Where else would there be riots over a new opera?
The first performance of the new opera was presented on 17 February 1859.
At the very least, given the number of chamber works being written today, the company should be doing a new opera every season or two.
The two set to work on the new opera, taking longer to prepare it than they had taken with many of their earlier works.
There could not be a more basic way to foster new American opera.
For now, they say, it is just beautiful, like art or a challenging new opera.
But she couldn't; the Met was in the middle of staging a new opera.
Hearing a new opera is often like seeing a painting for the first time.
"Maybe this is the future for the development of new operas," he said.
This also holds true for those who want to write new opera.