Premiers at Tartu Vanemuine Theatre conducted by Eduard Tubin
1931
Karl Zorling: operetta “Girl from America” (Tubin’s first assignment as theatre conductor)
Artur Adson: play “Man of Song and Maiden of Letters”; incidental music by Enn Võrk
Oscar Straus: operetta “Marietta”
1933
Oscar Straus: operetta “The Chocolate Soldier”
1934
Eduard Vilde: play “Milkman of the Manor”, incidental music by unknown composer
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: opera “Eugene Onegin”
Fritz Kreisler: operetta “Sissy”
Kurt Weill: ”The Threepenny Opera”
1935
Giacomo Puccini: opera “La Bohème”
August Mälk: play “Man from the Sea”, incidental music by Tubin (score is lost)
Evald Aav: opera “The Vikings”
Henrik Visnapuu: children’s play “Gnomes”, incidental music Riho Päts
Pietro Mascagni: opera “Cavalleria Rusticana”, Ruggiero Leoncavallo: opera “Pagliacci”
1936
Boris Vatsel, operetta “The Pearl of Naples”
Friedrich Schiller: play “Turandot”, incidental music by Tubin (score is lost)
Anna Tchumatchenko: children’s play “Fiddler Lulli”, incidental music by unknown composer
Kaarli Aluoja: play “1905” after III part of A.H. Tammsaare’s novel “Truth and Justice”, incidental music by Tubin (ETW 114)
Johan Strauss: operetta “Die Fledermaus”
Paul Abraham: operetta ”Dschainah”
Jara Beneš: operetta ”Auf der grünen Wiese”
1937
Oscar Straus: operetta ”Last Waltz”
Juhan Jaik: play “Hell”, incidental music by Tubin (score is lost)
1938
Franz Lehár: operetta “Giuditta”
Juhan Kallak: children’s play “Ring for wishing”, incidental music by August Kiiss
A.P. Stretchkovich: operetta “Janja”
1939
Paul Rummo: children’s play ”South wind gone astray”, incidental music by Magda Söödor
Eino Leino: “Simo Hurt”, incidental music by Tubin (ETW 115)
Dance show “Carnival Suite”; music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Léo Delibes, Franz Lehár, Edvard Grieg, Isaac Albeniz, Eduard Tubin and others
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: opera “Eugene Onegin”
Imre Kálmán: operetta “The Violet of Montmartre”
Franz Lehár: operetta “The Land of Smiles”
1940
Henrik Ibsen, play “Peer Gynt”, incidental music by Edvard Grieg
Giuseppe Verdi: opera “La Traviata”
Oleksandr Kornychuk: play “The Death of the Squadron”, incidental music by unknown composer
Jaques Offenbach: operetta “Orpheus in the Underworld”
Ivan Dzerzhinsky: opera “Quiet Flows the Don”
1941
Giacomo Puccini: opera “Madame Butterfly”
Cesare Pugni: ballet “La Esmeralda”
Rasmus Kangro-Pool, play ”War at Pühajärv”, incidental music by Tubin (score is lost)
Franz Léhar: operetta “Giuditta”
1942
Friedrich von Flotow: opera “Martha”
Giacomo Puccini: opera “La Bohéme”
1943
Gaetano Donizetti: opera “Don Pasquale”
Eduard Tubin: ballet “Kratt” (ETW 111)
August Mälk: play ”The Lost Sun”, incidental music by Tubin (ETW 117)
Sources
Vardo Rumessen. Eduard Tubin as conductor (manuscript)
Eduard Tubin and His Time, text by Vardo Rumessen. Tallinn 2005
Vardo Rumessen. The Works of Eduard Tubin. Thematic-Bibliographical Catalogue of Works, ETW, International Eduard Tubin Society/Gehrmans Musikförlag, Tallinn/Stockholm, 2003