Bavarian State Opera - Famous World Premieres

Famous World Premieres

• 2 October 1753, Catone in Utica by Giovanni Battista Ferrandini and Metastasio (Residence Theater)
• 13 January 1775, La finta giardiniera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Petrosellini(?) (Residence Theater)
• 29 January 1781, Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giambattista Varesco (Residence Theater)
• 1 February 1782, Semiramide by Antonio Salieri and Metastasio (Residence Theater)
• 27 January 1807, Iphigenie in Aulis by Franz Danzi and Karl Reger (Residence Theater)
• 4 June 1811, Abu Hassan by Carl Maria von Weber and Franz Carl Hiemer (Residence Theater)
• 23 December 1812, Jephthas Gelübde by Giacomo Meyerbeer and Aloys Schreiber (Residence Theater)
• 9 November 1817, Teolinde by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Residence Theater)
• 7 October 1849, Benvenuto Cellini by Franz Lachner, Henri-Auguste Barbier and Léon de Wailly (German by: ?)
• 10 June 1865, Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner
• 21 June 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner
• 22 September 1869, Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner
• 26 June 1870, Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
• 29 June 1888, Die Feen by Richard Wagner
• 23 January 1897, Königskinder (Melodrama edition) by Engelbert Humperdinck and Elsa Bernstein
• 10 October 1897, Sarema by Alexander von Zemlinsky, Adolf von Zemlinszky and Arnold Schoenberg
• 22 January 1899, Der Bärenhäuter by Siegfried Wagner
• 27 November 1903, Le donne curiose by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Luigi Sugana (German by Hermann Teibler) (Residence Theater)
• 19 March 1906, I quattro rusteghi (Die vier Grobiane) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Giuseppe Pizzolato (German by Hermann Teibler)
• 11 December 1906, Das Christelflein by Hans Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach
• 4 December 1909, Il segreto di Susanna (Susannens Geheimnis) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Enrico Golisciani (German by Max Kalbeck)
• 28 March 1916, Der Ring des Polykrates by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Leo Feld and Julyus Korngold and; Violanta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julyus Korngold
• 12 June 1917, Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner (Prinzregententheater)
• 30 November 1920, Die Vögel by Walter Braunfels (by Aristophanes)
• 15 November 1924, Don Gil von den grünen Hosen by Walter Braunfels (by Tirso de Molina)
• 12 November 1931, Das Herz by Hans Pfitzner and Hans Mahner-Mons
• 24 July 1938, Friedenstag by Richard Strauss, Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig
• 5 February 1939, Der Mond by Carl Orff
• 28 October 1942, Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Clemens Krauss
• 29 March 1956, Don Juan de Manara by Henri Tomasi (Prinzregententheater)
• 11 August 1957, Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith
• 27 November 1963, Die Verlobung in San Domingo by Werner Egk (by Heinrich von Kleist)
• 1 August 1972, Sim Tjong by Yun I-sang and Harald Kunz
• 9 July 1978, Lear by Aribert Reimann and Claus H. Henneberg
• 10 May 1981, Lou Salomé by Giuseppe Sinopoli and Karl Dietrich Gräwe
• 22 July 1985 Le Roi Bérenger (König Bérenger I.) by Heinrich Sutermeister (by Eugène Ionesco)
• 8 November 1985, Night by Lorenzo Ferrero and Peter Wehran (by Novalis)
• 25 January 1986, Belshazar by Volker David Kirchner and Harald Weirich
• 7 July 1986, Troades by Aribert Reimann and Gerd Albrecht (by Euripides and Franz Werfel)
• 6 July 1991, Ubu Rex by Krzysztof Penderecki (by Alfred Jarry)
• 1 July 1996, Schlachhof 5 by Hans-Jürgen von Bose (by Kurt Vonnegut)
• 24 May 1998, Was ihr wollt by Manfred Trojahn and Claus H. Henneberg
• 28 June 2000, KANON für geschlossene Gesellschaft by Ruedi Häusermann (Cuvilliéstheater)
• 30 October 2000, Bernarda Albas Haus by Aribert Reimann (by Federico García Lorca)
• 27 June 2002, K.Projekt 12 / 14 by Hans-Jürgen von Bose (by Franz Kafka) (Cuvilliéstheater)
• 17 July 2003, Das Gesicht im Spiegel by Jörg Widmann and Roland Schimmelpfennig (Cuvilliéstheater)
• 27 October 2006, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Botho Strauß
• 30 June 2007, Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin and David Henry Hwang