Former General Managers
1883–84
Henry E. Abbey
1884–85
Leopold Damrosch
1885–91
Edmund C. Stanton
1891–92
Henry E. Abbey, Maurice Grau
1893–97
Henry E. Abbey
John B. Schoeffel
Maurice Grau
1898–1903
Maurice Grau
1903–08
Heinreid Conried
1908–35
Giulio Gatti-Casazza
1935
Herbert Witherspoon
1935–50
Edward Johnson
1950–72
Rudolf Bing
1972
Göran Gentele
1972–75
Schuyler G. Chapin
1975–85
Anthony A. Bliss
1985–89
Bruce Crawford
1989–90
Hugh Southern
1990–2006
Joseph Volpe
Solo Artists with the Most Performances
1 Charles Anthony, tenor: 2919
2 George Cehanovsky, baritone: 2394
3 James Levine, conductor: 2382
4 Angelo Badà, tenor: 2170
5 Paul Franke, tenor: 1980
6 Louis D’Angelo, baritone: 1882
7 James Courtney, bass-baritone: 1739
8 Andrea Velis, tenor: 1693
9 Paolo Ananian, bass: 1639
10 Giordano Paltrinieri, tenor: 1618
11 Vincenzo Reschiglian, baritone: 1577
12 Alessio De Paolis, tenor: 1555
13 Paul Plishka, bass: 1555
14 Thelma Votipka, soprano: 1422
15 Russell Christopher, baritone: 1410
16 Clifford Harvuot, baritone: 1297
17 Antonio Scotti, baritone: 1213
18 Pietro Audisio, tenor: 1193
19 Robert Nagy, tenor: 1189
20 Louis Sgarro, bass: 1107
(through February 28, 2009)
Most Performed Operas
1 Puccini, La Bohème (1,208)
2 Verdi, Aida (1,103)
3 Verdi, La Traviata (952)
4 Bizet, Carmen (945)
5 Puccini, Tosca (891)
6 Puccini, Madama Butterfly (830)
7 Verdi, Rigoletto (821)
8 Gounod, Faust (733)
9 Leoncavallo, Pagliacci (705)
10 Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana (665)
11 Wagner, Lohengrin (618)
12 Verdi, Il Trovatore (607)
13 Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (574)
14 Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor (580)
15 Wagner, Die Walküre (518)
16 Mozart, Don Giovanni (510)
17 Wagner, Tannhäuser (470)
18 Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (455)
19 Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (441)
20 Wagner, Die Meistersinger
von Nürnberg (408)
21 Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (392)
22 Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier (369)
23 Gounod, Roméo et Juliette (322)
24 Verdi, Otello (314)
25 Wagner, Parsifal (288)
(through March 14, 2009)
| World Premieres
Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West
December 10, 1910
Engelbert Humperdinck
Königskinder
December 28, 1910
Horatio Parker
Mona
March 14, 1912
Walter Damrosch
Cyrano
February 27, 1913
Victor Herbert
Madeleine
January 24, 1914
Umberto Giordano
Madame Sans-Gêne
January 25, 1915
Enrique Granados
Goyescas
January 28, 1916
Reginald de Koven
The Canterbury Pilgrims
March 8, 1917
Charles Wakefield Cadman
The Robin Woman: Shanewis
March 23, 1918
Giacomo Puccini
Il Trittico
December 14, 1918
Joseph Carl Breil
The Legend
March 12, 1919
John Adam Hugo
The Temple Dancer
March 12, 1919
Albert Wolff
The Blue Bird
December 27, 1919
Henry Kimball Hadley
Cleopatra’s Night
January 31, 1920
John Alden Carpenter
Skyscrapers
February 19, 1926
Deems Taylor
The King’s Henchman
February 17, 1927
Deems Taylor
Peter Ibbetson
February 7, 1931
Louis Gruenberg
The Emperor Jones
01/07/33
Howard Hanson
Merry Mount
February 10, 1934
John Laurence Seymour
In the Pasha’s Garden
January 24, 1935
Walter Damrosch
The Man Without a Country
May 12, 1937
Gian Carlo Menotti
The Island God
February 20, 1942
Bernard Rogers
The Warrior
January 11, 1947
Samuel Barber
Vanessa
January 15, 1958
Samuel Barber
Antony and Cleopatra
September 16, 1966
Marvin David Levy
Mourning Becomes Electra
March 17, 1967
John Corigliano
The Ghosts of Versailles
December 19, 1991
Philip Glass
The Voyage
October 12, 1992
John Harbison
The Great Gatsby
12/20/99
Tobias Picker
An American Tragedy
December 2, 2005
Tan Dun
The First Emperor
December 21, 2006
Selective List of U.S. Premieres
Ponchielli, La Gioconda
December 20, 1883
Goldmark, Die Königin von Saba
December 2, 1885
Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
January 14, 1886
Tristan und Isolde
December 1, 1886
Götterdämmerung
January 25, 1888
Siegfried
November 9, 1887
Das Rheingold
January 4, 1889
Tannhäuser
January 30, 1889
Massenet, Werther
March 29, 1894
Verdi, Falstaff
February 4, 1895
Puccini, Tosca
February 4, 1901
Wagner, Parsifal
December 24, 1903
Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust
December 7, 1906
Strauss, Salome
January 22, 1907
Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades
March 5, 1910
Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov
March 19, 1913
Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier
December 9, 1913
Borodin, Prince Igor
December 30, 1915
Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride
November 25, 1916
Mozart, Così fan tutte
March, 24, 1922
Korngold, Die Tote Stadt
November 19, 1921
Janácek, Jenůfa
December 6, 1924
Puccini, Turandot
November 16, 19/26
Puccini, La Rondine
March 10, 1928
Strauss, Die Ägyptische Helena
November 6, 1928
Verdi, Simon Boccanegra
January 28, 1932
Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress
February 14, 1953
Strauss, Arabella
February 10, 1955
Menotti, The Last Savage
January 23, 1964
Britten, Death in Venice
October 18, 1974
Rossini, L’Assedio di Corinto
April 7, 1975
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