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The Repertory

COMMISSIONED WORKS
Patricia Racette in Tobias Picker's Emmeline, 1996

1996 Production of Emmeline


Carlisle Floyd
Wuthering Heights, 1958

Luciano Berio
Opera, 1970

George Rochberg
The Confidence Man, 1982

John Eaton
The Tempest, 1985

Robynne Redmon in Bright Sheng's Madame Mao, 2003

2003 World Premiere of Madame Mao

David Lang
Modern Painters, 1995

Tobias Picker
Emmeline, 1996

Peter Lieberson
Ashoka's Dream, 1997

Bright Sheng
Madame Mao, 2003


WORLD PREMIERES

Marvin David Levy
The Tower, 1957

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Yerma, 1971


AMERICAN PREMIERES
George Shirley and Silvia Stahlman in Richard Strauss' Daphne, 1964
1964 Production of Daphne


Richard Strauss
Capriccio, 1958, (1966, 1993)

Paul Hindemith
News of the Day, 1961, (1981)

Igor Stravinsky
Persephone, 1961, (1962,1968)

Alban Berg
Lulu, Acts I and II, 1963, (1964, 1974)

Richard Strauss
Daphne, 1964, (1981, 1996)

Hans Werner Henze
The Stag King, 1965
Joan Carroll and Donald Gramm in Alban Berg's Lulu, 1963

1963 Production of Alban Berg's Lulu


Dmitri Shostakovitch
The Nose, 1965, (1987)

Hans Werner Henze
Boulevard Solitude, 1967

Paul Hindemith
Cardillac, 1967

Hans Werner Henze
The Bassarids, 1968

Arnold Schoenberg
Die Jakobsleiter, 1968, (1980)

Gian Carlo Menotti
Help, Help, The Globolinks, 1969, (1970)

Barbara Hendricks in Leos Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, 1975

The Cunning Little Vixen, 1975

Krzystof Penderecki
The Devils of Loudon, 1969

Albert Reimann
Melusine, 1972

Benjamin Britten
Owen Wingrave, 1973

Pier Francesco Cavalli
L'Egisto, 1974, (1976)

Leos Janacek
The Cunning Little Vixen, 1975

Elizabeth Soderstrom and Alan Titus in Richard Strauss' Intermezzo, 1984

Richard Strauss' Intermezzo, 1984

Nino Rota
The Italian Straw Hat, 1977

Stephen Oliver
The Duchess of Malfi, 1978

Alban Berg
Lulu, with Act III, 1979

Arnold Schoenberg
Von Heute auf Morgen, 1980, 1975

Richard Strauss
Die Liebe der Danae, 1982, (1985)

Pier Francesco Cavalli
L'Orione, 1983

Hans Werner Henze
We Come to the River, 1984

Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, 1985

Hans Werner Henze's The English Cat, 1985

Richard Strauss
Intermezzo, 1984, (1994, 2003)

Alexander von Zemlinsky
The Florentine Tragedy, 1984

Hans Werner Henze
The English Cat, 1985

Aulis Sallinen
The King Goes Forth to France, 1986

Richard Strauss
The Egyptian Helen, 1986, (2001)
Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, 1994

Judith Weir's The Blond Eckbert


Krzyztof Penderecki
The Black Mask, 1988

Richard Strauss
Friedenstag, 1988

Judith Weir
A Night at the Chinese Opera, 1989

Siegfried Matthus
Judith, 1990

Wolfgang Rihm
Oedipus, 1991

Hans-Jurgen von Bose
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1992
Monica Groop in Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, 2002

Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin, 2002


Kurt Weill

The Protaganist, 1993
The Tsar Has His Picture Taken, 1993

Judith Weir
Blond Eckbert, 1994

Ingvar Lindholm
A Dream Play, 1998

Hans Werner Henze
Venus and Adonis, 2000

Kaija Saariaho
L'amour de loin, 2002

Thomas Adès
The Tempest, 2006

Tan Dun
Tea: A Mirror of Soul, 2007

Kaija Saariaho
Adriana Mater, 2008


Repertory list by Composer


Thomas Adès
The Tempest, 2006 (American Premiere)

Vincenzo Bellini
La sonnambula, 2004

Alban Berg
Håkan Hagegård and Michael Smallwood in Alban Berg's Wozzeck, 2001
Wozzeck, 2001

Lulu, Acts I & II
, 1963 (American Premiere), 1964, 1974
Lulu, with Act III, 1979 (American Premiere)
Wozzeck, 1966, 2001

Luciano Berio
Opera, 1970

Hector Berlioz
Beatrice and Benedict, 1998, 2004

Georges Bizet
Carmen, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1975, 1999, 2006

Marc Blitzstein
Regina, 1959

Hans-Jürgen von Bose
The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1992 (American Premiere)
Gordon Gietz and Susan Graham in Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict, 1998
Beatrice and Benedict, 1998


Benjamin Britten
Billy Budd, 2008
Noah's Flood, 1996, 1999
Owen Wingrave
, 1973 (American Premiere)
Peter Grimes, 2005
The Turn of the Screw, 1983

Pier Francesco Cavalli
La Calisto, 1989
L'Egisto, 1974 (American Premiere), 1976
L'Orione, 1983 (American Premiere)

Domenico Cimarosa
Il Matrimonio segreto, 1984

Alexandra von der Weth and Frank Lopardo in Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor, 2001
Alexandra von der Weth and Frank Lopardo in Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor, 2001
Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande, 1972, 1977

Gaetano Donizetti
Anna Bolena, 1959, 1970
Don Pasquale, 1983
The Elixir of Love, 1968
Lucia di Lammermoor, 1965, 1979, 2001

John Eaton
The Tempest, 1985

Manuel de Falla

La Vida Breve, 1975

Carlisle Floyd
Jeff McCarthy and Kirsten Lear in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 2000
John Gay's The Beggars Opera 2000
Wuthering Heights, 1958

John Gay
The Beggar's Opera, 1992, 2000 (Showcase Production)

Umberto Giordano
Fedora, 1977

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice, 1990

Osvaldo Golijov
Ainadmar, 2005

Tatiana Troyanos in Handel's Ariodante, 1987
Ariodante, 1987
George Friderick Handel
Agrippina, 2004
Ariodante
, 1987
Semele, 1997
Radamisto, 2008
Xerxes, 1993

Hans Werner Henze
The Bassarids, 1968 (American Premiere)
Boulevard Solitude, 1967 (American Premiere)
The English Cat, 1985 (American Premiere)
The Stag King, 1965 (American Premiere)
Venus and Adonis, 2000 (American Premiere)
We Come to the River, 1984 (American Premiere)

Paul Hindemith
Cardillac, 1967 (American Premiere)
News of the Day, 1961 (American Premiere), 1981
William Dooley and James Atherton in Hindemith's News of the Day, 1981
William dooley and James Atherton in Hindemith's News of the Day, 1981

Arthur Honneger
Joan of Arc at the Stake, 1962, 1963

Leos Janácek
The Cunning Little Vixen, 1975 (American Premiere)
Kátya Kabanová, 2003

Emmerich Kálmán
Countess Maritza, 1995, 1999

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Violanta, 1984

David Lang
Modern Painters, 1995

Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow, 1973

Marvin David Levy
The Tower, 1957
Kurt Ollmann and Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson in Peter Lieberson's Ashoka's Dream, 1997
Kurt Ollmann and Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson in Lieberson's Ashoka's Dream, 1997

Ingvar Lidholm
A Dream Play, 1998 (American Premiere)

Peter Lieberson
Ashoka's Dream, 1997

Jules Massenet
Chérubin, 1989
Cinderella, 2006

Siegfried Matthus
Judith, 1990 (American Premiere)

Gian-Carlo Menotti
Help! Help! The Globolinks, 1969 (American Premiere), 1970

Claudio Monteverdi
L'Incoronazione di Poppea, 1986

Douglas Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe, 1961
Frederica Von Stade in Massenet's Chérubin, 1989
Frederica Von Stade, Cherubin, 1989

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1959, 1994
La clemenza di Tito, 2002
Così fan tutte, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1990, 1997, 2003, 2007
Don Giovanni, 1963, 1966, 1972, 1992, 1996, 2004
Idomeneo, 1999
Lucio Silla, 2005
The Magic Flute, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1998, 2006
Mitridate, 2001
The Marriage of Figaro, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2008

Jacques Offenbach
La Belle Helene, 2003
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1979
Orpheus in the Underworld, 1983, 1985

Susan Graham, William Burden and Barry Banks in Offenbach's La Belle Helene, 2003
Offenbach's La Belle Helene
Stephen Oliver
The Duchess of Malfi, 1978 (American Premiere)

Krzysztof Penderecki
The Black Mask, 1988 (American Premiere)
The Devils of Loudun, 1969 (American Premiere)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
La Serva Padrona, 1957

Tobias Picker
Emmeline, 1996

Francis Poulenc
Dialogues of the Carmelites, 1966, 1999

Regina Sarfaty and Mildred Allen in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, 1957
Madame Butterfly, 1957
Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1990, 1993, 2007
La Fanciulla del West, 1991, 1995
Gianni Schicchi, 1960, 1964
Madame Butterfly, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1987, 1996, 1998
Tosca, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1969, 1978, 1994
Turandot, 2005

Jean-Phillippe Rameau

Platée, 2007

Maurice Ravel
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, 1963, 1964, 1973, 1975

Aribert Reimann
Melusine, 1972 (American Premiere)

Wolfgang Rihm
Oedipus, 1991 (American Premiere)

George Rochberg
The Confidence Man, 1982

Stephanie Blythe and chorus in Rossini's The Italian Girl in Algiers, 2002
L'Itlaiana, 2002
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1981, 1994, 2005
Cinderella, 1958, 1960, 1966
Count Ory, 1978
Ermione, 2000
The Italian Girl in Algiers, 2002

Nino Rota
The Italian Straw Hat, 1977 (American Premiere)

Kaija Saariaho
L'Amour de loin, 2002 (American Premiere)
Adriana Mater, 2008 (American Premiere)

Aulis Sallinen
The King Goes Forth To France, 1986 (American Premiere)
Judith Forst and Mary Jane Johnson in Richard Strauss' Elektra, 2000

Richard Strauss' Elektra, 2000



Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung, 1980
Die Jakobsleiter, 1968 (American Premiere), 1980
Von Heute auf Morgen, 1980 (American Premiere)

Bright Sheng
Madame Mao, 2003 (World Premiere)

Dmitri Shostakovich
The Nose, 1965 (American Premiere), 1987

Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus, 1959, 1963, 1982, 1986,1988, 1992

Richard Strauss
Arabella, 1965, 1983, 1997
Ariadne auf Naxos, 1957, 1990, 1999
Capriccio, 1958 (American Premiere), 1966, 1993
Elaine Bonazzi in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, 1960
Stravinsky's Rakes Progress

Daphne, 1964 (American Premiere), 1981, 1996, 2007
The Egyptian Helen, 1986 (American Premiere/Vienna Version), 2001
Elektra, 1980, 2000
Feuersnot, 1988
Friedenstag, 1988 (American Premiere)
Intermezzo, 1984 (American Premiere), 1994, 2003
Die Liebe der Danae, 1982 (American Premiere), 1985
Der Rosenkavalier, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1989, 1992
Salome, 1962, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1995, 1998, 2006
Die schweigsame Frau, 1987, 1991

Igor Stravinsky
Mavra, 1962
Oedipus Rex, 1960, 1961, 1962
Perséphone, 1961 (American Premiere), 1962, 1968
The Rake's Progress, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1981, 1996
Renard, 1962
Le Rossignol, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1973

Jay Morrisey and Jody Sheinbaum in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, 2002
Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
Arthur Sullivan
The Gondoliers, 1960
H.M.S. Pinafore
, 2001 (Showcase Production)
Pirates of Penzance
, 2002 (Showcase Production)

Tan Dun

Tea: A Mirror of Soul, 2007 (American Premiere)

Peter Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin, 1978, 1980, 2002

Ambroise Thomas
Mignon, 1982

Virgil Thomson
The Mother of Us All, 1976

Giuseppe Verdi
Don Carlos, 1971
Falstaff, 1958, 1975, 1977, 2001, 2008
Rigoletto, 1964, 1966, 2000
Simon Boccanegra, 2004
La Traviata, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2002

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Yerma, 1971 (World Premiere)
Kathleen Kaun and Thomas Stewart in Verdi's Falstaff, 1977
Kathleen Kaun and Thomas Stewart in Verdi's Falstaff, 1977


Richard Wagner

The Flying Dutchman, 1971, 1973, 1988

Kurt Weill
The Protagonist, 1993 (American Premiere)
The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken, 1993 (American Premiere)

Judith Weir
A Night at the Chinese Opera, 1989 (American Premiere)
Blond Eckbert, 1994 (American Premiere)

Alexander von Zemlinsky
A Florentine Tragedy, 1984 (American Premiere)

    Repertory Summary
  • 142 operas
  • 10 World Premieres
  • 44 American Premieres