2007

The Little Prince

by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright after the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre
Actors:
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Franco Alfano
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia
Actors: Plácido Domingo, Sondra Radvanovsky
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)
Choreographer: Thomas Baird

Die Walküre

by Richard Wagner
Washington National Opera
Actors: Plácido Domingo, Anja Kampe, Alan Held, Linda Watson
Designers: Michael Yeargan (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)
Choreographer: John Carrafa

Porgy and Bess

by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin
Los Angeles Opera
Actors: Kevin Short, Alfred Walker, Morenike Fadayomi, Indira Mahajan
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Paul Tazewell (costumes)
Choreographer: Denni Sayers

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Pittsburgh Opera
Actors: Nathan Gunn, Greer Grimsley, Robin Leggate

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Actors: Erwin Schrott, Reinhard Hagen, Robert Lloyd, Anna Netrebko, Marina Poplavskaya
Designers: Maria Björnson
Choreographer: Stephen Mear

Disney's The Little Mermaid

by Doug Wright, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, and Howard Ashman
Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Designers: Georg Tsypin (sets), Tatiana Noginova (costumes)
Choreographer: Stephen Mear

Disney's The Little Mermaid

by Doug Wright, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater, and Howard Ashman
On Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater
Designers: Georg Tsypin (sets), Tatiana Noginova (costumes)
Choreographer: Stephen Mear

2006

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Franco Alfano
The Metropolitan Opera
Actors: Plácido Domingo, Sondra Radvanovsky
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)
Choreographer: Thomas Baird

La Bohème

by Giacomo Puccini
Royal Albert Hall
Actors: Majella Cullagh, Mark Stone, Anne Sophie Duprels, Victor Ryan Robertson, Dean Robinson, Richard Burkhard
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Sue Willmington (costumes)
Choreographer: Arthur Pita

Das Rheingold

by Richard Wagner
Washington National Opera
Actors: Elizabeth Bishop, Detlef Roth, Robin Leggate, Gordon Hawkins, Gary Rideout, John Marcus Bindel
Designers: Michael Yeargan (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes),

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Franco Alfano
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Actors: Plácido Domingo, Sondra Radvanovsky
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)
Choreographer: Thomas Baird

Showboat

by Jerome Kern
Royal Albert Hall
Actors:
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Sue Willmington (costumes)
Choreographer: Arthur Pita

Prairie

by Rachel Portman, Beth Henley, and Donna DiNovelli
New York Stage & Film: Martel Musicals (in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film)
Actors:
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Sue Willmington (costumes)
World premiere — concert reading

Rebecca

by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay
Raimund Theater
Actors:
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Birgit Hutter (costumes)
Choreographer: Denni Sayers

Salome

by Richard Strauss
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Actors: Deborah Voigt, Kim Begley, Alan Held, Judith Forst
Designers: George Tsypin (sets), Tatyana Noginova (costumes)
Choreographer: Jane Comfort

Carmen

by Georges Bizet
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Actors: Anna Caterina Antonacci, Marina Domashenko, Jonas Kaufmann, Marco Berti, Ildebrando D'Archangelo, Laurent Naouri
Designers:

The Queen of Spades

by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Actors: Vladimir Galouzine, Vassily Gerello, Gerald Finley, Larissa Diadkova, Mlada Khudoley, Enkelejda Shkosa, Robin Leggate
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)
Choreographer: Vivienne Newport

2005

Luisa Miller

by Giuseppe Verdi
The Dallas Opera
Actors: Ruth Ann Swenson, Nicola Rossi Giordano
Designers: Michael Yeargan

The Love for Three Oranges

by Sergey Prokofiev
Opera Australia
Actors: Bruce Martin, John Mac Master, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Teddy Tahu Rhodes
Designers: George Tsypin

The Little Prince

by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright after the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
Boston Lyric Opera
Actors: Keith Phares, Hugh Russell, Laura Choi Stuart, David M. Cushing
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Florencia in the Amazons

by Daniel Catán, libretto by Marcela Fuentes-Berain
Seattle Opera
Actors: Nancy Gustafson, Wendy Hill, Nathan Gunn, Frances Lucey
Designers: Robert Israel

War and Peace

by Sergey Prokofiev
Opera National de Paris
Actors: Bo Skovhus, Olga Guryakova, Anna Kiknadze, Leonid Bomshteyn
Designers: John MacFarlane

Boris Godunov

by Modest Moussorgsky
Paris Opera
Actors: Samuel Ramey, Vladimir Vaneev, Gaële Le Roi, Aleksandra Zamojska
Designers: Wolfgang Gussmann

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Franco Alfano, libretto by Henri Cain
Metropolitan Opera
Actors: Sondra Radvanovsky, Plácido Domingo, Raymond Very, Anthony Michaels-Moore
Designers: Peter Davison

Hildegard

by Hildegard von Bingen, libretto by Donna DiNovelli
Performances in San Franciso with Chanticleer
Actors:
Designers:

Porgy and Bess

by
Washington National Opera
Actors: Indira Mahajan,
Designers:

An American Tragedy

by Tobias Picker
Metropolitan Opera
Actors: Patricia Racette, Nathan Gunn, Susan Graham, Dolora Zajick
Designers: Adrianne Lobel (sets), Dunya Ramicova (costumes)

2004

The Little Prince

by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright after the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
BBC Wales Music/BBC TWO — Filmed production to air at Christmastime
Actors: Lesley Garrett
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Tibet Through the Red Box

by David Henry Hwang
Seattle Childrens Theater
Actors: Tommy Fleming, Peter Cook, Marianne Owen, Randy Reyes
Designers: Jan Hartley (projections), Anita Yavich (costumes), Carey Wong (sets)

La Bohème

by Giacomo Puccini
Royal Albert Hall
Conductor: David Parry
Singers: Mary Plazas, Indira Mahajan, Peter Wedd, Gerard Powers
Designers: Peter J. Davison (sets), Sue Willmington (costumes)

The Little Prince

by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright after the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee
Conductor: Pasquale Laurino
Singers: Nathaniel Irvin, Andrew Riehle, Shon Sims, Shawn Bartels, Kirk Eichelberger
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Der fliegende Holländer

by Richard Wagner
Lithuanian Opera, Vilnius
Conductor: Gintaras Rinkevicius
Singers: Johannes von Duisburg, Jane Ohmes
Designers: Alison Chitty (sets), Carrie Bayliss (costumes)

Peter Grimes

by Benjamin Britten
De Nederlandse Opera, Het Muziektheater Amsterdam
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Singers: Kim Begley, Brigitte Hahn
Designers: Richard Hudson

Fiery Angel

by Sergey Prokofiev
Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov
Singers: Oksana Krovytska
Designers: Georgy Tzipin (sets), Tatiana Noginova (costumes)

West Side Story

by Leonard Bernstein
Bregenz Festival, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Floating Stage
Conductor: Wayne Marshall
Singers: Marisol Montalvo, Jesper Tydén, Sibylle Wolf, Anita Franzen, Andreas Wolfram
Designers: George Tsypin
Choreographer: Richard Wherlock

The Nose

by Dmitrii Shostakovich
Bard Summer Festival
Conductor: Leon Botstein
Singers: Igor Tarassov, Alexandre Podbolotov, Leonid Bomstein, Sheila Nadler, Andrei Antonov, Wendy Hill
Designers: Rafael Viñoly, scenic designer; Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili, costume designer; Mark McCullough, lighting designer

The Cherry Tree Towers

by Dmitrii Shostakovich
Bard SummerScape Festival
Conductor: Sergei Dreznin
Singers: Lauren Skuce, Jonathan Hays, Peter Kazaras, Keith Jameson, Andrei Antonov, Aleksandr Kravets, Makvala Karashvili, Joshua Winograde, Wendy Hill
Designers: G.W. Mercier, set and costume designer; Mark McCullough, lighting designer

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
The Washington Opera

Madama Butterfly

by Giacomo Puccini
Houston Grand Opera

Dialogues des Carmelites

by Francis Poulenc
Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Teatro Regio, Parma, Italy

Jenufa

by Leos Janacek
The Dallas Opera
Conductor: Graeme Jenkins
Singers: Patricia Racette, Robert Brubaker, Judith Forst, Jay Hunter Morris
Designers: Alison Chitty

2003

Khovanshchina

by Modest Mussorgsky
English National Opera, London Coliseum
Conductor: Oleg Caetani
Singers: W.W. White, J. Grove, J. Tomlinson, D. Rendall
Designers: Alison Chitty

Les Troyens

by Hector Berlioz
Metropolitan Opera, New York
Conductor: James Levine
Singers: D. Voigt, B. Heppner, L. Hunt Lieberson
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Guillaume Tell

by Gioacchino Rossini
Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
Conductor: Bruno Campanella
Singers: T. Hampson, N. Gubisch, G. Le Roi
Designers: Peter Davison

Pique Dame

by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Covent Garden Production

Thérèse Raquin

by Tobias Picker, based on the novel by Émile Zola
San Diego Opera, Civic Theatre
Conductor: Karen Keltner
Singers: Dame J. Barstow, K. Chávez, G. Gietz, C. Maltman
Designers: Marie-Jeanne Lecca

Madama Butterfly

by Giacomo Puccini
San Diego Opera, Civic Theatre
Conductor: Edoardo Müller
Singers: C. Sue Panariello, R. Leech, J. Hu
Designers: Michael Yeargan (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)

Fidelio

by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Washington Opera, DAR Constitution Hall
Conductor: Heinz Fricke
Singers: S. B. Anthony, C. Ventris
Designers: Peter Davison (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)

The Little Prince

by by Rachel Portman, libretto by Nicholas Wright after the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
Houston Grand Opera, Wortham Theater Center
Conductor: Patrick Summers, James Lowe
Singers: N. Irvin, K. Reiersen, T. T. Rhodes
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

West Side Story

by Leonard Bernstein
Bregenz Festival, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Floating Stage
Conductor: Wayne Marshall
Singers: M. Montalvo, J. Tydén, S. Wolf, A. Franzen, A. Wolfram
Designers: George Tsypin
Choreographer: Richard Wherlock

Alcina

by George Frideric Handel
New York City Opera, New York State Theater
Conductor: Daniel Beckwith
Singers: C. Goerke, L. Skuce, K. Goeldner, J. Dudley
Designers: Neil Patel (sets), Martin Pakledinaz (costumes)

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Royal Opera House, London
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Singers: G. Finley, I. Bostridge, A. Netrebko, N. Focile, E. Schrott
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Il Trovatore

by Giuseppe Verdi
Opéra National de Paris, Opéra Bastille
Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Singers: R. Alagna, D. Zajick, S. Radvanvosky, Z. Lucic
Designers: Maria Bjørnson, Adrian Linford (sets), Sue Willmington (costumes)

Die Walküre

by Richard Wagner
The Washington Opera, DAR Constitution Hall
Conductor: Heinz Fricke
Singers: P. Domingo, A. Kampe, M. Khoudoley, L. Watson, E. Zaremba, A. Held
Designers: Peter Davison (sets), Anita Yavich (costumes)

2002

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Collin Davis, Charles Mackerras
Singers: B. Terfel, A. Held
Designers: Maria Bjørnson

Of Mice and Men

by Carlisle Floyd, based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Houston Grand Opera
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Singers: Anthony Dean Griffey
Designers: Richard Hudson

The Flying Dutchman

by Richard Wagner
Bordeaux Opera, Bordeaux, France
Conductor: Gunther Neuhold
Singers: P. Hunka
Designers: Alison Chitty

Madama Butterfly

by Giacomo Puccini
Pittsburgh Opera
Conductor: John Mauceri
Singers: P. Racette, A. Portilla

La Vestale

by Gasparo Spontini
Opera House
Conductor: David Parry
Singers: J. Eaglen
Designers: Alison Chitty

Boris Godunov

by Modest Moussorgsky
Canadian Opera Company
Conductor: Richard Bradshaw
Singers: V. Zaplechny, G. Saks
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Nicky Gillibrand

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

by Dmitrii Shostakovich
Opera Australia
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Singers: E. Whitehouse, D. Shanks, G. Tomlinson, K. Schreibmayer, M. Haggart, D. Humble, G. Harris
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Tess Schofield

Thérèse Raquin

by Tobias Picker, based on the novel by Émile Zola
L'Opera de Montreal
Conductor: Mark Flint
Singers: J. Raven, D. Soviero, S. Woods, G. Gietz, N. Wentworth, G. Andrasy, P. Kazaras
Designers: Marie-Jeanne Lecca

2001

Florencia en el Amazonas

by Daniel Catán, based on the work of Gabriel García Márquez
Houston Grand Opera
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Singers: Patricia Schuman, Mark S. Doss, Ana Maria Martinez, Chad Shelton, Suzanna Guzmán, Hector Vasquez, Oren Gradus
Designers: Robert Israel, Catherine Zuber, Paul Pyant

The Queen of Spades

by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
Royal Opera House, London
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Singers: Vladimir Galouzine, Nikolai Putilin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Robin Leggate, Jeremy White, Henry Moss, Harry Nicoll, Josephine Barstow, Karita Mattila, Frances McCafferty, Elizabeth Sikora, Jenny Grahn
Designers: Peter J. Davison, Nicky Gillibrand, Mark McCullough

Of Mice and Men

by Carlisle Floyd, based on the novel by John Steinbeck
Bregenz Festival
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Singers: Nancy Allen Lundy, Peter Coleman-Wright, Anthony Dean Griffey, Joseph Evans, Gordon Hawkins, Douglas Nasrawi, Julian Patrick
Designers: Richard Hudson, Wolfgang Göbbel

Amahl and the Night Visitors

by Gian Carlo Menotti
Filming in Spain for the BBC production, featuring Pablo Strong, Robert Tear, and Patricia Racette

Arshak II

by Tigran Chukhadjian
San Francisco Opera
Conductor: Loris Tjeknavorian
Singers: Christopher Robertson, Anooshah Golesorkhi, Hasmik Papian, Nora Gubisch, Mzia Nioradze, Gordon Gietz, Tigran Martirossian, Ayk Martirossian, Philip Webb, David Okerlund, Katia Escalera
Designers: John Coyne, Anita Yavich, Mark McCullough

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Opéra de Paris

BBC1 Musical Gala

Of Mice and Men

by Carlisle Floyd, based on a novel by John Steinbeck
Washington Opera
Conductor: Karen Keltner
Singers: Michael Hendrick, Rod Nelman, Joseph Evans, Diane Alexander

The Bartered Bride

by Bedrich Smetana
Royal Opera House, London

Jenufa

by Leos Janacek
San Francisco Opera
Conductor: Jiri Kout
Singers: Janice Watson, Elizabeth Connell, Jay Hunter Morris, Anthony Dean Griffey, Helga Dernesch
Designers: Alison Chitty, Jennifer Tipton

Thérèse Raquin

by Tobias Picker, based on the novel by Émile Zola
The Dallas Opera — World Premiere
Conductor: Graeme Jenkins
Singers: Sara Fulgoni, Richard Bernstein, Diana Soviero, Gordon Gietz
Designers: Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Mark McCullough

2000

War and Peace

by Sergei Prokofiev
Opéra de Paris
Conductor: Gary Bertini
Singers: Olga Gouriakova, Robert Brubaker, Nathan Gunn, Vassily Gerello, Elena Obraztsova, Anatoly Kotcherga
Designers: John Macfarlane, Nicky Gillibrand, Dominique Bruguière
Televised and recorded and released on DVD
Received Grand Prix of Critic's Circle

Luisa Miller

by Giuseppe Verdi
San Francisco Opera
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Singers: Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Gidon Saks
Designers: Micheal Yeargan, Dunya Ramicova, Mark McCoullough

Napoleon

by Andrew Sabiston and Tim Williams
Shaftesbury Theatre, London
Conductor: David Abell
Singers: Uwe Kroeger, Paul Baker, Anastazia Barzee, David Burt
Designers: Micheal Yeargan, Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Rick Fisher, Jan Hartley

Peter Grimes

by Benjamin Britten
Netherlands Opera
Conductor: Edo de Waart
Singers: Kim Begley, Janice Watson, Phillip Joll
Designers: Richard Hudson, Jennifer Tipton

1999

Paul Bunyan

by Benjamin Britten
Royal Opera, Covent Garden at Sadler's Wells
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Singers: Susan Gritton, Peter Coleman-Wright
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Nicky Gillibrand, Wolfgang Göbbel
Recorded by Harmonia Mundi

Otello

by Giuseppi Verdi
Bayerisches Staatsoper, Munich
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Singers: Amanda Roocroft, Vladimir Bogachov, Ruggero Raimondi
Designers: Alison Chitty, Mimi Sherin
Opening Production of Munich Summer Festival

Dialogues of the Carmelites

by Francis Poulenc
Santa Fe Opera
Conductor: Stéphane Denève
Singers: Patricia Racette, Christine Goerke, Sheila Nadler
Designers: Alison Chitty, Jennifer Tipton

Turandot

by Giacomo Puccini
Opéra de Paris, Bastille
Conductor: James Conlon
Singers: Jane Eaglen, Patricia Racette, Franco Farina
Designers: Alison Chitty, Dominique Brugier
Received Prague Biennale Award for the design

Dialogues of the Carmelites

by Francis Poulenc
Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Singers: Patricia Racette, Felicity Palmer, Nancy Gustafson
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Jean Kalman
Joint Production with Saito Kinen Festival, Japan

Aida

by Giuseppe Verdi
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Conductor: Pinchas Steinberg
Singers: Ines Salazar, Petra Lang, Franco Farina
Designers: Alison Chitty, Wolfgang Göbbel

1998

Madama Butterfly

by Giacomo Puccini
Co-production with Houston Grand Opera, The Dallas Opera, San Diego Opera, and Grand Théâtre de Genève
Conductor: Armin Jordan
Singers: Young-Song
Designers: Michael Yeargan, Anita Yavich, Alan Burett
Video made by ARTE and telecast throughout Europe

The Flying Dutchman

by Richard Wagner
Opéra de Bordeaux
Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing
Singers: Susan Anthony, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Peter Rose
Designers: Alison Chitty, Rick Fisher

Emmeline

by Tobias Picker
New York City Opera
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Patricia Racette, Anne-Marie Owens, Victor Ledbetter, Kevin Peterson, Kevin Langan
Designers: Robert Israel, Dunya Ramicova, Amy Appleyard
New York Premiere
Directed national telecast for WNET's Great Performances

Salammbô

by Philippe Fénélon
Opé de Paris, Bastille
Conductor: Gary Bertini
Singers: Emily Golden, John Dascek, Frank Ferrari
Designers: Robert Israel, Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Dominique Brugier
World Premiere
First new opera in the Bastille

Tristan and Isolde

by Richard Wagner
Seattle Opera
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Jane Eaglen, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner
Designers: Alison Chitty, Mimi Sherin
All artists' debuts in roles
Received production of the year award from USA Today

Dialogues of the Carmelites

by Francis Poulenc
Saito Kinen Festival, Japan — co-production with Opé de Paris
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Singers: Patricia Racette, Christine Goerke, Felicity Palmer
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Jean Kalman
Telecast for Japan and Asia

Boris Godunov

by Modest Moussorgsky
English National Opera
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Singers: John Tomlinson, Robert Tear
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Nicky Gillibrand, Wolfgang Göbbel
Nomination for Best Opera Production Olivier Awards
Received Evening Standard Award for Best Performance John Tomlinson

The Bartered Bride

by Bedrich Smetana
Royal Opera, Covent Garden at Sadler's Wells
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Singers: Zvetelina Vassileva, Jorma Silvasti, Franz Hawlata
Designers: Alison Chitty, Wolfgang Göbbel
Re-opening of Sadler's Wells Theatre
Telecast live on BBC 3

1997

Lady in the Dark

by Kurt Weill
Royal National Theatre, London
Conductor: Mark Davies
Singers: Maria Friedman
Designers: Adrianne Lobel, Nicky Gillibrand, Rick Fisher
Choreographer: Quinny Sacks
Recorded by First Nights
Received Evening Standard Award for Best Musical

La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi
Opéra de Bordeaux
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Singers: Leontina Vaduva, Edward Tumagian
Designers: Marina Draghici, Dominique Prunier
Telecast on French National Television

Iphigénie en Tauride

by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera
Conductor: Jane Glover
Singers: Christine Goerke, William Burden, Nathan Gunn
Designers: Marina Draghici, Dunya Ramicova, Mimi Sherin

Turandot

by Giacomo Puccini
Opéra de Paris, Bastille
Conductor: Georges Prêtre
Singers: Sharon Sweet, Barbara Frittoli, Sergei Larin
Designers: Alison Chitty, Dominique Brugier
Opening of season

Paul Bunyan

by Benjamin Britten
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden at the Aldeburgh Festival
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Singers: Susan Gritton, Peter Coleman-Wright
Designers: Hildegard Bechtler, Nicky Gillibrand, Wolfgang Göbbel
Received Olivier Award for Best Opera Production
Received Evening Standard Award for Best Company Achievement
Recorded by Harmonia Mundi

1996

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Opéra de Paris, Bastille
Conductor: Gary Bertini
Singers: Rodney Gilfry
Designers: Alison Chitty, Alan Burett
Received French Grand Prix des Critiques for Best Opera Production

Emmeline

by Tobias Picker
Santa Fe Opera
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Patricia Racette, Anne-Marie Owens, Victor Ledbetter, Kevin Peterson, Kevin Langan
Designers: Robert Israel, Dunya Ramicova, Amy Appleyard
World Premiere

The Tales of Hoffmann

by Jacques Offenbach
Staat Theater, Aalto, Essen
Conductor: Myung Chen
Singers: Jeffrey Dowd
Designers: Bettina Munzer

Prince Igor

by Alexander Borodin
San Francisco Opera
Conductor: Alexander Anissimov
Singers: Elena Zaremba, Sergei Leiferkus, Paata Burchuladze
Designers: Zack Brown, Thomas J. Munn
Opening of season

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

by Richard Wagner
Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen
Conductor: Heinz Fricke
Singers: Tina Kiberg, Stig Anderson
Designers: Alison Chitty, Alan Burett

Florencia en el Amazonas

by Daniel Catán, based on the work of Gabriel García Márquez
Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, Cervantes Festival, Opera Bogota
Conductor: Daniel Catán
Singers: Sheri Greenawald
Designers: Robert Israel, Catherine Zuber, Paul Pyant
World Premiere
Recorded by EMI

1995

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Robert Spano
Singers: Rodney Gilfry, John Tomlinson, Graham Clark
Designers: Alison Chitty, Alan Burett
Four-Act Original Version
Received Olivier Award for Best Opera Production

Street Scene

by Kurt Weill
Theater des Westens
Conductor: John Demain
Singers: Ashley Putnam, Marc Embree
Designers: Adrianne Lobel, Martin Pakledinaz
Berlin Premiere
Telecast on WDR-TV, ARTE, and ARTS-USA
Received Best Opera Video of the Year Prize for Europe from Global Video Arts

Tannhäuser

by Richard Wagner
Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen
Conductor: Dietfried Bernet
Singers: Tina Kiberg, Stig Fogh Anderson
Designers: Bruno Schwengl

Modern Painters

by David Lang and Manuela Hoelterhoff
Santa Fe Opera Festival
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: François Le Roux, Ann Panagulias
Designers: Alison Chitty, Mimi Sherin
World Premiere

Arianna

by Claudio Monteverdi and Alexander Goehr
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor: Ivor Bolton
Singers: Susan Graham
Designers: Alison Chitty, Alan Burett
World Premiere

Demons

by Robert Brustein
American Repertory Theater A.R.T. New Stages, Loeb Center, Cambridge
Designers: Robert Israel
World Premiere

1994

Street Scene

by Kurt Weill
Houston Grand Opera
Conductor: Ward Holmquist
Singers: Sheri Greenawald, Teri Hansen, Kip Wilborn, Wendy Hill
Designers: Adrianne Lobel, Martin Pakledinaz, Mimi Sherin

Billy Budd

by Benjamin Britten
Grand Théâtret de Genève
Conductor: Roderick Brydon
Singers: Rodney Gilfry, Willard White, Robert Tear
Designers: Alison Chitty, Heather Carson
Swiss telecast for European distribution

La Rondine

by Giacomo Puccini
Opera North, Leeds, England
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Singers: Helen Field, Tito Beltran
Designers: Bruno Schwengl, Alan Burett
English Premiere

The Barber of Seville

by Gioacchino Rossini
Santa Fe Opera Festival
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Singers: Dolores Ziegler, Jeffrey Francis, Dwayne Croft
Designers: John Macfarlane, Stephen Strawbridge

Blond Eckbert

by Judith Weir
Santa Fe Opera Festival
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Elizabeth Futral, James Michael MacGuire
Designers: Alison Chitty, Mimi Sherin
American Premiere

Khovanshchina

by Modest Mussorgsky
English National Opera, London
Conductor: Sian Edwards
Singers: Willard White, Kim Begley, Gwynne Howell
Designers: Alison Chitty, Paul Pyant
Received Olivier Award for Best Opera Production

1993

Jenufa

by Leos Janacek
The Dallas Opera
Conductor: Berislav Klobucar
Singers: Renée Fleming, Marilyn Zschau, Mark Baker
Designers: Alison Chitty, Heather Carson

Orphée

by Philip Glass
Co-production by the American Repertory Theater, Harvard, and Brooklyn Academy of Music
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Elizabeth Futral, Wendy Hill, LeRoy Villanueva
Designers: Robert Israel, Catherine Zuber, Patricia Collins
World Premiere

Cherevichki

by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wexford Festival, Ireland
Conductor: Alexander Anissimov
Singers: Vladimir Matorin
Designers: Bruno Schwengl
Premiere of the work outside Russia

The Midsummer Marriage

by Michael Tippett
New York City Opera
Conductor: Christopher Keene
Singers: Elizabeth Futral, Brad Cresswell
Designers: Kevin Rupnik, Heather Carson
New York Premiere

La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi
Roman Arena of the Orange Festival, France
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Roberto Alagna
Designers: Bruno Schwengl
Telecast in France on Channel 4-Arte

Falstaff

by Giuseppe Verdi
Göteborg Opera, Sweden
Conductor: Robin Dunn
Singers: Ingvar Wixell
Designers: Alison Chitty

Il Pirata

by Vincenzo Bellini
Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne, Switzerland
Conductor: Bruno Campanella
Singers: Lucia Aliberti
Designers: Bruno Schwengl

Romulus Hunt

by Carly Simon
Metropolitan Opera, New York
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Wendy Hill, Greer Grimsley
Designers: Paul Steinberg
World Premiere
Recorded by EMI

The Honey Spike

by Patrick Mason
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
World Premiere

1992

Lucia di Lammermoor

by Gaetano Donizetti
Metropolitan Opera, New York
Conductor: Marcello Panni
Singers: June Anderson, Richard Leech, Juan Pons, Paul Plishka
Designers: John Conklin, Martin Pakledinaz, Patricia Collins

Il Pirata

by Vincenzo Bellini
Zurich Opera House
Conductor: Nello Santi
Singers: Mara Zampieri
Designers: Bruno Schwengl
Swiss Premiere

The Sorrows of Young Werther

by Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Santa Fe Opera Festival
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Kurt Ollman, Ann Panagulias
Designers: Bruno Schwengl
American Premiere

L'Elisir d'Amore

by Gaetano Donizetti
Teatro Regio, Parma, Italy
Conductor: Bruno Campanella
Singers: Chris Merritt, Nuccia Focile
Designers: Angela Spocci

Benvenuto Cellini

by Hector Berlioz
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Conductor: John Nelson
Singers: Chris Merritt, Jeffrey Black, Paul Plishka
Designers: John Macfarlane
Swiss Premiere

L'Occasione fa il Ladro

by Gioacchino Rossini
Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Sicily
Conductor: Bruno Campanella
Singers: Lucia Aliberti, Alfonso Antoniozzi
Designers: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

1991

Lucia di Lammermoor

by Gaetano Donizetti
Dublin Grand Opera
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Singers: Alexandrina Pendachanska
Designers: Bruno Schwengl

L'Assedio di Calais

by Gaetano Donizetti
Wexford Festival, Ireland
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Singers: Ann Panagulias, Alice Bake
Designers: Alison Chitty, Paul Pyant
20th century re-premiere

Le Troyens

by Hector Berlioz
Los Angeles Music Center Opera
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Singers: Gary Lakes, Carol Neblett, Nadine Secunde
Designers: John Conklin, Bruno Schwengl, Patricia Collins
American Premiere of Complete Work

Tosca

by Giacomo Puccini
Earl's Court Arena, London
Conductor: Jacques Delacôte
Singers: Josephine Barstow, Ingvar Wixell, Marcello Giordani
Designers: Neil Peter Jampolis
Eight performances with 12,000 seating capacity plus live relay

La Bohème

by Giacomo Puccini
Teatro Regio, Parma, Italy
Conductor: Bruno Campanella
Singers: Giuseppie Sabbatini, Nuccia Focile
Designers: Angela Spocci
Received Italian Prize for Best Production of the Year in Regional Opera

Oedipus

by Wolfgang Rihm
Sante Fe Opera Festival
Conductor: George Manahan
Singers: Rodney Gilfry, Emily Golden
Designers: Bruno Schwengl
American Premiere

1990

La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi
Skylight Opera Theater, Milwaukee
Conductor: Carol Palca
Singers: Ann Panagulias, Paul Austin Kelly, Victor Ledbetter
Designers: Bettina Munzer
Special treatment rewritten with text of Dumas

Ariadne auf Naxos

by Richard Strauss
Rome Opera
Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig
Singers: Katerina Ikonomou, Sumi Jo, Wolfgang Fassler
Designers: Luigi Marchione, Bruno Schwengl

War and Peace

by Sergei Prokofiev
Seattle Goodwill Festival
Conductor: Mark Elder
Singers: Sheri Greenawald, Vladimir Chernov, Nicolai Okhotnikov
Designers: John Conklin, Bruno Schwengl, Neil Peter Jampolis
Filmed in High Definition, and telecast in Japan, England, and France

Xerxes

by George Friederic Handel
Antwerp Festival, Belgium
Conductor: Mark Doss
Singers: Cast from La Monnaie Young Arts Program

Gianni Schicchi

by Giacomo Puccini
Seattle Opera
Conductor: George Manahan

1989

L'Occasione fa il Ladro

by Gioacchino Rossini
Telecast

Rigoletto

by Giuseppe Verdi
Merola Program, San Francisco Opera

Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci

by Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Miami Opera, Florida

Der Templer und die Jüdin

by Heinrich August Marschner
Wexford Festival, Ireland

Idomeneo

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chicago Early Music Opera

Gli Orazi ei Curiazi

by Domenico Cimarosa
Rome Opera

1988

La Bohème

by Giacomo Puccini
San Francisco Opera
Video/Telecast with Luciano Pavarotti

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
New Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv

Salomé

by Richard Strauss
Houston Grand Opera
Designers: Jim Dine

The Devil and Kate

by Antonín Dvorák
Wexford Festival, Ireland
Video/Telecast in the UK and Ireland

Faust

by Charles François Gounod
Seattle Opera and San Diego Opera

Carmen

by Georges Bizet
Skylight Opera Theater

L'Elisir d'Amore

by Gaetano Donizetti
Teatro Regio, Parma

1987

La Cenerentola

by Gioachino Rossini
Opera Theater of Saint Louis

Bianca e Falliero

by Gioacchino Rossini
Miami Opera, Florida
American Premiere

Beatrice di Tenda

by Vincenzo Bellini
Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy
Singers: June Anderson

Faust

by Charles François Gounod
San Francisco Opera
Conductor:
Singers:
Designers:

1986

Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci

by Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Miami Opera, Florida

Faust

by Charles François Gounod
Houston Grand Opera

The Barber of Seville

by Gioacchino Rossini
National Opera of Iceland

Carmen

by Georges Bizet
Texas Opera Theater

Tosca

by Giacomo Puccini
Puerto Rico Opera
Singers: Placido Domingo

1985

Rossini Double Bill

Wolf Trap Farm Park, Washington DC

Don Pasquale

by Gaetano Donizetti
Skylight Opera Theater

Tosca

by Giacomo Puccini
National Opera of Puerto Rico

The Mikado

by W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
National Opera of Iceland

1984

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges

by Maurice Ravel
Wolf Trap Farm Park, Washington DC

Fidelio

by Ludwig van Beethoven
Houston Grand Opera

Albert Herring

by Benjamin Britten
Savonlinna Opera Festival, Finland

The Makropolous Case

by Leos Janacek
Skylight Opera Theater

La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi
San Francisco Opera, student cast