Every new opera ever staged since April 1945
mainThierry Vagne has updated his post-war operatic chronology.
By his reckoning the world’s opera houses have staged 7,900 new works by 2,900 composers.
Check the list here.
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A small correction. Thomas Wilson’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner was given its premiere in 1976 – not 1975.
David Amram’s birth year is 1930, not 1940.
Even a fanatic like me cannot claim to have seen more than 5% from this list.
And yet so few have entered the repertoire. The ability to write successful opera is one of the rarest human abilities. Why is that?