John Charles Eaton

Eaton, whose works include many short operas, is a pioneer in the use of electronic instruments in concert music and in the use of microtonalism

• Ma Barker, opera in three acts
  Libretto by A. Gold.
  1957
• Heracles, opera in three acts
  Libretto by M. Fried.
  October 10, 1968, Turin
• Myshkin, opera in one act
  Libretto by Patrick Creagh.
  March 23, 1973, Bloomington, Indiana
• The Lion and Androcles, comic opera
  Libretto by E. Walter and D. Anderson.
  May 1, 1974, Indianapolis, Indiana
• Danton and Robespierre, opera in three acts
  Libretto by Patrick Creagh.
  April 21, 1978, Bloomington, Indiana
• The Cry of Clytemnestra (March 1, 1980, Bloomington, Indiana)
• The Tempest (July 27, 1985, Santa Fe, New Mexico)
• The Reverend Jim Jones (1989)
• Let's Get This Show on the Road (1993)
• Golk (1995)
• Antigone (1999)
• ...inasmuch (2002)
• King Lear, opera in three acts
  Libretto by Laura Bates after Shakespeare.
  composed 2003-4

Discography

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John Eaton Danton and Robespierre Indiana University Opera Theater/Baldner LP / Indiana University IUS 421 (1980)

Last update: January 1, 2009