New York City Opera - World Premieres

World Premieres

  • William Grant Still – Troubled Island (1949)
  • David Tamkin – The Dybbuk (1951)
  • Aaron Copland – The Tender Land (1954)
  • Nevit Kodallı – Van Gogh (1957)
  • Mark Bucci – Tale for a Deaf Ear (1958, first professional production)
  • Robert Kurka – The Good Soldier Schweik (1958)
  • Hugo Weisgall – Six Characters in Search of an Author (1959)
  • Norman Dello Joio – The Triumph of St. Joan (1959, the premiere of the third version)
  • Robert Ward – He Who Gets Slapped (1959)
  • Douglas Moore – The Wings of the Dove (1961)
  • Robert Ward – The Crucible (1961)
  • Abraham Ellstein – The Golem (1962)
  • Carlisle Floyd – The Passion of Jonathan Wade (1962)
  • Jerome Moross – Gentlemen, Be Seated! (1963)
  • Lee Hoiby – Natalia Petrovna (1964)
  • Jack Beeson – Lizzie Borden (1965)
  • Ned Rorem – Miss Julie (1965)
  • Vittorio Giannini – The Servant of Two Masters (1967)
  • Hugo Weisgall – Nine Rivers from Jordan (1968)
  • Gian Carlo Menotti – The Most Important Man (1971)
  • Thea Musgrave – The Voice of Ariadne (1977)
  • Leon Kirchner – Lilly (1977)
  • Dominick Argento – Miss Havisham's Fire (1979)
  • Stanley Silverman – Madame Adare (1980)
  • Thomas Pasatieri – Before Breakfast (1980)
  • Jan Bach – The Student from Salamanca (1980)
  • Leonard Bernstein – Candide (operetta) (Opera House Version) (1982)
  • Anthony Davis – X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986, first staged production)
  • Jay Riese – Rasputin (1988)
  • Hugo Weisgall – Esther (1993)
  • Ezra Laderman – Marilyn (1993)
  • Lukas Foss – Griffelkin (1993, premiere of revised version)
  • Deborah Drattell – Lilith (2001, first staged production)
  • Charles Wuorinen – Haroun and the Sea of Stories (2004)

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