1600: Euridice by Peri in Florence
1607: L’Orfeo by Monteverdi in Mantua
1689: Dido and Aeneas by Purcell in Chelsea
1779: Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck in Paris
1787: Don Giovanni by Mozart in Prague
1814: Fidelio by Beethoven in Vienna
1816: The Barber of Seville by Rossini in Rome
1821: Der Freischütz by Weber in Berlin
1831: Norma by Bellini in Milan
1853: La traviata by Verdi in Venice
1859: Faust by Gounod in Paris
1865: Tristan und Isolde by Wagner in Munich
1875: Carmen by Bizet in Paris
1896: La bohème by Puccini in Turin
1902: Pelléas et Mélisande by Debussy in Paris
1905: Salome by Strauss in Dresden
1909: Erwartung by Schœnberg (premiere in Prague in 1924)
1925: Wozzeck by Berg in Berlin
1951: The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky in Venice
1961: Intolleranza 1960 by Nono in Venice
1965: Die Soldaten by B. A. Zimmermann in Cologne
1967: Louis Riel by Harry Somers in Toronto
1978: Le grand macabre by Ligeti in Stockholm
1980: Satyagraha by Philip Glass in Rotterdam
Kopernikus by Claude Vivier in Montreal
1983: Saint François d’Assise by Messiaen in Paris
1987: Nixon in China by John Adams in Houston
2006: The First Emperor by Tan Dun in New York