Opera in History (Part 5)

Events 401 - 500 of 517

• 1951-12-24 1st opera commissioned for television - "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres on NBC with the NBC Opera Theater
• 1952-04-27 Revival of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's operetta "Four Saints in Three Acts" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 15 performances

• 1953-01-10 Charles Friedman and Giuseppe Verdi's musical '"My Darlin' Aida", an adaptation of Verdi's opera "Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after for 89 performances

• 1954-09-14 Benjamin Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice

• 1954-12-03 William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida" premieres in London
• 1954-12-27 Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize winning opera "The Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater in ,NYC; runs for 92 performances

• 1955-11-05 The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens after it was destroyed in World War II, with Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio"
• 1956-07-07 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres

• 1957-01-26 Francis Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres at La Scala, in Milan
• 1957-03-08 David Diamond's 6th Symphony premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch

• 1958-04-23 Robert Kurka's "The Good Soldier Schweik", with libretto written by Abe Meeropol, premieres at the New York City Opera
• 1959-01-24 Dmitri Shostakovich's operetta "Moscow, Cheryomushki" premieres in Moscow

• 1960-05-08 1st performance of Ferde Grofé's "San Francisco Suite", with Grofé conducting, in San Francisco
• 1960-07-01 Benjamin Britten's cantata "Carmen Baseliense" premieres in Basel, Switzerland
• 1960-12-17 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio" premieres
• 1961-01-27 Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli make debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in "Il trovatore"; final curtain call lasts 35 minutes
• 1961-05-20 Henzes opera "Elegy for Young Lovers," premieres in Schwetzingen

• 1962-12-26 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Katerina Ismailova" premieres at the Stanislavski-Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, in Moscow, USSR
• 1963-01-08 Dmitri Shostakovich' opera "Katharina Ismailova" premieres in Riga

• 1963-03-13 Paul Hindemith and Thornton Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC
• 1963-08-03 Warner Bros. Records releases single of Allan Sherman's novelty song "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)", set to music of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from his 1876 opera "La Gioconda"

• 1964-08-08 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
• 1964-12-28 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's cantata "The Execution of Stepan Razin"

• 1965-04-28 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at La Scala, Milan in Franco Zeffirelli's production of "La bohème" with Mirella Freni
• 1965-07-05 Greek-American soprano Maria Callas makes her final opera stage appearance in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" at Convent Garden, London, England
• 1966-01-19 British composer Michael Tippett's cantata "Vision of St Augustine" premieres in London
• 1966-09-16 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in "Antony and Cleopatra" by Samuel Barber

• 1969-05-23 The Who release rock opera "Tommy"
• 1970-06-07 British rock band The Who's perform their rock opera "Tommy" at the Metropolitan Opera House at NYC's Lincoln Center [1]
• 1970-12-02 British composer Michael Tippett's opera "The Knot Garden" premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England
• 1971-05-16 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych, London
• 1971-10-12 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", starring Jeff Fenholt and Ben Vereen opens at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC; runs for 711 performances

• 1972-02-17 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti receives record 17 curtain calls after his performance in "La fille du régiment" at New York's Metropolitan Opera

• 1973-07-01 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", starring Jeff Fenholt and Ben Vereen closes at Mark Hellinger, NYC, after 711 performances

• 1974-03-16 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
• 1974-11-11 Operatic soprano Maria Callas makes her final public appearance in Sapporo, Japan
• 1975-12-14 Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
• 1976-01-13 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NYC Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
• 1976-02-17 Cliff Jones' theatrical rock opera "Rockabye Hamlet", starring Beverly D'Angelo, opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 7 performances
• 1976-07-25 Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera "Einstein on the Beach" premieres at Théâtre Municipal, in Avignon, France
• 1977-09-29 Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1978-04-12 Gyorgy Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
• 1979-05-02 Film "Quadrophenia" premieres in London, based on The Who's rock opera "Tommy"
• 1979-09-14 The film "Quadrophenia", loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, is released.

• 1982-07-03 Riot at building site of Stopera concert hall in Amsterdam causes Ÿ1 million in damages
• 1983-01-21 First supertitles for a live opera performance: "Elektra" at Canadian Opera Company, English titles by Sonya Friedman
• 1984-03-24 Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh, premieres at the Staatstheater, in Stuttgart, Germany
• 1985-01-03 Leontyne Price makes her final operatic appearance in a televised performance of "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• 1987-05-29 British pop singer Freddie Mercury and Spanish opera diva Montserrat Caballé debut their song "Barcelona" at the Ibiza Fest
• 1987-10-22 American composer John Adams's first opera, "Nixon in China", premieres at the Houston Grand Opera, in Houston, Texas
• 1987-11-24 Concert performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' folk operetta "Magdalena" debuts at Alice Tully Hall in NYC's Lincoln Center

• 1989-12-31 "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
• 1990-02-06 Steve Briers of Wales recites entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes 58.44 seconds backwards!

• 1990-07-07 1st 'Three Tenors' concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome; recording becomes world's best-selling classical record

• 1990-11-07 New York City Opera's limited run production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music" closes at New York State, NYC, after 11 performances
• 1991-07-09 New York City Opera's limited run production of Stephen Sondhiem's musical "A Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater ,NYC, for 7 performances
• 1991-08-10 New York City Opera's limited run production of Stephen Sondhiem's musical "A Little Night Music" closes at New York State Theater, NYC, after 7 performances

• 1991-10-17 Blue Man Group's 1st performance in New York City
• 1991-10-18 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater, NYC, after a limited run by the New York City Opera
• 1992-12-19 Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and Kathleen Brennan's avant garde opera "Alice", based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll, premieres at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
• 1994-01-31 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo", built in 1847, burns down for the second time; re-built and re-opens in 1999
• 1994-04-09 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Whitney Houston, Luciano Pavarotti, Aaron Neville, Tammy Wynette, Branford Marsalis, and Larry Adler
• 1994-07-16 "The Three Tenors" Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, perform with Los Angeles Philharmonic and chorus of the Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Zubin Mehta at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California; an estimated 1.3 billion viewers wathc worldwide broadcast
• 1996-01-29 La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire

• 2004-03-13 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"
• 2005-10-04 Palace of the Arts - the world's tallest opera house and last major structure of the City of Arts and Science's complex, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opens in Valencia, Spain [1]
• 2006-02-10 XX Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" in his last ever performance
• 2008-03-11 Plácido Domingo named "The King of Singers" in BBC Music Magazine, based on voting by 16 renowned opera critics for the April 2008 issue
• 2008-09-07 Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent", loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera "La Bohème", starring Taye Diggs, closes at the Nederlander Theatre, NYC, after 5,123 performances, winning 4 Tony Awards, 7 Drama Desk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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• 1929-01-10 Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone, born in London (d. 2012)
• 1929-02-02 Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (Vienna State Opera, 1951-2005), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
• 1929-02-11 Leonard Kastle, opera composer, librettist, director (The Passion of Mother Ann), and film maker (The Honeymoon Killers), born in New York City (d. 2011)
• 1929-02-28 Joseph Rouleau, French Canadian bass opera singer (Royal Opera), born in Matane, Quebec (d. 2019)
• 1929-03-04 Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw, 1961-88; London Philharmonic, 1967-79; Royal Opera Covent Garden, 1987-2002), born in Amsterdam, Nethetlands (d. 2021) [1]
• 1929-03-18 John Macurdy, American operatic bass (Met Opera), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2020)
• 1929-05-25 Beverly Sills [Belle Miriam Silverman], American operatic soprano, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2007)
• 1929-06-15 Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri, Persian opera director (Canadian Opera Company, 1976-88; introduced opera surtitles, 1983; San Francisco Opera, 1988-2001), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2013)
• 1929-07-15 Charles Anthony [Caruso], tenor (2,928 performances at Metropolitan Opera), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2012)
• 1929-08-28 István Kertész, Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1973)
• 1929-09-13 Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bulgarian operatic basso singer, born in Velingrad, Bulgaria (d. 2004)
• 1929-09-17 Vincent La Selva, American conductor (New York Grand Opera Company, 1973-2012), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2017) [1]
• 1929-10-18 Hans Wallat, German opera conductor, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2014)
• 1929-12-03 Werner Rackwitz, German opera director and musicologist (Handel-Renaissance), born in Breslau, Weimar Republic (d. 2014)
• 1930-02-05 Ulf Söderblom, Finnish conductor (Finnish National Opera, 1973-93), and teacher, born in Turku, Finland (d. 2016)
• 1930-03-28 Elizabeth Bainbridge, English opera singer, born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire

• 1930-04-08 John Reardon, American stage actor and operatic baritone (Metropolitan Opera, 1965-77), born in New York City (d. 1988)
• 1930-05-08 Heather Harper, Northern Irish operatic soprano (Britten's War Requiem), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2019)
• 1930-07-25 Maureen Forrester, Canadian operatic contralto (Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony), born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2010)
• 1930-09-29 Richard Bonynge, Australian opera conductor (Dame Joan Sutherland, 1962-90; Metropolitan Opera, 1966-91; Vancouver Opera, 1974-82), born in Epping, New South Wales, Australia
• 1930-10-05 Arlene Saunders [Soszynski], American soprano, 1961-85 (Hamburg Opera; New York Metropolitan Opera), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2020)
• 1930-11-22 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), born in Bury St Edmunds, England (d. 2017)
• 1931-01-11 Eve Queler, American conductor (Opera Orchestra of New York, 1971-2010), born in New York City
• 1931-02-10 Gerhard Rosenfeld, German opera and film score composer, born in Königsberg (d. 2003)
• 1931-03-05 Anthony Hedges, British light music and orchestral composer (Humberside Cantata), born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England (d. 2019)
• 1931-03-13 Rosalind Elias, American mezzo-soprano (Wagner's Die Walküre - "Grimgerde"; Barber's Vanessa - "Erika"), and opera director, born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 2020)
• 1931-04-06 Joan Carlyle, Welsh operatic soprano (Covent Garden, 1955-76), born in Upton on the Wirral, Cheshire, England (d. 2021)
• 1931-05-19 Éric Tappy, Swiss operatic tenor, born in Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1931-06-11 Audrey Schuh, American operatic soprano, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
• 1931-07-25 Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, opera administrator and scientific journalist, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2018)
• 1931-08-28 John Shirley-Quirk, British operatic bass-baritone (Death in Venice), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2014)

• 1931-09-22 Nello Santi, Italian opera conductor (Opernhaus Zürich; NY Metropolitan Opera), born in Adria, Veneto, Italy (d. 2020)
• 1932-01-15 Enrique Raxach, Spanish-Dutch contemporary classical and electro-acoustic composer (Pequeña Cantata; Equinoxial), born in Barcelona, Spain
• 1932-02-19 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, French opera director (Carmina Burana), born in Paris, France (d. 1988)
• 1932-02-29 Reri Grist, African-American musical theater and operatic coloratura soprano (West Side Story - "Somewhere"; Zurich Opera, 1962-66; Bayerische Staatsoper, 1965-87; New York Metropolitan Opera, 1966-79), born in New York City
• 1932-05-24 Elaine Malbin, American opera singer, born in New York City
• 1932-09-29 Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish TV executive (Channel 4) and opera company manager (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1987-96), born in Glasgow, Scotland
• 1933-03-23 Norman Bailey, British operatic bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2021)
• 1933-04-12 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish bel canto operatic soprano, and unlikely pop star (with Freddie Mercury - "Barcelona"), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 2018)
• 1933-04-26 Ilkka Kuusisto, Finnish opera composer and arts administrator (Finnish National Opera, 1984-92), born in Helsinki, Finland
• 1933-07-15 Frederico Davia, Italian operatic basso singer, and artistic director, born in Genoa, Italy (d. 1996)
• 1934-02-22 Thomas Paul, American bass (NYC Opera 1963-70), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1934-02-24 Renata Scotto, Italian soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1965-87; La Traviata - "Violetta") and opera director, born in Savona, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2023) [1]
• 1934-03-29 Mei Baojiu, Chinese opera performer and director (Mei Lanfang Peking Opera), born in Shanghai, China (d. 2016)
• 1934-04-13 Siegfried Matthus, German composer, and opera director (Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, 1991-2018), born in Mallenuppen, Free State of Prussia (d. 2021)
• 1934-04-18 George Shirley, American Grammy Award-winning tenor (first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City), and educator, born in Indianapolis, Indiana

• 1934-10-22 Donald McIntyre, New Zealand operatic bass-baritone (Das Rheingold - "Wotan"), born in Auckland, New Zealand
• 1935-01-10 Sherrill Milnes, American operatic baritone (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1965-97), and educator, born in Downers Grove, Illinois
• 1935-02-11 Bent Lorentzen, Danish orchestral, electronic, and opera composer, born in Stenvad, Denmark (d. 2018)
• 1935-02-27 Alberto Remedios, British opera & concert singer, born in Liverpool, England (d. 2016)
• 1935-06-05 Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer (Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 2003)
• 1935-07-29 Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor (Dresden State Opera, 1962-2000), born in Meissen, Saxony, Germany (d. 2019)
• 1935-09-01 Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1973-2002, Vienna State Opera, 2002-10), born in Mukden, Manchuria (d. 2024) [1] [2]
• 1935-09-14 Pompeiu Hărăşteanu, Romanian basso profondo singer (Opera Bonn, 1968-72; Romanian National Opera, 1972-2012), born in Gheorgheni, Romania (d. 2016)
• 1936-01-13 Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone (Verdi), born in Granze, Italy
• 1936-04-27 Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer, born in Atherton, Lancashire (d. 2016)
• 1936-05-23 Ingeborg Hallstein, German soprano opera singer (Bavarian State Opera, 1961-73), born in Munich, Germany
• 1936-06-19 Marisa Galvany [Myra Beth Genis], American operatic soprano (New York City Opera, 1972-84), born in Paterson, New Jersey
• 1936-07-26 Rodney Milne [Blumer], British opera critic (Opera magazine, 1971-99), musicologist, and libretto translator, born in Stafford, England (d. 2015)
• 1937-02-02 Martina Arroyo, American opera soprano (NY Metropolitan Opera, 1965-78), born in New York City
• 1937-02-15 Zoltán Peskó, Hungarian opera conductor and composer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2020)
• 1937-03-12 Elizabeth Vaughan, Welsh opera soprano (Victor/Victoria), born in Llanfyllin, Wales
• 1937-03-24 Benjamin Luxon, British operatic baritone (Owen Wingrave), born in Redruth, England
• 1937-05-13 Judith Somogi, American conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982), born in New York City
• 1937-08-02 Gundula Janowitz, Austrian concert and operatic soprano (Vienna State Opera, 1959-90), and vocal teacher, born in Berlin, Germany

• 1937-08-11 Barbara Smith Conrad, American operatic mezzo-soprano singer, and educator (Wagner Theater), born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 2017)
• 1938-01-19 Eskil Hemberg, Swedish composer, conductor (Stockholm University Chorus, 1959-84), and artistic director (Royal Swedish Opera, 1987-96), born in Stockholm (d. 2004)
• 1938-04-11 Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, born near Cologne, Germany (d. 2017)
• 1938-04-11 Lamberto Puggelli, Italian stage and opera director (Spoleto Festival), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2013)
• 1938-05-26 Teresa Stratas [Anastasia Stratakis], Canadian operatic soprano (Salome), born in Toronto, Ontario
• 1938-05-30 Lone Koppel, Danish operatic soprano (Danish Royal Theatre, 1962-93) and avant garde rock singer (Savage Garden), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1938-06-13 Gwynne Howell, Welsh operatic bass, born in Gorseinon, Wales
• 1938-07-24 Colin Southgate, English businessman (Thorn EMI, Chairman of the Royal Opera House), born in New Malden, Surry (d. 2021)
• 1938-09-20 Jane Manning, British concert and operatic soprano, eductor, and promoter of contemporary classical music, born in Norwich, England (d. 2021)
• 1938-10-13 Enzo Dara, Italian operatic basso buffo (The Barber of Seville - "Don Bartolo"), and author, born in Mantua, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2017)
• 1938-12-10 Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor (Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre, 1976-88; Baltimore Symphony, 2000-06), born in Nalchik, Russia, USSR (d. 2023) [1]
• 1939-03-08 Robert Tear, Welsh tenor (Welsh National Opera, 1970), born in Barry, Wales
• 1939-06-07 Eri Klas, Estonian conductor (Netherlands Radio Symphony; Aarhus Symphony; Estonian National Opera, 1975-95), and educator, born in Tallinn, Estonia (d. 2016)
• 1939-11-12 Lucia Popp [Poppová], Slovakian operatic soprano, born in Záhorská Ves, Slovak State (now Slovakia) (d. 1993)
• 1939-11-18 Tom Johnson, American minimalist composer (The Four-Note Opera; Nine Bells), born in Greeley, Colorado
• 1940-01-29 Justino DÍaz, Puerto Rican opera singer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• 1940-07-09 Manfred Jung, German operatic tenor (Wagner's heldentenor roles), born in Oberhausen, Germany (d. 2017)
• 1940-08-25 José Van Dam, Belgian operatic bass-baritone (Francois d'Assisif), born in Brussels, Belgium
• 1940-09-27 Josephine Barstow, British opera soprano singer, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

• 1940-10-02 Lord Davies, British engineer and chairman (Welsh National Opera)

• 1941-04-26 John Mitchell, American classical composer, organist, church music director, and opera coach, born in Hollywood, California
• 1941-04-27 Judith Blegen, American opera singer (The Magic Flute - "Papagena"), born in Lexington, Kentucky
• 1941-05-06 Ghena Dimitrova, Bulgarian operatic soprano, born in Pleven, Kingdom of Bulgaria (d. 2005)
• 1941-08-28 Paul Peter Plishka, American operatic bass (Bronx Botanical Gardens), born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania
• 1941-11-06 James Bowman, British concert and operatic countertenor (Benjamin Britten's "Apollo"), born in Oxford, England (d. 2023) [1]
• 1942-03-28 Samuel Ramey, American operatic bass (La Scala, 1981- ; Metropolitan Opera, 1984-), born in Colby, Kansas
• 1942-04-18 Richard Angas, British operatic bass singer (English National Opera, 1980-2000), born in Esher, England (d. 2013)
• 1942-11-15 Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-Israeli-Palestinian-Spanish concert pianist and conductor (Orchestre de Paris, 1975-89; Chicago Symphony, 1991-2006; Staatskapelle and Berlin Opera, 1992-present), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1942-11-29 Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone opera singer, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• 1943-01-09 Ariel Bybee, American mezzo-soprano (Morman Tabernacle Choir; Metropolitan Opera, 1977-95), born in Reno, Nevada (d. 2018)
• 1943-02-09 Ryland Davies, Welsh operatic tenor, born in Cwm, Gwent, Wales (d. 2023)
• 1943-03-28 Richard Eyre, English film, theatre, television and opera director (National Theatre), born in Barnstaple, Devon, England
• 1943-04-27 Eugene Polyakov, Russian balletmaster (Paris Opera Ballet), born in Moscow, USSR (d. 1996)
• 1943-05-28 Elena Souliotis, Greek operatic soprano, born in Athens, Greece (d. 2004)

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• 2013-08-08 Regina Resnik, American operatic singer, dies at 90
• 2013-08-11 Lamberto Puggelli, Italian stage and opera director (Spoleto Festival), dies at 75
• 2013-08-20 Richard Angas, British operatic bass singer (English National Opera, 1980-2000), dies at 71
• 2013-08-30 Lotfollah "Lotfi" Mansouri, Persian opera director (Canadian Opera Company, 1976-88; introduced opera surtitles, 1983; San Francisco Opera, 1988-2001), dies at 84
• 2013-09-18 Lisa Otto, German soprano (Berlin State Opera, 1951-85), dies at 93
• 2013-10-07 Patrice Chéreau, French opera director and actor (Danton), dies from lung cancer at 68
• 2014-03-14 Werner Rackwitz, German opera director and musicologist (Handel-Renaissance), dies at 84
• 2014-04-07 John Shirley-Quirk, British operatic bass-baritone (Death in Venice), dies at 82
• 2014-05-06 Antony Hopkins [Reynolds], British composer, pianist, conductor (Intimate Opera Company, 1954-62), writer, and radio broadcaster (Talking About Music, 1954-92), dies at 93
• 2014-06-08 Ivo Vinco, Italian operatic bass singer, dies at 86
• 2014-06-28 Seymour Barab, American cellist (Philip Glass Ensemble), and composer of fairy tale operas (Little Red Riding Hood), dies at 93
• 2014-07-25 Carlo Bergonzi, Italian operatic tenor, dies at 90
• 2014-08-15 Licia Albanese, Italian-American operatic soprano (NY Metropolitan Opera, 1940-66), dies at 105
• 2014-12-11 Hans Wallat, German opera conductor, dies at 85
• 2015-01-21 Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (Vienna State Opera, 1951-2005), dies at 85
• 2015-03-24 Maria Radner, German operatic contralto, specializing in Wagner, dies in a plane crash at 33

• 2015-03-24 Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
• 2015-07-10 Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (Covent Garden, 1957-87; New York Metropolitan Opera, 1960-87), dies at 88
• 2015-11-28 Luc Bondy, Swiss theatre and opera director, dies of cancer at 67
• 2015-12-04 Rodney Milne [Blumer], British opera critic (Opera magazine, 1971-99), musicologist, and libretto translator, dies at 79
• 2016-02-04 Ulf Söderblom, Finnish conductor (Finnish National Opera, 1973-93), and teacher, dies at 85
• 2016-02-15 Louis Lane, American conductor (Akron, 1959-83; Lake Erie Opera, 1964-72), and educator (Cleveland Institute, 1982-2004), dies at 72
• 2016-02-26 Eri Klas, Estonian conductor (Netherlands Radio Symphony; Aarhus Symphony; Estonian National Opera, 1975-95), and educator, dies at 76
• 2016-03-04 Zhou Xiaoyan, Chinese operatic soprano and pedagogue (Shanghai Conservatory, 1949-65 and 1970-78), dies at 98
• 2016-03-23 Gegham Grigorian, Armenian operatic tenor, and artistic director (Yerevan Opera, 2000-07), dies at 65
• 2016-04-25 Mei Baojiu, Chinese opera performer and director (Mei Lanfang Peking Opera), dies at 82
• 2016-04-29 Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian baritone (1951-88), opera director State Opera, 1975-88), and parliamentarian, dies at 91
• 2016-06-05 Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (NYC Opera), dies at 94
• 2016-06-11 Alberto Remedios, British opera and concert singer, dies at 81
• 2016-07-04 Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer, dies at 80
• 2016-08-04 Patrice Munsel [Munsil], American operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1943-58; Patrice Munsel Show), dies at 91

• 2016-09-08 Johan Botha, South African operatic tenor, dies of liver cancer at 51
• 2016-10-05 Pompeiu Hărăşteanu, Romanian basso profondo singer (Opera Bonn, 1968-72; Romanian National Opera, 1972-2012), dies at 81
• 2016-12-01 Elisabeth Carron, American soprano ("The Saint of Bleecker Street"; New York City Opera, 1958-73), dies at 94
• 2016-12-03 Gigliola Frazzoni, Italian operatic soprano, dies at 93
• 2017-01-04 Georges Prêtre, French classical and opera conductor known for interpretation of Poulenc, dies at 92
• 2017-01-18 Roberta Peters [Peterman], American operatic soprano (NY Metropolitan Opera, 1950-85), dies of Parkinson's disease at 86
• 2017-02-08 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish opera tenor (Opera Two to Six), dies at 91
• 2017-03-05 Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, dies at 78
• 2017-03-06 Alberto Zedda, Italian opera conductor and musicologist, dies at79
• 2017-04-14 Manfred Jung, German operatic tenor (Wagner's heldentenor roles), dies at 76
• 2017-05-22 Barbara Smith Conrad, American operatic mezzo-soprano singer, and educator (Wagner Theater), dies at 79
• 2017-06-22 Norman Ayrton, English actor and opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK), dies at 92
• 2017-07-07 Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor (Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, 1981-96), dies at 89
• 2017-08-25 Enzo Dara, Italian operatic basso buffo (The Barber of Seville - "Don Bartolo"), and author, dies at 78
• 2017-09-11 Peter Hall, English stage, film and opera director (Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre director), dies at 86

• 2017-10-09 Vincent La Selva, American conductor (New York Grand Opera Company, 1973-2012), dies at 88 [1]
• 2017-11-11 Francesco "Frank" Corsaro, American opera director (The Night of the Iguana, Play of the Week), dies at 92
• 2017-11-22 Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone, dies of brain cancer at 55
• 2017-11-23 Carol Neblett, American operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1979-93), dies at 71
• 2017-11-24 Carol Neblett, American soprano (New York City and Metropolitan Operas, 1969-83), dies at 71
• 2018-01-03 Colin Brumby, Australian composer (Fibonacci Variations), conductor (Queensland Opera, 1968-71), and educator, dies at 84
• 2018-02-08 Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, opera administrator and scientific journalist, dies at 86
• 2018-03-05 Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
• 2018-03-20 Ariel Bybee, American mezzo-soprano (Morman Tabernacle Choir; Metropolitan Opera, 1977-95), dies at 75
• 2018-10-03 Bent Lorentzen, Danish orchestral, electronic, and opera composer, dies at 83
• 2018-10-06 Montserrat Caballé, Spanish bel canto operatic soprano, and unlikely pop star (with Freddie Mercury - "Barcelona"), dies at 85
• 2018-12-06 Andrew Frierson, pioneering African American opera singer, dies at 94
• 2019-01-26 Wilma Lipp, Austrian soprano (Vienna Opera, 1945-81; Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - "Queen of the Night"), dies at 93
• 2019-03-08 Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor (Frankfurt Opera, 1967-87); Cincinnati Symphony, 1980-86); Southwest German Radio Symphony, 1986-99), and composer, dies at 91
• 2019-04-01 Michel Sénéchal, French operatic tenor, and educator, dies at 91
• 2019-04-22 Heather Harper, Northern Irish operatic soprano (Britten's War Requiem), dies at 88
• 2019-06-15 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director (Romeo & Juliet), dies at 96
• 2019-06-19 Anthony Hedges, British light music and orchestral composer (Humberside Cantata), dies at 88

• 2019-10-05 Marcello Giordani, Italian tenor (Metropolitan Opera, 1993-2008), dies of a heart attack at 56
• 2019-12-25 Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor (Dresden State Opera, 1962-2000), dies at 84 [1]
• 2020-02-06 Nello Santi, Italian opera conductor (Opernhaus Zürich; NY Metropolitan Opera), dies of a blood infection at 80
• 2020-03-31 Zoltán Peskó, Hungarian opera conductor and composer, dies at 83
• 2020-04-17 Arlene Saunders [Soszynski], American soprano, 1961-85 (Hamburg Opera; New York Metropolitan Opera), dies of COVID-19 complications at 89
• 2020-05-03 Rosalind Elias, American mezzo-soprano (Wagner's Die Walküre - "Grimgerde"; Barber's Vanessa - "Erika"), and opera director, dies of congestive heart failure at 90
• 2020-05-07 John Macurdy, American operatic bass (Met Opera), dies at 91
• 2020-05-25 Joel Revzen, American opera conductor and pianist, dies of COVID-19 at 74
• 2020-09-29 Isidora Žebeljan, Serbian classical, opera, and film composer, dies at 53
• 2021-03-09 James Levine, American conductor (director of the Metropolitan Opera, 1976-2017), dies at 77
• 2021-03-31 Jane Manning, British concert and operatic soprano, educator, and promoter of contemporary classical music, dies at 82
• 2021-04-24 Christa Ludwig, German soprano (Vienna State Opera, 1955-94; Metropolitan Opera, 1959-93), dies at 93
• 2021-07-17 Graham Vick, British opera director (Birmingham Opera Company, 1987-2020), dies of COVID-19 complications at 67
• 2021-07-26 Colin Southgate, English businessman (Thorn EMI, Chairman of the Royal Opera House), dies at 83
• 2021-08-27 Siegfried Matthus, German composer, and opera director (Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg, 1991-2018), dies at 87
• 2021-09-15 Norman Bailey, British operatic bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman), dies at 88
• 2021-09-28 Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer (Susanna; Prince of Players), dies at 95
• 2021-10-18 Edita Gruberová, Slovak operatic soprano, dies at 74
• 2021-10-21 Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw, 1961-88; London Philharmonic, 1967-79; Royal Opera Covent Garden, 1987-2002), dies at 92 [1]
• 2021-10-31 Joan Carlyle, Welsh operatic soprano (Covent Garden, 1955-76), dies at 90
• 2021-12-19 Carlos Marín, Spanish pop-opera baritone (Il Divo), dies of COVID-19 at 53
• 2022-01-09 Maria Ewing, American opera mezzo-soprano singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1976-97), dies at 71
• 2022-06-24 Lawrence Moss, American contemporary classical, opera, and electronic music composer, and educator, dies at 94
• 2022-08-11 Darius Danesh, Scottish pop, opera, and swing singer-songwriter (Colourblind; Live Twice) and stage actor, dies of respiratory arrest at 41
• 2022-11-20 (Ione) "Joyce" Bryant, American cabaret artist (Drunk With Love), missionary, schoolteacher, and opera singer, dies at 95 [1]
• 2023-03-27 James Bowman, British concert and operatic countertenor (Benjamin Britten's "Apollo"), dies at 81 [1]
• 2023-08-16 Renata Scotto, Italian soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1965-87; La Traviata - "Violetta") and opera director, dies at 89 [1]
• 2023-09-19 Stephen Gould, American operatic tenor (Bayreuth Festival, 2004-22), dies of bile duct cancer at 61
• 2023-11-02 Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor (Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre, 1976-88; Baltimore Symphony, 2000-06), dies at 84 [1]
• 2023-11-05 Ryland Davies, Welsh operatic tenor, dies at 80
• 2023-11-29 Mildred Miller (Posvar, née Müller), American mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera, 1951-74; The Marriage of Figaro - "Cherubino"), and artistic director (Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, 1978-99), dies at 98
• 2024-02-02 Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, American operatic soprano, and actress (Diva), dies of cancer at 75 [1]
• 2024-02-06 Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1973-2002, Vienna State Opera, 2002-10), dies of heart failure at 88 [1] [2]
• 2024-03-07 Margaret Tynes, American child prodigy and international opera singer, dies at 104
• 2024-03-24 Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer ("Chinese Opera"), conductor, contemporary music advocate, and teacher, dies at 80

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