Roger Sessions Born: 1896 Died: 1985

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Operas

• Lancelot and Elaine, libretto after Tennyson (c. 1910)
• The Fall of the House of Usher, libretto Eliot, after the story of Edgar Allan Poe (c. 1925) [incomplete]
• The Trial of Lucellus, libretto H. R. Hays' translation of the play by Bertolt Brecht (18 April 1947, Berkeley, CA, cond. comp.)
• Montezuma, libretto by G. A. Bergese (19 April 1964, H. Hollreiser cond.)
• The Emperor's New Clothes, libretto Porter (c. 1984) [inc.]