| Year |
Premieres |
Events |
| 1841 |
|
William Henry Fry
composes
Aurelia the Vestal,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1845 |
June 4:
Leonora,
(William Henry Fry;
Chestnut St., Philadelphia)
|
The premiere of
Fry's
Leonora
is the first known performance of an opera
by an American composer.
|
| 1855 |
Sep. 27:
Rip Van Winkle
(
G. F. Bristow;
Niblo's Garden, NY)
|
Bristow's
Rip Van Winkle
is the first opera by an American composer
on an American subject.
The Norwegian violinist Ole Bull offers a prize of $1000
for the best original American opera on an American subject.
For financial reasons, the prize is never awarded.
|
| 1858 |
Mar. 29:
Giulio e Leonore
(William Henry Fry; Academy of Music, NY)
[rev. of Leonore (1845); performed in Italian]
|
|
| 1862 |
The Doctor of Alcantara
(Julius Eichberg)
|
| 1864 |
Notre Dame of Paris
(William Henry Fry; Philadelphia)
|
A Night in Rome
(Julius Eichberg)
[operetta]
|
| 1865 |
|
The Rose of Tyrol
(Julius Eichberg)
[operetta]
|
| 1868 |
|
The Two Cadis
(Julius Eichberg)
[operetta]
|
| 1871 |
|
Silas G. Pratt
completes
Antonio;
exceprts are performed in concert
in Chicago
|
| 1877 |
|
Frederick G. Gleason
composes
Otho Visconti;
it will premiere posthumously in 1907.
|
| 1880 |
Oct. 11:
Deseret, or, A Saint's Affliction
(Dudley Buck)
|
| 1882 |
June 15:
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
(Silas G. Pratt; Central Music Hall, Chicago)
[concert version only]
|
| 1883 |
Mar. 26:
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
(Silas G. Pratt; McVicker's Theater, Chicago)
[fully staged]
|
| 1884 |
|
George W. Chadwick
composes
The Peer and the Pauper;
[operetta]
it was never performed and is now lost.
|
| 1885 |
|
Frederick G. Gleason
composes
Montezuma;
it remains unperformed.
|
| 1887 |
Mar. 14:
Lucille
(Silas G. Pratt; Columbia Theater, Chicago)
[rev. of Antonio (1971)]
|
| 1889 |
Serapis
(Dudley Buck)
|
| 1892 |
|
A Quiet Lodging
(George W. Chadwick)
[operetta]
|
| 1893 |
The Martyr
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
Denver)
|
The premiere of The Martyr
is the first known performance of an opera by
an African-American composer
Dec. 16:
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9: From the New World
premieres at Carnegie Hall.
|
| 1894 |
Jan. 29:
Tabasco
(George W. Chadwick; Boston)
[amateur production]
Apr. 9:
Tabasco
(George W. Chadwick)
[professional premiere]
|
|
| 1895 |
|
Mary Carr Moore
composes
The Oracle
|
| 1896 |
Feb. 10:
The Scarlet Letter
(Walter Damrosch; Boston)
|
| 1898 |
|
Dec. 13:
George Frederick Bristow
dies;
his second opera,
Columbus
(and possibly another work,
The King of the Mountain
)
is still incomplete.
John Knowles Paine
composes
Azara
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
Zuluki,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1901 |
Sep. 23:
Judith
(George W. Chadwick; Worcester, Mass)
|
| 1903 |
A Guest of Honor
(Scott Joplin;
St. Louis)
[ragtime opera; lost]
Azara
(John Knowles Paine; Boston)
[concert performance with piano]
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
An African Kraal,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1904 |
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
The Octoroon,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1906 |
Jan. 31:
The Pipe of Desire
(Frederick Converse;
Jordan Hall, Boston)
[one act]
Valdo
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
Cleveland)
|
| 1907 |
Jun. 4:
Otho Visconti
(Frederick G. Gleason, Chicago)
[composed 1877]
|
Paine's
Azara
(1903)
is given in Boston
in a concert performance
with full orchestra
Scott Joplin
completes
Treemonisha.
It will not premiere until 1972
|
1908 |
Cap'n Kidd & Co.
(Deems Taylor)
[comic opera]
|
| 1909 |
Safie
(Henry Hadley; Mainz, Germany)
[one act]
|
The Echo
(Deems Taylor)
[musical play]
|
| 1910 |
Lancelot and Elaine
(Roger Sessions)
|
Mar. 18:
Converse's The Pipe of Desire (1906)
is the first American opera performed at
the Met
Deems Taylor
composes
The King's Henchman.
It will not premiere until 1927.
Signor Formica
(Louis Gruenberg)
[operetta]
Love Laughs at Locksmiths
(Joseph Carl Breil)
[operetta]
|
| 1911 |
Feb. 25:
Natoma
(Victor Herbert;
Philadelphia-Chicago Opera Co., Philadelphia)
Mar. 3:
The Sacrifice
(Frederick Converse; Boston)
The Tryst
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
New York)
|
Scott Joplin
publishes the P-V score of
Treemonisha. (1907)
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
The Prophecy,
which remains unperformed.
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Narcissa, or, The Cost of Empire
|
| 1912 |
Mar. 14:
Mona
(Horatio Parker;
NY Met)
Oct. 15:
The Dove of Peace
(Walter Damrosch; Philadelphia)
|
George W. Chadwick composes
The Padrone,
which does not premiere until 1995.
The Witch of Brocken
(Louis Gruenberg)
[operetta]
Charles Wakefield Cadman
composes
The Land of the Misty Water,
which remains unperformed.
Mary Carr Moore
composes
The Leper
|
| 1913 |
Feb. 27:
Cyrano
(Walter Damrosch;
NY Met)
|
Frederick Converse composes
Beauty and the Beast,
which remains unperformed.
Frederick Converse composes
Sinbad the Sailor.
Louis Gruenberg composes
The Bride of the Gods
Piccadillymädel
(Louis Gruenberg)
[operetta]
Prof. Tattle
(Joseph Carl Breil)
[operetta]
The Seventh Chord
(Joseph Carl Breil)
[operetta]
|
| 1914 |
Jan. 24:
Madeleine
(Victor Herbert;
NY Met)
|
Frederick Converse composes
The Immigrants,
which remains unperformed.
Harry Lawrence Freeman
composes
Voodoo;
it will not premiere until 1928.
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Memories
|
| 1915 |
July 1:
Fairyland
(
Horatio Parker;
Los Angeles)
|
Scott Joplin's
Treemonisha
is given in demonstration to potential backers.
The work was not produced for the public until 1972.
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
The Plantation,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1916 |
|
The Breath of Scandal, or, The Mistress of the Seas
(Deems Taylor)
[operetta]
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
Athalia,
which remains unperformed.
|
| 1917 |
Mar. 8:
The Canterbury Pilgrims
(Reginald De Koven; NY)
Azora, Daughter of Montezuma
(Henry Hadley; Chicago Opera)
|
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Harmony
|
| 1918 |
Mar. 23:
Shanewis
(Charles Wakefield Cadman;
NY Met)
Bianca
(Henry Hadley; New York)
[one act]
|
| 1919 |
Mar. 12:
The Legend
(Joseph Carl Breil; NY Met)
[one act]
|
Roly-boly Eyes
(Louis Gruenberg)
[operetta]
|
| 1920 |
Jan. 2:
Rip Van Winkle
(Reginald De Koven; Chicago)
Jan. 31:
Cleopatra's Night
(Henry Hadley;
NY Met)
Les précieuses ridicules
(John Laurence Seymour)
|
| 1922 |
The Sunset Trail
(Charles Wakefield Cadman; Denver)
|
Blue Monday
(George Gershwin)
["jazz opera"]
The twelve-year-old Gian Carlo Menotti writes his first opera,
The Death of Pierrot.
Bachelor Belles
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
Mary Carr Moore
composes
The Flaming Arrow, or, The Shaft of Ku' Pish-ta-ya
Mary Carr Moore
composes
A Chinese Legend "The Immortal Lovers,"
[pantomime]
|
| 1923 |
Feb. 1:
Love's Sacrifice
(George W. Chadwick)
[for school performance]
Nov. 12:
Vendetta
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
New York)
Semper virens
(Henry Hadley; Sonoma County, CA)
[music-drama]
|
Feb. 1:
Love's Sacrifice
(George W. Chadwick; Chicago)
[one-act operetta, for school performance]
Louis Gruenberg composes
The Dumb Wife
[chamber opera]
|
| 1924 |
A Night in Old Paris
(Henry Hadley; New York)
|
| 1925 |
Feb. 26:
Fay-en-Fah
(Joseph D. Redding's;
Monte Carlo)
Mar. 20:
The Garden of Mystery
(Charles Wakefield Cadman)
[one-act]
Nov. 24:
Der Asra
(Joseph Carl Breil; Los Angeles)
[one act]
|
Feb. 26:
Joseph D. Redding's
Fay-en-Fah
is the first American opera performed
in France
(at Monte Carlo)
Gershwin's
Blue Monday (1922)
performed in concert
by Paul Whiteman under the title
135th Street
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Roger Sessions)
[inc.]
Hallo! Tommy!
(Louis Gruenberg, writing as George Edwards)
[operetta]
|
| 1926 |
Dec. 8:
A Witch of Salem
(Charles Wakefield Cadman; Chicago)
|
Jan. 11:
Joseph D. Redding's
Fay-en-Fah
is the first American opera performed
by the San Francisco opera.
The Ghost of Lollypop Bay
(Charles Wakefield Cadman)
[operetta]
Lelawala
(Charles Wakefield Cadman)
[operetta]
|
| 1927 |
Feb. 17:
The King's Henchman
(Deems Taylor;
NY Met)
American Romance
(Harry Lawrence Freeman)
|
Lady X.
(Louis Gruenberg, writing as George Edwards)
[operetta]
|
| 1928 |
May 8:
David Rizzio
(Mary Carr Moore; Los Angeles)
Sep. 10:
The Flapper
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
New York)
[may be revision of American Romance (1927)]
Voodoo
(Harry Lawrence Freeman;
Cleveland)
|
The Belle of Havana
(Charles Wakefield Cadman)
[operetta]
|
| 1929 |
Triple Sec
(Marc Blitzstein)
Parabola and Circula
(Marc Blitzstein)
|
| 1931 |
Feb. 7:
Peter Ibbetson
(Deems Taylor;
NY Met)
The Harpies
(Marc Blitzstein)
[one-act]
Jack and the Beanstalk
(Louis Gruenberg)
[children's opera]
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
Leah Kleschna.
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Los Rubios
|
| 1932 |
The Condemned
(Marc Blitzstein)
Dec. 29:
Evangeline
(Otto Luening; Chicago)
|
Amy Beach
composes
Cabildo.
It will not premiere until 1995.
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
The Slave.
South in Sonora
(Charles Wakefield Cadman)
[operetta]
|
| 1933 |
Jan. 7:
The Emperor Jones
(Louis Gruenberg;
NY Met)
[one act]
May 20:
Merry Mount
(Howard Hanson;
Ann Arbor, MI)
[concert performance]
|
Dec. 26:
Taylor's
Peter Ibbetson
becomes the first American opera
to open a Met season.
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Flutes of Jade Happiness
|
| 1934 |
Feb. 8:
Four Saints in Three Acts
(Virgil Thomson; Hartford, CT)
Feb. 10:
Merry Mount
(Howard Hanson;
NY Met)
[stage premiere]
Mon Ami Pierrot
(Samuel Barlow)
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
The Zulu King.
|
| 1935 |
Jan. 24:
In the Pasha's Garden
(John Laurence Seymour;
NY Met)
Oct. 10:
Porgy and Bess
(George Gershwin; Alvin Theater, NY)
White Wings
(Douglas Moore)
Blue Steel
(William Grant Still)
|
Mary Carr Moore
composes
Légende Provençale
|
| 1936 |
Amanda
(Samuel Barlow)
The Headless Horseman
(Douglas Moore)
|
Louis Gruenberg composes
Queen Helen
Golden Days
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
Hollywood Madness
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
|
| 1937 |
May 12:
The Man Without a Country
(Walter Damrosch;
NY Met)
Jun. 16:
The Cradle Will Rock
(Marc Blitzstein, NY)
Green Mansions
(Louis Gruenberg)
[radio opera]
Apr. 1:
Amelia Goes to the Ball
(Gian Carlo Menotti; Philadelphia)
[one-act]
|
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
|
| 1938 |
The Second Hurricane
(Aaron Copland)
|
Louis Gruenberg composes
Helena's Husband
Virgil Thomson
begins an opera based on
John Webster's
The Duchess of Malfi;
it is never completed
Paul Bowles
composes
Denmark Valley
(now lost)
|
| 1939 |
Mar. 31:
The Troubled Island
(William Grant Still;
NY City Opera)
May 18:
The Devil and Daniel Webster
(Douglas Moore, NY)
The Old Maid and the Thief
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
[radio opera]
|
|
| 1940 |
A Bayou Legend
(William Grant Still)
|
| 1941 |
No for an Answer
(Marc Blitzstein)
|
| 1942 |
Feb. 10:
Ramuntcho
(Deems Taylor; Philadelphia)
Feb. 20:
The Island God
(Gian Carlo Menotti;
NY Met)
[one act]
Mar. 29:
Solomon and Balkis
(Randall Thompson, CBS)
[radio premiere]
Apr. 14:
Solomon and Balkis
(Randall Thompson, Cambridge, MA)
[stage premiere]
A Southern Interlude
(William Grant Still)
|
The Devil and Tom Walker
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
The Three Brothers
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
|
| 1943 |
Mar. 30:
The Wind Remains
(Paul Bowles)
[zarzuela]
|
|
| 1944 |
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
Nada the Lily.
On the Town
(Leonard Bernstein)
[musical]
|
| 1945 |
|
Louis Gruenberg composes
Volpone
Billion Dollar Baby
(Morton Gould)
[broadway]
|
| 1946 |
May 8:
The Medium
(Gian Carlo Menotti; New York, Columbia U.)
|
Fabulous Voyage
(Milton Babbitt)
[broadway]
|
| 1947 |
Feb. 18:
The Telephone
(Gian Carlo Menotti; New York)
[one act]
Apr. 18:
The Trial of Lucellus
(Roger Sessions, Berkeley)
May 7:
The Mother Of Us All
(Virgil Thomson;NY, Columbia U.)
|
Harry Lawrence Freeman composes
Allah.
|
| 1949 |
Feb. 19:
The Emperor's New Clothes
(Douglas Moore, NY)
Jun. 16:
Regina
(Marc Blitzstein, NY)
[played on Broadway]
The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
(Lukas Foss)
Costaso
(William Grant Still)
|
Carlisle Floyd
composes his first opera,
Slow Dusk;
it is not performed until 1957.
Ming Toy
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[musical]
|
| 1950 |
Mar. 1:
Gian Carlo Menotti; Philadelphia)
May 18:
The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
(Lukas Foss; Indiana)
Jonah
(Jack Beeson)
The Triumph of St. Joan
(Norman Dello Joio; New York)
|
| 1951 |
Mar. 28:
Giants in the Earth
(Douglas Moore)
Dec. 21:
Amahl and the Night Visitors
(Gian Carlo Menotti; NBC)
Wuthering Heights
(Hermann)
|
| 1952 |
Feb. 21:
Amahl and the Night Visitors
(Gian Carlo Menotti; Indiana)
[stage premiere]
June 12:
Trouble in Tahiti
(Leonard Bernstein)
Volpone
(Antheil)
The Tenor
(Hugo Weisgall)
The Stronger
(Hugo Weisgall)
|
Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of
Kurt Weill's
The Threepenny Opera
|
| 1953 |
Jan. 15:
Vanessa
(Samuel Barber;
NY Met)
May 4:
The Mighty Casey
(William Schuman;
Hartford, CT)
|
Wonderful Town
(Leonard Bernstein)
[musical]
|
| 1954 |
Apr. 1:
The Tender Land
(Aaron Copland; NY City Opera)
Dec. 27:
The Saint of Bleeker Street
(Gian Carlo Menotti; New York)
Sicilian Limes
(Dominick Argento)
[withdrawn]
Hello Out There
(Jack Beeson; NY, Columbia)
|
| 1955 |
13 May:
The Ruby
(Norman Dello Joio; Bloomington)
Susannah
(Carlisle Floyd, Florida State U.)
He Who Gets Slapped
(Robert Ward)
Reuben, Reuben
(Marc Blitzstein)
Griffelkin
(Lukas Foss; NBC)
|
Louis Gruenberg composes
The Delicate King
and
Antony and Cleopatra
Aaron Copland
revises
The Tender Land
(1954)
into a three-act version
|
| 1956 |
Jul. 7:
The Ballad of Baby Doe
(Douglas Moore, Central City, CO)
Nov. 6:
Griffelkin
(Lukas Foss; NBC-TV)
The Trial at Rouen
(Norman Dello Joio; NBC)
|
Douglas Moore
revises
The Emperor's New Clothes
(1949)
Candide
(Leonard Bernstein)
[operetta]
The Unicorn, The Gorgon and the Manticore
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
[madrigal fable]
|
| 1957 |
Slow Dusk
(Carlisle Floyd,
Augustana College)
[one act; comp. 1947]
The Boor
(Dominick Argento)
The Sweet Bye and Bye
(Jack Beeson; NY, Julliard)
Ma Barker
(John Eaton)
|
West Side Story
(Leonard Bernstein)
[musical]
|
| 1958 |
Feb. 6:
The Dragon
(Deems Taylor; New York)
[one-act; for amateurs]
Mar. 15:
Gallantry
(Douglas Moore, NY)
["Soap Opera"]
Aug. 20:
Maria Golovin
(Gian Carlo Menotti; Brussels)
Purgatory
(Hugo Weisgall)
Wuthering Heights
(Carlisle Floyd, Santa Fe)
Yerma
(Paul Bowles)
|
New York City Opera
presents a season consisting almost entirely of works by
American composers.
|
| 1959 |
June 17:
A Hand of Bridge
(Samuel Barber; Spoleto)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
(Hugo Weisgall)
The Gardens of Adonis
(Hugo Weisgall)
Juno
(Marc Blitzstein)
Introductions and Goodbyes
(Lukas Foss)
|
Carlisle Floyd revises
Wuthering Heights
(1958)
for NY City Opera
Norman Dello Joio
revises
The Trial at Rouen (1956)
for NY City Opera;
it is presented as
The Triumph of St. Joan.
|
| 1960 |
May 5:
Introductions and Goodbyes
(Lukas Foss; Indiana)
|
The Lure and the Promise
(John Laurence Seymour,)
[operetta]
Dominick Argento
composes
Colonel Jonathan the Saint;
it will not premiere until 1970.
|
| 1961 |
Oct. 12:
Wings of the Dove
(Douglas Moore, NY)
Oct. 26:
The Crucible
(Robert Ward;
NY City Opera)
Dec. 13:
The Nativity according to St. Luke
(Randall Thompson, Cambridge, MA)
Blood Moon
(Norman Dello Joio;
San Francisco)
|
Louis Gruenberg revises
Antony and Cleopatra
(1955)
|
| 1962 |
Dec. 8:
The Greenfield Christmas Tree
(Douglas Moore, Baltimore, MD)
The Passion of Jonathan Wade
(Carlisle Floyd, NY City Opera)
The Last Tale
(Toch)
|
| 1963 |
Oct. 21:
The Last Savage
(Gian Carlo Menotti;
Paris, Opéra-Comique)
Labyrinth
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
[television opera]
Dynamite Tonite
(Bolcom)
Christopher Sly
(Dominick Argento)
Highway No. 1
(William Grant Still; Miami) |
Douglas Moore
revises
Giants in the Earth
(1951)
The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
[dramatic cantata]
|
| 1964 |
The Sojouner and Mollie Sinclair
(Carlisle Floyd, Raleigh, NC)
[for television]
Martin's Lie
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Masque of Angels
(Dominick Argento)
Montezuma
(Roger Sessions)
The Lady from Colorado
(Robert Ward)
Heracles
(John Eaton)
Athalia
(Hugo Weisgall)
[concert performance]
|
Jan. 22:
Marc Blitzstein
dies, leaving three unfinished operas:
Sacco and Vanzetti,
The Magic Barrel,
and
Idiots First
(completed by Leonard J. Lehman)
|
| 1965 |
Mar. 25:
Lizzie Borden
(Jack Beeson; NY City Opera)
Aug. 20:
The Women
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Aspen)
Miss Julie
(Rorem)
|
| 1966 |
Mar. 16:
La Divina
(Thomas Pasatieri;
New York)
Apr. 28:
Carrie Nation
(Douglas Moore; Lawrence, Kansas)
Sep. 16:
Antony and Cleopatra
(Samuel Barber;
NY Met)
The Visitation
(Schuller)
|
| 1967 |
Nov. 18:
Padrevia
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Brooklyn)
The Shoemaker's Holiday
(Dominick Argento)
|
| 1968 |
Help, Help, the Goloblinks!
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
Nine Rivers from Jordan
(Hugo Weisgall; NY City Opera)
|
| 1970 |
Of Mice and Men
(Carlisle Floyd)
Myshkin
(John Eaton)
My Heart's in the Highlands
(Jack Beeson)
[television opera]
Ramona
(John Laurence Seymour)
|
The Naked Carmen
(Corigliano)
[theater piece]
|
| 1971 |
Oct. 14:
Postcard from Morocco
(Dominick Argento; Minneapolis)
[one act]
Colonel Jonathan the Saint
(Dominick Argento)
Calvary
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Bellevue, Washington)
The Most Important Man
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
Young Caesar
(Harrison)
[puppet opera]
|
Mass
(Leonard Bernstein)
[theater piece]
|
| 1972 |
Feb. 14:
The Trial of Mary Lincoln
(Thomas Pasatieri;
National Education Television)
Mar. 2:
Black Widow
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Seattle)
Apr. 20:
Lord Byron
(Virgil Thomson; NY, Julliard)
Treemonisha
(Scott Joplin)
[comp. c. 1907; semi-professional concert and stage performances]
|
| 1973 |
Claudia Legare
(Robert Ward)
Tamu-Tamu
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Lion and Androcles
(John Eaton)
The System
(Jan Bach)
|
Robert Ward
revises
He Who Gets Slapped
(1955)
|
| 1974 |
Mar. 5:
The Seagull
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Houston)
Jul. 27:
Signor Deluso
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Vienna, Virginia)
Aug. 3:
The Penitentes
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Aspen)
Winter's Tale
(John Harbison)
|
| 1975 |
Treemonisha
(Scott Joplin)
[comp. c. 1907; professional premiere]
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
(Jack Beeson)
|
Antony and Cleopatra
(Samuel Barber;
NY, Julliard)
[rev. of 1966]
|
| 1976 |
Apr. 1:
Inez de Castro
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Baltimore)
Jul. 25:
Einstein on the Beach
(Philip Glass;
Avignon)
Oct. 1:
Washington Square
(Thomas Pasatieri;
Detroit)
Bilby's Doll
(Carlisle Floyd)
Jenny, or the Hundred Nights
(Hugo Weisgall)
The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
(Dominick Argento)
The Egg
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Hero
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
Lily
(Kirchner)
The Sibyl
(Persichetti)
|
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
(Leonard Bernstein)
[musical]
|
| 1977 |
May 19:
A Water Bird Talk
(Dominick Argento)
A Full Moon in March
(John Harbison)
Ollanta, el Jefe Kolla
(John Laurence Seymour)
|
| 1978 |
Danton and Robespierre
(John Eaton)
The Trial of the Gypsy
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
|
| 1979 |
Miss Havisham's Fire
(Dominick Argento; NY City Opera)
Chip and his Dog
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
Juana la Loca
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
|
| 1980 |
Sep. 5:
Satyagraha
(Philip Glass;
Rotterdam)
Attaca--A Madrigal Opera
(Philip Glass)
The Student from Salamanca
(Jan Bach; NY City Opera)
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| 1981 |
May 1:
Miss Havisham's Wedding Night
(Dominick Argento)
Willie Stark
(Carlisle Floyd)
Abelard and Heloise
(Robert Ward)
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Hugo Weisgall
revises
The Garden of Adonis
(1959)
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| 1982 |
A Bride from Pluto
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Boy who Grew Too Fast
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Photographer
(Philip Glass)
Minutes till Midnight
(Robert Ward)
|
The Panther
[rev. of Attacca (1980)]
(Philip Glass)
|
| 1983 |
June 17:
A Quiet Place
(Leonard Bernstein)
|
| 1984 |
Mar. 24:
Akhenaten
(Philip Glass;
Stuttgart)
the CIVIL warS
(Rome section)
(Philip Glass)
Weep Torn Land
(Finney)
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|
| 1985 |
Oct 9:
X, The Life and Times of Malcom X
(Anthony Davis)
Casanova's Homecoming
(Dominick Argento)
The Juniper Tree
(Philip Glass
and
Robert Moran)
[children's opera]
|
A Madrigal Opera
[rev. of Attacca (1980)]
(Philip Glass)
Roger Sessions
dies, leaving his last opera,
The Emperor's New Clothes
incomplete.
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| 1986 |
Goya
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
[television opera]
A Descent into the Maelstrom
(Philip Glass)
|
| 1987 |
Oct 22:
Nixon in China
(John Adams;
Houston)
Europera 1
(Cage)
Europera 2
(Cage)
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Cage)
Rasputin
(Jay Reise)
|
| 1988 |
May 18:
The Fall of the House of Usher
(Philip Glass;
Cambridge, MA, American Rep.)
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
(Philip Glass)
The Wedding
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Aspern Papers
(Dominick Argento)
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| 1989 |
June 24:
A Question of Taste
(William Schuman;
Glimmerglass)
Where's Dick?
(Stewart Wallace;
Houston, Texas Opera Theater)
Kabbalah
(Stewart Wallace; Brooklyn, NY)
Holy Blood and Crescent Moon
(Stewart Copeland)
Under the Double Moon
(Anthony Davis)
|
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
(Philip Glass)
[theater piece]
|
| 1990 |
The Cry of Clytemnestra
(John Eaton)
Apollonia
(Starer)
|
Hydrogen Jukebox
(Philip Glass)
[theater piece]
|
| 1991 |
Mar. 19:
The Death of Klinghoffer
(John Adams; Brussels)
Dec. 19:
The Ghosts of Versailles
(John Corigliano;
NY Met)
Atlas
(Meredith Monk)
|
John Harbison
revises
Winter's Tale
(1974)
Gian Carlo Menotti
revises
Goya
(1986)
|
| 1992 |
Apr. 4:
Shining Brow
(Daron Hagen; Madison, WI)
Oct. 12:
The Voyage
(Philip Glass;
NY Met)
McTeague
(Bolcom)
Hopper's Wife
(Stewart Wallace)
Tania
(Anthony Davis)
|
| 1993 |
May 14:
Orphée
(Philip Glass;
Cambridge, MA, American Rep.)
Esther
(Hugo Weisgall;NY City Opera)
The Singing Child
(Gian Carlo Menotti)
|
| 1994 |
La belle et la bête
(Philip Glass)
The Dream of Valentino
(Dominick Argento)
The Elephant's Child
(Daron Hagen)
[children's opera]
|
| 1995 |
Jan. 21:
Harvey Milk
(Stewart Wallace;
Houston)
May 11:
I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
(John Adams; Berkeley)
May 13:
Cabildo
(Amy Beach; NY)
[chamber opera in one act, comp. 1932]
Sep. 29:
The Padrone
(George W. Chadwick)
[comp. 1912]
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