The Minnesota Opera Repertoire

2011/12

Così fan tutte (Mozart)

§ † Silent Night (Puts)

Werther (Massenet)

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)

Madame Butterfly (Puccini)

2010/11

Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck)

Cinderella (Rossini)

Mary Stuart (Donizetti)

La traviata (Verdi)

Wuthering Heights (Herrmann)

2009/10

The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)

Casanova's Homecoming (Argento)

Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)

La bohème (Puccini)

Salome (R. Strauss)

2008/09

Il trovatore (Verdi)
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Faust (Gounod)
* The Adventures of Pinocchio (Dove)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)

2007/08
A Masked Ball (Verdi)
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
Romeo and Juliet (Gounod)
* The Fortunes of King Croesus (Keiser)
Rusalka (Dvorak)

2006/07
La donna del lago (Rossini)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
§ † The Grapes of Wrath (Gordon)
Lakmé (Delibes)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

2005/06
Tosca (Puccini)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
* Orazi e Curiazi (Mercadante)
* Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man (Petitgirard)

2004/05
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Carmen (Bizet)
Nixon in China (Adams)

2003/04
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)
Passion (Sondheim)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)

2002/03
The Merry Widow (Lehár)
Norma (Bellini)
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
La traviata (Verdi)
* The Handmaid's Tale (Ruders)

2001/02
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
La clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
La bohème (Puccini)
Little Women (Adamo)
Don Carlos (Verdi)

2000/01
Turandot (Puccini)
The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini)
Street Scene (Weill)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Pagliacci/Carmina burana (Leoncavallo/Orff)

◊ The Barber of Seville (Rossini)

2000
Der Rosenkavalier (R. Strauss)
Macbeth (Verdi)
Semiramide (Rossini)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

◊ The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

1999
Otello (Verdi)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Faust (Gounod)

◊ Madame Butterfly (Puccini)

1998
Aida (Verdi)
Cinderella (Rossini)
* Transatlantic (Antheil)
Tosca (Puccini)

◊ Cinderella (Rossini, Massenet)

1997
La traviata (Verdi)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Carmen (Bizet)

◊ Carmen (Bizet)

1996
La bohème (Puccini)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)

◊ The Bohemians (Puccini)

1995
Turandot (Puccini)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
§ † Bok Choy Variations (Chen & Simonson)

◊ Figaro's Revenge (Rossini, Paisiello)

1994
Julius Caesar (Handel)
* Diary of an African American (Peterson)
Il trovatore (Verdi)
§ The Merry Widow and the Hollywood Tycoon (Lehár)

∆ Don Giovanni (Mozart)

1992/93
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
* Armida (Rossini)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)

1991/92
Tosca (Puccini)
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
§ † From the Towers of the Moon (Moran & La Chiusa)

∆ The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

1990/91
Norma (Bellini)
The Aspern Papers (Argento)
Carmen (Bizet)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)

∆ Così fan tutte (Mozart)

∆ Swing on a Star (Winkler)

1989/90
La bohème (Puccini)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)
Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
§ † Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus (Larsen)
My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe)

§ • Snow Leopard (Harper & Nieboer)

∆ Madame Butterfly (Puccini)

Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak & Knussen)

1988/89
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Salome (R. Strauss)
The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
The Juniper Tree (Glass & Moran)

Show Boat (Kern & Hammerstein)
§ † • Without Colors (Wellman & Shiflett)

§ † • Red Tide (Selig & Sherman )

§ † • Newest Little Opera in the World (ensemble)

∆ Cinderella (Rossini)

∆ Tintypes (Kyte, Marvin, Pearle)

§ † • Fly Away All (Hutchinson & Shank)

• Book of Days (Monk)

Oklahoma! (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

∆ Carmen (Bizet)

∆ Jargonauts, Ahoy! (McKeel)

1986/87
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paulus)
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
South Pacific (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

∆ Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)

§ † ∆  Jargonauts, Ahoy! (McKeel)

1985/86
* Where the Wild Things Are/

   Higglety Pigglety Pop! (Knussen & Sendak)

La traviata (Verdi)
The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
§ † Opera Tomorrow

 ∆ The Fantasticks (Schmidt)

∆ The Magic Flute (Mozart)

§ † ∆ The Music Shop (Wargo)

1984/85
* Animalen (Werle)
§ † Casanova's Homecoming (Argento)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)

∆ La bohème (Puccini)

∆ Meanwhile, back at Cinderella's (Arlan)

1983/84
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
§ The Abduction of Figaro (PDQ Bach)

∆ The Boor (Argento)

∆ Chanticleer (Barab)

∆ Don Pasquale (Donizetti)

1982/83
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
§ A Death in the Family (Mayer)
Kiss Me, Kate (Porter)

∆ The Barber of Seville (Rossini)

∆ The Frog Who Became a Prince (Barnes)

∆ Zetabet (Barnes)

1981/82
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
The Village Singer (Paulus)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
§ Feathertop (Barnes)
§ The Mask of Evil (Mollicone)

∆ Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)

∆ Rosina (Titus)

1980/81
The Merry Widow (Lehár)
Black River (Susa)
Carmen (Bizet)
A Water Bird Talk (Argento)
§ Miss Havisham's Wedding Night (Argento)

∆ The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

∆ The Threepenny Opera (Weill)

1979/80
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
La bohème (Puccini)
§ † Rosina (Titus)

∆ A Christmas Carol (Sandow)

1978/79
The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
§ The Jealous Cellist (Stokes)
The Passion According to St. Matthew

   (J.S. Bach)
La traviata (Verdi)
The Consul (Menotti)

∆ Viva la Mamma (Donizetti)

1977/78
* Christopher Columbus (Offenbach)
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
§ Claudia Legare (Ward)

1976/77
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
The Passion According to St. Matthew

   (J.S. Bach)
Candide (Bernstein)
Mahagonny (Weill)

1975/76
§ † Black River (Susa)
El Capitan (Sousa)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
§ † The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (Argento)

1974/75
§ † Gallimaufry (The Minnesota Opera)
§ Gulliver (Blackwood, Kaplan, Lewin)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Albert Herring (Britten)

1973/74
El Capitan (Sousa)
Transformations (Susa)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
§ † The Newest Opera in the World 

    (The Minnesota Opera)

1972/73
The Threepenny Opera (Weill)
Postcard from Morocco (Argento)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
§ † Transformations (Susa)

1971/72
§ † Postcard from Morocco (Argento)
§ † The Business of Good Government (Marshall)
The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

1970/71
§ † Christmas Mummeries & Good Government (Marshall)
§ † Faust Counter Faust (Gessner)
The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi)
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)

1969/70
§ † Oedipus and the Sphinx (Marshall)
* Punch and Judy (Birtwistle)
* 17 Days and 4 Minutes (Egk)
§ † The Wanderer (Paul and Martha Boesing)

1968/69
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
§ † Horspfal (Stokes)
The Wise Woman and the King (Orff)

1967/68
The Man in the Moon (Haydn)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten)

1966/67
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)
The Sorrows of Orpheus (Milhaud)
The Harpies (Blitzstein)
Socrates (Satie)
Three Minute Operas (Milhaud)

1965/66

The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka)

1964/65
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
The Wise Woman and the King (Orff)

1963/64
§ † The Masque of Angels (Argento)
The Masque of Venus and Adonis (Blow)
Albert Herring (Britten)