Gosh, not long ago a prominent opera commentator was calling SF's season boring. Here's what has dropped at the Met:
- All-male-composer season
- Twenty-four operas
- One opera written after 1950 (Ahknaten)
- Eight written after 1900 (Turandot, Tosca, Butterfly, Ahknaten, Katya Kabanova, Porgy & Bess, Rosenkavalier, Wozzeck)
- Three Mozart (Flute, Nozze, Cosi)
- Five Puccini (Turandot, Tosca, Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Boheme)
- Three Verdi (Traviata, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra)
- Two Massenet (Manon, Werther)
- One each: Handel (Agrippina), Glass (Ahknaten), Rossini (Cenerentola), Berlioz (Damnation), Wagner (Hollander), Janacek (Katya Kabanova), Donizetti (Maria Stuarda), Gluck (Orfeo), Gershwin (Porgy), Tchaikowsky (Queen of Spades), R. Strauss (Rosenkavalier), Berg (Wozzeck)
- In Italian: 14
- In French: 3
- In German: 4
- In English: 2
- In Czech: 1
- In Russian: 1
I could certainly put together a season of ten operas I'm willing to see out of the 25 above, but it's otherwise a pretty boring season: Simon Boccanegra, Agrippina, Ahknaten, Damnation, Katya, Orfeo, Porgy, Queen of Spades, Rosenkavalier, and Wozzeck.
UPDATED, since I managed to overlook La Boheme in my original counts and since I was off by one in my count of post-1900; Tosca just makes it.
UPDATED, since I managed to overlook La Boheme in my original counts and since I was off by one in my count of post-1900; Tosca just makes it.
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One more Puccini (La Bohème).
OMG.
I have fixed that, thanks!
I wonder when the Met last had a season without Boheme.
JUST FOR YOU, I have eyeballed the entire Met archive with a search on La Boheme.
The opera was first performed in 1900, so it was not performed from 1883 to 1900.
It was then performed in every season until 1978-79. That's right; it was performed in 79 consecutive years.
It was NOT performed in the following seasons, if I didn't miss something:
78-79
79-80
80-81
85-86
97-98
2012-13
The answer to your question is 2012-13, but the above accounting provides a very full picture of how the Met managed to perform the opera 1320 times to date. (It's part of the 2018-19 season, also.)
Thank YOU so much for your diligent research! I didn't expect the last Boheme-less season to be so recent.
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