PRODUCTION HISTORY

Des Moines Metro Opera PRODUCTION HISTORY

1973 Puccini La Rondine Menotti The Medium Benjamin Prima Donna Britten Albert Herring

1974 Puccini Madama Butterfly Ward The Crucible Verdi Falstaff

1975 Puccini Il Trittico Mozart The Magic Flute Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress

1976 Rossini The Barber of Seville Massenet Manon Floyd Susannah

1977 Mozart Così fan tutte Verdi La Traviata Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann

1978 Bizet Carmen Puccini La Bohème Menotti The Consul

1979 J. Strauss Die Fledermaus Verdi Rigoletto Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1980 Verdi Il Trovatore Donizetti Don Pasquale R. Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

1981 Puccini Tosca Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

1982 Verdi Otello Donizetti The Elixir of Love Mozart Don Giovanni

1983 Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Leoncavallo I Pagliacci Lehár The Merry Widow Donizetti The Daughter of the Regiment 1984 Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Poulenc Dialogues of the Carmelites Verdi Aïda

1985 Gounod Faust Rossini La Cenerentola Floyd Of Mice and Men

1986 Verdi Falstaff Hoiby The Tempest (World Premiere) Gounod Romeo and Juliet

1987 Puccini La Bohème Wagner The Flying Dutchman Britten The Turn of the Screw

1988 Rossini The Barber of Seville Puccini Turandot Mozart The Magic Flute 1989 Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann J. Strauss Die Fledermaus Ward The Crucible

1990 Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Flotow Martha Verdi La Traviata

1991 Puccini Madama Butterfly Britten Peter Grimes Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio

1992 Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Puccini The Girl of the Golden West Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel

1993 Donizetti Don Pasquale Verdi A Masked Ball Menotti The Saint of Bleecker Street

1994 Bizet Carmen Verdi Rigoletto Blitzstein Regina

1995 Sondheim Sweeney Todd Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe Mozart The Marriage of Figaro

1996 Puccini La Bohème Verdi Macbeth Mozart Così fan tutte

1997 Mozart Don Giovanni Puccini La Rondine Britten Albert Herring

1998 Puccini Tosca Lehár The Merry Widow Beethoven Fidelio Hoiby Summer and Smoke

1999 Rossini The Barber of Seville Verdi Il Trovatore Weill Street Scene

2000 Bellini Norma Menotti The Consul Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld

2001 Puccini La Bohème Verdi La Traviata Puccini Il Trittico Barber Vanessa

2002 Puccini Turandot Strauss Salome Bernstein Candide

2003 Verdi Falstaff Gounod Faust Ward The Crucible Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors 2004 Puccini Madama Butterfly Rossini La Cenerentola R. Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

2005 Offenbach The Tales of Hoffmann Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor Britten Gloriana Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors

2006 Mozart The Magic Flute Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress Verdi Rigoletto

2007 Bizet Carmen Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream Verdi Otello

2008 Verdi A Masked Ball Blitzstein Regina Donizetti The Elixir of Love

2009 Puccini Tosca Weber Der Freischütz Rossini The Barber of Seville

2010 Mozart The Marriage of Figaro Verdi Macbeth Floyd Susannah

2011 Puccini La Bohème Donizetti Don Pasquale Poulenc Dialogues of the Carmelites

2012 Mozart Don Giovanni Puccini La Rondine Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin

2013 Gounod Romeo and Juliet Britten Peter Grimes Strauss Elektra

2014 Verdi La Traviata Heggie Dead Man Walking Rossini Le Comte Ory Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors Bizet/Brook The Tragedy of Carmen 2015 Mozart The Abduction from the Seraglio Puccini The Girl of the Golden West Janáček Jenůfa Heggie Three Decembers Catán Rappaccini’s Daughter

2016 Verdi Falstaff Massenet Manon Gluck Orphée et Eurydice Schubert Winterreise Glass Galileo Galilei

2017 Puccini Turandot Sondheim A Little Night Music Britten Billy Budd Little Soldier Songs Piazzolla/Ferrer María de Buenos Aires

2018 J. Strauss Die Fledermaus Dvořák Rusalka Dove/De Angelis Flight Kaminsky/Campbell/Reed As One Copland The Tender Land

2019 Puccini La Bohème Bernstein Candide Berg Wozzeck Cipullo Glory Denied Hoiby Bon Appétit!

2020 Virtual Season Poulenc La Voix Humaine Massenet Manon Hoiby Bon Appétit! Dvořák Rusalka Britten Billy Budd Rossini Le Comte Ory

2021 Sondheim Sweeney Todd Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades Rameau Platée The John Holiday Experience Spears/Pierce Fellow Travelers

2022 Mozart The Magic Flute Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Kuster/Campbell A Thousand Acres Geter/Palmer American Apollo