Operatic Repertoire, 1995–2007

Peabody Chamber Opera

Complete productions calling for reduced orchestra (not usually in a pit). Presented with costumes, make-up, and simple scenery and lighting, often in off-campus locations. Special concentration on pre-classical opera and contemporary works. Several performances of each production, often with more than one cast. All sung in the original language.

• 1995–96
  • Ari Benjamin Myers: Defendants Rosenberg (premiere)
  • Charles Kim: From Geneva to Mars (premiere)
• 1996–97
  • PASTORALE & MASQUE [Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori; Charpentier: Actéon; Purcell: Masque in Dioclesian]; in Walters Art Gallery
  • Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw
• 1997–98
  • THE SURPRISES OF LOVE [Rameau: Adonis and Anacréon, Charpentier: Le mariage forcé]; in Walters Art Gallery
  • MYSTERY THEATRE OF LOVE AND DEATH [Holst: Savitri; Kam Morrill: Perlimplin (deuxième); Harbison: Full Moon in March]; at Theatre Project
• 1998–99
  • Hildegarde von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum; in Emmanuel Episcopal Church
  • Conrad Susa: Transformations; at Theatre Project
• 1999–00
  • Pierfrancesco Cavalli: L’Egisto (premiere of new edition)
  • Daniel Crozier: With Blood, With Ink (repeat of opera originally premiered at Peabody); at Theatre Project
• 2000–01
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Les arts florissants
  • Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; both in the Walters Art Gallery
• 2001–02
  • Henry Purcell: Masque in Timon of Athens (together with the final acts of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre’s Céphale et Procris)
  • Bizet/Carrière/Brook: La tragédie de Carmen; at Theatre Project
  • Vaughan-Williams: Riders to the Sea (with reduced orchestra, as part of Opera Potpourri program)
• 2002–03
  • BERLIN/MUNICH [Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel and Udo Zimmermann’s Die Weisse Rose]; at Theatre Project
  • Claudio Monteverdi: L’Orfeo; at the Baltimore Museum of Art
• 2003–04
  • Daniel Crozier: The Reunion and Kam Morrill: Perlimplín
  • Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera; at Theatre Project
• 2004–05
  • Hildegarde von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum; in Emmanuel Episcopal Church
  • Henry Mollicone: Hotel Eden; at Theatre Project
• 2005–06
  • PASTORALE & MASQUE [Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori; Charpentier: Actéon; Purcell: Masque in Dioclesian]
• 2006–07
  • Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; at Theatre Project
• 2007–08
  • Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; in Grace & St. Peter’s Church
  • Catherine Reid: The Yellow Wallpaper; at Theatre Project

  The Peabody Opera Workshop also occasionally presents complete one-act operas with piano accompaniment, such as Suor Angelica, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Les malheurs d’Orphée, and Riders to the Sea. All were sung in their original languages and fully staged, albeit with minimal decor. Sometimes also the baroque potpourri programs (such as Handel’s Heroes in 2005) are presented with reduced orchestral accompaniment. In general, though, the Opera Workshop presents programs of operatic scenes each semester with piano, and also numerous short operatic premieres as part of the Opera Études program in alternate years.

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