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Cincinnati Opera Repertoire
1920-present

John ­Adams
Nixon in China – 2007
A Flowering Tree– 2011

Franco Alfano
Resurrection – 1983

Daniel François Espirit Auber
Fra Diavolo – 1927

Michael William Balfe
The Bohemian Girl – 1927, 1928, 1936

Béla Bartók
Bluebeard's Castle – 2001

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio – 1931, 1932, 1980, 2016

Peter Bengtson
The Maids – 2004

Vincenzo Bellini
Norma – 1932, 1935, 1938, 1977, 1984, 2003
Il Pirata – 1969
La Sonnambula – 1960

Julien Bilodeau
Another Brick in the Wall – 2018

Georges Bizet
Carmen – 1921-24, 1926-33, 1935-60, 1962-71, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1997, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2021

Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele – 1922, 1924, 1930, 1931, 1939, 1972

William Bolcom
Medusa – 2003

Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes – 1960
The Turn of the Screw – 1999

Francesco Cavalli
La Calisto – 2014

Daniel Catán
Florencia en el Amazonas– 2008

Emmanuel Chabrier
L'Étoile – 2006

Francesco Cilèa
Adriana Lecouvreur – 1979

Richard Danielpour
Margaret Garner – 2005

Henry Louis Reginald de Koven
Robin Hood – 1929

Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande – 2000

Léo Delibes
Lakmé – 1922, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1955

Gaetano Donizetti
The Daughter of the Regiment (La Fille du Régiment) – 1973, 2004
Don Pasquale – 1920, 1921, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1968, 1981, 1996, 2015
The Elixir of Love (L'Elisir d'Amore) – 1924, 1926, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1983
Lucia di Lammermoor – 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1937, 1939-43, 1952-54, 1957, 1958, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1997, 2008 (in the 1839 French version)
Roberto Devereux – 1974

Friedrich von Flotow
Martha – 1920, 1924, 1926, 1928-30, 1932, 1935, 1936, 1943-45, 1947, 1948, 1955, 1956

Carlisle Floyd
Of Mice and Men – 1971
Susannah – 1959, 1964, 1979, 1988

Charles Rudolph Friml
The Firefly – 1930, 1931

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess – 2012, 2019

Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chénier – 1929, 1930, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1995
Fedora – 1923

Philip Glass
Galileo Galilei – 2013

Osvaldo Golijov
Ainadamar – 2009

Ricky Ian Gordon
Morning Star – 2015

Charles Gounod
Faust – 1921-23, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1935-51, 1953-58, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1999, 2007
Romeo and Juliet – 1922, 1923, 1933, 1945, 1971, 1982, 1989, 1994, 2002, 2019

Fromental Halévy
La Juive – 1927, 1928

Aldolphus Hailstork
Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story – 2007

Jake Heggie
Dead Man Walking – 2002

Victor Herbert
Naughty Marietta – 1929

Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel – 1920, 1921, 1923, 1927, 1938, 1939, 1942-44, 1973

Leos Janácek
Jenufa – 1998

Sidney Jones
The Geisha – 1932

Laura Kaminsky
As One – 2018

Jerome Kern
Roberta – 1985
Show Boat – 1976

Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow – 1951-53, 1975, 1982

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci – 1920, 1927, 1933-39, 1941-46, 1950, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1993, 2012
Zazà – 1985, 1987

Frank Leoni
L'Oracolo – 1928, 1931

Frank Loesser
The Most Happy Fella – 1977

Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana – 1921, 1922, 1926, 1928, 1933-37, 1941, 1944-46, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1993
Iris – 1930, 1931

Jules Massenet
Manon – 1922, 1924, 1939-42, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1965, 1968, 1980
La Navarraise – 1931
Thaïs – 1933, 1938
Werther – 1993

Missy Mazzoli
Song from the Uproar – 2017

William Menefield
Fierce – 2022

Gian Carlo Menotti
The Medium – 1967

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Dinorah – 1929, 1930
L'Africaine – 1936

Italo Montemezzi
The Love of Three Kings (L'Amore dei Tre Re) – 1926, 1929, 1946, 1947, 1949

Claudio Monteverdi
The Coronation of Poppea – 2018

Douglas Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe – 1976

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così Fan Tutte – 1963, 1966, 1976, 1983, 1989, 2007
Don Giovanni – 1930, 1931, 1936, 1949, 1951, 1961, 1977, 1990, 1999, 2004, 2013
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction From The Seraglio) – 1992
The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) – 1956, 1957, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2009, 2019
The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) – 1932, 1986, 1993, 2001, 2011, 2017

Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov – 1948, 1958, 1974

Jacques Offenbach
La Périchole – 1974
The Tales of Hoffmann – 1921, 1923, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1987, 1992, 2006

Astor Piazzola
María de Buenos Aires – 2012

Robert Planquette
Les Cloches de Corneville (The Chimes of Normandy) – 1930

Amilcare Ponchielli
La Gioconda – 1923, 1924, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1942

Francis Poulenc
La Voix Humaine – 2003

Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème – 1924, 1932, 1936-63, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1981, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005, 2010, 2017, 2022
Gianni Schicchi – 1975, 1982, 2012
Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West) – 1933, 1938, 1986
Madame Butterfly – 1924, 1928-33, 1936-41, 1946-60, 1962-64, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2001, 2008, 2014, 2023
Manon Lescaut – 1959, 1964, 1974, 1983, 1991
La Rondine – 1973, 1984
Suor Angelica – 1975, 1982
Il Tabarro – 1975, 1982
Tosca – 1923, 1927, 1931, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1943-45, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2016, 2021
Turandot – 1955, 1956, 1972, 1975, 1980, 1987, 1995, 2003, 2015

Kevin Puts
Silent Night – 2014

Scott Davenport Richards
Blind Injustice – 2019

Richard Rodgers
Carousel – 1983
Oklahoma – 1984
The Sound of Music – 1982
South Pacific – 1981

Robert Xavier Rodríguez
Frida – 2017

Sigmund Romberg
The Student Prince – 1978

Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville – 1920, 1921, 1924, 1927, 1937-45, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1977, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2005, 2021
La Cenerentola – 1966, 2000

Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson and Delilah – 1922, 1923, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1940-47, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1964, 1970, 1998

Arnold Schoenberg
Erwartung – 2001

Bedrich Smetana
The Bartered Bride – 1931, 1954

Gregory Spears
Fellow Travelers – 2016
Castor and Patience – 2022

Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus – 1928, 1950, 1951, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1980, 2016
The Gypsy Baron (Der Zigeunerbaron) – 1932

Richard Strauss
Ariadne auf Naxos – 1961, 2019
Elektra – 2002
Der Rosenkavalier – 1948, 1950, 1957, 1958, 1967, 1986, 1994, 2013
Salome – 1948, 1949, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1968, 1982, 2000

Arthur Sullivan
The Gondoliers – 1985
H.M.S. Pinafore – 1932, 1933, 1981
The Mikado – 1928, 1979
The Pirates of Penzance – 1933, 1980, 2022
Trial by Jury – 1933

Joseph Surdo
Enter Pauline – 1929

Deems Taylor
The King's Henchmen – 1936

Piotr IIyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin – 1984, 2011

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas
Mignon – 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941-43, 1945, 1946

Viktor Ullmann
Der Kaiser von Atlantis – 2004

Isaac Van Grove
The Music Robber – 1926, 1927

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida – 1921-24, 1926, 1927, 1929-33, 1935-56, 1959-62, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2007, 2013, 2022
Attila – 1979, 1984
Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) – 1931, 1939, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1974, 1991, 2006
Don Carlo – 1961, 1984, 1989, 2009
Falstaff – 1926, 1930, 1997
La Forza del Destino – 1932, 1965, 1969
Macbeth – 1960, 1961, 1978
Nabucco – 2001
Otello – 1921, 1929, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1970, 1982, 1996, 2010
Rigoletto – 1920-22, 1924, 1926, 1928-32, 1935-56, 1961-63, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1992, 2005, 2011
La Traviata – 1923, 1924, 1926, 1931, 1935, 1938-58, 1960, 1962-64, 1966-68, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2018
Il Trovatore – 1921, 1922,1926-33, 1937-49, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1994, 2015

Richard Wagner
Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) – 1975, 1996, 2018
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg – 1928, 1929, 1983, 2010
Das Rheingold – 1961, 1981
Die Walküre – 1927, 1928, 1978
Lohengrin – 1921, 1922, 1924, 1926-28, 1931, 1933, 1935-37, 1947-49
Parsifal – 1929, 1930
Tannhäuser – 1926-30, 1932, 1935, 1937-40, 1945-48
Tristan und Isolde – 1949

Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz – 1933

Kurt Weill
Seven Deadly Sins – 2003

Jaromír Weinberger
Schwanda The Bagpiper – 1986

Meredith Willson
The Music Man – 1983

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Jewels of the Madonna (I Gioielli della Madonna) – 1927
Secret of Suzanne – 1920, 1922, 1928, 1937, 1948, 1953