Giacomo Puccini's
LA BOHEME
July 20, 2011
and
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
August 3, 2011
Both performances
7:30 p.m.
at
THE NAUMBERG BANDSHELL
CENTRAL PARK
72nd Street at mid-park
ADMISSION IS FREE
Vincent La Selva
Opera Repertoire
| Author | Title of Work | Years Produced |
| Georges Bizet | Carmen | 1977, 1982 1986, 1991 |
| Gaetano Donizetti | Don Pasquale | 1980 |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | 1986,1991 | |
| L'Elisir d'Amore | 1978,1981, 1990, 1994 | |
Jacques-Françoise Fromental-Halévy | La Juive | 1986 |
| First New York performance in 50 years | ||
| Ruggiero Leoncavallo | La Boheme (U.S. Premiere) | 1977, 2003 |
| I Pagliacci | 1976,1979, 1987, 1992, 2006 | |
| Pietro Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana | 1976,1979, 1987, 1992 |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Amahl and the Night | 1982 |
| Visitors | ||
Wolfgang A. Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro | 1982,1992 |
| La Betulia Liberata | 1991 | |
| First New York Performance | ||
Giacomo Puccini | La Boheme | 1973,1974,1978, 1979,1987,1989, 1991,1993, 2003 |
| Tosca | 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 2004, 2007 | |
| Le Fanciulla del West | 1980 | |
| Turandot | 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1990, 2005 | |
| Sour Angelica | 1989, 2006 | |
| Il Tabarro | 1989 | |
| Gianni Schiochi | 1980,1989 | |
| Le Villi | 1980 | |
| First staged professional performance in New York in 75 years | ||
| Madama Butterfly | 1976, 1978, 1980, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2003 | |
Gioacchino Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | 1975, 1978 |
| Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi | La Traviata | 1974,1975, 1978, 1999 |
| La Traviata | 1980,1982,1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2008 | |
| First uncut performance in New York | ||
| Rigoletto | 1976,1979,1980, 1983,1985,1988, 1990,1994, 1998, 2004 | |
| Giovanna d'Arco | 1976,1983,1995, 2005 | |
| First American staged performance | ||
| Aida | 1982, 2008 | |
| Nabucco | 1975, 1979, 1983, 1989,1994, 2007 | |
| Jerusalem | 1993, 1994 | |
| First New York performance | ||
| Messa da Requiem | 1978,1980,1981, 2001 | |
| with Finale of Beethoven's9th Symphony 1990 | ||
| Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio | 1986,1994 | |
| First staged performance in New York | ||
| Il Corsaro | 1987 | |
| First New York staged performance | ||
| La Battaglia Di Legnano | 1997 | |
| I Masnadieri | 1988, 1996 | |
| First New York staging in 127 years | ||
| Un Ballo in Maschera | 1976,1988,1992,1993, 2006 | |
| Stiffelio | ||
| American Premiere | ||
| Aroldo | 1993 | |
| First staged performance in New York | ||
| Un Giorno di Regno | 1994 | |
| I Lombardi | 1994,1995 | |
| Ernani | 1995 | |
| I Due Foscari | 1995 | |
| Alzira | 1996, 2003 | |
| Attila | 1996 | |
| Macbeth | 1996 | |
| Luisa Miller | 1998 | |
| Les Vepres Sicliennes | 1999 | |
| New York Premier of original version in French | ||
| Simon Boccanegra | 1999 | |
| New York Premier of original version | ||
| Otello 2006 | ||
| Il Trovatore 2009 | ||