My last post commented on the latest work to be premiered by the Metropolitan Opera. I mentioned that only the two by Giacomo Puccini had achieved lasting success. Below is a list of both the world and American premieres mounted by the company since its beginning in 1883. You can thus form your own judgement as to the staying powers of these operas. Both the composers and operas are linked to sites that will give additional information. The Wikipedia is the source of this information.

World premieres

Opera Composer Date of premiere
La fanciulla del West Giacomo Puccini 1910-12-10
Königskinder Engelbert Humperdinck 1910-12-28
Mona Horatio Parker 1912-03-14
Cyrano Walter Damrosch 1913-02-27
Madeleine Victor Herbert 1914-01-24
Madame Sans-Gêne Umberto Giordano 1915-01-25
Goyescas Enrique Granados 1916-01-28
The Canterbury Pilgrims Reginald de Koven 1917-03-08
Shanewis Charles Wakefield Cadman 1918-03-23
The Dance in Place Congo (ballet) Henry F. Gilbert 1918-03-23
Il trittico Giacomo Puccini 1918-12-14[1]
The Legend Joseph Carl Breil 1919-03-12[2]
The Temple Dancer John Adam Hugo 1919-03-12
L’oiseau bleu Albert Wolff 1919-12-27
Cleopatra’s Night Henry Kimball Hadley 1920-01-31[3]
Skyscrapers (ballet) John Alden Carpenter 1926-02-19
The King’s Henchman Deems Taylor 1927-02-17[4]
Peter Ibbetson Deems Taylor 1931-02-07[5]
The Emperor Jones Louis Gruenberg 1933-01-07
Merry Mount Howard Hanson 1934-02-10[6]
In the Pasha’s Garden John Laurence Seymour 1935-01-24
The Man Without a Country Walter Damrosch 1937-05-12[7]
The Island God Gian Carlo Menotti 1942-02-20
The Warrior Bernard Rogers 1947-01-11
Vanessa Samuel Barber 1958-01-15
Antony and Cleopatra Samuel Barber 1966-09-16
Mourning Becomes Electra Marvin David Levy 1967-03-17
The Ghosts of Versailles John Corigliano 1991-12-19
The Voyage Philip Glass 1992-10-12
The Great Gatsby John Harbison 1999-12-20
An American Tragedy Tobias Picker 2005-12-02
The First Emperor Tan Dun 2006-12-21

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United States premieres

Opera Composer Date of premiere
La Gioconda Amilcare Ponchielli 1883-12-20
Die Walküre Richard Wagner 1885-01-30
Die Königin von Saba Karl Goldmark 1885-12-02
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Richard Wagner 1886-01-04
Das goldene Kreuz Ignaz Brüll 1886-11-19
Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner 1886-12-01
Merlin Karl Goldmark 1887-01-03
Siegfried Richard Wagner 1887-11-09
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen Viktor Nessler 1887-11-23
Euryanthe Carl Maria von Weber 1887-12-23
Fernand Cortez Gaspare Spontini 1888-01-06
Götterdämmerung Richard Wagner 1888-01-25
Das Rheingold Richard Wagner 1889-01-04
Tannhäuser Richard Wagner 1889-01-30
Der Barbier von Bagdad Peter Cornelius 1890-01-03
Asrael Alberto Franchetti 1890-11-26
Il Vassallo di Szigeth Antonio Smareglia 1890-12-12
Diana von Solange Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1891-01-09
Werther Jules Massenet 1894-03-29
Elaine Herman Bemberg 1894-12-17
Manon Jules Massenet 1895-01-16
Falstaff Giuseppe Verdi 1895-02-04
La Navarraise Jules Massenet 1895-12-11
Ero e Leandro Luigi Mancinelli 1899-03-10
Tosca Giacomo Puccini 1901-02-04
Messaline Isidore de Lara 1902-01-22
Manru Ignacy Jan Paderewski 1902-02-14
Der Wald Ethel Smyth 1903-03-11
Parsifal Richard Wagner 1903-12-24
Fedora Umberto Giordano 1906-12-05
La damnation de Faust Hector Berlioz 1906-12-07
Salome Richard Strauss 1907-01-22
Tiefland Eugen d’Albert 1908-11-23
Le Villi Giacomo Puccini 1908-12-17
La Wally Alfredo Catalani 1909-01-06
Germania Alberto Franchetti 1910-01-22
L’attaque du moulin Alfred Bruneau 1910-02-08
The Queen of Spades Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1910-03-05
Armide Christoph Willibald Gluck 1910-11-14
Ariane et Barbe-bleue Paul Dukas 1911-03-29
Lobetanz Ludwig Thuille 1911-11-18
Le donne curiose Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1912-01-03
Versiegelt Leo Blech 1912-01-20
La Vita Nuova (cantata) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1912-01-28
L’Orfeo Claudio Monteverdi 1912-04-14
Boris Godunov Modest Mussorgsky 1913-03-19
Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss 1913-12-09
L’amore dei tre re Italo Montemezzi 1914-01-02
Julien Gustave Charpentier 1914-02-26
L’amore medico Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1914-03-25
L’Oracolo Franco Leoni 1915-02-04
Prince Igor Alexander Borodin 1915-12-30
Iphigénie en Tauride Christoph Willibald Gluck 1916-11-25
Francesca da Rimini Riccardo Zandonai 1916-12-22
Mârouf, savetier du Caire Henri Rabaud 1917-12-19
The Legend of Saint Elisabeth (a staged oratorio) Franz Liszt 1918-01-03
Lodoletta Pietro Mascagni 1918-01-12
The Golden Cockerel Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1918-03-06
La reine Fiammette Xavier Leroux 1919-01-24
Eugene Onegin Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1920-03-24[8]
Il Carillon Magico (ballet) Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli 1920-12-02
Der Polnische Jude Karel Weis 1921-03-09[9]
Die tote Stadt Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1921-11-19
The Snow Maiden Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1922-01-23[10]
Così Fan Tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1922-03-24
Anima Allegra Franco Vittadini 1923-02-14
Mona Lisa Max von Schillings 1923-03-01[11]
I Compagnacci Primo Riccitelli 1924-01-02[12]
Jenufa Leoš Janáček 1924-12-06
Giovanni Gallurese Italo Montemezzi 1925-02-19
La cena delle beffe Umberto Giordano 1926-01-02[13]
La vida breve Manuel de Falla 1926-03-06[14]
Le Rossignol Igor Stravinsky 1926-03-06
Turandot Giacomo Puccini 1926-11-16
Violanta Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1927-11-05
Madonna Imperia Franco Alfano 1928-02-08[15]
La Rondine Giacomo Puccini 1928-03-10
Die ägyptische Helena Richard Strauss 1928-11-06
La campana sommersa Ottorino Respighi 1928-11-24[16]
Jonny spielt auf Ernst Krenek 1929-01-19
Fra Gherardo Ildebrando Pizzetti 1929-03-21[17]
Sadko Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1930-01-25[18]
The Fair at Sorochyntsi Modest Mussorgsky 1930-11-29
Le Preziose Ridicole Felice Lattuada 1930-12-10
Schwanda the Bagpiper Jaromír Weinberger 1931-11-07
La Notte di Zoraima Italo Montemezzi 1931-12-02[19]
Simon Boccanegra Giuseppe Verdi 1932-01-28
Il Signor Bruschino Gioacchino Rossini 1932-12-09
Caponsacchi Richard Hageman 1937-02-04[20]
Alceste Christoph Willibald Gluck 1941-01-24
The Rake’s Progress Igor Stravinsky 1953-02-14
Arabella Richard Strauss 1955-02-10
Atlàntida (cantata) Manuel de Falla 1962-09-29
The Last Savage Gian Carlo Menotti 1964-01-23
The Happy Prince Malcolm Williamson 1967-08-21
Syllabaire pour Phèdre Maurice Ohana 1973-02-17
Death in Venice Benjamin Britten 1974-10-18
Le siège de Corinthe Gioacchino Rossini 1975-04-07
Cyrano de Bergerac Franco Alfano 2005-05-13
Two Boys Nico Muhly 2013-10-21
The Exterminating Angel Thomas Adès 2017-10-26
Marnie Nico Muhly 2018-10-19

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