OPERAS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES Mark Adamo Becoming Santa Claus Matthew Aucoin Second Nature Sven-Erik Bäck Kattresan (The Cat’s Journey) Seymour Barab Fair Means or Foul The Maker of Illusions No Laughing Matter Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Toy Shop A Very Special Gift Who Am I? Mary Elizabeth Caldwell Pepito’s Golden Flower Robert Chauls Alice in Wonderland John Eaton The Lion and Androcles Cecil Effinger Pandora’s Box Jonathan Elkus Tom Sawyer Malcolm Fox Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing Philip Glass 1000 Airplanes on the Roof La Belle et La Bête The Juniper Tree Morton Gould The Jogger and the Dinosaur Bodil Heister Det Forjættede Land (The Promised Land) (arr. by Bo Gunge) Joseph Horovitz Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo Engelbert Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel John Joubert The Wayfarers Robert Kapilow Chris van Allsburg’s Polar Express Dr Seuss’s Gertrude McFuzz Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham Elijah’s Angel I Want to be a Superhero Many Moons You and Hugh Erland von Koch Peter Tailless, the Cat
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Ezra Laderman The Hunting of the Snark 63 Nicola Lefanu The Green Children 66 Bent Lorentzen The Magic Diamond 67 Niels Marthinsen Snehvides Spejl 71 (Snow White’s Mirror) Peter Maxwell Davies Cinderella 73 Dangerous Errand 73 73 Dinosaur at Large The Great Bank Robbery 73 73 Jupiter Landing Notre Dame des Fleurs 74 A Selkie Tale 75 The Spiders’ Revenge 75 Gian Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors 77 The Boy Who Grew Too Fast 77 A Bride From Pluto 77 Chip and His Dog 77 78 Help, Help, the Globolinks! Randall Meyers Frederick’s Fantastic Journey 79 Thea Musgrave A Christmas Carol 84 Stephen Oliver The Girl and the Unicorn 89 90 Three Instant Operas Andy Pape Dampenes Rejse (Journey of the Fumes) 92 92 Draken Kjetil (Kjetil the Dragon) Sigurd Dragedræber (Sigurd the Dragon Slayer) 92 Thomas Pastieri The Goose Girl 93 Rachel Portman The Little Prince 94
Raymond Walker The Bride of Seville Cinderella in Salerno Judith Weir The Black Spider Alec Wilder Miss Chicken Little Helen Windsor The Adventures of Thumbelina
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Desmond Ratcliffe Nativity by Lantern Light 98 Poul Ruders The Thirteenth Child 101 Robert Xavier Rodríguez Monkey See, Monkey Do 100 William Schuman The Mighty Casey 108 Dmitri Shostakovich Skazka o Glupom Myšonke (The Tale of the Silly Little Mouse) 111 Michael Valenti Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 118 196
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