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Opera timeline
Australian soprano Joan Sutherland becomes a star overnight with her performance at Covent Garden in Lucia di Lammermoor
20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey
Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes his operatic debut in Reggio Emilia, as Rodolfo in La Bohème
Maria Callas gives her last performance, as Tosca at Covent Garden in London
Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden has its premiere at Covent Garden
Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden
The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace
David Hockney begins a new career as a set designer, with The Rake's Progress by Stravinksky at Glyndebourne
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, the first of a seven-part opera cycle, is performed in Milan
Olivier Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi has its premiere in Paris
Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg
The opera Akhnaten, by US composer Philip Glass, has its first performance in Stuttgart
Harrison Birtwistle's second opera, The Mask of Orpheus, brings him an international reputation
Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Black Mask is premiered in Salzburg
John Adams' opera Nixon in China is performed in Houston
English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's first opera, Greek, is premiered in Munich
