Metropolitan Performances in Brooklyn
Opera First Performance Times
“Il Trovatore” ……………………. November 19 ……. 1
“Orfeo ed Eurydice” ……………….. November 26 ……. 1
“Tannhäuser” ……………………… December 3 …….. 1
“Cavalleria” (double bill) …………. January 3 ……… 1
“Pagliacci” (double bill) ………….. January 3 ……… 1
“Lohengrin” ………………………. January 17 …….. 1
“Königskinder” ……………………. January 24 …….. 1
“La Bohème” ………………………. January 31 …….. 1
“Rigoletto” ………………………. February 7 …….. 1
“Madama Butterfly” ………………… February 21 ……. 1
“Tosca” ………………………….. February 28 ……. 1
“Aïda” …………………………… March 7 ……….. 1
“Otello” …………………………. March 14 ………. 1
“La Fanciulla del West” ……………. March 18 ………. 1
“Parsifal” ……………………….. March 21 ………. 1
Fourteen representations, fifteen operas, one double bill.
The novelties produced in the season were Gluck’s “Armide,” Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West,” Humperdinck’s “Königskinder,” Dukas’s “Ariane et Barbe-Bleue,” Herbert’s “Natoma,” Wolf-Ferrari’s “Il Segreto di Susanna,” and Nouguet’s “Quo Vadis.”