Dr. Thomas King

Opera Literature Oral Report possibilities 2012

Modern

David Land  Difficulty of Crossing a Field 2012

Webber Jesus Christ Superstar 1969

Stravinsky Rake’s Progress

Barber Vanessa

Legrand Umbrellas of Cherbourg  1957 TK

Corgliano Ghosts of Versailles  1992

Britten  Death in Venice

Uluru (ongoing)

1900-1960

Britten Peter Grimes

Gershwin Porgy and Bess

Scott Joplin Treemonisha

Berg Wozzeck

Poulenc Dialogue of  the Carmelites

Menotti  The Medium

Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors  TK

Strauss Rosenkavalier

Puccini Bohème

Puccini  Tosca

1850-1900

Bizet (Carmen Jones TK/ Mark Griggs)

Mussorgsky  Boris Godunov

Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

Verdi Traviata

Verdi Aida

Bizet  Carmen

Wagner Lohengrin

Massenet Werther

Leoncavallo Pagliacci

Wagner The Ring cycle

1800-1850

Beethoven Fidelio

Rossini Barber

Donizetti Elixir

Donizetti  Daughter of the Regimant

Donizetti  Lucia di Lammermoor

Bellini Norma

Mozart

Abduction

Don Giovanni

Così fan Tutte

Magic Flute

Nozze di Figaro

Bastien and Bastienne

Early

Gluck Orfeo  1762

Handel Julius Caesar

Monteverdi  Coronation of Poppea

Monteverdi  Orfeo   TK

Purcell  Dido and Aeneas