November 13 — On This Day in Opera

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s one-act acte de ballet *Les sibarites* received its first performance at Fontainebleau.

Gaetano Donizetti’s grand opera *Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal* had its world premiere at the Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier).

Death of Gioachino Rossini in Passy (near Paris), famed composer of *Il barbiere di Siviglia*, *La Cenerentola*, and *Guillaume Tell*.

Edmond Audran’s opéra comique *Les noces d’Olivette* premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens.

Birth of Russian baritone Mikhail Shuisky, later an Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

At Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Opera premiered its second production of Puccini’s *Tosca*, staged by Richard Ordynski with Geraldine Farrar.

The BBC presented what is widely cited as the first televised opera: Albert Coates’s *Pickwick*, performed by Vladimir Rosing’s British Music Drama Opera Company.

Death of American lyric tenor Mario Chamlee, a Metropolitan Opera artist noted for roles associated with Caruso.

Death of Norwegian soprano Eidé Norena, celebrated for her European and Metropolitan Opera appearances.

World premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’s *Morgen und Abend* at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (The Royal Opera).