Opera in the United States

Opera in the United States dates to the 18th century.[1]

Colonial era

The first opera known to have been performed in the American colonies was the ballad opera Flora, which was performed in Charleston, South Carolina in 1735.[2][3]

Opera in New Orleans began prior to the Louisiana Purchase, with the first recorded opera being a performance of André Grétry's Sylvain in May 1796.[4]

See also

Further reading
  • Ken Wlaschin (24 September 2009). Encyclopedia of American Opera. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7864-4596-7.
  • Opera, entry in "The United States Encyclopedia of History", Volume 13
  • Dizikes, John (1993). Opera in America : A Cultural History. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 611. ISBN 0300061013.

References
  1. Giorgio Bagnoli (1993). The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera. Simon and Schuster. pp. 295–. ISBN 978-0-671-87042-3.
  2. Sciott, Bruce. "'Flora' — An 18th-Century British Invasion". npr.org. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  3. Evenden, Michael (2011). "Flora's Descent; or Hob's Re-Re-Re-Resurrection". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 44 (4): 565-567. doi:10.1353/ecs.2011.0024. S2CID 162366714.
  4. Bentley, Charlotte (2017). "The Race for Robert and Other Rivalries: Negotiating the Local and (Inter)National in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans". Cambridge Opera Journal. 29 (1): 94 - 112. doi:10.1017/S0954586717000064. S2CID 149376338.
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