Opera Company of Boston productions

This list includes opera productions of the Opera Group and Opera Company of Boston from 1958 to 1990.

1958–59

 * Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach (first American performance)
 * La bohème – Puccini
 * The Barber of Seville – Rossini
 * The Beggar's Opera – Gay

1959–60

 * Tosca – Puccini
 * Voyage to the Moon – Offenbach
 * Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
 * Carmen – Bizet

1960–61

 * La traviata – Verdi
 * Otello – Verdi
 * Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck
 * Falstaff – Verdi
 * La bohème – Puccini
 * Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss

1961–62

 * Command Performance – Robert Middleton (world premiere)
 * Manon – Massenet
 * Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Wagner
 * Rigoletto – Verdi

1962–63

 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * The Barber of Seville – Rossini
 * Faust – Gounod

1964

 * Lulu – Berg (2-act version, in English, US East Coast premiere)
 * The Magic Flute – Mozart
 * I Puritani – Bellini
 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * L'Elisir d'Amore – Donizetti

1965

 * The Abduction from the Seraglio – Mozart
 * Semiramide – Rossini
 * Intolleranza – Nono (first American performance)
 * The Tales of Hoffmann – Offenbach (in English)
 * Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky (first American performance of original version)

1966

 * Don Giovanni – Mozart
 * Boris Godunov – Mussorgsky
 * Hippolyte et Aricie – Rameau (first American performance)
 * Moses and Aron – Schoenberg (first American performance)

1967

 * Don Giovanni – Mozart
 * Otello – Verdi
 * The Rake's Progress – Stravinsky
 * Bartók double bill:
 * Bluebeard's Castle (in Hungarian)
 * The Miraculous Mandarin (pantomime ballet)
 * Tosca – Puccini

1968

 * Tosca – Puccini
 * Lulu – Berg
 * Carmen – Bizet
 * La traviata – Verdi
 * Falstaff – Verdi

1969

 * Bartók triple bill:
 * Bluebeard's Castle (in Hungarian)
 * The Miraculous Mandarin (pantomime ballet)
 * The Wooden Prince (pantomime ballet)
 * Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti
 * Macbeth – Verdi (original 1847 version in Italian)
 * The Marriage of Figaro – Mozart (in English)

1970

 * Der fliegende Holländer – Wagner
 * La fille du régiment – Donizetti
 * The Good Soldier Schweik – Kurka
 * The Fisherman and His Wife – Schuller (world premiere)
 * Rigoletto – Verdi

1971

 * Louise – Charpentier
 * La finta giardiniera – Moazrt
 * Norma – Bellini

1972

 * Les Troyens – Berlioz (first American performance of complete version)
 * Tosca – Puccini
 * La traviata – Verdi

1973

 * The Bartered Bride – Smetana (in English)
 * The Daughter of the Regiment – Donizetti (in English)
 * Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny – Weill
 * Don Carlos – Verdi (5-act version in French, including 21 minutes of music cut from the Paris premiere)

1974

 * Don Quichotte – Massenet
 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * War and Peace – Prokofiev (American stage premiere)
 * Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini

1975

 * Falstaff – Verdi
 * Così fan tutte – Mozart
 * Benvenuto Cellini – Berlioz (first American performance)
 * I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Bellini

1976

 * Fidelio – Beethoven
 * Montezuma – Sessions (first American performance)
 * The Girl of the Golden West – Puccini (in English)
 * Macbeth – Verdi (1865 version in Italian)

1977

 * Ruslan and Ludmila – Glinka
 * La bohème – Puccini (in English)
 * Rigoletto – Verdi
 * Orfeo ed Euridice – Gluck (in Italian)
 * Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach (in English)

1978

 * Stiffelio – Verdi
 * Damnation of Faust – Berlioz (in English)
 * Don Pasquale – Donizetti
 * Tosca – Puccini

1979

 * Falstaff – Verdi
 * Falla double bill:
 * La vida breve
 * El retablo de maese Pedro
 * Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
 * The Ice Break – Tippett (American premiere)
 * Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck

1980

 * Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss
 * Der fliegende Holländer – Wagner
 * War and Peace – Prokofiev
 * Aida – Verdi

1981

 * Faust – Gounod
 * Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
 * Rigoletto – Verdi
 * Otello – Verdi

1982

 * Die Soldaten – Zimmermann (in English, American premiere)
 * Aida – Verdi
 * La bohème – Puccini
 * Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach (in English)

1983

 * Carmen – Bizet
 * The Invisible City of Kitezh – Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Norma – Bellini
 * Turandot – Puccini

1984

 * Der Freischütz – Weber
 * Silver Anniversary Opera Gala with Shirley Verrett, James McCracken, and Ruth Welting
 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * Il barbiere di Siviglia – Rossini
 * Don Giovanni – Mozart
 * Les contes d'Hoffmann – Offenbach

1985

 * Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck

1986

 * Turandot – Puccini
 * Taverner – Davies
 * The Makropulos Case – Janáček
 * Tosca – Puccini

1987

 * Il trovatore – Verdi
 * Giulio Cesare – Handel
 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * Don Pasquale – Donizetti

1988

 * Médée – Cherubini (in French with classical Greek dialog)
 * Dead Souls – Shchedrin (American premiere)
 * The Threepenny Opera – Weill
 * La traviata – Verdi

1989

 * Mass – Bernstein
 * Aida – Verdi
 * Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
 * La bohème – Puccini

1990

 * Madama Butterfly – Puccini
 * The Magic Flute – Mozart
 * The Balcony – Robert DiDomenica (world premiere)