Past Seasons
Glimmerglass Opera is recognized for its innovative productions and unique location.
Since its opening in 1987, the Alice Busch Opera Theater has been home to many new and world-premiere productions.
Most recently, Stephen Hartke’s The Greater Good received its world-premiere performances and recording in the Alice Busch Opera Theater in 2006.
Glimmerglass has been a leader in reaching out to other national and international opera companies to co-produce some of its best-loved repertory. Glimmerglass has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with New York City Opera, and cooperative projects with Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera North (UK), and Norwegian Opera.
Thirty productions are presently available for rental.
2009
La Traviata, Verdi
La Cenerentola, Rossini
The Consul, Menotti
Dido and Aeneas, Purcell
2008
Kiss Me, Kate, Porter
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Handel
Das Liebesverbot, Wagner
(American Fully-Staged Premiere)
I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mendelssohn†
2007
Orpheus in the Underworld, Offenbach
Orphée et Eurydice, Gluck/Berlioz
Orphée, Philip Glass
L’Orfeo, Monteverdi
L’Anima del Filosofo, Haydn†
2006
The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan
The Barber of Seville, Rossini
The Greater Good, Hartke & Littell*
Jenůfa, Janáček
2005
Così Fan Tutte, Mozart
Lucie de Lammermoor, Donizetti
Le Portrait de Manon, Massenet
La Voix Humaine, Poulenc
Death in Venice, Britten
2004
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini
Patience, Gilbert & Sullivan
Imeneo, Handel
The Mines of Sulphur, Bennett***
2003
Don Giovanni, Mozart
Bluebeard, Offenbach
Orlando, Handel
The Good Soldier Schweik, Kurka
2002
Pagliacci, Leoncavallo
Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni
Little Women, Adamo
Orlando Paladino, Haydn
Dialogues of the Carmelites, Poulenc
2001
L'Étoile, Chabrier
Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart
Agrippina, Handel
The Rape of Lucretia, Britten
2000
La Bohème, Puccini
The Glass Blowers, Sousa
Salome, R. Strauss
Acis and Galatea, Handel
1999
The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart
Rigoletto, Verdi
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Monteverdi
Central Park, Beaser/McNally; Drattell/Wasserstein; Torke/Gurney*
1998
Falstaff, Verdi
Tosca, Puccini
The Mother of Us All, Thomson
Partenope, Handel
1997
Madama Butterfly, Puccini
Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck
L'Italiana in Algeri, Rossini
Of Mice and Men, Floyd
1996
Lizzie Borden, Beeson
Don Pasquale, Donizetti
La Finta Giardiniera, Mozart
La Calisto, Cavalli
1995
The Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan
Don Giovanni, Mozart
Paul Bunyan, Britten
Tamerlano, Handel
1994
Iolanthe, Gilbert & Sullivan
L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi
Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini
1993
Così Fan Tutte, Mozart
Le Comte Ory, Rossini
The Midnight Angel, Carlson/Beagle****
Werther, Massenet
1992
The Magic Flute, Mozart
The Secret Marriage, Cimarosa
The Turn of the Screw, Britten
1991
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan
Il Re Pastore, Mozart***
Fidelio, Beethoven
1990
La Bohème, Puccini
Intermezzo, R. Strauss
Albert Herring, Britten
1989
A Question of Taste, Schuman*
The Mighty Casey, Schuman
La Traviata, Verdi
Mr. Jericho, Greenbank and Ford**
H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert & Sullivan
Albert Herring, Britten
1988
Don Giovanni, Mozart
The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Offenbach
Beatrice and Benedict, Berlioz
1987
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Britten
1986
La Cenerentola, Rossini
The Mighty Casey, Schuman
Gianni Schicchi, Puccini
The Pearl Fishers, Bizet
1985
The Bartered Bride, Smetana
Così Fan Tutte, Mozart
Falstaff, Verdi
1984
The Student Prince, Romberg
Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss
Carmen, Bizet
1983
Rigoletto, Verdi
The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan
1982
Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss II
Don Pasquale, Donizetti
Madame Butterfly, Puccini
1981
H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert & Sullivan
Manon Lescaut, Puccini
Gallantry, Moore
Trouble in Tahiti, Bernstein
The Impresario, Mozart
1980
The Gypsy Baron, J. Strauss II
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
1979
The Merry Widow, Lehár
The Barber of Seville, Rossini
1978
The Telephone/The Medium, Menotti
Martha, Flotow
1977
The Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach
Tosca, Puccini
1976
La Traviata, Verdi
Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni
Pagliacci, Leoncavallo
1975
La Bohème, Puccini
* World Premiere
** American Premiere
*** American Professionally-Staged Premiere
**** World Premiere Production
† Concert performance
Glimmerglass Opera’s 2000 production of La Bohème, available for production rental.
