United-States
Boston, MA
Moving freely between tradition and modernity, Boston’s musical history, like that of the United States as a whole, swings between its cultural heritage and contemporary composition.
The first opera was performed in July 1769. Companies were soon invited to perform and in 1909 the city’s own Boston Opera Company was formed. It was in Boston that works as diverse as The Trojans or Moses und Aaron were heard for the first time on American soil.
Founded in 1881 and immediately viewed as one of the finest orchestras in the United States, it should be noted that the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the orchestra which has generated the greatest number of commissions to composers in the world.