The Operas

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135th Street see Blue Monday
1000 Airplanes On the Roof (Philip Glass)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical) (Leonard Bernstein)
Abelard and Heloise (Robert Ward)
An African Kraal (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Akhenaten (Philip Glass)
Allah (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Amanda (Samuel Barlow)
Amelia al Ballo (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Amelia Goes To the Ball see Amelia al Ballo
American Romance (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
An American Tragedy (Tobias Picker)
Amistad (Anthony Davis)
Antigone (John Laurence Seymour)
Antonio (Silas G. Pratt)
Antony and Cleopatra (Samuel Barber)
Antony and Cleopatra (Louis Gruenberg)
Ashoka's Dream (Peter Lieberson)
Der Asra (Joseph Carl Breil)
The Aspern Papers (Dominick Argento)
Athalia (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Athalia (Hugo Weisgall)
Attacca--A Madrigal Opera (Philip Glass)
Aurelia the Vestal (William Henry Fry)
Azara (John Knowles Paine)
Azora, Daughter of Montezuma (Henry Hadley)
Bachelor Belles (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
The Ballad of Baby Doe (Douglas Moore)
A Bayou Legend (William Grant Still)
Beauty and the Beast (Frederick Converse)
La belle et la bête (Philip Glass)
The Belle of Havana (operetta) (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
Bianca (Henry Hadley)
Bilby's Doll (Carlisle Floyd)
Black Widow (Thomas Pasatieri)
Blood Moon (Norman Dello Joio)
Blue Monday (jazz opera) (George Gershwin)
Blue Steel (William Grant Still)
The Boor (Dominick Argento)
The Boy Who Grew Too Fast (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Breath of Scandal, or, The Mistress of the Seas (operetta) (Deems Taylor)
The Bride of the Gods (Louis Gruenberg)
A Bride from Pluto (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Cabildo (Amy Beach)
Calvary (Thomas Pasatieri)
Candide (operetta) (Leonard Bernstein)
The Canterbury Pilgrims (Reginald De Koven)
Cap'n Kidd & Co. (Deems Taylor)
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (Jack Beeson)
Carry Nation (Douglas Moore)
Casanova's Homecoming (Dominick Argento)
Chaka (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
A Chinese Legend "The Immortal Lovers" (Mary Carr Moore)
Chip and His Dog (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Christopher Sly (Dominick Argento)
the CIVIL warS--Rome section (Philip Glass)
Claudia Legare (Robert Ward)
Cleopatra's Night (Henry Hadley)
Colonel Jonathan the Saint (Dominick Argento)
Columbus (inc.) (G. F. Bristow)
The Condemned (Marc Blitzstein)
Constellations (David Carlson)
The Consul (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Cost of Empire see Narcissa, or The Cost of Empire
Costaso (William Grant Still)
The Cradle Will Rock (Marc Blitzstein)
The Crucible (Robert Ward)
Cyrano (Walter Damrosch)
Danton and Robespierre (John Eaton)
David Rizzio (Mary Carr Moore)
The Death of Klinghoffer (John Adams)
The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi (dramatic cantata) (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Delicate King (Louis Gruenberg)
Denmark Valley (Paul Bowles)
Le dernier sauvage see The Last Savage
Descent into the Maelstrom (Philip Glass)
Deseret, or, A Saint's Affliction (Dudley Buck)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Douglas Moore)
The Devil and Tom Walker (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
Different Fields (Mike Reid)
La Divina (Thomas Pasatieri)
Doctor Atomic (John Adams)
The Doctor of Alcantara (Julius Eichberg)
The Dove of Peace (Walter Damrosch)
The Dragon (Deems Taylor)
The Dream of Valentino (Dominick Argento)
The Dreamers (David Conte)
Dreamkeepers (David Carlson)
The Dumb Wife (Louis Gruenberg)
The Dutchess of Malfi (inc.) (Virgil Thompson)
The Echo (musical play) (Deems Taylor)
The Egg (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass)
The Elephant's Child (Daron Hagen)
Emmeline (Tobias Picker)
The Emperor Jones (Louis Gruenberg)
The Emperor's New Clothes (Douglas Moore)
The Emperor's New Clothes (Roger Sessions)
Esther (Hugo Weisgall)
Eugénie (Samuel Barlow)
Evangeline (Otto Luening)
Fairyland (Horatio Parker)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Philip Glass)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Roger Sessions)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Tobias Picker)
Fay-Yen-Fah (Joseph D. Redding)
The Flaming Arrow, or, The Shaft of Ku' Pish-ta-ya (Mary Carr Moore)
The Flapper (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Flutes of Jade Happiness (Mary Carr Moore)
Four Saints in Three Acts (Virgil Thompson)
Full Moon In March (John Harbison)
Gallantry (Douglas Moore)
The Garden of Mystery (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
The Gardens of Adonis (Hugo Weisgall)
The Ghost of Lollypop Bay (operetta) (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
The Ghost Wolves (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Ghosts of Versailles (John Corigliano)
Giants in the Earth (Douglas Moore)
The Gift of the Magi (David Conte)
Giulio e Leonore (William Henry Fry)
Golden Days (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
Goya (Gian Carlo Menotti)

The Great Gatsby (John Harbison)
Green Mansions (Louis Gruenberg)
The Greenfield Christmas Tree (Douglas Moore)
Griffelkin (Lukas Foss)
A Guest of Honor (Scott Joplin)
Hallo! Tommy! (operetta) (Louis Gruenberg)
A Hand of Bridge (Samuel Barber)
Harmony (Mary Carr Moore)
The Harpies (Marc Blitzstein)
Harvey Milk (Stewart Wallace)
He Who Gets Slapped (Robert Ward)
The Headless Horseman (Douglas Moore)
Helena's Husband (Louis Gruenberg)
Hello Out There (Jack Beeson)
Help, Help, the Globolinks! (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Heracles (John Eaton)
The Hero (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Highway No. 1 (William Grant Still)
Hollywood Madness (John Laurence Seymour)
Hopper's Wife (Stewart Wallace)
Hydrogen Jukebox (Philip Glass)
I Was Looking At the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky (John Adams)
Idiots First (inc.) (Marc Blitzstein)
The Immigrants (Frederick Converse)
The Immortal Lovers see A Chinese Legend "The Immortal Lovers"
In the Pasha's Garden (John Laurence Seymour)
Inez de Castro (Thomas Pasatieri)
Introductions and Goodbyes (Lukas Foss)
The Island God (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Louis Gruenberg)
Jenny, or the Hundred Nights (Hugo Weisgall)
Jonah (Jack Beeson)
Juana la Loca (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Judith (George W. Chadwick)
The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Lukas Foss)
The Juniper Tree (Philip Glass) and Robert Moran)
Juno (Marc Blitzstein)
Kabbalah (Stewart Wallace)
King of the Mountains (inc.) (G. F. Bristow)
The King's Henchman (Deems Taylor)
Labyrinth (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Lady from Colorado (Robert Ward)
Lady X. (operetta) (Louis Gruenberg)
Lancelot and Elaine (Roger Sessions)
The Land of the Misty Water (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
The Last Savage (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Leah Kleschna (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Legend (Joseph Carl Breil)
Légende Provençale (Mary Carr Moore)
Lelawala (operetta) (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
Leonore (William Henry Fry)
The Leper (Mary Carr Moore)
The Lion and Androcles (John Eaton)
Lizzie Borden (Jack Beeson)
Lord Byron (Virgil Thompson)
Los Rubios (Mary Carr Moore)
Love Laughs at Locksmiths (operetta) (Joseph Carl Breil)
Love's Sacrifice (George W. Chadwick)
Lucille (Silas G. Pratt)
The Lure and the Promise (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
Ma Barker (John Eaton)
Madeleine (Victor Herbert)
Madness and Sorrow (Daron Hagen)
A Madrigal Opera (Philip Glass)
The Magic Barrel (inc.) (Marc Blitzstein)
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Philip Glass)
The Man Without a Country (Walter Damrosch)
Maria Golovin (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Philip Glass)
Martin's Lie (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Martyr (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Masque of Angels (Dominick Argento)
Mass (theater piece) (Leonard Bernstein)
The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Memories (Mary Carr Moore)
Merry Mount (Howard Hanson)
The Midnight Angel (David Carlson)
The Mighty Casey (William Schuman)
Minette Fontaine (William Grant Still)
Ming Toy (musical) (John Laurence Seymour)
Minutes till Midnight (Robert Ward)
Miss Havisham's Fire (Dominick Argento)
Miss Havisham's Wedding Night (Dominick Argento)
Mon ami Pierrot (Samuel Barlow)
Mona (Horatio Parker)
Montezuma (Frederick G. Gleason)
Montezuma (Roger Sessions)
The Most Important Man (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Mota (William Grant Still)
The Mother of us All (Virgil Thompson)
My Heart's In the Highlands (Jack Beeson)
Myshkin (John Eaton)
Nada, the Lily (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Naked Carmen (theater piece) (John Corigliano)
Narcissa, or, The Cost of Empire (Mary Carr Moore)
The Nativity according to St. Luke (Randall Thompson)
Natoma (Victor Herbert)
A Night In Old Paris (Henry Hadley)
A Night in Rome (operetta) (Julius Eichberg)
Nine Rivers from Jordan (Hugo Weisgall)
Nixon in China (John Adams)
No for an Answer (Marc Blitzstein)
Notre Dame of Paris (William Henry Fry)
The Octoroon (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Of Mice and Men (Carlisle Floyd)
The Old Maid and the Thief (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Ollanta (Silas G. Pratt)
Ollanta, el Jefe Kolla (John Laurence Seymour)
On the Town (musical) (Leonard Bernstein)
One Night of Cleopatra (Louis Gruenberg)
The Oracle (Mary Carr Moore)
Orlando of Milan (juv.) (Joseph Carl Breil)
Otho Visconti (Frederick G. Gleason)
Padrevia (Thomas Pasatieri)

The Padrone (George W. Chadwick)
The Panther (Philip Glass)
Parabola and Circula (Marc Blitzstein)
The Passion of Jonathan Wade (Carlisle Floyd)
The Peer and the Pauper (operetta) (George W. Chadwick)
The Penitentes (Thomas Pasatieri)
Peter Ibbetson (Deems Taylor)
The Photographer (Philip Glass)
Piccadillymädel (operetta) (Louis Gruenberg)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Lowell Liebermann)
The Pipe of Desire (Frederick Converse)
The Plantation (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)
Postcard from Morocco (Dominick Argento)
Les précieuses ridicules (John Laurence Seymour)
Prof. Tattle (operetta) (Joseph Carl Breil)
The Prophecy (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Protegé of the Mistress (John Laurence Seymour)
Purgatory (Hugo Weisgall)
Queen Helen (Louis Gruenberg)
A Question of Taste (William Schuman)
A Quiet Lodging (operetta) (George W. Chadwick)
A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein)
Ramala see The Land of Misty Water
Ramona (John Laurence Seymour)
Ramuntcho (Deems Taylor)
Regina (Marc Blitzstein)
Reuben, Reuben (Marc Blitzstein)
Rip Van Winkle (G. F. Bristow)
Rip Van Winkle (Reginald De Koven)
The Robin Woman see Shanewis
Roly-boly Eyes (musical) (Louis Gruenberg)
The Rose of Tyrol (operetta) (Julius Eichberg)
The Ruby (Norman Dello Joio)
Sacco and Vanzetti (inc.) (Marc Blitzstein)
The Sacrifice (Frederick Converse)
Safie (Henry Hadley)
The Saint of Bleecker Street (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Satyagraha: M. K. Gandhi in South Africa (Philip Glass)
The Scarlet Letter (Walter Damrosch)
The Seagull (Thomas Pasatieri)
The Second Hurricane (Aaron Copland)
Semper virens (Henry Hadley)
Serapis (Dudley Buck)
The Seventh Chord (operetta) (Joseph Carl Breil)
The Shaft of Ku' Pish-ta-ya see The Flaming Arrow, or, The Shaft of Ku' Pish-ta-ya
Shanewis, or, The Robin Woman (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
Shining Brow (Daron Hagen)
The Shoemaker's Holiday (Dominick Argento)
Sicilian Limes (Dominick Argento)
Signor Deluso (Thomas Pasatieri)
Signor Formica (operetta) (Louis Gruenberg)
Sinbad the Sailor (Frederick Converse)
The Singing Child (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Hugo Weisgall)
The Slave (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Slow Dusk (Carlisle Floyd)
The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair (Carlisle Floyd)
Solomon and Balkis (Randall Thompson)
South in Sonora (operetta) (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
A Southern Interlude (William Grant Still)
The Storm Witch (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Stronger (Hugo Weisgall)
The Student from Salamanca (Jan Bach)
The Sunset Trail (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
Susannah (Carlisle Floyd)
The Sweet Bye and Bye (Jack Beeson)
The System (Jan Bach)
Tabasco (George W. Chadwick)
Tamu-Tamu (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Tania (Anthony Davis)
The Telephone (Gian Carlo Menotti)
The Tender Land (Aaron Copland)
The Tenor (Hugo Weisgall)
Therese Racquin (Tobias Picker)
The Three Brothers (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
Treemonisha (Scott Joplin)
The Trial at Rouen (Norman Dello Joio)
The Trial of Lucullus (Roger Sessions)
The Trial of Mary Lincoln (Thomas Pasatieri)
The Trial of the Gypsy (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Triple-Sec (Marc Blitzstein)
The Triumph of St. Joan (1) (Norman Dello Joio)
Trouble in Tahiti (Leonard Bernstein)
The Troubled Island (William Grant Still)
The Tryst (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Two Cadis (operetta) (Julius Eichberg)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (operetta) (John Laurence Seymour)
Under the Double Moon (Anthony Davis)
The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore (madrigal fable) (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Uzziah (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Valdo (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Vanessa (Samuel Barber)
Vendetta (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Vera Of Las Vegas (Daron Hagen)
A View from the Bridge (William Bolcom)
The Visitation (Gunther Schuller)
Volpone (Louis Gruenberg)
Voodoo (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
The Voyage (Philip Glass)
The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (Dominick Argento)
Washington Square (Thomas Pasatieri)
A Water Bird Talk (Dominick Argento)
The Wedding (Gian Carlo Menotti)
West Side Story (musical) (Leonard Bernstein)
Where's Dick (Stewart Wallace)
The White Raven (Philip Glass)
White Wings (Douglas Moore)
Willie Stark (Carlisle Floyd)
The Wind Remains (Paul Bowles)
Wings of the Dove (Douglas Moore)
Winter's Tale (John Harbison)
The Witch of Brocken (operetta) (Louis Gruenberg)
A Witch of Salem (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
The Women (Thomas Pasatieri)
Wonderful Town (musical) (Leonard Bernstein)
Wuthering Heights (Carlisle Floyd)
X, the Life and Times of Malcom X (Anthony Davis)
Yerma (Paul Bowles)
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (Silas G. Pratt)
The Zulu King (Harry Lawrence Freeman)
Zuluki (Harry Lawrence Freeman)