PAST PRODUCTIONS

LOWELL HOUSE OPERA SINCE 1938

Lowell House Opera is New England's oldest continually performing opera company. Below is the complete list of our productions since our founding in 1938.

2024: The Unknowable: An Operatic Ballet in Two Acts –– Benjamin T. Rossen ‘23

2022: Nighttown : an operatic reimagining of James Joyce’s Ulysses –– BENJAMIN P. WENZELBERG ‘22

2019: LA SCUOLA DEGLI AMANTI ossia: COSI FAN TUTTE –– W.A. MOZART

2018: LE COMTE ORY — G. ROSSINI

2017: Ariadne auf naxos –– R. STRAUSS

2016: La Grotta di Trofonio –– Salieri

2015: The Queen of Spades  — Tchaikovsky

2014: Lakmé — Delibes

2013: A Midsummer Night's Dream  —  Britten

2012: Snegurochka  —  Rimsky-Korsakov

2011: Candide  —  Bernstein '39

2010: Tosca  —  Puccini

2009: Otello  —  Verdi

2008: Turandot  —  Puccini

2007: Der Rosenkavalier  —  R. Strauss

2006: The Threepenny Opera  —  Weill

2005: Don Giovanni  —  Mozart

2004: L'enfant et les Sortilèges and L'histoire du Soldat  —  Ravel, Stravinsky

2003: Eugene Onegin  —  Tchaikovsky

2002: Carmen  —  Bizet

2001: La Bohème  —  Puccini

2000: The Beggar's Opera  —  Britten

1999: Yossele Solovey  —  N. Elkies, FAS

1998: The Elixir of Love  —  Donizetti

1997: Rigoletto  —  Verdi

1996: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny  —  Weill

1995: La Bohème —  Puccini

1994: La Traviata  —  Verdi

1993: The Italian Girl in Algiers  —  Rossini

1992: The Magic Flute  —  Mozart

1991: A Quiet Place  —  Bernstein '39

1990: Lulu  —  Berg

1989: The Marriage of Figaro  —  Mozart

1988: The Merry Wives of Windsor  —  Nicolai

1987: Susannah  —  Floyd

1986: The Magic Flute  —  Mozart

1985: The Turn of the Screw —  Britten

1984: Don Giovanni —  Mozart

1983: The Marriage of Figaro —  Mozart

1982: La Périchole  —  Offenbach

1981: L'Elisir d'Amore  —  Donizetti

1980: The Merry Wives of Windsor  —  Nicolai

1979: Die Fledermaus —  J. Strauss

1978: A Hand in a Bridge, Renard, and Gianni Schicchi  —  Barber, Stravinsky, Verdi

1977: A Midsummer Night's Dream —  Britten

1976: Der Freischütz —  von Weber

1975: The Magic Flute  —  Mozart

1974: Ariadne auf Naxos —  R. Strauss

1973: The Indian Queen and The Breasts of Tiresias —  Purcell, Poulenc

1972: L'Enfant et les Sortilegès  —  Ravel

1971: The Rake's Progress  —  Stravinsky

1970: An Evening of Bernstein and Blitzstein  —  Bernstein '39 & Blitzstein

1969: Acis and Galatea  —  Purcell

1968: The Fairy-Queen —  Purcell

1967: Dido and Aeneas —  Purcell

1966: The Turn of the Screw  —  Britten

1965: The Barber of Seville  —  Paisiello

1964: House Afire —  Haydn (attributed)

1963: The Conversion of St. Pelagia the Harlot —  R. Perera '63

1962: Dramatic Music of the Italian Baroque —  Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Adriano Banchieri

1961: Orpheus in the Underworld and Riders to the Sea —  Offenbach, Vaughn Williams

1960: The Old Maid and the Thief and La Serva Padrona  —  Menotti, Pergolesi

1959: The Adventures of King Pausole  —  Honegger

1958: The Poor Sailor —  Milhaud

1957: Divertimento —  Perkins '58

1956: The Golden Apple  —  Moross

1955: The Threepenny Opera  —  Weill

1954: King Arthur  —  Purcell

1953: The Two Misers  —  Gretry

1952: Semele  —  Handel

1951: Amadis  —  Lully

1950: Dido and Aeneas —  Purcell

1949: Acis and Galatea  —  Handel

1942: Solomon and Balkis  —  Thompson '20

1941: Venus and Adonis  —  Blow

1940: Acis and Galatea  —  Handel

1939: King Arthur  —  Purcell

1938: Dido and Aeneas —  Purcell