| Opera Omaha has commissioned and produced world premieres by 20th and 21st century American composers, and also has staged national premieres of important European operas and performed many works by great American composers.
WORLD PREMIERES
The Gardens of Adonis (1992)
Music by Hugo Weisgall
Libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour
Autumn Valentine: Dorothy Parker’s General Review of the Sex Situation (1992)
Music by Ricky Ian Gordon
Libretto by Dorothy Parker
Requiem Variations (1994)
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Eric Hermannson’s Soul (1998)
Music by Libby Larsen
Libretto by Chas Rader-Shieber
Bloodlines (2003)
Music and Libretto by Deborah Fischer Teason
Dream of the Pacific (2004)
Music by Stephen Mager
Libretto by Elkanah Pulitzer
Wakonda’s Dream (2007)
Music by Anthony Davis
Libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa
Blizzard Voices (2008)
Music by Paul Moravec
Libretto by Ted Kooser
NATIONAL PREMIERES
Partenope (1988)
Music by Georg Frederic Handel (1730 in London)
Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia
Maria Padilla (1990)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti (1841 in Milan)
Libretto by Gaetano Rossi
Golem (1990)
Music and Libretto by John Casken (1989 in London)
Ermione (1992)
Music by Gioacchino Rossini (1819 in Naples)
Play by Euripides; Drama by Jean Baptiste Racine
AMERICAN OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATER
(in alphabetical order, in addition to the above)
All American! (2001)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1987, 2000, 2001) - Gian Carlo Menotti
The Ballad of Baby Doe (1967) - Douglas Moore
Bilby’s Doll (1976) - Carlisle Floyd
Carousel (1960, 1990) - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Cold Sassy Tree (2004) - Carlisle Floyd
The Juniper Tree (1987) - Philip Glass and Robert Moran / Arthur Yorinks
Little Women (2002) - Mark Adamo
Man of La Mancha (2001) - Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
My Fair Lady (1991) - Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Oklahoma! (1959, 1988) - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Paul Bunyan (2005) - Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden
Porgy and Bess (1987) - George Gershwin and Dubose Heyward
Richard Rodgers’ America (2002)
Showboat (1989) - Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
Susannah (1981) - Carlisle Floyd
The Tender Land (2004) - Aaron Copland and Horace Everett
The Threepenny Opera (2004) - Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht
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