The opera houses
Opera is one of my favorite events to attend.
The houses I went to:
- St. Pete Opera @ Palladium
- Sarasota Opera, 2023
- Hungarian State Opera House 2022
- Essen
- San Francisco opera @ Yerba Buena Ctr, 2022
- San Francisco Opera
- The Met
- Vienna State Opera
- La Scala
… and the operas, by year it was first premiered
- The Marriage of Figaro (1786) Met
- The Magic Flute (1791): SF
- L’italiana in Algeri (1813)
- The Barber of Seville (1816)
- Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
- Rigoletto (1851)
- Don Carlos (1867)
- Carmen (1875) Met; SF; Sarasota
- Samson and Delilah (1877)
- Eugene Onegin, (1879)
- Cavalleria Rusticana (1890)
- Pagliacci (1892)
- La Boheme (1896)
- Tosca (1900)
- Madama Butterfly (1904): Met; Sarasota
- Turandot (1926)
Sydney Opera House, La Scala, Palais Garnier in Paris, Bolshoi Theatre, Teatro Colón, Vienna State Opera, La Fenice, Hungarian State Opera House, and Teatro di San Carlo, The Royal Opera House in London
- La Scala (for short) is, by many, the top opera house in the world.
- Berlin: capital of the opera, with three opera houses.
- Teatro di San Carlo: the oldest active since 1737
- Sydney Opera House: most recognizable
- Dafne: the first opera, in 1589
