PAST REPERTOIRE
* denotes Chicago Premiere
+ denotes World Premiere
^ denotes Concert Premiere
Photo above from the 2008 production of A Flowering Tree (Adams/Sellars)
2023-24
Soldier Songs (Little)*
The Nose (Shostakovich)*
Book of Mountains and Seas (Ruo)*
The Weight of Light (Perry/Amaker)^
Before It All Goes Dark (Heggie/Scheer)*
2022-23
King Roger (Szymanowski/Iwaszkiewicz)*
Albert Herring (Britten/Crozier)
The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing (Chen/Simpatico)+
The Cook-Off (Okpebholo/Campbell)^
For a Look or a Touch (Heggie/Scheer)*
Another Sunrise (Heggie/Scheer)*
2021-22
Carmen (Bizet/Meilhac)
Becoming Santa Claus (Adamo)+
The Beekeeper (Lu/Rourke)^
Quamino's Map (Wallen/Brevoort)+
2020-21
The Transformation of Jane Doe (Garrop/Dye)
Taking Up Serpents (Sankaram/Dye)*
The Puppy Episode (Recio/Vavrek)^
La hija de Rappaccini (Catan/Tovar)
2019-20
Everest (Talbot/Scheer)*
Aleko (Rachmaninov)*
Freedom Ride (Shore)+
2018-19
Iolanta (Tchaikosky/M. Tchaikovsky)*
The Scarlet Ibis (Weissman/Cote)*
Moby-Dick (Heggie/Scheer)*
2017-18
The Consul (Menotti)
Elizabeth Cree (Puts/Campbell)*
Il Pigmalione (Donizetti)*
Rita (Donizetti/Vaëz)*
2016-17
The Love Potion (Martin/Bedier)*
Fairy Queen (Purcell/Betterton)
The Invention of Morel (Copeland/Moore)+
The Perfect American (Glass/Wurlitzer)*
2015-16
La Voix Humaine (Poulenc/Cocteau)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini/Forzano)
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell/Tate)
2015
Therese Raquin (Picker/Scheer)*
A Coffin in Egypt (Gordon/Foglia)*
Lucio Silla (Mozart/Gamerra)*
2014
Queenie Pie (Ellington/McGettigan)*
Emperor of Atlantis (Ullman/Kien)
Die Kluge (Orff)
Macbeth (Bloch/Fleg)*
2013
Fall of the House of Usher (Glass/Yorrinks)*
Maria de Buenos Aires (Piazzolla/Ferrer)
Joan of Arc (Verdi/Solera)*
Orpheus and Euridice (Gordon)*
2012
Moscow, Cheryomushki (Shostakovich/Mass & Chervinsky)*
Teseo (Handel/Haym)
Magic Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder)
2011
Death and the Powers (Machover/Pinksy)*
Medea (Charpentier/Corneille)*
Diary of One Who Disappeared (Janacek/Kalda)
Frauenliebe und Leben (Schumann/Chamisso)
2010
Mose in Egitto (Rossini/Tottola)*
Giasone (Cavalli/Cicognini)*
Three Decembers (Heggie/Scheer)
An Evening with Frederica von Stade and Jake Heggie
2009
La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart/Metastasio & Mazzola)
La Tragedie de Carmen (Constant/Brook)
Owen Wingrave (Britten/Piper)
2008
Don Giovanni (Mozart/DaPonte)
A Flowering Tree (Adams/Sellars)
Orlando (Handel)
2007
The Return of Ulysses (Monteverdi/Badoaro)
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok)
Erwartung (Schonberg/Pappenheim)
Beatrice et Benedict (Berlioz)
2006
The Padlock (Dibdin/Bickerstaffe)*
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell/Tate)*
Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart/Bretzner)
Nixon In China (Adams/Goodman)*
2005
La Resurrezione (Handel/Capece)
Marriage of Figaro (Mozart/DaPonte)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten/Pears)*
2004
L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi/Busenello)
Death in Venice (Britten/Pears)*
Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini/Balocchi)*
2003
Turn of the Screw (Britten/Piper)
Agrippina (Handel/Grimani)
Brundibar (Krasa/Hoffmeister)+
Comedy on the Bridge (Martinu)
2002
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart/DaPonte)
Rape of Lucretia (Britten/Duncan)
Semele (Handel/Congreve)
2001
Orfeo (Monteverdi/Younger)
Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka/Allen)
Noah's Flood (Britten)
Acis and Galatea (Handel/Gay)
2000
Barber of Sevile (Rossini/Sterbini)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini/Forzano)
Buoso's Ghost (Ching)*
Akhnaten (Glass)
1999
Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach/Barbier)
There Is a Garden (Bernstein/arr. Reaux)+
Trouble in Tahiti (Bernstein)
1998
Kaiser of Atlantis (Ullman/Kien)*
Bon Appetit! (Hoiby/Child & Shulgasser)*
Face on the Barroom Floor (Mollicone/Bownman)*
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck/Wette)
1997
Grand Duchess of Helmsley-Stein (Offenbach/Halévy & Melihac)+
Don Giovanni (Mozart/DaPonte)
Shining Brow (Hagen/Muldoon)*
1996
Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss/Hoffmansthal)
Jewel Box (Mozart/Griffiths)*
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini/Anelli)
1995
Magic Flute (Mozart/Schikaneder)
Tender Land (Copland/Everett)*
1994
Beatrice and Benedict (Berlioz)*
The Ballad of Baby Doe (Moore/Touche)
1993
Four Saints in Three Acts (Thomson/Stein)
1992
Count Ory (Rossini/Scribe & Poirson)*
La Traviata (Verdi/Piave)
Water Bird Talk (Argento)*
Medium (Menotti)
1991
Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen/Sendak)
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
Idomeneo (Mozart/Varesco)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini/Giacosa)
Postcard from Morocco (Argento/Donahue)
1990
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai/Mosenthal)
Lighthouse (Davies)*
Lakme (Delibes/Gondinet & Gille)
Carousel (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
1989
Where the Wild Things Are (Knussen/Sendak)*
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)
La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart/Petrosellini & Kalbeck)*
Albert Herring (Britten/Crozier)
Romeo and Juliet (Gounod/Barbier & Carré)
1988
Orfeo and Euridice (Gluck/Calzabigi)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti/Ruffini & Accursi)
Of Mice and Men (Floyd)*
Cinderella (Rossini/Ferretti)
1987
Cosi fan tutte (Mozart/DaPonte)
Turn of the Screw (Britten/Piper)
Two Widows (Smetana/Züngel)*
1986
Susannah (Floyd)*
L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni/Daspuro)*
Turk in Italy (Rossini/Romani)*
1985
Pearl Fishers (Bizet/Carré & Cormon)
Elixir of Love (Donizetti/Romani)
Crucible (Ward/Stambler)*
1984
Don Giovanni (Mozart/DaPonte)
Bartered Bride (Smetana/Sabina)
Mother of Us All (Thomson/Stein)
1983
Martha (Flowtow/Riese)
Consul (Menotti)*
Barber of Seville (Rossini/Sterbini)
1982
Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart/Bretzner)
Regina (Blitzstein)*
Daughter of the Regiment (Donizetti/Sant-Georges & Bayard)
1981
La Rondine (Puccini/Adami & Willner)
Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka/Allan)*
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart/DaPonte)
1980
Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini/Anelli)
Summer and Smoke (Hoiby/Wilson)
1979
Così fan tutte (Mozart/DaPonte)
Albert Herring (Britten/Crozier)*
Pearl Fishers (Bizet/Carré & Cormon)
1978
Don Pasquale (Donizetti/Ruffini & Accursi)
Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai/Mosenthal)
1977
Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart/Bretzner)*
Summer and Smoke (Hoiby/Wilson)*
1976
The Barber of Seville (Rossini/Sterbini)
The Mother of Us All (Thomson/Stein)*
1975
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart/DaPonte)
1974
Così fan tutte (Mozart/DaPonte)