy, Daddy Hogan)

17 February 2011: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Susan Bickley, Gerald Finley, Alan Oke, Loré Lixenberg, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Andrew Rees, Grant Doyle, Jeremy White: Antonio Pappano: Richard Jones, Miriam Buether, Nicky Gillibrand

 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph

 

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS (Pilgrim, Bunyan, Evangelist)

26 April 1951: Arnold Matters, Inia Te Wiata, Norman Walker: Leonard Hancock: Nevill Coghill, Hal Burton

 

VERDI, Giuseppe

 

AIDA (Aida, Radamès, Amneris, Amonasro, Ramfis)

29 September 1948: Ljuba Welitsch, Torsten Ralf, Edith Coates, Paolo Silveri, David Franklin: Karl Rankl: Michael Benthall, Audrey Cruddas

28 October 1957: Amy Shuard, Albert da Costa, Fedora Barbieri, Jess Walters, David Kelly: Rafael Kubelik: Margherita Wallmann, Salvatore Fiume

24 January 1968: Gwyneth Jones, Jon Vickers, Grace Bumbry, John Shaw, Joseph Rouleau: Edward Downes: Peter Potter, Nicholas Georgiadis

2 June 1984: Katia Ricciarelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Stefania Toczyska, Ingvar Wixell, Paata Burchuladze: Zubin Mehta: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Pet Halmen

16 June 1994: Cheryl Studer, Dennis O'Neill, Luciana d' Intino, Alexandru Agache, Robert Lloyd: Edward Downes: Elijah Moshinsky, Michael Yeargan

6 November 2003: Norma Fantini, Johan Botha, Ildiko Komlosi, Mark S. Doss, Carlo Colombara: Antonio Pappano: Robert Wilson

27 April 2010: Micaela Carosi, Marcelo Alvarez, Marianne Cornetti, Marco Vratogna, Giacomo Prestia: Nicola Luisotti: David McVicar, Jean-Marc Puissant, Moritz Junge

25 September 2022: Elena Stikhina, Francesco Meli, Agnieszka Rehlis, Ludovic Tézier, Soloman Howard: Antonio Pappano: Robert Carsen, Miriam Buether, Annemarie Woods

 

ATTILA (Odabella, Foresto, Ezio, Attila)

13 October 1990: Josephine Barstow, Dennis O’Neill, Giorgio Zancanaro, Ruggero Raimondi: Edward Downes: Elijah Moshinsky, Michael Yeargan

 

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Amelia, Oscar, Gustav III, (Riccardo), Ct. Johan Ankerstrom, (Renato), Ulrica, Ct. Ribbing (Tom), Ct. Horn (Samuel))

23 October 1952: Helene Werth, Adele Leigh, Edgar Evans, Jess Walters, Jean Watson, Frederick Dalberg, Michael Langdon: John Pritchard: Günther Rennert, Alan Barlow, Alix Stone

30 January 1975: Katia Ricciarelli, Reri Grist, Plácido Domingo, Piero Cappuccilli, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gwynne Howell, Paul Hudson: Claudio Abbado: Otto Schenk, Jürgen Rose

12 April 2005: Karita Mattila, Camilla Tilling, Marcelo Álvarez, Thomas Hampson, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Giovan Battista Parodi, Matthew Rose: Antonio Pappano: Mario Martone, Sergio Tramonti, Bruno Schwengl

18 December 2014: Liudmyla Monastyrska, Serena Gamberoni, Joseph Calleja, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Marianne Cornetti, Anatoli Sivko, Jihoon Kim: Daniel Oren: Katharina Thoma, Soutra Gilmour, Irina Bartels

 

DON CARLO (Don Carlos, Elizabeth de Valois, Rodrigo, Princess Eboli, Philip II, The Grand Inquisitor)

9 May 1958: Jon Vickers, Gré Brouwenstijn, Tito Gobbi, Fedora Barbieri, Boris Christoff, Marco Stefanoni: Carlo Maria Giulini: Luchino Visconti

11 June 1996: Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson, Martine Dupuy, José van Dam, Kurt Rydl: Bernard Haitink: Luc Bondy, Gilles Aillaud, Moidele Bickel

6 June 2008: Rolando Villazón, Marina Poplavskaya, Simon Keenlyside, Sonia Ganassi, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Eric Halfvarson: Antonio Pappano: Nicholas Hytner, Bob Crowley

 

I DUE FOSCARI (Lucrezia Contarini, Jacopo Foscari, Francesco Foscari, Jacopo Loredano)

24 June 1995: June Anderson, Dennis O’Neill, Vladimir Chernov, Miguel Angel Zapater: Daniele Gatti: August Everding, Michael Goden

14 October 2014: Maria Agresta, Francesco Meli, Plácido Domingo, Maurizio Muraro: Antonio Pappano: Thaddeus Strassberger, Kevin Knight, Mattie Ullrich

 

FALSTAFF (Sir John Falstaff, Alice Ford, Ford, Nannetta, Fenton, Dame Quickly, Meg Page)

10 May 1961: Geraint Evans, Mariella Angioletti, John Shaw, Mirella Freni, Luigi Alva, Regina Resnik, Josephine Veasey: Carlo Maria Giulini: Franco Zeffirelli

30 June 1982: Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, Barbara Hendricks, Dalmacio Gonzalez, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Brenda Boozer: Carlo Maria Giulini

6 December 1999: Bryn Terfel, Barbara Frittoli, Roberto Frontali, Desirée Rancatore, Kenneth Tarver, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Diana Montague: Bernard Haitink: Graham Vick, Paul Brown

15 May 2012: Ambrogio Maestri, Ana Maria Martinez, Dalibor Jenis, Amanda Forsythe, Joel Prieto, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kai Rüütel: Daniele Gatti: Robert Carsen, Paul Steinberg, Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO (Donna Leonora di Vargas, Don Alvaro, Don Carlo di Vargas, Padre Guardiano, Preziosilla, Fra Melitone)

28 September 1962: Floriana Cavalli, Carlo Bergonzi, John Shaw, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Josephine Veasey, Renato Capecchi: Georg Solti: Sam Wanamaker, Dinah Greet

16 October 2004: Violeta Urmana, Salvatore Licitra, Ambrogio Maestri, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Roberto de Candia: Antonio Pappano: Patrizia Frini

21 March 2019: Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Veronica Simeoni, Alessandro Corbelli: Antonio Pappano: Christof Loy, Christian Schmidt

 

GIOVANNA D'ARCO (Giovanna, King Carlo VII, Giacomo)

24 June 1996: June Anderson, Dennis O’Neill, Vladimir Chernov: Daniele Gatti: Philip Prowse

 

I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA (Arvino, Pagano, Giselda, Oronte, Viclinda, Pirro, Sofia)

25 May 1976: Ezio di Cesare, Nicola Ghiuselev, Sylvia Sass, José Carreras, Elizabeth Connell, Michael Langdon, Heather Begg: Lamberto Gardelli: András Mikó, Gábor Forray, Peter Makai

 

LUISA MILLER (Luisa, Rfiodolfo, Miller, Count Walter, Wurm, Frederica)

19 June 1978: Katia Ricciarelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Robert Lloyd, Richard Van Allan, Elizabeth Connell: Lorin Maazel: Filippo Sanjust

22 April 2003: Barbara Frittoli, Marcelo Álvarez, Carlo Guelfi, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Phillip Ens, Sara Fulgoni: Maurizio Benini: Olivier Tambosi, Roland Aeschlimann

 

MACBETH: (Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Banquo, Macduff)

31 March 1960: Tito Gobbi, Amy Shuard, Joseph Rouleau, André Turp: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli: Michael Benthall, Georges Wakhevitch

27 March 1981: Renato Bruson, Renata Scotto, Robert Lloyd, Neil Shicoff: Riccardo Muti: Elijah Moshinsky, John Napier

13 June 2002: Anthony Michaels-Moore, Maria Guleghina, Alastair Miles, Will Hartmann: Simone Young: Phyllida Lloyd, Anthony Ward

 

I MASNADIERI (Amalia, Carlo, Francesco, Massimiliano)

30 September 2002: Paula Delligatti, Franco Farina, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, René Pape: Edward Downes: Elijah Moshinsky, Paul Brown

 

NABUCCO (Nabucco, Abigaille, Zaccaria, Ismaele, Fenena)

23 March 1972: Peter Glossop, Elena Suliotis, David Ward, Ermanno Mauro, Maria Pellegrini: Colin Davis: Václav Kašlík, Josef Svoboda, Jan Skalický

9 April 1996: Alexandru Agache, Nina Rautio, Samuel Ramey, Dennis O’Neill, Lean-Marian Jones: Vladimir Jurowski: Tim Albery, Antony McDonald

30 March 2013: Leo Nucci, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Vitalij Kowaljow, Andrea Carè, Marianna Pizzolato: Nicola Luisotti: Daniele Abbado, Alison Chitty

 

OTELLO (Otello, Desdemona, Iago, Cassio, Emilia, Lodovico)

17 October 1955: Ramon Vinay, Gré Brouwenstijn, Otakar Kraus, John Lanigan, Noreen Berry, Marian Nowakowski: Rafael Kubelik: Peter Potter, Georges Wakhevitch

13 January 1987: Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Diaz, Kim Begley, Anne Mason, Gwynne Howell: Carlos Kleiber: Elijah Moshinsky, Timothy O'Brien, Peter J Hall

21 June 2017: Jonas Kaufmann, Maria Agresta, Marco Vratogna, Frédéric Antoun, Kai Rüütel, In Sung Sim: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Boris Kudlička, Kaspar Glarner

 

RIGOLETTO (Rigoletto, Gilda, Duke of Mantua, Maddalena, Sparafucile, Monterone)

29 August 1947: Paolo Silveri, Leni Lynn, Kenneth Neate, Edith Coates, David Franklin, George Hancock: Karl Rankl: Julius Gellner, James Bailey (first performed at Theatre Royal, Glasgow)

7 February 1964: Geraint Evans, Anna Moffo, Carlo Cossutta, Maureen Guy, Joseph Rouleau, David Ward: Georg Solti: Franco Zeffirelli, Lila de Nobili

8 December 1988: Brent Ellis, June Anderson, Neil Shicoff, Claire Powell, John Tomlinson, Donald McIntyre: Michael Boder: Nuria Espert, Ezio Frigerio, Franca Squarciapino

19 September 2001: Paolo Gavanelli, Christine Schäfer, Marcelo Alvarez, Graciela Araya, Eric Halfvarson, Giovan Battista Parodi: Edward Downes: David McVicar, Michael Vale, Tanya McCallin

13 September 2021: Carlos Álvarez, Lisette Oropesa,  Liparit Avetisyan, Ramona Zaharia, Brindley Sherratt, Eric Greene: Antonio Pappano: Oliver Mears, Simon Lima Holdsworth, Ilona Karas

 

SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Simon Boccanegra, Amelia/Maria, Jacopo Fiesco, Gabriele Adorno, Paolo Albiani)

1 December 1965: Tito Gobbi, Orianna Santunione, Joseph Rouleau, Renato Cioni, Delme Bryn-Jones: Oliviero de Fabritiis: Tito Gobbi, Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni

2 June 1980: Sherrill Milnes, Kiri Te Kanawa, Robert Lloyd, Veriano Luchetti,  Jonathan Summers: Colin Davis: Filippo Sanjust

12 November 1991: Alexandru Agache, Kiri Te Kanawa, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Michael Sylvester, Alan Opie: Georg Solti: Elijah Moshinsky, Michael Yeargan, Peter J Hall

28 June 1997: Sergei Leiferkus, Kallen Esperian, Jaakko Ryhänen, Plácido Domingo, Peter Sidhom: Mark Elder: Ian Judge, John Gunter, Deirdre Clancy (1857 version)

4 May 2008: Lucio Gallo, Anja Harteros, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marcus Haddock, Marco Vratogna: John Eliot Gardiner: Ian Judge, John Gunter, Deirdre Clancy (1881 version)

 

STIFFELIO (Stiffelio, Lina, Stankar, Raffaele, Jorg)

25 January 1993: José Carreras, Catherine Malfitano, Gregory Yurisch, Robin Leggate, Gwynne Howell: Edward Downes: Elijah Moshinsky, Michael Yeargan, Peter J Hall

 

LA TRAVIATA (Violetta Valery, Alfredo Germont, Giorgio Germont)

6 April 1948: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kenneth Neate, Paolo Silveri: Reginald Goodall: Tyrone Guthrie, Sophie Fedorovitch

19 April 1967: Mirella Freni, Renato Cioni, Piero Cappuccilli: Carlo Maria Giulini: Luchino Visconti, Nato Frascà, Vera Marzot

25 November 1994: Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci: Georg Solti: Richard Eyre, Bob Crowley

IL TROVATORE (Manrico, Leonora, Count di Luna, Azucena, Ferrando)

23 June 1947: Arthur Carron, Doris Dorée, Jess Walters, Edith Coates, Marian Nowakowski: Reginald Goodall: Julius Gellner, Derek Hill

19 November 1964: Bruno Prevedi, Gwyneth Jones, Peter Glossop, Giulietta Simionato, Joseph Rouleau: Carlo Maria Giulini: Luchino Visconti, Filippo Sanjust

7 June 1989: Plácido Domingo, Rosalind Plowright, Sergei Leiferkus, Eva Randova, Willard White: Bernard Haitink: Piero Faggioni

22 April 2002: José Cura, Verónica Villa,rroel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yvonne Naef, Tómas Tómasson: Carlo Rizzi: Elijah Moshinsky, Dante Ferretti, Anne Tilby

2 July 2016: Francesco Meli, Lianna Haroutounian, Željko Lučić, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Maurizio Muraro: Gianandrea Noseda: David Bösch, Patrick Bannwart, Meentje Nielsen

 

LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES (Helene, Henri, Monfort, Procida)

17 October 2013: Lianna Haroutounian, Bryan Hymel, Michael Volle, Erwin Schrott: Antonio Pappano: Stefan Herheim, Philipp Fürhofer, Gesine Völlm

 

WAGNER, Richard

 

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Senta, The Dutchman, Erik, Daland, Steersman)

19 October 1950: Sylvia Fisher, Josef Metternich, Thorsteinn Hannesson, Norman Walker, Edgar Evans: Karl Rankl: Heinz Tietjen, Emil Preetorius

28 January 1966: Gwyneth Jones, David Ward, Vilém Pribyl, Gottlob Frick, Kenneth MacDonald: Georg Solti: Clifford Williams, Sean Kenny

17 March 1986: Rosalind Plowright, Simon Estes, Siegfried Jerusalem, Robert Lloyd, Laurence Dale: Gerd Albrecht: Mike Ashman, David Fielding

8 June 1992: Julia Varady, James Morris, Thomas Sunnegårdh, Gwynne Howell, Neill Archer: Christoph von Dohnányi: Ian Judge, John Gunter, Deirdre Clancy

23 February 2009: Anja Kampe, Bryn Terfel, Torsten Kerl, Hans-Peter König, John Tessler: Marc Albrecht: Tim Albery, Michael Levine, Constance Hoffman

 

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Siegfried,

Gunther, Hagen, Brünnhilde, Waltraute, First Norn, Second Norn, Third Norn, Gutrune, Alberich)

25 May 1949: Set Svanholm, Hans Hotter, Dezsö Ernster, Kirsten Flagstad, Edith Coates, Constance Shacklock, Rosina Raisbeck, Sylvia Fisher, Doris Dorée, Grahame Clifford: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, pre-war designs

17 June 1954: Set Svanholm, Hermann Uhde, Dezsö Ernster, Margaret Harshaw, Maria von Ilosvay, Maria von Ilosvay, Constance Shacklock, Sylvia Fisher, Elfriede Wasserthal, Otakar Kraus: Fritz Stiedry: Rudolf Hartmann, Leslie Hurry

11 September 1963: Wolfgang Windgassen, Thomas Stewart, Gottlob Frick, Birgit Nilsson, Josephine Veasey, Monica Sinclair, Margareta Elkins, Rita Hunter, Marie Collier, Otakar Kraus: Georg Solti: Hans Hotter, Günther Schneider-Siemssen

16 September 1976: Jean Cox, Siegmund Nimsgern, Bengt Rundgren, Berit Lindholm, Yvonne Minton, Patricia Payne, Elizabeth Connell, Pauline Tinsley, Hanna Lisowska, Zoltan Kelemen: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Josef Svoboda, Ingrid Rosell

4 February 1991: René Kollo, Donald Maxwell, John Tomlinson, Gwyneth Jones, Hanna Schwarz, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Phyllis Cannan, Christine Teare, Kathryn Harries, Roderick Earle: Bernard Haitink: Götz Friedrich, Peter Sykora

14 October 1995: Siegfried Jerusalem, Alan Held, Kurt Rydl, Deborah Polaski, Jane Henschel, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Jane Irwin, Rita Cullis, Vivian Tierney, Ekkehard Wlaschiha: Bernard Haitink: Richard Jones, Nigel Lowery

17 April 2006: John Treleaven, Peter Coleman-Wright, John Tomlinson, Lisa Gasteen, Mihoko Fujimura, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Yvonne Howard, Marina Poplavskaya, Emily Magee, Peter Sidhom: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

LOHENGRIN: (Lohengrin, Elsa of Brabant, King Henry the Fowler, Frederick of Telramund, Ortrud, The King's Herald)

15 December 1949: Franz Lechleitner, Sylvia Fisher, Norman Walker, Tom Williams, Edith Coates, Rhydderch Davies: Karl Rankl: Otto Erhardt, pre-war designs

8 April 1963: Sandor Konya, Régine Crespin, David Ward, John Shaw, Rita Gorr, Peter Glossop: Otto Klemperer: Josef Gielen, Hainer Hill

17 November 1977: René Kollo, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Robert Lloyd, Donald McIntyre, Eva Randová, Jonathan Summers: Bernard Haitink:, Elijah Moshinsky, John Napier

7 June 2018: Klaus Florian Vogt, Jennifer Davis, Georg Zeppenfeld, Thomas J. Mayer, Christine Goerke, Kostas Smoriginas: Andris Nelsons: David Alden, Paul Steinberg, Gideon Davey

 

DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG: (Hans Sachs, Walther von Stolzing, Eva, Sixtus Beckmesser, David, Magdalena, Veit Pogner, Fritz Kothner)

21 January 1948: Hans Hotter, Frank Sale, Victoria Sladen, Grahame Clifford, Heddle Nash, Constance Shacklock, David Franklin, Rhydderch Davies: Karl Rankl: Julius Gellner, pre-war designs

28 January 1957: James Pease, Erich Witte, Joan Sutherland, Geraint Evans, Peter Pears,  Marjorie Thomas, Frederick Dalberg, Forbes Robinson: Rafael Kubelik: Erich Witte, Georges Wakhevitch

24 January 1969: Norman Bailey, Jess Thomas, Božena Ruk-Fočič, Geraint Evans, George Shirley, Josephine Veasey, David Ward, George Macpherson

8 October 1993: John Tomlinson, Gösta Winbergh, Nancy Gustafson, Thomas Allen, Deon van der Walt, Anne Howells, Gwynne Howell, Roderick Earle: Bernard Haitink: Graham Vick, Richard Hudson

11 March 2017: Bryn Terfel, Gwyn Hughes-Jones, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Allan Clayton, Hanna Hipp, Stephen Milling, Sebastian Holecek: Antonio Pappano: Kasper Holten, Mia Stensgaard, Anja Vang Kragh

 

PARSIFAL (Parsifal, Gurnemanz, Amfortas, Kundry, Klingsor)

16 June 1951: Franz Lechleitner, Ludwig Weber, Sigurd Björling, Kirsten Flagstad, Otakar Kraus: Karl Rankl: Heinz Tietjen, Joseph Harker, Attilio Comelli

15 May 1959: Karl Liebl, Gottlob Frick, Eberhard Waechter, Gerda Lammers, Otakar Kraus: Rudolf Kempe: Herbert Graf, Paul Walter

11 April 1979: Peter Hofmann, Kurt Moll, Norman Bailey, Yvonne Minton, Franz Mazura: Georg Solti: Terry Hands, Farrah

28 January 1988: Peter Seiffert, Robert Lloyd, Simon Estes, Waltraud Meier, Willard White: Bernard Haitink: Bill Bryden, Hayden Griffin

8 December 2001: Stig Andersen, John Tomlinson, Thomas Hampson, Violeta Urmana, Willard White: Simon Rattle: Klaus Michael Grüber, Gilles Aillaud, Vera Dobroschke, Moidele Bickel

30 November 2013: Simon O’Neill, René Pape, Gerald Finley, Angela Denoke, Willard White: Antonio Pappano: Stephen Langridge, Alison Chitty

 

DAS RHEINGOLD (Wotan, Fricka, Alberich, Loge, Erda, Fasolt, Fafner, Mime)

12 May 1949: Hans Hotter, Edith Coates, Grahame Clifford, Set Svanholm, Edith Furmedge, Marian Noweakowski, David Franklin, Peter Klein: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, pre-war designs

27 May 1954: Ferdinand Frantz, Maria von Ilosvay, Erich Witte, Constance Shacklock, Frederick Dalberg, Michael Langdon, Peter Markwort: Fritz Stiedry: Rudolf Hartmann, Leslie Hurry

3 September 1964: David Ward, Josephine Veasey, Frans Andersson, Richard Holm, Maureen Guy, Forbes Robinson, Michael Langdon, John Lanigan: Georg Solti: Hans Hotter, Günther Schneider-Siemssen

30 September 1974: Donald McIntyre, Josephine Veasey, Zoltan Kelemen, George Shirley, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Matti Salminen, Donald Shanks, Ragnar Ulfung: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Josef Svoboda, Ingrid Rosell

29 September 1988: James Morris, Helga Dernesch, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Kenneth Riegel, Jadwiga Rappé, Roderick Kennedy, Willard White, John Dobson: Bernard Haitink: Yuri Lyubimov, Paul Hernon, Peter Sykora

16 September 1991: James Morris, Helga Dernesch, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Kenneth Riegel, Anne Gjevang, Gwynne Howell, Franz-Josef Selig, Alexander Oliver: Bernard Haitink: Götz Friedrich, Peter Sykora

13 October 1994: John Tomlinson, Jane Henschel, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Robert Tear, Birgitta Svendén, Gwynne Howell, Carsten Stabell, Robin Leggate: Bernard Haitink: Richard Jones, Nigel Lowery

18 December 2004: Bryn Terfel, Rosalind Plowright, Günter von Kannen, Philip Langridge, Jane Henschel, Franz-Josef Selig, Phillip Ens, Gerhard Siegel: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

SIEGFRIED (Siegfried, Mime, Wanderer (Wotan), Brunnhilde, Alberich, Fafner (Dragon), Erda)

11 November 1948: Set Svanholm, Peter Klein, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Grahame Clifford, Norman Walker, Edith Furmedge: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, pre-war designs

8 June 1954: Set Svanholm, Paul Kuen, Ferdinand Frantz, Margaret Harshaw, Otakar Kraus, Michael Langdon, Constance Shacklock: Fritz Stiedry: Rudolf Hartmann, Leslie Hurry

7 September 1962: Wolfgang Windgassen, Gerhard Stolze, David Ward, Birgit Nilsson, Otakar Kraus, Joseph Rouleau, Rut Siewert: Georg Solti: Hans Hotter: Günther Schneider-Siemssen

17 September 1975: Helge Brilioth, Ragnar Ulfung, Donald McIntyre, Berit Lindholm, Zoltán Kelemen, Matti Salminen, Elizabeth Bainbridge: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Josef Svoboda, Ingrid Rosell

4 October 1990: René Kollo, Alexander Oliver, James Morris, Gwyneth Jones, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Willard White, Birgitta Svendén: Bernard Haitink: Götz Friedrich, Peter Sykora

27 March 1995: Siegfried Jerusalem, Graham Clark, John Tomlinson, Anne Evans, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Carsten Stabell, Birgitta Svendén: Bernard Haitink: Richard Jones, Nigel Lowery

2 October 2005: John Treleaven, Gerhard Siegel, John Tomlinson, Lisa Gasteen, Peter Sidhom, Philip Ens, Jane Henschel: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

TANNHÄUSER (Tannhäuser, Elisabeth, Hermann, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Venus, Biterolf)

21 November 1955: Wilhelm Ernest, Sylvia Fisher, Frederick Dalberg, Jess Walters, Maria von Ilosvay, Forbes Robinson: Rudolf Kempe: Sumner Austin, Ralph Koltai

17 September 1973: Richard Cassilly, Jessye Norman, Karl Ridderbusch, Norman Bailey, Josephine Veasey, Robert Lloyd: Colin Davis: Václav Kašlík, Josef Svoboda,Jan Skalický

25 September 1984: Klaus König, Gwyneth Jones, Fritz Hübner, Thomas Allen, Eva Randová, John Gibbs: Colin Davis: Elijah Moshinsky, Timothy O'Brien, Luciana Arrighi

11 December 2010: Johan Botha, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Christof Fischesser, Christian Gerhaher, Michaela Schuster, Clive Bayley: Semyon Bychkov: Tim Albery, Michael Levine, Jon Morrell

 

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: (Tristan, King Marke, Isolde, Kurwenal, Brangaene)

19 February 1948: August Seider, Norman Walker, Kirsten Flagstad, Hans Hotter, Constance Shacklock: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, pre-war sets and costumes

4 June 1958: Ramon Vinay, James Pease, Sylvia Fisher, Otakar Kraus, Irene Dalis: Rafael Kubelik: Christopher West, Leslie Hurry

14 June 1971: Jess Thomas, David Ward, Ludmila Dvořáková, Donald McIntyre, Josephine Veasey: Peter Hall, John Bury

14 October 2000: Jon Fredric West, Peter Rose, Gabriele Schnaut, Alan Titus, Petra Lang: Bernard Haitink: Herbert Wernicke

29 September 2009: Ben Heppner, John Tomlinson, Nina Stemme, Michael Volle, Sophie Koch: Antonio Pappano: Christof Loy, Johannes Leiacker

 

DIE WALKÜRE (Siegmund, Wotan, Sieglinde, Brünnhilde, Fricka, Hunding)

3 March 1948: Arthur Carron, Hans Hotter, Doris Dorée, Kirsten Flagstad, Edith Coates, David Franklin: Karl Rankl: Friedrich Schramm, Reece Pemberton

2 June 1954: Hans Beirer, Ferdinand Frantz, Sylvia Fisher, Margaret Harshaw, Maria von Ilosvay, Frederick Dalberg: Fritz Stiedry: Rudolf Hartmann, Leslie Hurry

29 September 1961: Jon Vickers, Hans Hotter, Claire Watson, Anita Välkki, Rita Gorr, Michael Langdon: Georg Solti: Hans Hotter, Herbert Kern

5 September 1964: Ernst Kozub, David Ward, Claire Watson, Anita Välkki, Grace Hoffman, Michael Langdon: Georg Solti: Hans Hotter, Günther Schneider-Siemssen

1 October 1974: Richard Cassilly, Donald McIntyre, Marita Napier, Berit Lindholm, Josephine Veasey, Hans Sotin: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Josef Svoboda, Ingrid Rosell

27 September 1989: René Kollo, James Morris, Gabriele Schnaut, Gwyneth Jones, Helga Dernesch, John Tomlinson: Bernard Haitink: Götz Friedrich, Peter Sykora

14 October 1994: Poul Elming, John Tomlinson, Ulla Gustafsson, Deborah Polaski, Jane Henschel, Matthias Hölle: Bernard Haitink: Richard Jones, Nigel Lowery

5 March 2005: Jorma Silvasti, Bryn Terfel, Katarina Dalayman, Lisa Gasteen, Rosalind Plowright, Stephen Milling: Antonio Pappano: Keith Warner, Stefanos Lazaridis, Marie-Jeanne Lecca

 

WALTON, William

 

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (Troilus, Cressida, Pandarus, Calkas, Diomede)

3 December 1954: Richard Lewis, Magda Laszlo, Peter Pears, Frederick Dalberg, Otakar Kraus: Malcolm Sargent: George Devine, Hugh Casson, Malcolm Pride

12 November 1976: Richard Cassilly, Janet Baker, Gerald English, Richard Van Allan, Benjamin Luxon: Lawrence Foster: Colin Graham, Christopher Morley, Ann Curtis

 

WEBER, Carl Maria von

 

DER FREISCHÜTZ (Agathe, Max, Caspar, Aennchen)

23 April 1954: Sylvia Fisher, James Johnston, Otakar Kraus, Adele Leigh: Edward Downes: Christopher West, Roger Furse

27 January 1977: Hannelore Bode, René Kollo, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp: Colin Davis: Götz Friedrich, Günther Schneider-Siemssen

 

WEIR, Judith

 

MISS FORTUNE (Tina, Donna, Fate)

12 March 2012: Emma Bell, Anne-Marie Owens, Andrew Watts: Paul Daniel: Shi-Zheng Chen, Tom Pye, Han Feng

 

ZEMLINSKY, Alexander von

 

EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE (Bianca, Simone, Prince Guido Bardi)

1 October 1985: Claire Powell, Edward Crafts, Kim Begley: Colin Davis: Adolf Dresen, Margit Bardy

 

DER GEBURTSTAG DER INFANTIN (Donna Clara, The Dwarf, Ghita, Don Estoban)

1 October 1985: Celina Lindsley, Kenneth Riegel, Isobel Buchanan, Stafford Dean: Colin Davis: Adolf Dresen, Margit Bardy