The following chamber operas offer a more intimate experience for captivating your audiences’ hearts and minds. Varying in size, language and content, the selections below offer repertoire for a wide range of programming opportunities beyond your mainstage.
Up to 6 players
Drowning
Philip Glass/María Irene Fornés
In the Penal Colony
Philip Glass/Rudolph Wurlitzer
Ingerland
Jocelyn Pook
Ivonne
Nathaniel Stookey/Jerre Dye
The Mocking-Bird
Thea Musgrave
The Mother of Us All (reduced orchestration)
Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein
Now
Avner Dorman/John Grimmett
Nuit des Hommes
Per Nørgård/Apollinaire
Silent Zone
Louise Alenius
The Silver River
Bright Sheng/David Henry Hwang
A Song by Mahler
Marc Neikrug
Tell Tale Heart
Stewart Copeland
Till Death Us Do
Andy Pape/Kit Eichler
More than 6 players
Angel’s Bone
Du Yun/Royce Vavrek
Blond Eckbert (pocket version)
Judith Weir
Dark Sisters (chamber version)
Nico Muhly/Stephen Karam
Full Moon in March
John Harbison
Gállábartnit
Britta Bystrüm/Rawdna Carita Eira
Gesualdo – Shadows
Bo Holten/Eva Sommestad Holten
Glare
Søren Niels Eichberg/Hannah Dübgen
La Hija de Rappaccini
Daniel Catán/Juan Tovar
The Hunger (stage version)
Donnacha Dennehy/Asenath Nicholson, anon, and interviews: N. Chomsky, P. Krugman, M. Murphy, B. Milanovic, M. Vaughan
The Lighthouse
Peter Maxwell Davies
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Michael Nyman/Christopher Rawlence
Moscow, Cheryomushki (Chamber Orchestra version)
Dmitri Shostakovich/Massa and M. Chervinsky
Nine Songs
Tan Dun
Ophelias: Death by Water Singing
Henrik Hellstenius/Cecilie Løveid
Le Pavillon au Bord de la Rivière
Betsy Jolas/Kuan Han Chin (French text by Michele Raoul Davis)
Proving Up
Missy Mazzoli/Royce Vavrek
Tango
Robert Xavier Rodríguez
The Wanton Sublime
Tarik O'Regan/Anna Rabinowitz
For more information please contact Peggy Monastra: peggy.monastra@schirmer.com or Marcos Cuevas: marcos.cuevas@schirmer.com