Timeline: Opera
| Years: 1597 - 1988 | Subject: Music, Opera |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191737022 |
| Year | Event |
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| 1597 | Go to Daphne in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1607 | Go to Monteverdi, Claudio (1567–1643) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1637 | Go to Venice (Italy, USA) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1679 | Go to Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660–1725) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1689 | Go to Purcell, Henry (1659–95) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1697 | Go to Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660–1725) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1711 | Go to Handel, George Frideric (1685–1759) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1730 | Go to Metastasio (1698–1782) in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1762 | Go to Gluck, Christoph Willibald (1714–87) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1786 | Go to Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Joseph II (1741–90) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1787 | Go to Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1790 | Go to Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1791 | Go to Zauberflöte, Die in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1805 | The first version of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is performed in Vienna under the title Leonore Go to Leonore in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1814 | Go to Fidelio in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1816 | Go to Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1821 | Go to Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1824 | Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini moves to Paris, where he becomes director of the Théatre Italien Go to Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1826 | Go to Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1829 | Go to Guillaume Tell in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1832 | Go to Donizetti, Gaetano (1797–1848) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1835 | Go to Donizetti, Gaetano (1797–1848) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1842 | Go to Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1843 | Go to Wagner, Richard (1813–83) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1851 | Go to Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1853 | Go to Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1858 | Go to Berlioz, Hector (1803–69) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1859 | Go to Gounod, Charles François (1818–93) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1865 | Go to Tristan und Isolde in The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1868 | Go to Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1869 | Go to Rheingold, Das in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1871 | Go to Aida in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1874 | Go to Boris Godunov in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Fledermaus, Die in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1875 | Go to Carmen in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1876 | Go to Bayreuth Festival in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1879 | Go to Onegin, Eugene in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1887 | Go to Prince Igor in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Otello in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Melba, Nellie (1861) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1892 | Go to Melba in An A-Z of Food and Drink (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1893 | Go to Manon Lescaut in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Falstaff in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hänsel und Gretel in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1894 | Go to Caruso, Enrico (25 Feb. 1873) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1896 | Go to bohème, La in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1898 | Go to Melba, Nellie (1861) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1900 | Go to Tosca in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Louise in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1901 | Go to Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rusalka in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1902 | Go to Pelléas et Mélisande in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1903 | Go to Caruso, Enrico (1873–1921) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1904 | Go to Jenůfa in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Madama Butterfly in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1905 | Go to Salome in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Merry Widow, The in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1906 | Go to Wreckers, The in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1908 | Go to Chaliapin, Fyodor (Ivanovich) (1/13 Feb. 1873) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Elektra in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Rimsky‐Korsakov, Nikolay (1844) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1910 | Go to Puccini, Giacomo (1858) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Strauss, Richard (1864–1949) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1912 | Go to Berlin Opera Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Strauss, Richard (1864–1949) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1914 | Go to Gigli, Beniamino (1890–1957) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1916 | Go to Granados, Enrique (1867) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Janáček, Leoš (1854) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1918 | Go to Bartók, Béla (1881) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1921 | Go to Káťa Kabanová in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1923 | Go to Roussel, Albert (1869) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1924 | Go to Janáček, Leoš (1854) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Puccini, Giacomo (1858) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1925 | Go to Ravel, Maurice (7 Mar. 1875) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Berg, Alban (1885) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1926 | Go to Szymanowski, Karol (1882) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Janáček, Leoš (1854–1928) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1927 | Go to Krenek, Ernst (1900–91) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1928 | Go to Threepenny Opera, The in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1930 | The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig Go to Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1933 | Go to Arabella in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1934 | Go to Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Glyndebourne Festival in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Björling, Jussi (5 Feb. 1911) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mathis der Maler in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1935 | Go to Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (28 Mar. 1886) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gobbi, Tito (1915–1984) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Porgy and Bess in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Lulu in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1939 | Go to Pears, Sir Peter Neville Luard (1910–1986) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Karajan, Herbert von (1908–1989) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1941 | Go to Callas, Maria (1923–1977) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1945 | Go to Peter Grimes in A Dictionary of Opera Characters (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1946 | Go to Christoff, Boris (Kirilov) (18 May 1914) in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1947 | Go to Poulenc, Francis Jean Marcel (1899–1963) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1952 | Go to Henze, Hans Werner (1926– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1954 | Go to Walton, William (1902) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1955 | Go to Tippett, Michael (1905) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1956 | Go to König Hirsch in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1957 | Go to Moses und Aron in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1959 | Go to Sutherland, Dame Joan (1926–2010) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1960 | Go to Domingo, Placido (1941– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1961 | Go to Pavarotti, Luciano (1935–2007) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1965 | Go to Callas, Maria (1923–1977) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1970 | Go to Knot Garden, The in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1972 | Go to Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (1934– ) in The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1973 | Go to Sydney Opera House in The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1975 | Go to Hockney, David (1937– ) in A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1981 | Go to Stockhausen, Karlheinz (22 Aug. 1928) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1983 | Go to Messiaen, Olivier (1908–1992) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1984 | Go to Berio, Luciano (1925–2003) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Glass, Philip (1937) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1986 | Go to Birtwistle, Sir Harrison (1934– ) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Penderecki, Krzysztof (1933) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1987 | Go to Adams, John (15 Feb. 1947) in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1988 | Go to Turnage, Mark‐Anthony (1960) in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (5 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
