Sentence examples for opera premiere from inspiring English sources

More than 20 years have passed since its unfortunate New York City Opera premiere.

This year a challenging (not to say baffling) world opera premiere, "Cronaca del luogo" by Luciano Berio, a contemporary Italian composer, was on offer.

Percy Shelley became the cello, the number of solos increasing when Beamish found that her husband, Robert Irvine, would be playing principal cello in the Scottish Opera premiere.

During a panel discussion about "Nixon in China" on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb turned to the team of onetime artistic rebels who created this work for its Houston Grand Opera premiere in 1987 and suggested that back then, surely, no one involved had had any ambitions for the Met.

Ades gained attention almost overnight: he was first noticed in 1993, and by 1995 he was being celebrated with an opera premiere at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival, a Composer Portrait concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, and a performance at the BBC Proms.

This year alone Philip Glass has seen a major retrospective of his music at the Lincoln Center Festival that included the American premiere of his 1991 opera "White Raven," another American opera premiere of "The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5" in Chicago and a five-disc set of his film music on Nonesuch.

Brokeback Mountain: the opera premieres on 28 January and runs until 11 Februaryat Madrid's Teatro Real.

Significant opera premieres included John Harbison's The Great Gatsby (1999), Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin (2000), and Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar (2003).

Five opera premieres, described as "snapshots of lives on the edge", were staged by Northern Ireland Opera, with music by five Northern Irish composers at various stages in their careers, working with leading contemporary playwrights.

@PositivistDinosaur cites several other opera premieres in the city, including Erich Korngold's Die Tote Stadt – competition between German opera houses to stage the premiere was so intense that it was first performed on the same day, 4 December 1920, in Hamburg and Cologne – and Hans Werner Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, premiered in 1960.

With music by Richard Auldon Clark and a libretto by the writer himself, the opera premieres on September 16 during Indiana's bicentennial celebrations.