Category
page 1Chamber operas
chamber opera
opera genre; operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra
The Turn of the Screw
opera by Benjamin Britten
The Telephone
opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
Albert Herring
opera by Benjamin Britten
The Rape of Lucretia
opera by Benjamin Britten
Curlew River
1964 opera by Benjamin Britten
Powder Her Face
chamber opera by Thomas Adès
Savitri
opera by Gustav Holst
L'isola disabitata
opera by Joseph Haydn
In the Penal Colony
opera by Philip Glass
The Prodigal Son
opera by Benjamin Britten
The Burning Fiery Furnace
Benjamin Brittan, second parable for church performance, op. 77
The Photographer
chamber opera by Philip Glass
Les arts florissants
opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
The Lighthouse
opera by Peter Maxwell Davies
A Hand of Bridge
opera by Samuel Barber
The Diary of Anne Frank
opera by Grigory Frid
Jakob Lenz
opera by Wolfgang Rihm
Europeras
Europeras is a series of five operas by the composer John Cage. Cage explained the punning title thus: "For two hundred years the Europeans have been sending us their operas. Now I'm sending them back."