Operas Seen

Title	Composer	seen
L'Orfeo	Claudio Monteverdi	ENO, Glimmerglass
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria	Claudio Monteverdi	DVD, SFO
L'incoronazione di Poppea	Claudio Monteverdi	DVD, 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, Sb, HD
Rodelinda	George Frideric Handel	HD
Orlando furioso	Antonio Vivaldi	SFO, DVD
Orlando	George Frideric Handel	SFO, SacO
Alcina	George Frideric Handel	SFO, HOO
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, 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	Met, 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	Sac, SFO
Die Zauberflöte	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	SFO, HD
La clemenza di Tito	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	SFO, DVD, DVD, HD
L'anima del filosofo	Joseph Haydn	Zurich
Fidelio	Ludwig van Beethoven	SFO, Zurich
L'italiana in Algeri	Gioachino Rossini	SFO
Tancredi	Gioachino Rossini	DVD, HOO
Il Turco in Italia	Gioachino Rossini	DVD, LA
Il barbiere di Siviglia	Gioachino Rossini	SFO, HD, SacO
Otello	Gioachino Rossini	SFO, Stream
La Cenerentola	Gioachino Rossini	SFO, Roma, ROH, HD
Armida	Gioachino Rossini	HD
Bianca e Falliero	Gioachino Rossini	HOO
Ermione	Gioachino Rossini	HOO
La donna del lago	Gioachino Rossini	SFO
Maometto II	Gioachino Rossini	Santa Fe
Der Freischütz	Carl Maria von Weber	WSO
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, DVD
I Capuleti e i Montecchi	Vincenzo Bellini	SFO, Stream
Norma	Vincenzo Bellini	SFO, DVD
La sonnambula	Vincenzo Bellini	Paris, HD
L'elisir d'amore	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO, DVD, Santa Fe, SacO, HD
Lucrezia Borgia	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO
Maria Stuarda	Gaetano Donizetti	HD
I puritani	Vincenzo Bellini	SFO, HD
La Juive	Fromental Halévy	DVD
Lucia di Lammermoor	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO, HD, HD
Roberto Devereux	Gaetano Donizetti	HOO
Benvenuto Cellini	Hector Berlioz	DVD
La favorite	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO, WSO
La fille du régiment	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO, HD
Nabucco	Giuseppe Verdi	DVD
Der Wildschütz	Albert Lortzing	UT*
Ruslan and Lyudmila	Mikhail Glinka	SFO, DVD
I Lombardi alla prima crociata	Giuseppe Verdi	DVD
Don Pasquale	Gaetano Donizetti	SFO, HD
The Flying Dutchman	Richard Wagner	SFO
Ernani	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, Met, HD
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*, SacO, SFO
Il trovatore	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, HD, DVD
La traviata	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, Santa Fe, HD, Florence, SacO, DVD
Les vêpres siciliennes	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO
Les Troyens	Hector Berlioz	DVD, HD
Orphée aux enfers	Jacques Offenbach	Glimmerglass
Un ballo in maschera	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, WestBay, HD
Faust	Charles Gounod	SFO, UT*, HD, Santa Fe
La forza del destino	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, UT*
Les pêcheurs de perles	Georges Bizet	SFO, San Jose, Santa Fe
La belle Hélène	Jacques Offenbach	ENO
Tristan und Isolde	Richard Wagner	SFO, DVD, HD
L'Africaine	Giacomo Meyerbeer	SFO
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, Stream
Mefistofele	Arrigo Boito	SFO
Hamlet	Ambroise Thomas	SFO, HD, DVD
Das Rheingold	Richard Wagner	SFO, HD
Die Walküre	Richard Wagner	SFO, Met
Aida	Giuseppe Verdi	DVD, SFO, HD, Verona, Roma
Boris Godunov	Modest Mussorgsky	SFO, HD
Die Fledermaus	Johann Strauss II	SFO, UT*, Sac*, Sac
Carmen	Georges Bizet	DVD, Zurich, SFO, HD
La Gioconda	Amilcare Ponchielli	SFO
Götterdämmerung	Richard Wagner	SFO, HD
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	DVD, SFO, Berleley, HD
Simon Boccanegra	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, HD
The Maid of Orleans	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	SFO
Parsifal	Richard Wagner	SFO, HD
Manon	Jules Massenet	SFO, LA, HD
Gasparone	Karl Joseph Millöcker	UT*
Khovanshchina	Modest Mussorgsky	SFO
Otello	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, HD
Prince Igor	Alexander Borodin	SFO
Cavalleria rusticana	Pietro Mascagni	SFO
The Queen of Spades	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	SFO, UT*, DVD
Der Vogelhändler	Carl Zeller	UT*
Pagliacci	Ruggero Leoncavallo	SFO, SacO
Werther	Jules Massenet	SFO, Paris, DVD
Hänsel und Gretel	Engelbert Humperdinck	SFO, HD, UT*
Manon Lescaut	Giacomo Puccini	WSO, HD
Falstaff	Giuseppe Verdi	SFO, WSO
Thaïs	Jules Massenet	HD
Andrea Chénier	Umberto Giordano	SFO, DVD
La bohème	Giacomo Puccini	Movie, SW, SFO, Santa Fe, HD, LA, DVD
Fedora	Umberto Giordano	DVD
Cendrillon	Jules Massenet	SFO, Sac
Louise	Gustave Charpentier	SFO
Tosca	Giacomo Puccini	SacO, WNO, DVD, SFO, HD, Santa Fe
Rusalka	Antonín Dvořák	SFO, DVD
Adriana Lecouvreur	Francesco Cilea	SFO, DVD
Pelléas et Mélisande	Claude Debussy	SFO, Stream
Jenůfa	Leoš Janáček	SFO, DVD, BSO
Madama Butterfly	Giacomo Puccini	SFO, Verona
The Merry Widow	Franz Lehár	SFO
Salome	Richard Strauss	SFO, UT*, HD
Elektra	Richard Strauss	SFO
Il segreto di Susanna	Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari	Sac
La fanciulla del West	Giacomo Puccini	SFO, HD
Königskinder	Engelbert Humperdinck	DVD
L'heure espagnole	Maurice Ravel	Sac
Der Rosenkavalier	Richard Strauss	SFO, HD
Ariadne auf Naxos	Richard Strauss	SFO, DVD, Met, Stream
Francesca da Rimini	Riccardo Zandonai	DVD, HD
The Gambler	Sergei Prokofiev	Met
La rondine	Giacomo Puccini	SFO, HD
Bluebeard's Castle	Béla Bartók	WNO, Berkeley, Davis
Gianni Schicchi	Giacomo Puccini	SFO, WNO, HD
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
La Leggenda di Sakùntala	Franco Alfano	Roma
Káťa Kabanová	Leoš Janáček	SFO
Mavra	Igor Stravinsky	Sac*
The Cunning Little Vixen	Leoš Janáček	SFO
Gräfin Mariza	Emmerich Kálmán	UT
Erwartung	Arnold Schoenberg	DVD
Wozzeck	Alban Berg	SFO, Santa Fe
Doktor Faust	Ferruccio Busoni	SFO
L'enfant et les sortilèges	Maurice Ravel	Berkeley
The Makropulos Affair	Leoš Janáček	SFO
Turandot	Giacomo Puccini	SFO, Met, HD
King Roger	Karol Szymanowski	Santa Fe
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, Santa Fe
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
Lulu	Alban Berg	SFO, DVD
Comedy on the Bridge	Bohuslav Martinů	Sac*
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
The Rape of Lucretia	Benjamin Britten	SF
The Medium	Gian Carlo Menotti	SFO
Betrothal in a Monastery	Sergei Prokofiev	DVD
The Mother of us All	Virgil Thomson	SFO
Street Scene	Kurt Weill	DVD
The Consul	Gian Carlo Menotti	Sac*, Zurich
The Rake's Progress	Igor Stravinsky	SFO
Billy Budd	Benjamin Britten	SFO
Amahl and the Night Visitors	Gian Carlo Menotti	TV
A Hand of Bridge	Samuel Barber	SF, Sac
Trouble in Tahiti	Leonard Bernstein	Sac, SF
The Turn of the Screw	Benjamin Britten	SacO
The Fiery Angel	Sergei Prokofiev	SFO
Candide	Leonard Bernstein	City
The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore	Gian Carlo Menotti	Sac
My Fair Lady	Frederick Leowe	Movie,UT*
Dialogues of the Carmelites	Francis Poulenc	SFO
A Game of Chance	Seymour Barab	Sac
Vanessa	Samuel Barber	HOO
La voix humaine	Francis Poulenc	SFO
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Benjamin Britten	SFO
Sweet Betsy from Pike	Mark Bucci	Sac
The Last Savage	Gian Carlo Menotti	Santa Fe
The Devils of Loudun	Krzysztof Penderecki	DVD
Death in Venice	Benjamin Britten	SFO*
Einstein on the Beach	Philip Glass	Berkeley
The Women in the Garden	Vivian Fine	SF+*
Le Grand Macabre	György Ligeti	DVD
Lear	Aribert Reimann	SFO
The Village Singer	Stephen Paulus	Sac
Sweeney Todd	Stephen Sondheim	DVD, Movie
The Lighthouse	Peter Maxwell Davies	Berkeley
Satyagraha	Philip Glass	SFO, Met, HD
Saint-François d'Assise	Olivier Messiaen	SFO
Nixon in China	John Adams	DVD, HD, SFO
A Night at the Chinese Opera	Judith Weir	London
The Death of Klinghoffer	John Adams	SFO+
The ghosts of Versailles	John Corigliano	VHS
Orphée	Philip Glass	Glimmerglass
The Dangerous Liaisons	Conrad Susa	SFO, DVD
Harvey Milk	Stewart Wallace	SFO+
Rent	Jonathan Larson	DVD
Parodia	Pablo Ortiz	Davis
Little Women	Mark Adamo	SF
A Streetcar Named Desire	Andre Previn	SFO+
The Great Gatsby	John Harbison	SF
Dead Man Walking	Jake Heggie	SFO+
El Niño	John Adams	DVD
L'Amour de Loin	Kaija Saariaho	DVD
Tea: A Mirror of Soul	Tan Dun	Santa Fe
Sophie's Choice	Nicholas Maw	WNO
Doctor Atomic	John Adams	SFO+, HD
The Tempest	Thomas Ades	HD
Ainadamar	Oswaldo Golijov	SF
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
Moby-Dick	Jake Heggie	SFO
Heart of a Soldier	Christopher Theofanidis	SFO+
Anna Nicole	Mark-Anthony Turnage	DVD
The Perfect American	Philip Glass	Stream+
The Secret Garden	Nolan Gasser	SFO+

These operas are listed in the order of their premier dates. I include operas in which I participated.  The current count is 253  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
Sb=Salzburg
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