Movies are in ”quotes”, notable events in BOLD, live events receive no emphasis.
1960
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Andrea Chenier
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Madame Butterfly
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Der Zigeunerbaron
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Simon Boccanegra
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
May 8: “South Pacific”, “Moon Bird” (cartoon)
1961
Feb. 1: “Swiss Family Robinson”, “King of Keys” (short film), “Mickey and the Seal” (cartoon)
May 1: Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Manon Lescaut
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Martha
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: L’Elisir D’ Amore
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
November 2: “Splendor in the Grass” and “Dixie Fryer” (cartoon)
1962
March 20: “Liberty Valance”
April 30: Metropolitan Opera: Elektra (first integrated audience to view a Metropolitan Opera performance at the Fox)
May 1: Metropolitan Opera: La Forza Del Destino
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: Madame Butterfly
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla Del West
May 30: Indianapolis 500 (closed circuit television)
1963
February 14: Love for the Organ
March 5: “Bye Bye Birdie”
April 29: Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
April 30: Metropolitan Opera: Otello
May 1: Metropolitan Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Boris Gudunov
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Die Fledermaus
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
December 18: “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”
1964
May 11: Metropolitan Opera: Aida
May 12: Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme with Franco Corellie and Renata Tebaldi
May 13: Metropolitan Opera: Manon
May 14: Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni with Leontyne Price
May 15: Metropolitan Opera: Faust
May 16: Metropolitan Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor with Joan Sutherland, and Richard Tucker
May 16: Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
Dec. 28: “Sex and the Single Girl”
1965
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: The Last Savage, with Roberta Peters
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: Samson and Delila
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Otello
May 8: Metropolitan Opera: Der Fliegende Hollander
May 8: Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
Nov. 10: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
Jack Benny Benefit for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (date unknown)
1966
“Gone With the Wind” (film)
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Faust
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Queen of Spades
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Il Trovatore
May 13: “Born Free”
Oct. 4: “Gi Gi”
1967
May 1: Metropolitan Opera: La Gioconda
May 2: Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo In Maschera with Leontyne Price
May 3: Metropolitan Opera: Turandot with Birgit Nilsson
May 4: Metropolitan Opera: Die Fledermaus
May 5: Metropolitan Opera: Lohengrin
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Otello
June 21: “Snow White”
June 29: “Dirty Dozen”
1968
May 6: Metropolitan Opera: Luisa Miller
May 7: Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
May 8: Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
May 9: Metropolitan Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
May 10: Metropolitan Opera: Le Forza del Destino
May 11: Metropolitan Opera: Madame Butterfly
May 11: Metropolitan Opera: Romeo and Juliette (last Met Opera performance at the Fox)
July 4: John Wayne & the Premiere of “Green Berets”
1969
March 27: Moeller Organ accompanies the 1925 silent movie, “The Eagle”
