Last year in Houston, he staged the premiere of Carlisle Floyd's "Cold Sassy Tree," his seventh opera production.

In January 2007, it staged the North American premiere of Philip Glass's opera "Waiting for the Barbarians."

In 1987 he staged and produced the premiere of Reaching for the Moon, a hitherto-unperformed musical by George and Ira Gershwin.

In the fall of 2009 the company staged the national premiere of High Fidelity, the Musical in four sold-out performances.

In 1797 Richard Cumberland staged the premiere of his play The Last of the Family as a benefit for Bannister.

Directed by Michael Wilson, who staged the premiere of the show two years ago at Hartford Stage, where he is the artistic director.

For Friday's second set, Mr. Holland staged the American premiere of his 13-piece big band.

Tucker had to give up the option of staging the premiere of Britten's Billy Budd, lacking the resources to do it justice.

(Alan Schneider died in 1984 in an accident in London, where he was staging the premiere of another new American play.)

Theater Erfurt, the German company that commissioned the work, staged the premiere in September 2005, and the opera was subsequently staged in Amsterdam.