The Use of Greek Tragedy in the History of Opera

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Production First performed Venues
Edipo Tiranno (1585) 1585 Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Giasone (1649) 1649 Teatro S. Cassiano (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
L'Antigona delusa da Alceste (1660) 1660 Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide (1674) 1674 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Alceste (1680) 1680 Theater am Gänsemarkt (Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany)
Iphigénie en Tauride (1704) 1704 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipus (1751) 1751 unknown venue (Rudolstadt, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Alceste (1767) 1767 Burgtheater (Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Alceste (1773) 1773 Hoftheater (Weimar, Free State of Thuringia, Germany)
Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) 1774 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) 1779 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Electre (1782) 1782 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipe à Colone (1786) 1786 unknown venue (Versailles, Île-de-France, France)
Electra (1787) 1787 Drottningholmsteatern (Stockholm, Greater Stockholm, Sweden)
Electre (1790 - 1799) 1790 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Agamennone (1847) 1847 Teatro alla Scala, La Scala (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Agamemnon; ou, Le chameau à deux bosses (1856) 1856 Théâtre des Folies-Nouvelles (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oresteya (1895 - 1896) 1895 Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation)
Cassandra (1905) 1905 Comunale (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
Elektra (1909) 1909 Hoftheater, Semperoper (Dresden, Saxony, Germany), Königliches Schauspielhaus / Konzerthaus (1821-), Königliches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater, Staatstheater Großes Haus, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Konzerthaus (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Edipo re (1920) 1920 Opera Theatre (Chicago, State of Illinois, United States)
Agamemnon (1922) 1922
Agamemnon (1924) 1924
Alkestis (1924) 1924 Nationaltheater (Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Agamemnon (1927) 1927 unknown venue (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Oedipus Rex (1927) 1927 Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Antigone (1927) 1927 Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium)
Leben des Orest (1930) 1930 Stadttheater (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany)
Oedipe (1936 - 1937) 1936 Opéra (Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Antigonae (1949) 1949 Salzburger Festspiele (Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria)
King Oedipus (1952) 1952 Mills College for Women (Oakland, State of California, United States)
Oedipus der Tyrann (1959) 1959 Württembergisches Staatstheater (Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Die Alcestiade (1962) 1962 Opernhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany)
Clitennestra (1965) 1965 Teatro alla Scala, La Scala (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1967) 1967 Metropolitan Opera House (New York City, New York, United States)