Past Productions
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* First Performance | ** Cancelled
2024
La Cenerentola
Cunning Little Vixen
The Merry Wives of Windsor
La Bohème
2023
Die Fledermaus
Albert Herring
Orpheus in the Underworld
Tosca
2022
The Merry Widow
No Love Allowed
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein
La Traviata
2020
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
The Cat Became a Woman** (Offenbach) / Cavalleria Rustincana (Mascagni)**
No Love Allowed (Wagner)**
Carmen (Bizet)**
Cinderella (Rossini)**
2019
The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
The Two Widows (Smetana)
La Rondine (Puccini)
Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
2018
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Semele (Handel)
The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
2017
La Bohème (Puccini)
The Doctor In Spite of Himself (Gounod)
The Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti)
Xerxes (Handel)
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss) *
2016
Martha (von Flotow)
King for a Day (Verdi)
Julius Caesar (Handel)
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
My Fair Galatea (von Suppé)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
2015
Don Paquale (Donizetti)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
Alcina (Handel)
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) *
My Fair Galatea (von Suppé)
Così Fan Tutte (Mozart)
2014
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Agrippina (Handel)
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet) *
The Merry Widow (Lehar)
2013
Romeo and Juliet (Gounod) *
Orlando (Handel)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
2012
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Teseo (Handel) *
Count Ory (Rossini)
Norma (Bellini)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
2011
Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
Manon (Massenet) *
Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) *
The Cat that Became a Woman (Offenbach)
Ariodante (Handel)
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
2010
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Halka (Moniusko) *
La Rondine (Puccini)
Rinaldo (Handel)
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
La Traviata (Verdi)
2009
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
La Favorita (Donizetti) *
The Haunted Manor (Moniuszko) *
Alcina (Handel)
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Carmen (Bizet)
2008
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Xerxes (Handel)
Così Fan Tutte (Mozart)
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
The Conspirators (Schubert)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Robert Devereux (Donizetti)
La Bohème (Puccini)
2007
Martha (von Flotow)
Flavio (Handel)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Emperor Norton (Mollicone)
Starbird (Mollicone)
The Bandits (Offenbach)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini) *
2006
The New Woman (Genevieve) (Offenbach) *
Der Freischutz (von Weber)
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Agrippina (Handel)
Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
2005
The Merry Widow (Lehar)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)
Semele (Handel)
Macbeth (Verdi) *
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Carnival of Venice (The Bridge of Sighs) (Offenbach)
2004
Tosca (Puccini) *
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Rinaldo (Handel)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
The Coffee Cantata (Bach)
2003
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Ariodante (Handel)
Bluebeard (Offenbach)
Stiffelio (Verdi)
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Manon Lescaut (Puccini) *
The Apothecary (Haydn)
Norma (Bellini)
2002
La Bohème (Puccini) *
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail) (Mozart)
La Rondine (Puccini) *
Xerxes (Handel)
La Périchole (Offenbach)
Alcina (Handel)
Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
Norma (Bellini)
The Cat That Turned into a Woman (Offenbach)
Doctor Miracle (Bizet) *
2001
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
La Traviata (Verdi)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Salon Viardot (Marta Johansen)
The Two Widows (Smetana)
The Cat That Turned into a Woman (Offenbach)
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Oberto (Verdi) *
Falstaff (Verdi) *
2000
Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (Offenbach)
Atalanta (Handel)
La Traviata (Verdi) *
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa)
Orlando (Handel)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
The Two Widows (Smetana)
1999
Ernani (Verdi) *
Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti) *
King for a Day (Verdi)
Agrippina (Handel)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
The Gang of Bandits (I Masnadieri) (Verdi)
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Carmen (Bizet)
Mary Stuart (Donizetti)
1998
Martha (von Flotow)
Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)
The Magic Flute (Mozart) *
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
The Gang of Bandits (I Masnadieri) (Verdi) *
Teseo (Handel)
The Merry Widow (Lehar)
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
1997
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) (Mozart)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) *
Ariodante (Handel)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) *
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
Salon Viardot (Marta Johanson) *
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Abu Hassan (Von Weber)
The Conspirators (Schubert)
1996
The Princess of Trebizonde (Offenbach)
Doctor in Spite of Himself (Gounod) *
Don Procopio (Bizet)
Marriage by Lantern (Offenbach)
Don Giovanni (Mozart) *
Xerxes (Handel)
The Soldier’s Tale (Stravinsky)
Mary Stuart (Donizetti)
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
1995
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Rinaldo (Handel)
Bridge of Sighs (Offenbach)
The Elixir of Love (Donizetti) *
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
The Star (L’Étoile) (Chabrier)
1994
Bluebeard (Offenbach)
Alcina (Handel)
Agrippina (Handel)
The Star (L’Étoile) (Chabrier) *
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Rigoletto (Verdi) *
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
1993
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
The Bartered Bride (Smetana) *
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
My Fair Galatea (von Suppe)
Atalanta (Handel)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
1992
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (Offenbach) *
Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Coffee Cantata (Bach)
The Budding Soprano (Haydn) *
King for a Day (Verdi)
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti) *
Teseo (Handel)
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
The Conspirators (Schubert)
1991
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
Ariodante (Handel)
The Soldier’s Tale (Stravinsky) *
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Xerxes (Handel)
The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa) *
Barber of Seville (Rossini) *
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) (Mozart)
1990
Daughter of Madame Angot (Lecocq) *
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
No Love Allowed (Das Liebesverbot) (Wagner) *
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Rinaldo (Handel)
The Two Widows (Smetana)
The Apothecary (Haydn)
1989
My Fair Galatea (von Suppe) *
An Education Incomplete (Chabrier) *
Flavio (Handel) *
Don Procopio (Bizet) *
Marriage by Lantern (Offenbach) *
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
The Conspirators (Schubert)
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) (Mozart)
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
King for a Day (Verdi)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
1988
Bluebeard (Offenbach) *
Abu Hassan (von Weber) *
Betly (Donizetti) *
Norma (Bellini)
Luisa Miller (Verdi)
Martha (von Flotow)
La Perichole (Offenbach)
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) (Mozart)
Atalanta (Handel)
Agrippina (Handel)
1987
Norma (Bellini) *
Yanked from the Harem (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) (Mozart) *
The Merry Widow (Lehar) *
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
The Princess of Trebizonde (Offenbach)
Semele (Handel) *
Ariodante (Handel)
1986
Count Ory (Rossini) *
The Princess of Trebizonde (Offenbach) *
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
Teseo (Handel)
Alcina (Handel)
Oh, Boy! (Kern)
Oh, Kay! (Gershwin)
1985
Mary Stuart (Donizetti) *
Fra Diavolo (Auber) *
The Bandits (Offenbach) *
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) *
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
The Tutor in a Tangle (Donizetti)
Martha (von Flotow)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
Bridge of Sighs (Offenbach)
Agrippina (Handel)
Xerxes (Handel)
Oh, Boy! (Kern) *
Oh, Kay! (Gershwin) *
1984
Der Freischütz (Weber) *
The Bridge of Sighs (Offenbach) *
The Two Widows (Smetana)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
La Périchole (Offenbach)
The Conspirators (Schubert)
Ariodante (Handel)
Agrippina (Handel)
Alcina (Handel)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
1983
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) *
Maria Padilla (Donizetti) *
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) *
La Périchole (Offenbach) *
Deidamia (Handel) *
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach)
Martha (von Flotow)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
King for a Day (Verdi)
Orlando (Handel)
Teseo (Handel)
Alcina (Handel)
1982
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) *
Luisa Miller (Verdi) *
Martha (von Flotow) *
The Cat that Turned into a Woman (Offenbach) *
The Coffee Cantata (Bach)
Stiffelio (Verdi)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Atalanta (Handel) *
Ariodante (Handel)
Rinaldo (Handel)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Xerxes (Handel)
The Tutor in a Tangle (Donizetti)
Agrippina (Handel)
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach)
1981
La Belle Hélène (Offenbach) *
La Vie Parisienne (Offenbach) *
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) *
King for a Day (Verdi)
The Apothecary (Haydn)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
The Marriage Broker (Moussorgsky)
Bastien and Bastienne (Mozart)
Anna Bolena (Donizetti)
Alcina (Handel)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Acis and Galatea (Handel)
The Two Widows (Smetana)
1980
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini) *
The Two Widows (Smetana) *
Anna Bolena (Donizetti) *
The Conspirators (Schubert)
The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Imeneo (Handel)
Ariodante (Handel)
Teseo (Handel)
Xerxes (Handel)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
1979
La Cenerentola (Rossini) *
Stiffelio (Verdi) *
The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky) *
Admeto (Handel)
Giulio Cesare (Handel)
Teseo (Handel)
Alcina (Handel)
Agrippina (Handel)
La Serva Padrona (Pergolesi)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
1978
Così fan tutte (Mozart) *
Don Pasquale (Donizettil)
Xerxes (Handel)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
King for a Day (Verdi)
Orlando (Handel)
Rinaldo (Handel)
Ariodante (Handel) *
The Tutor in a Tangle (Donizettil)