2011-2012
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
§† Silent Night (Puts)
Werther (Massenet)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
2010-2011
Orpheus and Eurydice (Gluck)
Cinderella (Rossini)
Mary Stuart (Donizetti)
La traviata (Verdi)
Wuthering Heights (Herrmann)
2009-2010
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
†Casanova’s Homecoming (Argento)
Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
La bohème (Puccini)
Salome (Strauss)
2008-2009
Il trovatore (Verdi)
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Faust (Gounod)
*The Adventures of Pinocchio (Dove)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
2007-2008
A Masked Ball (Verdi)
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
Romeo and Juliet (Gounod)
*The Fortunes of King Croesus (Keiser)
Rusalka (Dvořák)
2006-2007
La donna del lago (Rossini)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
§† The Grapes of Wrath (Gordon)
Lakmé (Delibes)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
2005-2006
Tosca (Puccini)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
*Orazi & Curiazi (Mercadante)
*Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man (Petitgirard)
2004-2005
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
Maria Padilla (Donizetti)
Carmen (Bizet)
Nixon in China (Adams)
2003-2004
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti)
Passion (Sondheim)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
2002-2003
The Merry Widow (Lehar)
Norma (Bellini)
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
La traviata (Verdi)
* The Handmaid’s Tale (Ruders)
2001-2002
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
La clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
La bohème (Puccini)
Little Women (Adamo)
Don Carlos (Verdi)
2000-2001
Turandot (Puccini)
The Capulets and the Montagues (Bellini)
Street Scene (Weill)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Pagliacci/Carmina burana (Leoncavallo/Orff)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
§The Birds, the Beasts and the Ball Game (Alcorn)
2000
Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)
Macbeth (Verdi)
Semiramide (Rossini)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
§The Cat That Walked By Himself (Alcorn)
1999
Otello (Verdi)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
The Turn of the Screw (Britten)
Faust (Gounod)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
§How the Camel Got His Hump (Alcorn)
1998
Aida (Verdi)
Cinderella (Rossini)
*Transatlantic (Antheil)
Tosca (Puccini)
Cinderella
1997
La traviata (Verdi)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky)
Carmen (Bizet)
Carmen
1996
La Bohème (Puccini)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Pelléas and Mélisande (Debussy)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
The Bohemians
1995
Turandot (Puccini)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
§*† Bok Choy Variations (Chen & Simonson)
Figaro’s Revenge (Rossini, Paisiello)
1994
Julius Caesar (Handel)
*Diary of an African American (Peterson)
Il trovatore (Verdi)
§*The Merry Widow & The Hollywood Tycoon (Lehar)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
1992/93
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
*Armida (Rossini)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
1991/92
Tosca (Puccini)
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
§*† From the Towers of the Moon (Moran & La Chiusa)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Carousel (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1990/91
Norma (Bellini)
The Aspern Papers (Argento)
Carmen (Bizet)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Swing on a Star (Winkler)
1989/90
La Bohème (Puccini)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)
Romeo et Juliette (Gounod)
§† Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus (Libby Larson)
My Fair Lady (Lerner & Loewe)
•§ Snow Leopard (Harper & Nieboer)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak & Knussen)
1988/89
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Salome (R. Strauss)
The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
The Juniper Tree (Glass & Moran)
Show Boat (Kern & Hammerstein)
§†• Without Colors (Wellman & Shiflett)
§†• Red Tide (Selig & Sherman)
§†• Newest Little Opera in the World (Ensemble)
Cinderella (Rossini)
Tintypes (Kyte, Marvin, Pearle)
1987/88
Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss)
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Rusalka (Dvorak)
• Cowboy Lips (Greene & Madsen)
§†• Fly Away All (Hutchinson & Shank)
• Book of Days (Monk)
Oklahoma! (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Carmen (Bizet)
Jargonauts, Ahoy! (McKeel)
1986/87
The Pearl Fishers (Bizet)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Paulus)
Ariadne auf Naxos (R. Strauss)
South Pacific (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
§† Jargonauts, Ahoy! (McKeel)
1985/86
*Where the Wild Things Are/Higglety Pigglety Pop! (Knussen & Sendak)
La Traviata (Verdi)
The Elixir of Love (Donizetti)
The King and I (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
§† Opera Tomorrow
The Fantasticks (Schmidt)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
§† The Music Shop (Wargo)
1984/85
*Animalen (Werle)
§† Casanova’s Homecoming (Argento)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
La Bohème (Puccini)
Meanwhile, back at Cinderella’s (Arlan)
1983/84
Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
Madame Butterfly (Puccini)
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
§ The Abduction of Figaro (PDQ Bach)
The Boor (Argento)
Chanticleer (Barab)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
1982/83
Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
§ A Death in the Family (Mayer)
Kiss Me, Kate (Porter)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
The Frog Who Became a Prince (Barnes)
Zetabet (Barnes)
1981/82
Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
The Village Singer (Paulus)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
§ Feathertop (Barnes)
§ The Mask of Evil (Mollicone)
Hansel & Gretel (Humperdinck)
Rosina (Titus)
1980/81
The Merry Widow (Lehar)
Black River (Susa)
Carmen (Bizet)
A Water Bird Talk (Argento)
§ Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night (Argento)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
The Threepenny Opera (Weill)
1979/80
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan)
La Bohème (Puccini)
§† Rosina (Titus)
A Christmas Carol (Sandow)
1978/79
The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
§ The Jealous Cellist (Stokes)
The Passion According to St. Matthew (J.S. Bach)
La Traviata (Verdi)
The Consul (Menotti)
Viva la Mamma (Donizetti)
1977/78
*Christopher Columbus (Offenbach)
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
§ Claudia Legare (Ward)
1976/77
The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
The Passion According to St. Matthew (J.S. Bach)
Candide (Bernstein)
Mahagonny (Weill)
1975/76
§† Black River (Susa)
El Capitan (Sousa)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
§† The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe (Argento)
1974/75
§† Gallimaufry (Minnesota Opera)
§ Gulliver (Blackwood, Kaplan, Lewin)
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Albert Herring (Britten)
1973/74
El Capitan (Sousa)
Transformations (Susa)
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
§† The Newest Opera in the World (Minnesota Opera)
1972/73
The Threepenny Opera (Weill)
Postcard from Morocco (Argento)
The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
§† Transformations (Susa)
1971/72
§† Postcard from Morocco (Argento)
§† The Business of Good Government (Marshall)
The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
1970/71
§† Christmas Mummeries & Good Government (Marshall)
§† Faust Counter Faust (Gessner)
The Coronation of Poppea (Monteverdi)
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)
1969/70
§† Oedipus and the Sphinx (Marshall)
*Punch and Judy (Birtwistle)
*17 Days and 4 Minutes (Egk)
§† The Wanderer (Paul & Martha Boesing)
1968/69
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
§† Horspfal (Stokes)
The Wise Woman and the King (Orff)
1967/68
The Man in the Moon (Haydn)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)
1966/67
The Mother of Us All (Thomson)
The Sorrows of Orpheus (Milhaud)
*The Harpies (Blitzstein)
Socraties (Satie)
Three Minute Operas (Milhaud)
1965/66
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
The Good Soldier Schweik (Kurka)
1964/65
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
The Wise Woman and the King (Orff)
1963/64
§† The Masque of Angels (Argento)
The Masque of Venus and Adonis (Blow)
Albert Herring (Britten)
Legend
§ World Premiere
* American Premiere
† Commissioned by Minnesota Opera or The Minnesota Opera Midwest Tour
Tour production
Outreach/Education tour
• New Music-Theater Ensemble production