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.
2025: Postcard from Morocco – D. Argento
2024: Viva La Vie Boheme: A Musical Conversation between La bohème and Rent
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
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