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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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