November 3 — On This Day in Opera

World premiere of Gluck’s reform opera "Paride ed Elena" at the Burgtheater, Vienna.

Vincenzo Bellini, one of the leading composers of bel canto opera and the creator of "Norma", "La sonnambula" and "I puritani", was born in Catania, Sicily.

Gioachino Rossini's one-act comic opera "La cambiale di matrimonio" received its first performance at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice, marking the first of Rossini's operas to reach the stage.

World premiere of Verdi’s "I due Foscari" at Teatro Argentina, Rome.

World premiere of George Alexander Macfarren’s opera "Helvellyn" at Covent Garden, London.

World premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" at the Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow (conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, designs by Vrubel).

First performance of Prokofiev’s opera "Betrothal in a Monastery" at the Kirov Theatre, Leningrad.

World premiere of Felipe Padilla de León’s opera "El Filibusterismo" at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila.

Joby Talbot's opera "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", with a libretto by Gene Scheer, received its world premiere at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas in a production commissioned by The Dallas Opera.

Anthony Davis's opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" received its Metropolitan Opera company premiere in New York in a new production directed by Robert O'Hara.

Pietro Generali, an Italian composer known chiefly for operas and comic stage works including "Pamela nubile" and "Adelina", died in Novara.

Death of German operatic soprano Johanna Geisler (also known as Johanna Klemperer).

Birth of Kosovan operatic tenor Rame Lahaj.