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

LE COMTE ORY — G. ROSSINI

Ariadne auf naxos –– R. STRAUSS

La Grotta di Trofonio –– Salieri

The Queen of Spades  — Tchaikovsky

Lakmé — Delibes

A Midsummer Night's Dream  —  Britten

Snegurochka  —  Rimsky-Korsakov

Candide  —  Bernstein '39

Tosca  —  Puccini

Otello  —  Verdi

Turandot  —  Puccini

Der Rosenkavalier  —  R. Strauss

The Threepenny Opera  —  Weill

Don Giovanni  —  Mozart

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

Eugene Onegin  —  Tchaikovsky

Carmen  —  Bizet

La Bohème  —  Puccini

The Beggar's Opera  —  Britten

Yossele Solovey  —  N. Elkies, FAS

The Elixir of Love  —  Donizetti

Rigoletto  —  Verdi

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny  —  Weill

La Bohème —  Puccini

La Traviata  —  Verdi

The Italian Girl in Algiers  —  Rossini

The Magic Flute  —  Mozart

A Quiet Place  —  Bernstein '39

Lulu  —  Berg

The Marriage of Figaro  —  Mozart

The Merry Wives of Windsor  —  Nicolai

Susannah  —  Floyd

The Magic Flute  —  Mozart

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