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1984-present

Beethoven

  • Fidelio 1985, 1995

Bizet

  • Carmen 1987, 1992, 1999
  • La Jolie fille de Perth* 1996
    (American professional premiere)
  • Les Pêcheurs de perles 2000, 2003

Britten

  • The Turn of the Screw 1988

Catalani

  • La Wally* 1989

Cilèa

  • L'Arlesiana* 1998
    (American professional premiere)

Donizetti

  • L'elisir d' amore 1986, 2009
  • La Fille du règiment 1987
  • Lucia di Lammermoor 1985, 2002

Flotow

  • Martha 1992

Gounod

  • Faust 1991, 1998
  • Romèo et Juliette 1993

Humperdinck

  • Hänsel und Gretel 1986, 2001
  • Königskinder* 1997

Janácek

  • Jenůfa 1998

Lehár

  • Die lustige Witwe 1988

Leoncavallo

  • Pagliacci 2005

Mascagni

  • Cavalleria rusticana 1987, 2005
  • L'amico Fritz* 2009

Massenet

  • Manon 1997
  • Werther 1990, 2004

Moniuszko

  • Halka* 2007

Montemezzi

  • L'amore dei tre re* 2003

Mozart

  • Così fan tutte 1990, 2002, 2008
  • Don Giovanni 1989, 2005
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail 1985
  • Le nozze di Figaro 1988, 1994, 2006
  • Die Zauberflöte 1984, 1991, 1996, 2004

Nielsen

  • Maskarade* 1995
    (American premiere in Danish)

Offenbach

  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann 1995, 2001
  • La Périchole 1984

Puccini

  • La bohème 1990, 1997, 2006
  • La fanciulla del West 1999, 2008
  • Gianni Schicchi 1996
  • Madama Butterfly 1986, 1994, 2007
  • La rondine 1999, 2008
  • Suor Angelica 1996
  • Il tabarro 1987, 1996
  • Tosca 1988, 2004

Rachmaninoff

  • Francesca da Rimini* 1993
    (American professional premiere)

Rimsky-Korsakov

  • May Night* 1999
    (American premiere)

Rossini

  • Il barbiere di Siviglia 1992, 2000, 2008

Smetana

  • Hubička (The Kiss)* 1991
    (American professional premiere)
  • Prodaná Nevesta (The Bartered Bride) 1994

J. Strauss, Jr.

  • Die fledermaus 1989, 2003, 2006

R. Strauss

  • Ariadne auf Naxos 2002

Stravinsky

  • The Rake's Progress 1985

Tchaikovsky

  • Eugene Onegin 1984
  • Iolanthe* 1993

Verdi

  • Alzira* 2000
  • Aroldo* 1990
  • Attila 2007
  • Un ballo in maschera 1991
  • Il corsaro* 2004
  • Don Carlos (four act version)* 2009
  • I due Foscari* 2008
  • Ernani 1997
  • Falstaff 1986, 2001
  • La forza del destino (Original version) 1996
  • La forza del destino (revised version) 1996
  • Luisa Miller 1999
  • Macbeth (original version) 2003
  • Macbeth (revised version) 2003
  • I masnadieri* 2006
  • Nabucco 1995
  • Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio* 2001
  • Rigoletto 1989, 2008
  • Simon Boccanegra* 1992
    (American premiere of original version)
  • Simon Boccanegra (revised version) 1992
  • Stiffelio 2005
  • La traviata 1984, 1998
  • Le Trouvère* 2002
  • Il trovatore 1993
  • Les Vêpres siciliennes 1994
    (American premiere in French)

Wagner

  • Der fliegende Holländer 2000

*Part of the Masterworks Revival Series