Past Seasons
AVA has performed the following operas, listed below by composer.
| Composer | Opera | Years |
|
Johann Sebastian Bach |
The Coffee Cantata |
1985 |
|
Johann Sebastian Bach |
The Peasant Cantata |
1946, 1985 |
|
Robert Baksa |
Aria da Capo |
1980 |
|
Jack Beeson |
Hello Out There |
1960, 1961 |
|
Seymour Barab |
The Toy Shop |
1983, 1986, 1987 |
|
Seymour Barab |
Chanticleer |
1983 |
|
Seymour Barab |
Little Red Riding Hood |
1984 |
|
Samuel Barber |
A Hand of Bridge |
1960 |
|
Samuel Barber |
Vanessa |
2007 |
|
Vincenzo Bellini |
La Sonnambula |
1977, 1980, 2001 |
|
Leonard Bernstein |
Trouble in Tahiti |
1958 |
|
Benjamin Britten |
Albert Herring |
1978, 1985, 1990 |
|
Benjamin Britten |
Let's Make an Opera |
1951 |
|
Benjamin Britten |
The Rape of Lucretia |
1958, 1981 |
|
Luciano Chailly |
Markheim |
1970 |
|
Eugen D'Albert |
Tiefland |
1977 |
|
Claude Debussy |
L'Enfant Prodigue |
1950 |
|
Claude Debussy |
Pelléas et Mélisande |
1984 |
|
Gaetano Donizetti |
L'Elisir d'Amore |
1988, 2004 |
|
Gaetano Donizetti |
La Fille du Régiment |
1971, 1978, 1993 |
|
Gaetano Donizetti |
Don Pasquale |
1943, 1957, 1967 |
|
Gaetano Donizetti |
Lucia di Lammermoor |
1961, 1965, 2002 |
|
Gaetano Donizetti |
Lucrezia Borgia |
2002 |
|
Paul Fejko |
Matteo Falcone |
1987 |
|
Carlisle Floyd |
Susannah |
1976 |
|
Louis Gesensway |
The Great Boffo and His Talking Dog |
1961 |
|
Christoph Willibald Gluck |
Orfeo and Euridice |
1942 |
|
Charles Gounod |
Faust |
1945, 1961, 2003 |
|
George Frideric Handel |
Deidamia |
1985 |
|
George Frideric Handel |
Lucretia |
1985 |
|
Joseph Haydn |
The Apothecary |
1941 |
|
Joseph Haydn |
Il Mondo della Luna |
1988 |
|
Paul Hindemith |
Hin und Zurück |
1941, 1972 |
|
Engelbert Humperdinck |
Hansel and Gretel |
1945, 1946, 1965 |
| Leos Janacek | Kat'a Kabanova | 2008 |
|
Ezra Laderman |
Shadows Among Us |
1979 |
|
Ruggiero Leoncavallo |
I Pagliacci |
1964 |
|
Franz Lehar |
The Merry Widow |
1988 |
|
Pietro Mascagni |
Cavalleria Rusticana |
1954, 1963 |
|
Pietro Mascagni |
L'amico Fritz |
2005 |
|
Jules Massenet |
Manon |
2007 |
|
Jules Massenet |
Manon: Acts I and IV |
1967 |
|
Jules Massenet |
Werther |
1965, 1980 |
|
Jules Massenet |
La Navarraise |
2006 |
|
Peter Maxwell Davies |
The Lighthouse |
1985 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
The Consul |
1969, 1984 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
The Medium |
1953, 1974, 1993 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
The Old Maid and the Theif |
1946, 1951, 1974 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
The Telephone |
1957 |
|
Darius Milhaud |
Robin and Marion |
1952 |
|
Douglas Moore |
Gallantry |
1906 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Così fan tutte |
1955, 1963, 1972 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
La Clemenza di Titto |
1968 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Don Giovanni |
1970 (excerpts), 1987
|
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
1984, 1991 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
La Finta Giardiniera |
1983 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Idomeneo, re di Creta |
1981 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
The Impresario |
1946, 1958, 1994 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Le Nozze di Figaro |
1945, 1974, 1975 |
|
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Die Zauberflöte |
1977, 1983, 1991 |
|
Thea Musgrave |
A Christmas Carol |
1981 |
|
Paul Nordoff |
The Masterpiece |
1941 |
|
Otto Nicolai |
The Merry Wives of Windsor |
1942 |
|
Jacques Offenbach |
The Maid of Elizondo |
1942 |
|
Jacques Offenbach |
Fortunio's Song |
1942 |
|
Jacques Offenbach |
Les Contes d'Hoffmann |
1946, 1975 |
|
Jacques Offenbach |
R.S.V.P. or A Musicale at Mr. Cauliflower's |
1983 |
|
Giovanni Paisiello |
Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
1962, 1983 |
|
Thomas Pasatieri |
The Seagull |
1981 |
|
Giovanni Pergolesi |
La Serva Padrona |
1942, 1954 |
|
Francis Poulenc |
La Voix Humaine |
1986 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Madame Butterfly |
1956, 1976, 1982 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
La Bohème |
1962, 1977, 1985 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Gianni Schicchi |
1954, 1977 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Manon Lescaut |
1978, 2008 (Act ll) |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Suor Angelica |
1972, 1981 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Il Tabarro |
1976 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Il Trittico |
1983, 1994 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Edgar |
2004 |
|
Giacomo Puccini |
Le villi |
2006 |
|
Henry Purcell |
Dido and Aeneas |
2000 |
|
Maurice Ravel |
L'Heure Espagnole |
1986 |
|
Gioacchino Rossini |
Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
1967, 1979, 1986 |
|
Gioacchino Rossini |
The Marriage Contract |
1972 |
|
Gioacchino Rossini |
Otello |
1978 |
|
Gioacchino Rossini |
The Turk in Italy |
1980 |
|
Antonio Salieri |
Harlequinade |
1960 |
|
Alessandro Scarlatti |
Il Trionfo dell'Onore |
1964 |
|
Franz Schubert |
Fierrabras |
1980 |
|
Johann Strauss |
Die Fledermaus |
1965, 1990 |
|
Richard Strauss |
Arabella |
1979 |
|
Richard Strauss |
Ariadne auf Naxos |
1980, 1982, 1992 |
|
Richard Strauss |
Capriccio |
1983 |
|
Richard Strauss |
Elektra |
2004 |
| Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | 2006 |
|
Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky |
Iolanta |
2005 |
|
Ambroise Thomas |
Hamlet |
1964 |
|
Ambroise Thomas |
Mignon |
1969 |
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
Un Ballo in Maschera |
1995, 2008(Act ll) |
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
Don Carlo (condensed) |
1961 |
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
Falstaff |
1977, 1989, 1995, 2001 |
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
Un Giorno di Regno |
1982 |
| Giuseppe Verdi | La forza del destino (Act ll) | 2008 |
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
La traviata |
1947, 1977, 1986, 1993, 2008 |
|
Carl Maria von Weber |
Der Freischütz |
2007 |
|
Richard Wagner |
Das Rheingold |
2006 |
|
Kurt Weill |
Die Dreigroschenoper |
1987 |
|
Kurt Weill |
Down in the Valley |
1950 |
|
Kurt Weill |
The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken |
1987 |
|
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari |
The Secret of Suzanne |
1942, 1946 |
