RECENT MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
2016 - The Astronaut's Tale
....... Music by Charles Fussell and Libretto by Jack Larson
2014 - A Wake Or A Wedding
....... Music and Libretto by Richard Pearson Thomas
2014 - 2015 - Paradigm Shifts, Music and Film Festival
2013 - 2014 - Paradigm Shifts, Music and Film Festival
2012 - Singing Stein
....... Ned Rorem's Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
....... Virgil Thomson's Capital Capitals
....... Texts by Gertrude Stein
2011 - Angel of the Amazon
....... Music and Libretto by Evan Mack
2010 - The Theory of Everything - Workshop performances
....... Music by John David Earnest
....... Libretto by Nancy Rhodes
2009 - I Tre Compagni
2009 - 75th Anniversary Celebration of Four Saints in Three Acts
2009 - Kick-Off Concert and Party
2008 - Shaw Sings!
....... The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
....... Passion, Poison and Petrifaction
....... Music by Philip Hagemann
....... Libretto based on text by George Bernard Shaw
2007 - Kiss Me Kate
....... Through the Looking Glass: American Opera Backwards
....... Forwards, Wall to Wall Opera, Symphony Space
2006 - Commission: The Theory of Everything
2005 - Gertrude Stein Musical Trilogy
2004 - A Perfect Plan
....... The Diary of Anne Frank
2003 - Approaching Infinity
2002 - The Diary of Anne Frank
2001 - Only Heaven
2000 - Un Racconto Fiorentino
2004 - A Perfect Plan
....... Music and Libretto by Seymour Barab
.........*World premiere (2004)
2003 - A Full Moon in March
....... Music by John Harbison
....... Libretto based on the play by W.B. Yeats
2003 - The End of a World
....... Music by Hans Werner Henze
....... Libretto by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
.........*American premiere
2001, 2002, 2003 - Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On
....... Music by William Banfield
....... Libretto by
Karren L. Alenier
.........*World premiere (2001)
2002, 2003, 2004 - The Diary of Anne Frank
....... Music by Grigori Frid
.........*American premiere (2002)
2000 - Un Racconto Fiorentino
....... Music and Libretto by Louis Gioia
......... *World premiere (2000)
1998-99 - Venus in Africa
....... Music by George Antheil
....... Libretto by Michael Dyne
.........*New York premiere
1998-99 - Phaedra
....... Music by Benjamin Britten
....... Libretto by Benjamin Britten set from Robert Lowell's translation of Phèdre by Jean Racine
........ *New York premiere
1997-98 - Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night
....... Music by Dominick Argento
....... Libretto by
John Olon-Scrymgeour
1997-98 - Ocean Dream
....... Music by Victor Kioulaphides
....... Libretto by
Nancy Rhodes
.........*World premiere
1997-98 - I Will Wait
....... Music and Libretto by Arif Mardin
........*World premiere
1996-97 - Ladies in a Maze
....... Music by Richard Pearson Thomas
......... *World premiere
1995-96 - A Picnic Cantata
....... Music by Paul Bowles
....... Libretto by Paul Schuyler
1995, 2000 - Only Heaven
....... Music by Ricky Ian Gordon
....... Poetry by Langston Hughes
........ *World premiere (1995)
1993-94 - Desert of Roses
....... Music by Robert Moran
....... Libretto by
Michael John LaChiusa
........ *New York premiere
1992-93 - The Glass Woman
....... Music by Sorrel Hays
....... Libretto by Sorrel Hays and Sally Ordway
....... Book by Sally Ordway and Nancy Rhodes
........ *World premiere
1982 - The Monkey Opera
....... Music by Roger Tréfousse
....... Libretto by
Jane DeLynn
......... *World premiere
1981, 1996-97 - Transatlantic
....... Music and Libretto by George Antheil
.........*American premiere
1981 - Der Vampyr
....... Music by Heinrich Marschner
....... German Libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück
....... English Translation by Michael Feingold
........ *American premiere
1981 - Aria da Capo
....... Music by José Luis Greco
....... Play by Edna St. Vincent Millay
........ *World premiere
1980 - Elizabeth and Essex
....... Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
....... Music by
Doug Katsaros
....... Libretto by
Richard Engquist
........ *World premiere
1979 - Regina
....... Music and Libretto by Marc Blitzstein
....... Based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
1978 - Pantaloon: He Who Gets Slapped
....... Music by Robert Ward
....... Libretto by
Bernard Stambler
1978 - St. Joan of the Stockyards
....... Additional Music by Paul Kazanoff
....... Play by
Bertolt Brecht
....... Translated by Naomi Replansky
........ *World premiere
1978 - Machinal
....... Play by Sophie Treadwell
1977 - The Tender Land
....... Music and Libretto by Aaron Copland
1976 - The Mother of Us All
....... Music by Virgil Thomson
....... Text by
Gertrude Stein
The Yellow Wallpaper
....... Play by Gloria Albee
Postcard from Morocco
....... Music by Dominick Argento
....... Libretto by John Donahue
A Hand of Bridge
....... Music by Samuel Barber
....... Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Hello Out There
....... Music and Libretto by Jack Beeson
....... Play by
William Saroyan
Introductions and Good-Byes
....... Music by Lukas Foss
....... Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Frustration
....... Music and Libretto by Sheldon Harnick
The Four-Note Opera
....... Music and Libretto by Tom Johnson
The Wise Woman (Die Kluge)
....... Music and Libretto by Carl Orff
........ *New York premiere
A Thread of Scarlett
....... Play by Howard Richardson and Ella Gerber Kasakoff
........ *World premiere
Home and the River
....... Music by George Quincy
....... Libretto by
Benjamin Barber
........ *World premiere
Satisfaction
....... Music and libretto by Charles Strouse
Porch
....... Play by Jeffrey Sweet
........ *World premiere
The Girl on the Via Flaminia
....... Music by Waddy Thompson
....... Libretto by Elsa
Rael
....... Based on the book by
Alfred Hayes
........ *World premiere
Lord Byron
....... Music by Virgil Thomson
....... Libretto by Jack Larsen
The Stronger
....... Music by Hugo Weisgall
....... Libretto by
August Strindberg
Mr. and Mrs. Discobolus
....... Music by Peter Westergaard
....... On the poem by Edward Lear
........ *American premiere
