| Title | Composer | seen |
| L'Orfeo | Claudio Monteverdi | ENO, Glimmerglass |
| Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria | Claudio Monteverdi | SFO, DVD |
| L'incoronazione di Poppea | Claudio Monteverdi | DVD |
| La Calisto | Francesco Cavalli | HOO |
| Dido and Aeneas | Henry Purcell | Sac*, Berkeley |
| The Fairy Queen | Henry Purcell | DVD |
| Médée | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | HOO |
| Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | George Frideric Handel | Zurich |
| Rinaldo | George Frideric Handel | Zurich |
| Giulio Cesare | George Frideric Handel | Zurich, Sac* |
| Rodelinda | George Frideric Handel | HD |
| Orlando furioso | Antonio Vivaldi | SFO |
| Orlando | George Frideric Handel | SFO,SacO |
| Alcina | George Frideric Handel | SFO |
| Ariodante | George Frideric Handel | SFO |
| Griselda | Antonio Vivaldi | Santa Fe |
| Serse | George Frideric Handel | SFO |
| Semele | George Frideric Handel | City, Zurich |
| Platée | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Santa Fe |
| Orfeo ed Euridice | Christoph Willibald Gluck | Glimmerglass, HD |
| Alceste | Christoph Willibald Gluck | Santa Fe |
| Mitridate, re di Ponto | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | DVD |
| Iphigénie en Tauride | Christoph Willibald Gluck | SFO, HD, WNO |
| Idomeneo | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Paris |
| Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | SFO |
| Le Nozze di Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | UT*, SFO, ROH, SacO |
| Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | SFO, Santa Fe, HD |
| Nina, o sia La pazza per amore | Giovanni Paisiello | DVD |
| Così fan tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | SFO |
| Die Zauberflöte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | SFO, HD |
| La clemenza di Tito | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | SFO, DVD |
| L'anima del filosofo | Joseph Haydn | Zurich |
| Fidelio | Ludwig van Beethoven | SFO, Zurich |
| L'italiana in Algeri | Gioachino Rossini | SFO |
| Tancredi | Gioachino Rossini | HOO |
| Il Turco in Italia | Gioachino Rossini | LA |
| Il barbiere di Siviglia | Gioachino Rossini | SFO, HD |
| Otello | Gioachino Rossini | SFO |
| La Cenerentola | Gioachino Rossini | Zurich, SFO, Roma, ROH, HD |
| Armida | Gioachino Rossini | SFO, HD |
| Bianca e Falliero | Gioachino Rossini | Baltimore, DVD |
| Ermione | Gioachino Rossini | HOO |
| La donna del lago | Gioachino Rossini | SFO |
| Der Freischütz | Carl Maria von Weber | WSO, DVD |
| Fierabras | Franz Schubert | DVD |
| Semiramide | Gioachino Rossini | SFO, DVD |
| Il viaggio a Reims | Gioachino Rossini | DVD |
| Le siège de Corinthe | Gioachino Rossini | Baltimore |
| Clari | Fromental Halévy | DVD |
| Le comte Ory | Gioachino Rossini | HD |
| William Tell | Gioachino Rossini | SFO |
| Anna Bolena | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, HD |
| I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Vincenzo Bellini | SFO |
| La sonnambula | Vincenzo Bellini | Paris, HD |
| Norma | Vincenzo Bellini | SFO, DVD |
| L'elisir d'amore | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, DVD, Santa Fe, SacO |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO |
| I puritani | Vincenzo Bellini | SFO, HD |
| La Juive | Fromental Halévy | DVD |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, HD |
| Roberto Devereux | Gaetano Donizetti | HOO |
| La favorite | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, WSO |
| La fille du régiment | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, HD |
| Der Wildschütz | Albert Lortzing | UT* |
| Nabucco | Giuseppe Verdi | DVD |
| Ruslan and Lyudmila | Mikhail Glinka | SFO, DVD |
| Don Pasquale | Gaetano Donizetti | SFO, HD |
| I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Giuseppe Verdi | DVD |
| The Flying Dutchman | Richard Wagner | SFO |
| Ernani | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, Met |
| Tannhäuser | Richard Wagner | SFO |
| Attila | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO |
| The Damnation of Faust | Hector Berlioz | SFO, HD |
| Macbeth | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, HD |
| Martha | Friedrich von Flotow | UT* |
| Luisa Miller | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Otto Nicolai | SFO |
| Lohengrin | Richard Wagner | SFO, BSO |
| Stiffelio | Giuseppe Verdi | DVD |
| Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi | Sac*, SFO |
| Il trovatore | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, HD, DVD |
| La traviata | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, Santa Fe, Florence, SacO, DVD |
| Les vêpres siciliennes | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO |
| Les Troyens | Hector Berlioz | DVD |
| Orphée aux enfers | Jacques Offenbach | Glimmerglass |
| Faust | Charles Gounod | SFO, Santa Fe, HD, UT* |
| Un ballo in maschera | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, WestBay |
| La forza del destino | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, UT* |
| Les pêcheurs de perles | Georges Bizet | SFO, San Jose |
| La belle Hélène | Jacques Offenbach | ENO |
| L'Africaine | Giacomo Meyerbeer | SFO |
| Tristan und Isolde | Richard Wagner | SFO, DVD, HD |
| The Bartered Bride | Bedřich Smetana | UT*, ROH, DVD |
| Don Carlos | Giuseppe Verdi | LA, HD |
| Roméo et Juliette | Charles Gounod | HD |
| Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Richard Wagner | SFO |
| Hamlet | Ambroise Thomas | SFO, HD, DVD |
| Mefistofele | Arrigo Boito | SFO |
| Das Rheingold | Richard Wagner | SFO, HD |
| Die Walküre | Richard Wagner | SFO, Met |
| Aida | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, HD, Verona, Roma |
| Boris Godunov | Modest Mussorgsky | SFO, HD |
| Die Fledermaus | Johann Strauss II | SFO, UT*, Sac*, Sac |
| Carmen | Georges Bizet | SFO, HD, DVD, Zurich |
| Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner | SFO, HD |
| La Gioconda | Amilcare Ponchielli | SFO |
| Siegfried | Richard Wagner | SFO, HD |
| Samson and Delilah | Camille Saint-Saëns | SFO, WNO |
| Eugene Onegin | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | SFO, ROH, HD |
| Hérodiade | Jules Massenet | SFO |
| Les contes d'Hoffmann | Jacques Offenbach | SFO, Berleley, HD |
| Simon Boccanegra | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, HD |
| The Maid of Orleans | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | SFO |
| Parsifal | Richard Wagner | SFO |
| Gasparone | Karl Joseph Millöcker | UT* |
| Manon | Jules Massenet | SFO, LA, DVD |
| Khovanshchina | Modest Mussorgsky | SFO |
| Otello | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO |
| Cavalleria rusticana | Pietro Mascagni | SFO |
| Prince Igor | Alexander Borodin | SFO |
| Pique Dame | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | SFO, UT*, DVD |
| Der Vogelhändler | Carl Zeller | UT* |
| Pagliacci | Ruggero Leoncavallo | SFO, SacO |
| Werther | Jules Massenet | SFO, Paris |
| Falstaff | Giuseppe Verdi | SFO, WSO |
| Hänsel und Gretel | Engelbert Humperdinck | SFO, HD, UT* |
| Manon Lescaut | Giacomo Puccini | WSO, HD |
| Thaïs | Jules Massenet | HD |
| Andrea Chénier | Umberto Giordano | SFO |
| La bohème | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD, Movie |
| Fedora | Umberto Giordano | DVD |
| Cendrillon | Jules Massenet | SFO, Sac |
| Louise | Gustave Charpentier | SFO |
| Tosca | Giacomo Puccini | SacO, WNO, SFO, HD |
| Rusalka | Antonín Dvořák | SFO |
| Adriana Lecouvreur | Francesco Cilea | SFO |
| Pelléas et Mélisande | Claude Debussy | SFO |
| Jenůfa | Leoš Janáček | DVD, SFO, BSO |
| Madama Butterfly | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, Verona |
| Salome | Richard Strauss | SFO, HD, UT* |
| The Merry Widow | Franz Lehár | SFO |
| Elektra | Richard Strauss | SFO |
| Il segreto di Susanna | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | Sac |
| La fanciulla del West | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD, UT |
| Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss | DVD, SFO, HD |
| L'heure espagnole | Maurice Ravel | Sac |
| Ariadne auf Naxos | Richard Strauss | SFO, Met, DVD |
| Francesca da Rimini | Riccardo Zandonai | DVD |
| La rondine | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD |
| The Gambler | Sergei Prokofiev | Met |
| Bluebeard's Castle | Béla Bartók | Berkeley, WNO, Mondavi |
| Gianni Schicchi | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD, WNO |
| Il tabarro | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD |
| Suor Angelica | Giacomo Puccini | SFO, HD |
| Die Frau ohne Schatten | Richard Strauss | SFO, DVD |
| Die tote Stadt | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | SFO |
| Káťa Kabanová | Leoš Janáček | SFO |
| La Leggenda di Sakùntala | Franco Alfano | Roma |
| Mavra | Igor Stravinsky | Sac* |
| Erwartung | Arnold Schoenberg | DVD |
| Gräfin Mariza | Emmerich Kálmán | UT |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Leoš Janáček | SFO |
| Doktor Faust | Ferruccio Busoni | SFO |
| L'enfant et les sortilèges | Maurice Ravel | Berkeley |
| Wozzeck | Alban Berg | SFO, Santa Fe |
| The Makropulos Affair | Leoš Janáček | SFO |
| Turandot | Giacomo Puccini | Met, SFO, HD |
| Sir John in Love | Ralph Vaughan Williams | ENO |
| From the House of the Dead | Leoš Janáček | DVD |
| Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Kurt Weill | LA |
| Moses und Aron | Arnold Schoenberg | DVD |
| Arabella | Richard Strauss | DVD |
| Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Dmitri Shostakovich | SFO |
| Four Saints in Three Acts | Virgil Thomson | SF |
| Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin | SFO, DVD |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Franco Alfano | ROH, SFO |
| Comedy on the Bridge | Bohuslav Martinů | Sac* |
| Lulu | Alban Berg | SFO, DVD |
| Riders to the Sea | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Sac* |
| Brundibar | Hans Krása | SacO |
| Daphne | Richard Strauss | Santa Fe |
| The Old Maid and the Thief | Gian Carlo Menotti | Sac* |
| Capriccio | Richard Strauss | SFO, HD |
| Peter Grimes | Benjamin Britten | SFO, HD |
| Betrothal in a Monastery | Sergei Prokofiev | DVD |
| The Medium | Gian Carlo Menotti | SFO |
| The Rape of Lucretia | Benjamin Britten | SF |
| Street Scene | Kurt Weill | DVD |
| The Mother of us All | Virgil Thomson | SFO |
| The Consul | Gian Carlo Menotti | Zurich, Sac* |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | Gian Carlo Menotti | TV |
| Billy Budd | Benjamin Britten | SFO |
| The Rake's Progress | Igor Stravinsky | SFO |
| Trouble in Tahiti | Leonard Bernstein | Sac |
| The Fiery Angel | Sergei Prokofiev | SFO |
| The Turn of the Screw | Benjamin Britten | SacO |
| Candide | Leonard Bernstein | City |
| The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore | Gian Carlo Menotti | Sac |
| Dialogues of the Carmelites | Francis Poulenc | SFO |
| Vanessa | Samuel Barber | HOO |
| La voix humaine | Francis Poulenc | SFO |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Benjamin Britten | SFO |
| The Last Savage | Gian Carlo Menotti | Santa Fe |
| The Devils of Loudun | Krzysztof Penderecki | DVD |
| Death in Venice | Benjamin Britten | SFO* |
| The Women in the Garden | Vivian Fine | SF*+ |
| Le Grand Macabre | György Ligeti | DVD |
| Lear | Aribert Reimann | SFO |
| Sweeney Todd | Stephen Sondheim | DVD, Movie |
| The Village Singer | Stephen Paulus | Sac |
| The Lighthouse | Peter Maxwell Davies | Berkeley |
| Satyagraha | Philip Glass | SFO, Met |
| Saint-François d'Assise | Olivier Messiaen | SFO |
| A Night at the Chinese Opera | Judith Weir | London |
| Nixon in China | John Adams | DVD, HD |
| Orphée | Philip Glass | Glimmerglass |
| The Death of Klinghoffer | John Adams | SFO+ |
| The ghosts of Versailles | John Corigliano | VHS |
| The Dangerous Liaisons | Conrad Susa | DVD |
| Harvey Milk | Stewart Wallace | SFO+ |
| Rent | Jonathan Larson | DVD |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Andre Previn | SFO+ |
| Little Women | Mark Adamo | SF |
| The Great Gatsby | John Harbison | SF |
| Dead Man Walking | Jake Heggie | SFO+ |
| El Niño | John Adams | DVD |
| L'Amour de Loin | Kaija Saariaho | DVD |
| Sophie's Choice | Nicholas Maw | WNO |
| Tea: A Mirror of Soul | Tan Dun | Santa Fe |
| Doctor Atomic | John Adams | SFO+, HD |
| The First Emperor | Tan Dun | HD+ |
| Appomattox | Philip Glass | SFO+ |
| The Bonesetter’s Daughter | Stewart Wallace | SFO+ |
| The Letter | Paul Moravec | Santa Fe+ |
| Il Postino | Daniel Catán | TV+ |
| Anna Nicole | Mark-Anthony Turnage | DVD |
| Heart of a Soldier | Christopher Theofanidis | SFO+ |
| The Letter | Paul Moravec | Santa Fe+ |
| The Enchanted Island | Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau | HD+ |
These operas are listed in the order of their premier dates. I include operas in which I participated. The current count is 237. I put this in because one of the other bloggers has a similar list and ....
Key:
BSO=Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
City=New York City Opera
ENO=English National Opera, London
HD=high definition from the Metropolitan Opera
HOO=House of Opera DVD
LA=Los Angeles Opera
Met=Metropolitan Opera
ROH=Royal Opera House, London
Roma=Rome Opera
Paris=Paris Opera
Sac=Sacramento State
SacO=Sacramento Opera
Santa Fe=Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico
SFO=San Francisco Opera
UT=Ulmer Theater
Verona=Arena di Verona
WNO=Washington National Opera, DC
WSO=Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
Zurich=Zurich Opera
+=World Premier
