An Opera House in San Francisco, California is located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the rear facade of City Hall was the opera house that held the first performance of Elegy, who performed Elegy?
Elegy (Corigliano) Elegy is an orchestral composition by the American composer John Corigliano. It was first performed by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction Verne Sellin at the War Memorial Opera House on June 1, 1966. The piece is dedicated to the composer Samuel Barber.
Háry János Háry János is a Hungarian folk opera (that is, a spoken play with songs, in the manner of a "Singspiel") in four acts by Zoltán Kodály to a Hungarian libretto by Béla Paulini (1881–1945) and Zsolt Harsányi, based on the comic epic "The Veteran" ("Az obsitos") by János Garay. The first performance was at the Royal Hungarian Opera House, Budapest, 1926. The subtitle of the piece is "Háry János kalandozásai Nagyabonytul a Burgváráig" – "János Háry: his Adventures from Nagyabony (Great Abony) to the Vienna Burg". The UK stage premiere was at the Buxton Festival in 1982 conducted by Anthony Hose with Alan Opie in the title role.