Operas set in the United States

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

operetta

opera by John Adams

thumb|The cover of the Treemonisha score, published in 1911

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

ballet by George Balanchine

1947 opera by Virgil Thomson

opera with music by Leonard Bernstein to a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth

music theater piece by Kurt Weill

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Leonard Bernstein

1998 opera by André Previn

opera by Charles Wuorinen

opera buffa in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Jake Heggie

1995 song play about the aftermath of the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles

chamber opera by Philip Glass

opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage

opera by Jake Heggie

Opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett

'''''L'Éclair''' (The Lightning Flash'') is an opéra comique in 3 acts by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.

melodrama in one act

opera by Kevin Puts

Susannah is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Floyd adapted the story from the Apocryphal tale of Susannah and the Elders, though the latter story has a more positive ending. The story focuses on 18-year-old Susannah Polk, an innocent girl who is targeted as a sinner in the small mountain town of New Hope Valley, in the Southern American state of Tennessee.