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Pier Miranda Ferraro	He also taught masterclasses for five years at the Grand Festival in Lanciano, where in 1999 he directed a production of Madama Butterfly.
Ruth Berghaus	Her final operatic production was Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, produced in Leipzig, in 1995.
Silvio Barbato	In 1996, for the centenary of Antônio Carlos Gomes, he was called by Plácido Domingo to reconstruct the original partition of the opera O Guarany, for the opening night of the Washington National Opera.
Natalie Bodanya	Her portrayal of Micaela later appeared on the January 7, 1937 Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast on January 7, 1937 in which her performance shines through as one of the great creations of that role.
Jacques Schmidt	In a collaboration with the same team, he desiged the costumes for the first performance of the three-act version of Alban Berg's Lulu, completed by Friedrich Cerha, at the Paris Opera on 24 February 1979, again conducted by Boulez and with sets by Richard Peduzzi, with Teresa Stratas in the title role.
Stephen Costello (tenor)	In November 2010, he portrayed Percy in Anna Bolena, and thereby portrayed the 3 lead tenor characters in each of Donizetti's Tudor Operas within a 4-season span at the Dallas Opera.
Richard Cross (bass-baritone)	In 1990 Cross returned to the NYCO to portray Moses in the 1990 production of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron.
Thomas Pasatieri	Two of his operas were premiered in 2007 : Frau Margot by the Fort Worth Opera and The Hotel Casablanca in San Francisco.
Aubert Vanderlinden	choreographed by James Kudelka at the occasion of the new works festival 2008 organized for the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco Ballet, he also danced Ibsen's House of Val Caniparoli created for the same occasion.
George London (bass-baritone)	During his Met career, in 1956, he appeared on Ed Sullivan's television program in an abridged version of Act II of Tosca, opposite Maria Callas, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Aprile Millo	She appeared as Giselda for the Metropolitan Opera's first-ever performance of Verdi's I Lombardi, again with Pavarotti and Levine, in late 1993.
Peter Hofmann	He first rose to prominence in 1976 as a heldentenor at the Bayreuth festival's Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in 1976, where he drew critical acclaim for his performance of Siegmund in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre.
Amon Miyamoto	In addition, the world premiere of Miyamoto's new production `` DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE'' (The Magic Flute) opened at LANDESTHEATER LINZ in Linz, Austria in September 2013.
Loren Driscoll	Also for Blitzstein, Driscoll performed the role of Leo Hubbard in the composer's Regina with the New York City Opera in 1958, and appears on the recording of that production.
Graziella Sciutti	Referred to as'' The Callas of the Piccola Scala'' Sciutti was renowned for her interpretation of Mozart's'' soubrette'' characters, Susanna, Despina, and perhaps especially for her singing in the role of Zerlina in the 1959 recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini.
Henri Tomasi	In May 1956 at Bordeaux, his opera Sampiero Corso was premiered, with the Australian tenor Kenneth Neate in the title role.
Felix Mendelssohn	In 1847 Mendelssohn attended a London performance of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable -- an opera which musically he despised -- in order to hear Lind's British debut, in the role of Alice.
Ivan Vsevolozhsky	In 1889, he duly instructed the Imperial Balletmaster Marius Petipa to choreograph a full-length ballet to the story La Belle au Bois Dormant, or The Sleeping Beauty for a premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre.
Adolf Dallapozza	In the German premiere of Bernstein's West Side Story in 1968, directed by Marcel Prawy, Dallapozza sang the role of Tony opposite Julia Migenes.
Jeffrey Isaac	In 2007 he designed the animation for the performance of IL CORVO by the LaMama Experimental Theater Company at the 38th Biennale Teatro in Venice.
Doug Fitch	In 2005, Fitch directed and designed the set for Turandot, at the Santa Fe Opera.
Sherrill Milnes	In 1967 he created the role of Captain Adam Brant in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra at the Met.
Robert Lepage	In November 2008, Lepage directed a staged version of Hector Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Beverly Bower	She notably sang the role of Minnie in La Fanciulla del West for the first public performance at the new Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center on April 11, 1966.
Jacqueline Brumaire	In 1969 she sang the role of Hélen (Elena) during the concert performance of Les vêpres siciliennes which was made available as a commercial recording.
Ward Stare	In the fall of 2008, Stare served as assistant conductor to Sir Andrew Davis at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their new production of Alban Berg's Lulu.
Niklas Frank	1995 saw the first performance of a work commissioned for the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna Festival), Der Vater (The Father), by Frank and Joshua Sobol, directed by Paulus Manker at the Theater an der Wien.
Leonie Rysanek	In 1951, she was the first Sieglinde of the new Bayreuth Festival in Die Walküre under Herbert von Karajan.
Lisette Oropesa	On December 31, 2011, she created the role of Miranda in the Met's baroque pastiche, The Enchanted Island (opposite Plácido Domingo), conducted by William Christie.
Oliver Messel	In 1946, Messel designed the sets and costumes for the Royal Ballet's new and highly successful production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty, a production which famously starred Margot Fonteyn.
Thomas Hampson (baritone)	Other important appearances of Hampson's in 1996 include a series of Master Classes at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, and two productions of Don Carlos in the original French (directed by Luc Bondy), one in Paris and one in London.
Angela Gheorghiu	Volpe had planned to engage Gheorghiu in Violetta Valery for a new production of La traviata, to premiere in November 1998 and directed by Zeffirelli.
Hans-Joachim Frey	After working in Bremen Frey staged for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of 2010, the opera gala.
Francesco Cilea	Cilea's last opera, premièred at La Scala in Milan on 15 April 1907 under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, was the 3-act tragedy Gloria, again with a libretto by Colautti, based on a play by Victorien Sardou.
Herva Nelli	In 1951, Nelli reappeared with the New York City Opera, in Cavalleria rusticana again, as well as Aida ; the next year, she portrayed Maddalena de Coigny in Giordano's Andrea Chénier (in Theodore Komisarjevsky's production).
Alberto Erede	In 1985 he made guest appearances in Sydney with the Australian Opera ; a video recording of Puccini's Tosca, with Erede conducting, was made at the Sydney Opera House during that year.
Eiko Ishioka	In 1999 she designed costumes for Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Dutch Opera.
Carl Orff	Orff's last work, De temporum fine comoedia (Play on the End of Times), had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival on August 20, 1973, performed by Herbert von Karajan and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and Chorus.
Louis Quilico	When at the Met, he created the role of Bishop of Blois in Massenet's Esclarmonde during the stage performances of that opera at end of 1976, repeating his earlier commercial recording in the same role from a year earlier.
James Maddalena	He gained international recognition in 1987 when he created the role of Richard Nixon at the premiere of Adams's opera Nixon in China at Houston.
Allen Moyer	He designed his first set for the Metropolitan Opera for their new production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice which premiered on May 2, 2007.
Dezs? Ernster	His last opera performance was in Budapest in 1966 when he sang Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte at the Margaret Island open air theatre.
Lauren Flanigan	On 2 June 2007 she created the title role in the world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's Frau Margot at the Fort Worth Opera.
Lauren Flanigan	Flanigan credits much of her early experience to the singular interest of Dr. Robert Larsen of the Des Moines Metro Opera where in 1985 she was cast as Clorinda in Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola and as Curley's Wife in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men.
Heinz Zednik	He played Mime in the 1990 PBS broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience (world-wide) of the Ring in history.
Marilyn Horne	In 1984, she sang the title role of Handel's opera seria Rinaldo (directed by Frank Corsaro), the first Handel opera ever performed at the Met.
Marin Alsop	Following this, in 2005, Alsop's fully staged production of Bernstein's Candide with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was nominated for an Emmy Award (DVD : PBS Great Performances / Image Entertainment).
Enrico Caruso	</gallery> </div> Caruso took part in a'' grand concert'' at La Scala in February 1901 that Toscanini organised to mark the recent death of Giuseppe Verdi.
Gabor Carelli	On 16 September 1966, he performed the role of the Soldier of Caesar in the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra.
Lisa Della Casa	Cebotari recognized her talent and introduced her at the Salzburg Festival in 1947, where she sang Zdenka again in a production starring Maria Reining and Hans Hotter.
Renato Zanella	In April 2012 Renato provided the choreography for the opera Fürst Igor directed by David Poutney and was premiered at Zurich Opera House.
Wolfgang Sawallisch	He made a quadrophonic stereo album (probably the only one ever made) of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1973 for EMI, starring Peter Schreier as Tamino, Walter Berry as Papageno, Edda Moser as the Queen of the Night, Anneliese Rothenberger as Pamina, and Kurt Moll as Sarastro.
Elizabeth Llewellyn	In 2010 she received an invitation from the English National Opera to play the main part, Mimi, in Jonathan Miller's production of La Bohème.
Lee Venora	Venora returned to the NYCO on March 22, 1962 to portray Deborah in the world premiere of Abraham Ellstein's The Golem under conductor Julius Rudel.
Joseph Ward (tenor)	As a baritone he created the role of Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten (1960), and in the same year sang the same composer's eponymous hero Billy Budd in the radio-broadcast premiere of the revised two-act version.
Dennis Noble	In November 1936 he sang Sam Weller when Albert Coates's opera Pickwick became the first opera televised by the BBC.
Fritz Busch	His 1932 Salzburg Festival production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, which was designed by Carl Ebert and was sung by a carefully selected cast, was a highly successful collaboration.
Robert Moulson	He became particularly associated with the role of Lenny Small in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men ; a role which he recorded and portrayed in its original production at the Seattle Opera in 1970.
Terence Knapp	In addition to the roles mentioned above, Knapp was honored to be chosen as a member of the ensemble performance on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Sir Noël Coward, in the presence of HRH Princess Margaret at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in 1970.
Itzhak Perlman	Although he has never been billed or marketed as a singer, he sang the role of'' Un carceriere'' ('' a jailer'') on a 1981 EMI recording of Puccini's'' Tosca'' that featured Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Renato Bruson, with James Levine conducting.
Christopher Alden (director)	His work in Europe has encompassed assignments at Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera (where he directed the world premiere of David Horne's Friend of the People), English National Opera (staging The Makropulos Case with Charles Mackerras in 2006).
Victor de Sabata	In August 1953 he collaborated with Callas in his only commercial opera recording : Puccini's Tosca for HMV (also featuring Giuseppe Di Stefano and Tito Gobbi along with the La Scala orchestra and chorus).
Lovro von Mata?i?	After leaving Dresden in 1958, he strengthened his ties to Vienna, debuted at Bayreuth where he also started a long-term collaboration with opera director and Richard Wagner's grandson -- Wieland Wagner.
Avon Long	He reprised his role of Sportin' Life in the 1951 3-LP Columbia Masterworks recording of Porgy and Bess, the most complete recording of the opera issued up to that time.
Oscar II of Sweden	Being a theater lover, he commissioned a new opera house to be built by Axel Anderberg for the Royal Swedish Opera which was inaugurated on 19 September 1898.
Ernest Reyer	The best-known of his five operas is Sigurd (1884) ; it was quite popular in France during its initial production there (it had its premiere in Brussels at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in January 1884), and is sometimes (although rarely) revived.
Giorgio Tozzi	Tozzi also sang the bass part in the recording of Sir Thomas Beecham's version of Handel's Messiah for RCA Victor in 1959.
Dorothea Nicolai	In 2006 Nicolai created two costumes according to original designs from the 18th century for the Salzburg Festival for the ballet evening of Mozart'' Ideomeneo Chaconne'' for the Chaconne from the opera Idomeneo.
Clive Francis	In December 2007, he performed his one-man version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at the Théâtre Princesse Grace, Monte Carlo as part of the British Theatre Season, Monaco.
Emelie Hooke	On 19 October 1953, she sang Gerhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at Covent Garden under the conductor Fritz Stiedry, other roles being sung by Ramón Vinay, Sylvia Fisher, Hans Hotter, Edith Coates, Joan Sutherland and Monica Sinclair.
Peter van der Fluit	Van der Fluit and O'Neill also composed Romeo and Juliet -- The Rock Opera, which premiered in June 2010 at ArtsEd in London.
Jay Hunter Morris	Morris reprised the role of Siegfried at the Met in April and May 2012 in two consecutive Ring cycles, including a live Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast of Siegfried on April 21.
Barbara Scherler	In 1967 she sang the part of Smeton in a broadcast performance of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, produced by the WDR in 1967, with Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Karl Ridderbusch as Enrico, conducted by Alberto Erede.
Beverly Wolff	She notably created the latter part in the opera's world premiere in Lawrence, Kansas in 1966.
Theo Adam	At the Theater an der Wien he portrayed Pizarro in Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio in a 1970 production celebrating the composer's 200th birthday.
Raina Kabaivanska	Mme Kabaivanska has recently added another role to her considerable repertoire : the Comtesse in Tchaikowsky's Queen of Spades, in a series of five performances (31 January - 19 February 2008) at the Capitole in Toulouse (France).
Gian Carlo Menotti	Barber became Menotti's lover and partner in life and in work ; with Menotti crafting the libretto for Barber's most famous opera, Vanessa, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958.
Lovro von Mata?i?	Matačić has won over the Italian audience, too (in 1961 at the Rome Opera he performed Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung).
Wolfgang Brendel	In his Andante on-line review of Brendel's Barak in the new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten in 2001, Paul Griffiths catches the essence of the baritone in so many of his roles :'' Wolfgang Brendel is extraordinarily resourceful.
Karl Formes	In January 1872 Formes appeared in the U. S. premiere of Marschner's opera Der Templer und die Jüdin.
Andrea Molino	As a conductor, he opened the 2013 season of Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House with Verdi's A Masked Ball with the direction of La Fura dels Baus ; the production was later presented in Melbourne.
Lisa Hopkins	Hopkins sang the role of Sofia in Rossini's one-act opera Il Signor Bruschino with Gotham Chamber Opera in January 2007.
Paul Robeson	Robeson participated in benefit concerts on behalf of the war effort and at a concert at the Polo Grounds, he met two emissaries from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer Subsequently, Robeson reprised his role of Othello at the Shubert Theatre in 1943, and became the first African American to play the role with a white supporting cast on Broadway.
Mae West	In 1912 she appeared in the opening performance of A Winsome Widow as a'' baby vamp'' named La Petite Daffy.
Hanna Schwarz	In 1980 she sang Waltraute in the 1980 Covent Garden Ring cycle.
Miguel ?ngel Coria	Coria's ballet music Seis sonatas para la Reina de España (Six sonatas for the Queen of Spain), based on six harpsichord sonata s by Domenico Scarlatti, was premiered in 1985 at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto in a production choreographed by Ángel Pericet for the Spanish National Ballet.
Natalie Dessay	She appeared in two new productions during the 2007 -- 08 season at the Met : as Lucia on opening night, and in a reprise of the London production of La fille du régiment.
Boris Anisfeld	1922 - Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden (Snegourochka), with sets and costumes by Anisfeld, opens at the Metropolitan Opera, and is a great success.
Nina Stemme	In 2010, Michael Kimmelman wrote of one of Stemme's performances in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre,'' As for Brünnhilde, Nina Stemme sang gloriously.
Donald Gramm	In the 1972 -- 73 season he was cast as Zuniga in Göran Gentele's new production of Bizet's Carmen (with Marilyn Horne as Carmen and James McCracken as Don José) ; he repeated his roles as the Speaker, Leporello, and Sulpice, and added Captain Balstrode in Britten's Peter Grimes (with Jon Vickers in the title role).
Jean Cocteau	Cocteau wrote the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex, which had its original performance in the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris on 30 May 1927.
Norman Kelley	In 1956 he portrayed the role of Belmonte in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Stratford, Connecticut in a production celebrating the bicentennial of Mozart's birth.
Anselmo Colzani	Opera News stated that,'' Undoubtedly Colzani's highest-profile assignment at the Met was Falstaff in the first performances of Franco Zeffirelli's much-loved 1964 production of Verdi's opera, conducted at its premiere by Leonard Bernstein.''
Mariano Stabile	He sang at La Scala until 1955, and among his other roles there were : Gérard, Scarpia, Iago, Malatesta, Dulcamara, Beckmesser, Schicchi.
E C Hedmondt	When Karl Richter conducted the famous English language Ring cycle at Covent Garden in 1908, Hedmondt was stage manager (i. e. director) as well as singing Loge.
Deborah Voigt	She is on the live recording of the Vienna State Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde for Deutsche Grammophon (2003).
Santa Biondo	The June 14, 1936 issue of The New York Times states that she also performed with the Cincinnati Opera at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden with other opera singers such as Rosemarie Brancato, Anna Leskaya, Jean Pengelly, Norma Richter, and others.
Ursula Cain	In 2008 Ursula Cain danced the Alcina by George Frideric Handel with Horst Dittmann as Ruggiero directed and choreographed by Heike Hennig at the Handel Festival, Halle.
Matthew Lutton	In 2012 Lutton directed Strauss's Elektra for West Australian Opera, Opera Australia, ThinIce, and Perth International Arts Festival, with Danish soprano Eva Johansson singing the title role.
Yvonne Kenny	In 2009, Kenny appeared as Blanche DuBois in the Australian premiere of Previn's'' A Streetcar Named Desire'' for Opera Australia.