| Title | Composer | Librettist | Producer |
| 120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade | Hannan | Hinton | Modern Baroque Opera |
| Abe | Anderson | Goldsmith | Muddy River Opera Company |
| Abel Gance in New York (Working Title) | Salzman | Godin | not available |
| Abelard and Heloise | Ward | Hartman | Charlotte Opera |
| Abracadabra | Freedman | Moore | Edmonton Opera |
| Abraham Lincoln | Lackey | Lackey | not available |
| Acquanetta | Gordon | Artman | Oper Aachen |
| Across Spoon River | Clarke | Masters | Theatre in the Park and MacDowell Artists Association |
| Adam and Eve | Soluri | Long | American Lyric Theater |
| Adam's Diary | Kayden | Caruso | not available |
| Aesop's Fables | Plog | Plog | not available |
| Aethelred the Unready | Wilson | Wilson | Vassar College |
| Agamemnon | Simpson | Ferrario | The Catholic University of America Opera Theater |
| Agricola | Rose | Rose | not available |
| Aika ja UniI/The Age of Dreams | Rechberger, Olli Kortekangas, Kalevi Aho | Rintala | Savonlinna Opera Festival |
| Ainadamar | Golijov | Hwang | Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music |
| Airline Icarus | Current | Piatigorsky | Soundstreams Canada |
| Akhnaten | Glass | Glass
Shalom Goldman
Robert Israel
Richard Riddell
Jerome Robbins | Württemberg State Opera |
| Alexandra | Settel | Muckle | Chants Libres |
| Alhambra Motel | Weinstock | Levi | not available |
| Ali Baba Opera | Reed | Binns Reed | Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia |
| Alice in Wonderland | Chin | Hwang | Los Angeles Opera |
| Alice in Wonderland | Chauls | Chauls and Lewis Carroll | Lake George Opera |
| Alice in Wonderland | Westergaard | Westergaard | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Alice Unwrapped | Giering | Harrington | Nautilus Music Theater |
| All Are Not Frogs Who Gape for Flies | Thompson | Thompson | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Van de Vate | Van de Vate | Osnabrück Opera and New York City Opera |
| Al-Phonsine (Il Traviato) | Furgeri | Furgeri | not available |
| Alternate Visions | Oliver | Gunn | Chants Libres, Compagnie lyrique de création |
| ALX | Davis | Benham and Daniel Davis | Opera Southwest |
| Amahl and the Night Visitors | Menotti | Menotti | NBC television |
| Amarantha | Ames | Ames | Lake George Opera Festival |
| Amber | Rose | Rose | not available |
| Amelia | Hagen | McFall | Seattle Opera |
| Amelia Goes To The Ball | Menotti | Menotti | |
| America Tropical | Conte | Mayer | Thick Description |
| America, I Love You | Ahlstrom | cummings | Michigan Opera Theater |
| American Punchlines | Barab | Barab | |
| Amerika | Kohs | Kohs, after Franz Kafka | |
| Amistad | Davis | Davis | Lyric Opera of Chicago and American Music Theater Festival of Philadelphia |
| An Aesop Odyssey | Gooding | Gooding | Cleveland Opera |
| An American Tragedy | Picker | Scheer | |
| Anais | Hurley | Hurley | not available |
| Anatomy Theater | Lang | Dion | |
| Andocles and the Lion | Barab | Barab | |
| Androcles and the Lion | Hagemann | Hagemann | not available |
| Angel Levine | Siegmeister | Mabley | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Angel of the Amazon | Mack | Mack | |
| Angel Square | Crawley | Irwin | Opera Lyra Ottawa Boys Choir |
| Angle of Repose | Imbrie | Hall | San Francisco Opera |
| Animal Tales, a musical fable | Brazelton | Plimpton | Family Opera Initiative and Ardea Arts, Inc. |
| AnimalOpera (for children) | Fink | Moreland | San Diego Opera's Education and Outreach Program |
| Ann and Séamus | Hatfield | Hatfield | |
| Anna Karenina | Carlson | Graham | Florida Grand Opera |
| Another Accident | Stringer | Stringer | Albuquerque First Congregational Church |
| Antigone | Hatzis | Clarke | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Barber | Zeffirelli | Metropolitan Opera |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Chiusano | Tyburn | not available |
| Appomattox | Glass | Hampton | San Francisco Opera |
| Aria Da Capo | Smith | St. Vincent Millay | Dallas Opera |
| Aria da Capo | Baksa | Baksa | Lake George Opera |
| Aria da Capo | Blank | St. Vincent Millay | Virginia Opera Association |
| Arjuna's Dilemma | Cuomo | Gita | Music-Theatre Group |
| Armagosso | Gonzalez | Peterson | Opera de las Americas |
| Armide | Dawe | Raffo | |
| Arthur Snatchfold | Stringer | Stringer | Albuquerque First Unitarian Church |
| Ashoka’s Dream | Lieberson | Penick | Santa Fe Opera |
| Assassins | Sondheim | Sondheim | |
| Athaliah | Weisgall | Goldman | |
| Atlas — An Opera in Three Parts | Monk | Monk | Houston Grand Opera |
| Avow | Mark | Mark | |
| Azteca | Kayden | Goldsmith, Theodore Apstein | Bilingual Foundation of America |
| L'Arche de Noe | Panneton | Hebert | L'Opera de Montreal |
| Pride and Prejudice | Kirke | Kirke | |
| The Abbot of Drimock | Musgrave | Lindsay | Park Lane Opera Group |
| The Abduction of Figaro | P.D.Q. Bach | P.D.Q. Bach | The Minnesota Opera |
| The Adventures of Friar Tuck | Paxton | Leicht | Seattle Opera |
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Dove | Ligeti | The Minnesota Opera Company |
| The Adventures of Thumbelina | Helen | Helen | |
| The After-Image | Beaudoin | Beaudoin | Boston Lyric Opera |
| The Alien Corn | Benjamin | Brunyate | Peabody Opera Theatre |
| The Ant and the Grasshopper | Shawn | Orloff | Chaspen Opera Theater Company |
| The Apostle | Skupinsky | Skupinsky | The WHOpera group |
| The Araboolies of Liberty Street | Perera | Congdon | Manhattan School of Music Opera Studio and Educational Outreach |
| The Arc | Weinstock | Schlesinger | not available |
| The Architect | MacIntyre | Cone | Vancouver Opera |
| The Aspern Papers | Argento | Argento | The Dallas Opera |
| The Awakening | Stepleton | Joffe | not available |
| The Perfect American | Philip | Peter | |
| The Promise | Dickinson | Greengus | |
| The Serenade | Herbert | Herbert | The Bostonians |
| The Thirteen Clocks | Theofanidis | Webster | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | Israel | Israel | |
| A Bayou Legend | Grant Still | Arvey | Opera South |
| A Better Place | Butler | Oswin | English National Opera Studio |
| A Bird in the Bush | Bielawa | Kliewer | |
| A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck | Tesori | Kushner | |
| A Bride From Pluto | Menotti | Menotti | Kennedy Center |
| A Brief History of Root Vegetables | Heuser | Heuser | University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theatre |
| Babes In Toyland | Herbert | MacDonough | Hamlin |
| Ballerina and the Clown | Larsen | Gall | Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York |
| Ballymore | Wargo | Wargo | Skylight Opera Theatre |
| Balseros | Ashley | Fornes | Florida Grand Opera |
| Bandanna | Hagen | Muldoon | University of Texas Opera Theater |
| Barabbas | Hvoslef | Hvoslef | Den Norske Opera |
| Bastianello | Musto | Campbell | New York Festival of Song |
| Beast | Lind | Lind | not available |
| Beast and Superbeast | Martín | Joffe | American Chamber Opera Company |
| Beatrice | Hoiby | Nardi | Kentucky Opera<br> WAVE-TV <br> Vogue Film Productions |
| Beatrix Cenci | Ginastera | Shand | Opera Society of Washington |
| Bed and Sofa | Pen | Klavan | Vineyard Theatre |
| Before Breakfast | Pasatieri | Corsaro | New York City Opera |
| Before Night Falls | Martín | Martín with Dolores M. Koch | Forth Worth Opera |
| Bel Canto | Kernis | Littell | The Santa Fe Opera |
| Belladonna | Rands | Dunton-Downer | Aspen Music Festival |
| Bellini's War | Paxton | Wenthe | Texas Tech University Music Theatre |
| Benito Cereno | Burton | Burton | Washington Opera |
| Bertha | Rorem | Koch | Alice Tully Hall |
| Between Two Silences | McCarthy | Lashof | not available |
| Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) | Ran | Kondek | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| Bilby's Doll | Floyd | Floyd | Houston Grand Opera |
| Billie and Zelda | Davidson | Davidson and Lale Davidson | OperaDelaware |
| Billy Blythe | Montgomery | Barber | |
| Birthday of the Infanta | Nelson | Nelson | Festival of American Music, Rochester, New York |
| Black River | Susa | Susa | Minnesota Opera |
| Black Water | Duffy | Oates | American Music Theater Festival |
| Black Widow | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | Seattle Opera Company |
| Black Wings | Harper | Shank | not available |
| Blizzard Voices | Moravec | Kooser | Opera Omaha |
| Blood on the Dining-Room Floor | Sheffer | Sheffer | WPA Theater |
| Blue Monday (135th St) | Gershwin | DeSylva | George White, <em>Scandals</em> |
| Blue Mountain | Dello Joio | Boyle and Justin Dello Joio | |
| Blue Opera | Binns Reed | Binns Reed | Reunion Music Society |
| Blue Steel | Grant Still | | |
| Bok Choy Variations-A Tale from the Red Dust | Chen | Servoss | The Minnesota Opera |
| Bombarzo | Ginastera | Mujica Lainez | Opera Society of Washington |
| Bon Appetit!! | Hoiby | Child and Mark Shulgasser | Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| Bonhoeffer | Gebuhr | Hatten | Houston Baptist University Opera |
| Borgia Infami | Blumenfeld | Kondek | New York City Opera |
| Brave Jack, Opera for Young Audiences | Waters | Waters | The New Century Ensemble |
| Breakfast Waltzes | Blumenfeld | Kondek | Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc. |
| Brief Candle | Mayer | Feist | |
| Brief Encounter | Previn | Caird | Houston Grand Opera |
| Bukowski — Larger than Life…In Song! | Vehar | Bukowski | Philadelphia Fringe Festival |
| Buoso's Ghost | Ching | Ching | Opera Memphis |
| Burning Bright | Lewin | Lewin | Yale School of Music |
| Buwalsky — A Road Opera | Marvin | Levi | Opera Spang and Yale Repertory Theater |
| La Belle et la Bête | Glass | Glass | Philip Glass Ensemble |
| The Balcony | DiDomenica | Genet | Opera Company of Boston |
| The Bald Soprano | Kalmanoff | Ionesco | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| The Ballad of Baby Doe | Moore | Latouche | Central City Opera |
| The Bandit Queen | Korde | Friedman | Four Corners Productions |
| The Barber of New York | Vernon | Harwig | |
| The Bell Witch of Tennessee | Crowell | Crowell | not available |
| The Betrothal of Becky Brown | Barab | Barab | |
| The Big Bonanza | Houghton | Christensen | |
| The Bird's Christmas Carol | Hagemann | Jones | |
| The Black Monk | Kesselman | Kesselman | Music-Theatre Group |
| The Black Swan | Whitman | Anderson | Orchestra 2001, in collaboration with Swarthmore College |
| The Blue Hotel | Hulse | Hulse | not available |
| The Bonesetter's Daughter | Wallace | Tan | San Francisco Opera |
| The Books of Daniel | Rose | Rose | Music Under Construction, Inc. |
| The Boor | Fink | Fink | University of Illinois Opera Workshop |
| The Boor | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | Eastman School Opera Theatre |
| The Boor | Grantham | Grantham | University of Texas Opera Theater |
| The Box | Eakin | Eakin | University of Colorado College of Music |
| The Boy from Deerfield — A One Act Chamber Opera | Halpern | Halpern | The Lark Ascending, New York |
| The Boy Who Grew Too Fast | Menotti | Menotti | |
| The Breath of Life | Frazier | Remson | Texas Tech University Opera Department |
| The Bremen Town Musicians | Argento | Argento | |
| The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Kimper | Kimper | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| The Brothers | Antheil | Antheil | University of Denver in Colorado |
| The Brothers Grimm | Burry | Burry | Canadian Opera Company |
| The Brute | Moss | Bentley | Yale Summer School of Music |
| A Chekhov Trilogy | Wargo | Wargo | |
| A Childhood Miracle | Rorem | Stein | with piano - Punch Opera; with orchestra - for WRCV Television, with Curtis undergraduates |
| A Christmas Carol | Hagemann | Hagemann and Eleanor Jones | |
| A Christmas Carol | Sandow | Sandow | Eastern Opera Theatre |
| A Christmas Carol | Musgrave | Musgrave | Virginia Opera Association |
| A Circle of Love | Stringer | Stringer | Opera Southwest |
| Caliban Dreams | Suprynowicz | Moody | |
| Call Me Ishmael | Goldschneider | Goldschneider | Sunshower Productions BV |
| Call the Children Home | Kayden | Babe | Primary Stages |
| Calvary | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | St. Thomas Episcopal Church of Bellevue, Washington, in cooperation with the Seattle Opera Association, Inc., Glynn Ross, General Director |
| Candide | Bernstein | Hellman | Ethel Linder Reiner and Lester Osterman, Jr. |
| Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines | Beeson | Harnick | Lyric Opera of Kansas City |
| Carbon Copy Building | Gordon
David Lang
Julia Wolfe
Bang on a Can | Katchor | Settembre Musica Festival |
| Caroline, or Change | Tesori | Kushner | Eugene O'Neill Theatre |
| Carry Nation | Moore | North Jayme | University of Kansas Theatre |
| Casanova's Homecoming | Argento | Argento | The Minnesota Opera |
| Casino Paradise | Bolcom | Weinstein | |
| Cask of Amontillado | Copeland | Copeland | |
| Cassandra | McAndrew | Portman | Amphion Opera |
| CAT: The Opera-Musical | Brazelton | Plimpton | Family Opera Initiative - Ardea Arts |
| Cecilia | Chaynes | Manet | Opéra de Monte-Carlo |
| Central Park (Three One-Act Operas) | Torke
Deborah Drattell
Robert Beaser | Wasserstein
A.R. Gurney
Terrence McNally | Glimmerglass Opera |
| Chanticleer | Barab | Richards | Aspen Music School |
| Chaos | Michael | Matthew | National Endowment for the Arts |
| Chaplin | Anderson | Goldsmith | Shores Performing Arts Center, Miami |
| Charlotte | Rolfe | Podeswa | Queen of Puddings Music Theatre |
| Chauvin — An Opera in Three Acts | Hill | Deethardt, Jr. | not available |
| Chéri | Dellaira | Yankowitz | The Actors Studio |
| Chicken Little, the Sky is Falling | Moskowitz | Moskowitz | Bluegrass Opera and Orchestra |
| Chinchilla | Fink | Moreland | Tri-Cities Opera |
| Chip and His Dog | Menotti | Menotti | Guelph Spring Festival |
| Chocorua | Selig | Moore | Tanglewood Music Festival |
| Chosen | Wold | Wold | |
| Christopher Sly | Argento | Manlove | University of Minnesota |
| Chronicles: or, Vignettes of Passion | Muller | Muller | Baltimore Opera |
| Cinderella | Barab | Barab, after the Brothers Grimm | |
| Cinderella in Flowerland | Loder | Loder | |
| Cinderella in Spain/Cinderelle en España | Warwick | Pogue | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| Cio Cio San | Carroll | Platt | Hot Springs Music Festival |
| Civilization & Its Discontents | Sahl
Eric Salzman | Sahl
Eric Salzman | American Musical and Dramatic Academy |
| Clair de Lune | Larsen | Hample | Arkansas Opera Theatre |
| Claudia Legare | Ward | Stambler | The Minnesota Opera |
| Cleo | Trinkley | Charnesky | Penn State Opera Theatre |
| Closing Time | LaFave | Kastenbaum | Pima Opera |
| Cockcrow | Smith | MacKay | |
| Coemeterium | Furgeri | Furgeri | not available |
| Cold Sassy Tree | Floyd | Floyd | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc., San Diego Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Baltimore Opera Company, Opera Carolina |
| Colonel Jonathan the Saint | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | Denver Lyric Opera |
| Come Back, Little Sheba | Ballard, Jr. | Goldsmith | White Barn Theatre, Westport, CT |
| Come to Me in Dreams | Laitman | Bamberger | Cleveland Opera |
| Comedic Opera | Tiefenbach | Richardson | Calgary Opera Assoication<br>Vancouver Opera |
| Compartment No. 7 | Padwa | Wechsler | New York City Opera |
| Composer's Partnership Workshop | various | various | Vancouver Opera Association |
| Corps of Discovery, A Musical Journey in Three Acts | Ching | Moffatt | Show-Me Opera of the University of Missouri |
| Costaso | Grant Still | | |
| Courtside | Perla | Chan | Houston Grand Opera |
| Coyote Tales | Mollicone | Harnick | Lyric Opera of Kansas City |
| Cricketina | Burns | Barrett | FIU Opera Theater |
| Criseyde | Shields | Dean | not available |
| Cupid and Psyche | Vernon | Harwig | |
| Cymbeline | Berg | Berg | not available |
| Cynthia Parker | Smith | Fortune and Julia Smith | |
| Cyrano | Beeson | Harnick | Hagen Theater / Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Cyrano | DiChiera | Uzan | |
| El Capitan | Sousa | Klein | Tremont Theatre |
| La Cantatrice Chauve/The Bald Soprano | Calvi | n/a | not available |
| La Curandera | Rodriguez | Medrick | Opera Colorado |
| Le Chat Botté | Cantrelle | Cantrelle | not available |
| St. Carmen of the Main | Hodkinson | Lee | |
| The Calling | Convery | Kendrick | Opera Ebony |
| The Cask of Amontillado | Perry | Perry | |
| The Cat Lover | Pace | Greene | not available |
| The Children's Crusade | Schafer | Schafer | Soundstreams Canada |
| The Children's Crusade | Lebowsky | Tobias | |
| The Composer's Nightmare, or Puss in Boots | Martín | Joffe and Jorge Martín | not available |
| The Confidence Man | Rochberg | Rochberg | Santa Fe Opera |
| The Conquistador | Fink | Moreland | San Diego Opera |
| The Consul | Menotti | Menotti | |
| The Cop and the Anthem | Cohen | Hubbard | Chautauqua Opera Association |
| The Couch, or, This is Therapy? | Drogin | Drogin | not available |
| The Coyotes and the Rabbits/Los Coyotes y las Conejas | Armienta | Armienta | Music Theatre Collective |
| The Cradle Will Rock | Blitzstein | Blitzstein | Venice Theater |
| The Crucible | Ward | Stambler | New York City Opera |
| The Cry of Clytaemnestra | Eaton | Creagh | Indiana University Opera Theater |
| The Curious Affair of the Count of Mone Blotto | Craton | Guin III and John Craton | not available |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eaton | Eaton | |
| The Curious Fern | Kupferman | Reid | |
| To Cross the Face of the Moon / Cruzar la Cara de la Luna | Martinez | Foglia | Houston Grand Opera through its Song of Houston project |
| A Dark and Stormy Night | Hagemann | Hagemann | not available |
| A Death in the Family | Mayer | Mayer | The Minnesota Opera Company |
| A Dream Fulfilled — The Saga of George Washington Carver | Patterson | Patterson | Des Moines Metro Opera |
| As of a Dream! | Norman | Walt | |
| Daisy | Smith | Harding | |
| Dane with the Devil | Shinn | Shinn | not available |
| Danse Russe | Moravec | Teachout | Center City Opera Theater |
| Danton and Robespierre | Eaton | Creagh | |
| Daphne at Sea | Mason | Gall | Birmingham-Southern College |
| Dark Mission | Nugent | Deemer | not available |
| Dark Sisters | Muhly | Karam | Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group, Opera Company of Philadelphia |
| Darkling | Weisman | Rabinowitz | American Opera Projects, Inc |
| Daughter of the South | Collins | Collins | |
| De Soto | Bailey | Bailey | not available |
| Dead Man Walking | Heggie | McNally | San Francisco Opera |
| Death and the Powers | Machover | Pinsky | Opéra de Monte-Carlo |
| Death of Enkidu | Somers | Kinch | Soundstreams Canada |
| Death of Virgil | White | Sokoloski | Autumn Leaf Performance |
| Defendants Rosenberg | Meyers | Meyers | Theater der Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg |
| Della's Gift | Welcher | Woodruff | University of Texas Opera Theater, Austin |
| Democracy: An American Comedy | Wheeler | Linney | The Washington Opera |
| Desert of Roses | Moran | LaChiusa | Houston Grand Opera |
| Desire Under the Elms | Thomas | Masteroff | |
| Devil & Daniel Webster | Moore | Benet | American Lyric Theater |
| Diary of a Madman | White | White | Chattanooga Opera |
| Different Fields | Reid | Schlesinger | Opera Memphis |
| Dockdoktom (The Doll Doctor) | Perry | Perry | GöteborgsOperan |
| Doctor Atomic | Adams | Sellars | San Francisco Opera |
| Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights | Walden | Stein | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Doctor Heidegger's Fountain of Youth | Beeson | Harnick | National Arts Club |
| Dog Days | Little | Vavrek | Peak Performances in association with Beth Morrison Projects |
| Don Imbroglio | Hilliard | Boresi | New York Musical Theatre Festival and Beth Morrison Projects |
| Don Perlimplin | Rietti | Rietti | |
| Don Rodrigo | Ginastera | Casona | |
| Donna | Rolfe | Chatterton | Canadian Opera Company |
| Dora | Shiflett | Fales Garrett | La MaMa E.T.C. |
| Double-Trouble | Mohaupt | Maren | |
| Down in the Valley | Weill | Sundgaard | Indiana University |
| Dr. Heidegger's Fountain of Youth | Beeson | Harnick | National Arts Club |
| Dr. Selavy's Magic Theatre | Silverman | Foreman | Lenox Arts Center |
| Dracula, the Opera | Ziemba | Ziemba | Grandmaster Productions |
| Dream Sequence | Stringer | Stringer | not available |
| Dream True | Gordon | Landau | Vineyard Theatre |
| Dreaming Blue | Larsen | Larsen | Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Dreamkeepers | Carlson | Ross | Utah Opera Company |
| Dylan and Caitlin | Manno | Edwards | |
| La Divina | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | The Juilliard School |
| Le Diable Amoureux | Rodriguez | Rodriguez and Frans Boerlage | Not available |
| The Dangerous Liaisons | Susa | Littell | San Francisco Opera |
| The Death of Isaiah Robb | Frahm | Whitman, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane and William Cullen Bryant | not available |
| The Death of Klinghoffer | Adams | Goodman | Theatre Royal de la Monnaie |
| The Death of Lincoln | London | Justice | Lake George Opera Festival |
| The Death of the Virgin | Owen | Straight | The Santa Fe Opera |
| The Decision | Musgrave | Lindsay | New Opera Company |
| The Diamond Child | Trinkley | Charnesky | Penn State School of Music & School of Forest Resources |
| The Difficulty of Crossing a Field | Lang | Wellman | The American Conservatory Theater for the Kronos Quartet |
| The Discontented Housewife | Holland | Holland | not available |
| The Doll's House | Eddins | de Tourdonnet | Theatre Non Nobis |
| The Donner Party | McFarland | Woodward | Scholar Opera |
| The Dragon | Biales | Biales | College of St. Catherine |
| The Dream Healer | Burritt | Allan and Don Mowatt | University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble |
| The Dream of Valentino | Argento | Nolte | Washington National Opera |
| The Dreamers | Conte | Littell | Sonoma City Opera |
| The Duchess of Malfi | Burton | Keene | Wolf Trap Opera Company |
| The Dybbuk | Tamkin | Tamkin | |
| The Dybbuk | Epstein | Epstein | Operah Nodedet |
| Earnest, The Importance of Being | Davies | Benson | Toronto Operetta Theatre |
| Earthrise | Spratlan | Congdon | San Francisco Opera |
| Earth-Trapped | Reed | Alexander | |
| Ecstatic Journey — A Multimedia Opera | Rodwin | Rodwin | not available |
| Edalat Square | Brady | Brady, A.R. Madabushi, Lou Rodriguez | Soulbird Music Project |
| Edith Wharton — A Self Portrait | Fink | Moreland | not available |
| Eight Minute Television Operas | TBA | various; TBA | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| Eileen | Herbert | Blossom | Joe Weber |
| Einstein on the Beach | Glass | Knowles, Lucinda Childs, and Samuel M. Johnson | Festival d'Avignon |
| Elegy for a Prince | Cervetti | Esris | New York City Opera |
| Elijah's Kite | Rolfe | Chai | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Elmer Gantry | Aldridge | Garfein | Nashville Opera |
| Elsewhereless | Sharman | Egoyan | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Emma | Fine | Fine and Howard Zinn | not available |
| Emmeline | Picker | McClatchy | Santa Fe Opera |
| Emperor Norton | Mollicone | Bowman | San Francisco Opera, Brown Bag Opera |
| En Mis Palabras | Ames | Gilden | Central City Opera |
| Enchanted April, A Musical Journey | Evans | Leipart | West Bay Opera Association |
| Enemies, a Love Story | Moore | Sandrow | |
| Enid and the Swans | Rolfe | Diamond | Soundstreams Canada |
| Eric Hermannson's Soul | Larsen | Rader-Shieber | Opera Omaha |
| Ernest Worthing | Biggs | Biggs | Ventura County Opera Workshop |
| Escorial | Coppola | De Ghelderode | Opera theater of Syracuse |
| Escorial | Levy | Abel | Music in Our Time |
| Esther | Weisgall | Kondek | New York City Opera |
| Ethan Frome | Allanbrook | Hunt | Baltimore Opera |
| Europeras I & II | Cage | Cage | Frankfurt Opera |
| Ever Since Eden | Trinkley | Charnesky | Penn State Opera Theatre |
| Every Good Boy Deserves Favour | Previn | Stoppard | |
| Every Man Jack | Larsen | Littell | Sonoma City Opera |
| Everyone is Good for Something | Bond | Schenk de Regniers | Stage One, The Louisville Children's Theatre |
| Everything Must Be Perfect | Barab | Barab | |
| Eve's Odds | Trinkley | Charnesky | Penn State Opera Theatre |
| Eye of Ra | Suta | Colson | Sarasota Opera Association |
| L'eau qui danse, la pomme qui chante, l'oiseau qui dit la vérité, or Opera Féerie | Tremblay | Morency | Chants Libres |
| L'enfant des glaces | Settel | Quevedo & de Narval | Chants Libres, Compagnie lyrique de création |
| Les Enfants Terribles | Glass | Glass | Steps '96, MIGROS Switzerland - Cultural Commitment |
| The Edge of Glory | Waters | Waters | Petersburg Symphony Orchestra |
| The Egg | Menotti | Menotti | |
| The Emperor Jones | Gruenberg | de Jaffa | Metropolitan Opera |
| The Emperor's New Clothes | Jacobsen | Jacobsen | Westminster Conservatory Youth Opera Workshop |
| The Enchantment of Dreams | Franklin | Albano | Washington National Opera |
| The End of the Affair | Heggie | McDonald | Houston Grand Opera |
| A Fable | Kabalin | Abernathy | New Jersey State Opera |
| A Fleeting Animal — An Opera from Judevine | Nielsen | Budbill | Vermont Opera Theater |
| A Flowering Tree | Adams | Sellars | New Crowned Hope Festival |
| Fables | Aitken | Aitken | Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation at The Library of Congress for The New York Chamber Soloists |
| Fables | Rorem | de la Fontaine | University of Tennessee |
| Facing South | Smith | Hannah | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Fair Means Foul | Barab | Barab | |
| Faith | Ching | Ching | OperaFest of New Hampshire |
| Famous | Conte | Walker | not available |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Picker | Sturrock | Los Angeles Opera |
| Farinelli or Die Macht der Musik | Matthus | Matthus | Dresden Music Festival |
| Father of the Child | Barab | Barab | |
| Faustus | Rudenstein | Rudenstein | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Felipe | Aitken | Tapia | |
| Figaro's Last Hangover | Soluri | Soluri | Carnegie Hall |
| Filumena | Estacio | Murrell | National Arts Centre |
| Firebird Motel | Conte | Yezzi | Thick Description |
| Fireworks | Brazelton | Aronson | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Five Lovers | Moravec, Lori Laitman and Luna Pearl Woolf | Jandrokovic | Jama Jandrokovic |
| Flight - Ivan the Terrible | Antheil | Antheil | |
| Florencia en el Amazonas | Catán | Fuentes-Berain | Houston Grand Opera |
| Florida | Eng | DiNovelli | not available |
| Flower and Hawk | Floyd | Floyd | Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra |
| Floyd Collins | Guettel | Landau and Adam Guettel | American Music Theater Festival |
| Flurry Tale | Magee | Aronson | American Opera Projects, Inc, Family Opera Initiative |
| Fly Away All — A Surreal Dance Opera | Hutchinson | Shank | Minnesota Opera New Music-Theatre Ensemble |
| Footfalls | Kim | Kim | |
| Four Saints in Three Acts | Thomson | Stein | The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music |
| France/Canada- Three world premieres for voice and instruments | Dubelski, Fijal, Smith | Dubelski and Anne-Marie Fijal, Linda Catlin Smith | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| Frankenstein | Shapiro | Auburn | The Santa Fe Opera |
| Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus | Larsen | Larsen | The Minnesota Opera |
| Frau Margot | Pasatieri | Corsaro | The Fort Worth Opera |
| Frederick's Fantastic Journey | Randall | Lars Saabye | |
| Freedom Found | Bushore-Fallis, MD
Dean Fernald
Francis Annis | Bushore-Fallis, MD | Florida Lyric Opera |
| French Friends | Vehar | Vehar | Alliance Française de Buffalo |
| Freud and Dora — A Case of Hysteria | Einhorn | n/a | not available |
| Frida | Rodriguez | Blecher and Migdalia Cruz | American Music Theater (now Prince Theater) |
| Fritzi | Blumenfeld | Kondek | The Minnesota Opera |
| Frobisher | Estacio | Murrell | The Banff Centre |
| From Little to Less | Lackey | Lackey | DePauw Opera Theatre |
| From Morning to Midnight | Sawer | Sawer | English National Opera |
| From the Book of the Living | Buczynski | Buczynski | Canadian Opera Company |
| From the Other Sky | Jie | Jie | American Composers Orchestra |
| Fruit of the Family Tree | Dimock | Dale | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Frustration | Harnick | Harnick | |
| Fulgor y Muerte de Joaquin Murieta (Brilliance and Death of Joaquin Murieta) | Ortega | Neruda | Teatro Municipal de Santiago |
| Full Moon in March | Harbison | Harbison | Boston Musica Viva |
| The Face on the Barroom Floor | Mollicone | Bowman | Central City Opera |
| The Fall of Albion | Squires | Squires | not available |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Glass | Yorinks | American Repertory Theatre |
| The Family Room | Pasatieri | Malfitano | |
| The Fan | Goldstein | Kondek | |
| The Fashionable Lady | Craton | Ralph | not available |
| The Filthy Habit | Hilliard | Boresi | Manhattan Opera Theatre |
| The First Emperor | Dun | Jin
Tan Dun | Metropolitan Opera |
| The First Lady | Wells | Wells
Gayle Patterson
Rickard Roudebush
Matt B. Wells | UCLA Semel Institute |
| The First Word | Cameron | Gilbert | Downtown Music Productions |
| The Fisherman and His Wife | Schuller | Updike | Boston Opera Company |
| The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown | Hwang | Filloux | Asia Society, Music From China, Museum of Chinese in the Americas |
| The Flood | Stravinsky | Craft | CBS television |
| The Fly | Shore | Hwang | Los Angeles Opera |
| The Four-Note Opera | Johnson | Johnson | |
| The Franklin's Tale | Sokoloff | Hart | |
| The Furies | Simpson | Ferrario | The Catholic University of America Opera Theater |
| A Game of Chance | Barab | Manacher Draper | Augustana College Opera Workshop |
| A Game of Poker | Burke | Burke | Hunter College Opera Workshop |
| A Gift of Song | Caldwell | Caldwell | Pasadena Symphony |
| El Gato con Botas | Montsalvatge | Lujan | |
| Gabriel's Daughter | Mollicone | Luce | Central City Opera |
| Galileo Galilei | Laderman | Darion | Commissioned by Pamela Ilott, Executive Producer of Cultural Programming of the CBS Television Network; 1st stage performance: Tri-Cities Opera in cooperation with SUNY-Binghamton |
| Galileo Galilei | Glass | Zimmerman | Goodman Theatre |
| Gallantry | Moore | Sundgaard | Columbia University |
| Game Misconduct | Uyeda | Cone | Festival Vancouver 2000 |
| Garibaldi en Sicile | Panni | Koch | Opéra de Nice |
| Gentlemen, Be Seated! | Moross | Eager | New York City Opera |
| Geografoof | Gorney | Austen | |
| George Sand…and Chopin? | Vehar | Vehar | Austin-Peay State University |
| Germain: A Modern Opera in Four Acts | Holland | Holland | not available |
| Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On | Banfield | Alenier | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| Get Stuffed | Payne | Diamond | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Gilgamesh | Craton | Alkhas | Assyrian Aid Society |
| Gina Farina and the Prince of Mintz | Liebman | Kondek | New York State Theatre Institute |
| Glory Denied | Cipullo | Cipullo | Brooklyn College Opera Theater |
| God Bless Us, Everyone | Pasatieri | Capasso | Dicapo Opera Theatre |
| Golden Apple | Trinkley | Charnesky | Penn State Opera Theatre |
| Golden Motors | Bermel | Walters | Music-Theatre Group |
| Goodbye to the Clown | Laderman | Kinoy | |
| Goya | Menotti | Menotti | Washington National Opera |
| Grace, an opera about AIDS, love and redemption | Rudenstein | Langois and John Carmichael | Opera on the Edge |
| Grand Slam | Vernon | Harwig | |
| Grendel: Transcendence of the Great Big Bad | Goldenthal | Taymor and J. D. McClatchy | Los Angeles Opera |
| Griffelkin | Foss | Reid | NBC Opera Theater (TV) |
| GT3017 | Faunce | Smith | not available |
| Guacamayo's Old Song and Dance | Oliver | Cameron | |
| Guest from the Future | Marvin | Levi | Nine Circles Chamber Theatre |
| Gulliver's Travels (working title) | Greenbaum | Greenbaum | not available |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Gordon | Korie | |
| The Gardens of Adonis | Weisgall | Olon-Scrymgeour | |
| The Ghostly Groom | Schwarz | Luckert, Ira-Paul Schwarz and Adam LaZarre | not available |
| The Ghosts of Versailles | Corigliano | Hoffman | Metropolitan Opera |
| The Gift | MacSems | MacSems | not available |
| The Gift of the Magi | Conte | Giardini | not available |
| The Gilgul | Skupinsky | Skupinsky | |
| The Girl on the Via Flaminia | Thompson | Rael | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| The Glass Harmonica | Eister | Eister | San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival |
| The Goddess | Shearer | Shearer | not available |
| The Golden Apple | Moross | Latouche | Phoenix Theatre |
| The Golden Ass | Peters | Davies | Canadian Opera Company |
| The Golden Gate | Cummings | Seth, adapted by the composer | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| The Golden Ticket | Ash | Sturrock | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in partnership with American Lyric Theater |
| The Golden Touch | Evans | Wood | International Institute of Vocal Art |
| The Golem | Ellstein | Regan | New York City Opera |
| The Good Friar | Hennessy | Campbell | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| The Good Soldier Schweik | Kurka | Allan | New York City Opera |
| The Goose Girl | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | |
| The Gooseherd and the Goblin | Smith | Royle | |
| The Gospel at Colonus | Telson | Breuer | Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| The Gospel of Mary Magdalene | Mark | Mark | |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Gordon | Korie | The Minnesota Opera |
| The Great Gatsby | Harbison | Harbison | The Metropolitan Opera |
| The Greater Good | Hartke | Hartke after Philip Littell's dramatic adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story | Glimmerglass Opera |
| The Greenfield Christmas Tree | Moore | Sundgaard | |
| A Hand of Bridge | Barber | Menotti | Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds |
| A Hill of Bones | Vehar | Ehrenreich | Greater Buffalo Opera Company |
| A House in Bali | Ziporyn | Schick | Berkeley |
| Hamlet | | Tyburn | not available |
| Hangman, Hangman! (¡Verdugo, Verdugo!) | Balada | Balada | |
| Hannaraptor | Gilliland | Brandt | Calgary Opera |
| Hansel and Gretel | Bruce | Bruce | Connecticut Opera |
| Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice | Bach | Schickele | |
| Haroun and the Sea of Stories | Wuorinen | Fenton | New York City Opera |
| Harriet, the Woman Called Moses | Musgrave | Musgrave | Virginia Opera |
| Harvey Milk | Wallace | Korie | Houston Grand Opera |
| He Who Gets Slapped | Ward | Stambler | New York City Opera |
| Healing (Title In Progress) | Reid | Willerton | Abilene Christian University - Opera Workshop |
| Hearing | Rorem | Koch | The Gregg Smith Singers |
| Heart of a Dog | Rojahn | Rojahn | Guerilla Opera |
| Heart of a Soldier | Theofanidis | DiNovelli | |
| Heart of Darkness | O’Regan | Phillips | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Heartland — A Musical Story of the American Pioneers | Westin | Peachy | Center Stage Opera, CA |
| Hearts on Fire | Ames | Harrington | The New Music-Theater Ensemble (now Nautilus Music-Theater) |
| Helen Retires | Antheil | Erskine | |
| Hello Out There | Beeson | Beeson | Columbia University Opera Workshop |
| Heloise and Abelard | Paulus | Corsaro | Juilliard Opera Center |
| Heloise et Abelard | Essyad | Noel | Opèra National du Rhin |
| Help, Help, the Globolinks! | Menotti | Menotti | Hamburgische Staatsoper |
| Henny Penny | Fitelberg | | |
| Henry's Wife | Eng | Bernier | |
| Heracles | Eaton | Fried | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Hester Prynne at Death | Paulus | Quinn | Asheville Lyric Opera |
| Hieroglyphs | Smith | Poole and Linda Catlin Smith | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| Highway 1, U.S.A. | Grant Still | Arvey | University of Miami |
| Hildegurls Electric Ordo Virtutum | Kaplinsky | von Bingen | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Hit the Lights! | Gilutin | Lowe | Vineyard Theatre |
| Holy Ghosts | Bell | Olmstead | Casa Rustica Productions/Berklee College of Music |
| Holy Night | Welcher | Woodruff | University of Texas, Austin |
| Hopper's Wife | Wallace | Korie | Long Beach Opera |
| Hotel Eden | Mollicone | Fein | Opera San José |
| How it Storms | Cole | Roca | Autumn Leaf Performance |
| How the Trumpet Got Its Toot | Plog | Plog | Utah Symphony and Opera |
| Howard | Earnest | Christopher | State Opera of Stamford |
| Howcum, Oklahoma? | Clay | Clay | |
| Huck Finn | Hulse | Hulse | not available |
| Hydrogen Jukebox | Glass | Ginsberg | Spoleto Festival USA |
| Hyperion | Zimmermann | Sattler | Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden |
| The Hanging Tree | Day | Day | not available |
| The Harmfulness of Tobacco | Kalmanoff | Bentley | Manhattan Opera Singers |
| The Harpies | Blitzstein | Blitzstein | |
| The Heights | Crowell | Crowell | not available |
| The Hero | Menotti | Menotti | Opera Company of Philadelphia |
| The Hill — A Symbolist Opera in One Act | Ferko | Gall | not available |
| The Hobbit | Burry | Burry | Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus |
| The Hotel Casablanca | Pasatieri | Pasatieri, after Georges Feydeau | San Francisco Opera |
| The House of Bernarda Alba | Griebling | Griebling | not available |
| The House of Mirth | Torke | Campbell, with book by A.R. Gurney | New York City Opera |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Eyerly | Eyerly | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| The House of Words | Bouchard | Armstrong and Linda Bouchard | Experimantal Theatre Wing, New York University |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Moses | Stein | International School of Music, Summer Music Festival |
| The Hunger Art | Myers | Vavrek | Burning Bayreuth |
| The Hunting of the Snark | Laderman | Laderman | |
| I Can't Stand Wagner | Barab | Barab | |
| I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky | Adams | Jordan | University of California, Berkeley |
| Idiot's Delight | Bolcom | Weinstein | Florentine Opera Company |
| Idiots First | Blitzstein, completed by Leonard Lehrman, after Bernard Malamud | | |
| Impressions D'Afrique | Battistelli | Laoyza and Georges Lavaudant | Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Fondazione |
| In a Garden | Kupferman | Stein | |
| In the Penal Colony | Glass | Wurlitzer | A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) |
| In the Shadow of the Glen | Van de Vate | Van de Vate | not available |
| Inanna — An Opera of Ancient Sumer | Craton | Craton | not available |
| Inanna's Journey | Peters | Atwood | Canadian Opera Company |
| Inês | Rolfe | Bentley | Queen of Puddings Music Theatre |
| Inès de Castro | Pasatieri | Stambler | Baltimore Opera Company |
| Inferno of Dante — Canto V | Soluri | Ciardi | New York City Opera |
| Infidel | MacSems | Hall | not available |
| Inside Opera | various | various | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Introductions and Good-byes | Foss | Menotti | New York Philharmonic |
| Ionescopade | Kayden | Ionesco | Theatre Four |
| Iphis | Kats-Chernin | Toop | Music Theater Sydney |
| Iron Road | Nin | Brownell | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Isis and the Seven Scorpions | Burry | Burry | Canadian Opera Company |
| Israel | Peterson | Peterson | not available |
| It's a Wonderful Life | Wilson | Telles | Cinnabar Theater |
| I've Got the Tune | Blitzstein | Blitzstein | Columbia Broadcasting Corporation |
| The Imp of the Perverse | Ho | O'Brien | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| The Inman Diaries | Lee | Martin | Intermezzo - the New England Chamber Opera Series |
| The Insect Comedy | Kalmanoff | Allan | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| The Inseparables | Halpern | Halpern | not available |
| The Inspector | Musto | Campbell | Wolf Trap Opera Company |
| The Inventor | Tovey | Murrell | Calgary Opera |
| The Island of Tomorrow | Fink | Rodgers | Golden Fleece Opera |
| The Island of Tulipatan | Offenbach | Opelka and Jack Helbig | Light Opera Works |
| The Italian Lesson | Hoiby | Draper | |
| Jack Pine | Hille | Hille | Vancouver Opera |
| Jack Sound and His Dog, Star, Blowing His Final Trumpet on the Day of Doom | Margoshes | Rado | |
| Jackie O | Daugherty | Koestenbaum | Houston Grand Opera and The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| Jason and Hanna | Butch | Morria | Manitoba Opera |
| Jenny, or The Hundred Nights | Weisgall | Hollander, after Yukio Mishima | |
| Jeremiah | Fink | Hawley | Tri-Cities Opera |
| Jewish Humor from Oy to Vey | Barab | Barab | |
| Joan of Arc | Marvin | Harrington | Boston Music Theatre Project |
| John Brown | Mechem | Mechem | Lyric Opera of Kansas City |
| Johnny Johnson | Weill | Green | Group Theatre at 44th Street Theater |
| Jonah | Beeson | Beeson | |
| Jōruri | Miki | Graham | |
| Joshua's Boots | Hailstork | Kander | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| Joyeux Noël | Puts | Campbell | The Minnesota Opera |
| Judgement of Midas | Ince | Seidel | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Judith and Holofernes | Fink | Moreland | SUNY Purchase |
| Just Above My Head | Davis | Davis | Opera Theater of Pittsburgh |
| The Jealousy Scene | Puccini | Rosenberg | not available |
| The Jogger and the Dinosaur | Morton | Morton | |
| The Jolly Beggars | De Cormier | Burns | |
| The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | Foss | Karsavina | Indiana University School of Music |
| The Jungle Book | Swensson | Robinette | OperaDelaware |
| The Juniper Tree | Glass | Yorinks | American Repertory Theater |
| Kafka: Letter to My Father | Walden | Walden | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Kafka's Chimp | Metcalf | Morris | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| K'ai, Death of Dreams | deCosta | deCosta | Turing Opera Workshop |
| Kali | Prabawo | Mohamed | On the Boards |
| Kamouraska | Wilson | Wilson | Canadian Opera Company |
| Karla | Lehrman | Lehrman, after Bernard Malamud | |
| Kepler | Glass | Winkel | Landestheater Linz and Linz09 |
| Keppers of the Light | Polifrone | Fields | VA Tech |
| King Gesar | Lieberson | Penick | Munich Biennale Festival |
| Kittiwake Island | Alec | Sundgaard | |
| Kitty Hawk | Scearce | Graham | National Opera Company |
| Knossos | Cross | Cross | Kentucky Opera |
| Kopernikus | Vivier | Vivier | l’Atelier de jeu scénique de la Faculté de Musique de l’Université de Montréal |
| Korczak's Orphans | Silverman | Gubernat | not available |
| Kris Kringle Rides Again | Jason | Austen | |
| The King of the Cats | Oliver | Keats | Colorado Opera Festival |
| The King's Henchman | Taylor | St. Vincent Millay | Metropolitan Opera |
| The Kiss | Fijal | Walser | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| A Letter to East 11th Street | Hennessy | Campbell | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| A Light Shining in Darkness | Hopkins | Hopkins | |
| A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil | Wold | Wold | Intersection for the Arts<br> Erling Wold’s Fabrications |
| A Little Night Music | Sondheim | Wheeler | Harold Prince and Ruth Mitchell |
| A Little Nightmare Music | Bach | Schickele | |
| At Last I've Found You | Seymour | Seymour | |
| Die Legende vom Armen Heinrich | Klötzke | Dorst | Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Germany |
| La Loca | Menotti | Menotti | San Diego Opera Association |
| La Priere du Loupe | Salzman | Rostain | |
| La Reina del Pacifico | Sosa | Bright | |
| Labyrinth | Menotti | Menotti | NBC Opera Theater (TV) |
| Lady Macbeth | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | Voices of Change |
| L'archange | Dufort | Nouss | Chants Libres |
| Later the Same Evening | Musto | Campbell | Maryland Opera Studio |
| Leonora | Fry | Fry | |
| License to Marry | Barab | Barab | Mercyhurst College, D’Angelo Department of Music |
| Life is a Dream | Spratlan | Maraniss | Santa Fe Opera |
| Ligeia | Rockwell | Page | n/a |
| Light and Power | Schankler | Burcar | Juventas New Music Ensemble |
| Lilith | Davis | Havis | University of California San Diego |
| Lilith | Drattell | Cohen | New York City Opera |
| Lillian Alling | Estacio | Murrell | Vancouver Opera |
| Lily | Kirchner | Kirchner | New York City Opera |
| Lincoln's Happiest Night | Lackey | Lackey | Culver-Stockton College Division of Fine Arts, Canton, MO |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Yeamans | Yeamans | |
| Little Stories in Tomorrow's Paper | Barab | Baran | |
| Little Women | Adamo | Adamo | Houston Grand Opera/Houston Opera Studio |
| Lizzie Borden | Beeson | Elmslie | New York City Opera |
| Looking Glass Lake | Payne | Ball | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Looking Glass World(a 3-D opera) | Winkler | Winkler | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| Lord Byron | Thomson | Larson | Juilliard Theater, Lincoln Center |
| Loss of Eden | Franklin | Albano | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| Lost Childhood | Hamer | Azrael | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Lost in the Stars | Weill | Anderson | Music Box Theatre, New York (Playwrights' Company) |
| lost objects | Michael | Deborah | Dresden Music Festival |
| Louis Riel | Somers | Moore in collaboration with Jacques Languirand | Canadian Opera Company |
| Louis' Trumpet | Swensson | Robinette and Evelyn Swensson | OperaDelaware |
| Love in Two Countries: umbrella title when "A Question of Faith" and "That Pig of a Molette" are performed together | Shepard | Harnick | |
| Love/Hate | Perla | Bailis | |
| Love's Comedy | Sherman | Davis | not available |
| Lucrezia | Bolcom | Campbell | New York Festival of Song |
| Lucy's Lapses | Drobny | Harrington | |
| Luke and Sarah | Domine | Murphy | not available |
| Lulu, Le Chant Souterrain | Thibault | Muckle | Chants Libres, Compagnie lyrique de création |
| Luyala | Banfield | Bridgers | Triangle Opera |
| Lysistrata | Adamo | Adamo | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| The Last Leaf | Henderson | Henderson | Lake George Opera Festival |
| The Last Savage | Menotti | Menotti | Opera-Comique |
| The Last Twilight | Musgrave | Lawrence | Chorus of Santa Fe |
| The Last Word | Kayden | Broughton | WEVD Radio New York |
| The Legend of Redwall Abbey | Swensson | Swensson | OperaDelaware |
| The Letter | Moravec | Teachout | Santa Fe Opera |
| The Libation Bearers | Simpson | Ferrario | The Catholic University of America Opera Theater |
| The Life and Love of Joe Coogan | Salerni | Light | Lehigh University |
| The Light in the Piazza | Guettel | Lucas | Goodman Theatre |
| The Lion and Androcles | Eaton | Anderson | |
| The Little Match Girl Passion | Lang | Lang | Theatre of Voices |
| The Little Thieves of Bethlehem (A Christmas/Epiphany Story) | Stuart | Gall | Opera Theatre of Rochester and VM Music |
| The Lost | Philip | Rainer | |
| The Lost Angel | n/a | Cates | not available |
| The Lost Dauphin | Parmentier | Parmentier | Pamiro Opera Company |
| The Love of Don Perlimplin | Susa | Susa and Richard Street | PepsiCo Summerfare, SUNY Purchase |
| The Lowland Sea | Alec | Arnold | |
| A Madrigal Opera | Glass | n/a | Holland Festival |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Ching | Shakespeare | Opera Memphis |
| A Midwinter Night's Dream | Somers | Wynne-Jones | Soundstreams Canada |
| A Month in the Country | Hoiby | Ball | |
| A More Perfect Union | Bond | Sheffer | The Center For Contemporary Opera |
| La Machine de l’être | Zorn | n/a | New York City Opera |
| La Mort de Virgile - The Death of Virgil | Lancino | Gautron | Radio France et Fondation Beaumarchais/SACD |
| Ma Barker | Eaton | Gold | |
| Macbeth² | Sandström | Johansson | GöteborgsOperan |
| Madame Adare | Silverman | Foreman | New York City Opera |
| Madame Mao | Sheng | Graham | Santa Fe Opera |
| Madame Puccini | Pratt | Pratt | Adrian Symphony Orchestra |
| Madame White Snake | Long | Jacobs | Opera Boston |
| Madimi | Wolosoff | Hall | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Man on the Bearskin Rug | Ramsier | Elward | Ohio State Opera |
| Manuscrit Trouvé à Saragosse (Manuscript Found In Saragossa) | Evangelista | Nouss | Chants Libres, Compagnie lyrique de création |
| Many Moons | Dougherty | Dougherty | |
| Many Moons | Kapilow | Blecher | New Jersey State Opera, Opera Omaha, Celebrity Series, Boston, Rochester Opera |
| Mapping Venus | Hays | Stein and Sorrel Hays | not available |
| Marco Polo | Tan Dun | Griffiths | Munich Biennale |
| Mardi Gras | Kayden | Kayden | Cricket Theatre |
| Mardi Gras, A commedia dell’arte opera | MacSems | Hoffman | Chamber Made Opera |
| Maren of Vardø | Myers | Vavrek | |
| Margaret Garner | Danielpour | Morrison | Michigan Opera Theatre |
| Margarita | Skupinsky | Gales | not available |
| Margot Alone in the Light | Borzoni | Conbere | operamission |
| Maria Elena | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | |
| Marie's Orchard | Westin | Thomas | |
| Marilyn | Laderman | Rosten | New York City Opera |
| Marina a Captive Spirit | Dratell | Finch | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Mario and the Magician | Somers | Anderson | Canadian Opera Company |
| Mario and the Magician | Thorne | McClatchy | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Markheim | Floyd | Floyd | New Orleans Opera Association |
| Marrying the Hangman | Caltabiano | Atwood | Psappha chamber ensemble |
| Martin Avdeich: A Christmas Tale | Downard | Downard | Opera Colorado |
| Martin’s Lie | Menotti | Menotti | |
| Mary Compton | Riggin | Riggin | not available |
| Mary Dyer | Owen | Owen | Opera Theatre of Rochester |
| Mary Shelley | Jaffe | Atherton | Parabola Arts |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Musgrave | Musgrave | Virginia Opera |
| Marymere | Schickele | Schickele | |
| Mary's Wedding | Macdonald | Massicotte | Pacific Opera Victoria |
| Mascherata (The Masquerade) | Adomian | dal Pizzo | |
| Master Tom and the Sable Woman | Composer sought | Aarons | not available |
| Matricide | Kats-Chernin | Fallon | Chamber Made Music |
| Max & Moritz | Corness | Turner | Modern Baroque Opera |
| McTeague | Bolcom | Weinstein and Robert Altman | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| M'Dea Undone | Harris | Chan | Tapestry New Opera |
| Medea of Corinth | Lees | Lees | The Grosvenor Ensemble |
| Medusa | Bolcom | Weinstein | Carnegie Hall Corporation and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra |
| Mega | Vårdstedt and Alex Svensson | Althoff | GöteborgsOperan |
| Memoirs from the Holocaust | Braz | Braz | Greater Miami Opera |
| Memoirs of Uliana Rooney | Fine | Friedman | University of Richmond and American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Menkaure | Holland | Holland | not available |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Snowman! | Richter | Hoskins | |
| Merry Mount | Hanson | Stokes | Metropolitan Opera |
| Midea | Strasnoy | Possamai | L'Etat français |
| Minutes Til Midnight | Ward | Lang | Greater Miami Opera (New World Contemporary Festival of the Arts)[now Florida Grand Opera] |
| Miss Havisham's Fire | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | New York City Opera |
| Miss Havisham's Wedding Night | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | The Minnesota Opera |
| Miss Julie | Rorem | Elmslie | New York City Opera |
| Miss Lonelyhearts | Liebermann | McClatchy | The Juilliard School |
| Moby-Dick | Heggie | Scheer | The Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, Calgary Opera, State Opera of South Australia |
| Moby-Dick | Epstein | Sparer Adler and Solomon Epstein | not available |
| Modern Painters | Lang | Hoelterhoff | The Santa Fe Opera |
| Mom Sings an Aria | Stringer | Stringer and James Yaffe | Albuquerque Congregation Albert |
| Mona | Parker | Hooker | Metropolitan Opera |
| Monkey See, Monkey Do | Rodriguez | Medrick | The Dallas Opera |
| Monsters of Grace | Glass | Barks | UCLA Center for the Performing Arts |
| Montezuma | Sessions | Borgese | |
| Mordake | Wold | Kearney | Paul Dresher Ensemble <br> Erling Wold's Fabrications |
| Mortal, Immortal | Ceely | Gatineau | not available |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Levy | Butler | Metropolitan Opera |
| Mozart in Manhattan | Biales | Fogarty | The College of St. Catherine |
| Mrs. President | Bond | Bell | not available |
| Murder in the First | Epstein | Epstein | not available |
| My Fair Lady | Loewe | Lerner | not available |
| My Heart's in the Highlands | Beeson | Beeson | NET Opera Theater |
| My Kinsman, Major Molineux | Saylor | Saylor | New York City Opera |
| Myshkin | Eaton | Creagh | Indian University Opera Theater / WTIU |
| Mysterium | Drew | | |
| The Magic Shop | de Kenessey | Frischauf | Vital Theatre Company |
| The Magic Students | Mozart | Schoonmaker
Malvern | Furman Opera Theater |
| The Maker of Illusions | Barab | Barab | |
| The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 | Glass | Lessing | Commissioned by:<br> Houston Grand Opera <br> English National Opera <br> Landestheater Kiel, Germany |
| The Man in the Black Suit | Beglarian | Holby and Eve Beglarian | Ardea Arts, Inc. |
| The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five | Glass | Lessing | Theater der Stadt Heidelberg |
| The Masque of Angels | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | The Minnesota Opera |
| The Medium | Menotti | Menotti | Columbia University |
| The Memory Game | Hoffman | Meijer | College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati |
| The Merchant and the Pauper | Schoenfield | Stearns | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| The Midnight Angel | Carlson | Beagle | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| The Midnight Court | Sokolovic | Bentley | Queen of Puddings Music Theatre |
| The Mighty Casey | Schuman | Gury | Moss Music Group |
| The Mill Girl | Lane | Lane | The Children's Opera Company of Ossining |
| The Miraculous Phonograph Record | White | Randich | The Dallas Opera |
| The Miraculous Staircase | Stringer | Stringer | Opera Southwest |
| The Miser's Three Wishes (Opera for Children) | Levinson | Beck | not available |
| The Mistake | Sheffer | Wadsworth | Michigan Opera Theatre |
| The Mocking-Bird | Musgrave | Musgrave | Boston Musica Viva |
| The Money Tree — An Opera in One Act | Garner | Cohen | Basoti Presents |
| The Monkey Opera | Trefousse | DeLynn | |
| The Most Happy Fella | Loesser | Loesser | Imperial Theatre, New York |
| The Most Important Man | Menotti | Menotti | New York City Opera |
| The Mother of Us All | Thomson | Stein | Columbia University |
| The Ms. Seattle Skyline Contest | Dilworth | Rimel | not available |
| The Music Shop | Wargo | Wargo | Minnesota Opera |
| The Myth of Er | Sternau | Sternau | not available |
| El Niño | Adams | Biblical texts, Gnostic Infancy Gospels, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rosario Castellanos | Théâtre du Châtelet |
| Nancy | Hull | Hull | Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia |
| Naomi's Road | Luengen | Hodges | Vancouver Opera Association |
| Natalia Petrovna | Hoiby | Ball | New York City Opera |
| Natoma | Herbert | Redding | |
| Naughty Marietta | Herbert | Young | |
| Neither | Feldman | Beckett | Rome Opera |
| Nelligan | Gagnon | Tremblay | |
| Nemo — Jenseits von Vulkania | Van de Vate | Cortes | not available |
| New York Stories | Hagen | | |
| Nicholas and Alexandra | Dratell | von Hoffman | Los Angeles Opera |
| Nico. Sphinx aus Eis | Meyers | Fritsch, Nina Gühlstorff, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Hans-Georg Wegner | Semper Opera Dresden |
| Nightcap | Burnham | Butnham | Tulane-Newcomb Opera Workshop |
| Nigredo Hotel | Gotham | MacDonald | Tapestry Music Theatre |
| Nine Rivers from Jordan | Weisgall | Johnston | New York City Opera |
| Nixon in China | Adams | Goodman | Houston Grand Opera |
| No Easy Walk to Freedom (based on the life of Nelson Mandela) | Carter | Carter | The Riverside Church, NYC |
| No Exit | Vores | Sartre | Guerilla Opera |
| No Laughing Matter | Barab | Barab | |
| Noach | Corbett | Hein | BremerTheater |
| Noah | Sahl
Eric Salzman | Sahl
Eric Salzman | |
| Nosferatu | Peters | Gronsdal Powell | Canadian Opera Company |
| Nosferatu | Henderson | Gioia | |
| Not a Spanish Kiss | Barab | Barab | |
| Notre Dame of Paris | Fry | Fry | |
| The Necklace | Ratner | Ratner | |
| The New Adam | Avital | Roland | not available |
| The Night of the Star | Caldwell | Caldwell | |
| The Nightingale | Rogers | Rogers | |
| The Nightingale | Raminsh | Tucker | Children’s Chorus of Washington |
| The Nightingale (Le rossignol) | Stravinsky | Mitussov | Théâtre National de l'Opéra in Paris |
| The Nightingale and the Rose | Rockwell | Long | University of Santa Cruz |
| The Noblest Game | Diamond | Louchheim | New York City Opera |
| O.T. | Mulhare | Mulhare | Payanca Publications |
| Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Musgrave | Musgrave | London Sinfonietta |
| Odysseus and Ajax | Halpern | Halpern | LA MAMA Experimental Theatre Club |
| Oedipus rex | Stravinsky | Cocteau | Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris |
| Oedipus Tex | Bach | Schickele | |
| Of Mice and Men | Floyd | Floyd | Seattle Opera |
| Oh Pilot | Gotham | Rubess | Latvian National Opera |
| Oh, My Giddy Aunt | Kayden | Moran and Mildred Kayden | not available |
| Oklahoma! | Rodgers | Hammerstein II | Broadway |
| One False Move | Kander | Kander | Lyric Opera Of Kansas City |
| One Night Together | Burwasser | Gilbert | Downtown Music Productions |
| One Ten Project | Karpman | Halwes | |
| Only a Miracle | Barab | Barab | |
| Opera to Go | Various | Various | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Ordinary Days | Gwon | Gwon | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Ordinary People | Chumbley | McDonough | not available |
| Oresteia | Simpson | Ferrario | The Catholic University of America Opera Theater |
| Orphée | Glass | Glass | American Repertory Theater |
| Orpheus & Euridice | Gordon | Gordon | Cooper Union |
| Orpheus Descending | Saylor | McClatchy | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| Orpheus in Pecan Springs | Lathan | Holliday | Fort Worth Opera |
| Ostrich Feathers | Cunningham | Brenner | |
| Our American Cousin | Sawyer | Shoptaw | Boston Modern Orchestra Project |
| Our Basic Nature | Glover | Rourke | |
| Our Town | Rorem | McClatchy | Indiana University Opera Theater |
| Out of the Rain | Ching | Moffatt | OperaDelaware and City Theater Company |
| Out the Window | Barab | Barab | |
| Ovidania | Greenbaum | Bellen | Network for New Music |
| The Obtaining of Portia | Israel | Israel | Opera Theatre of Syracuse |
| The Old Maid and the Thief | Menotti | Menotti | NBC Radio |
| The Old Majestic | Rodriguez | Medrick | University of Texas Austin |
| The Ordeal of Osbert | Davis | Davis | Plymouth Rock Center |
| The Other Wise Man | de Kenessey | Wallace | Golden Fleece Ltd. and Mannes College Opera |
| The Other Wise Man | Taylor | Taylor | New Opera Works |
| The Other Wise Man | Rakonjac | Wisehart | Music on Argyle |
| The Outcast | Ain | Ain | Opera Ebony |
| The Outcasts of Poker Flat | MacSems | MacSems | Capitol Opera Sacramento |
| A Perfect Plan | Barab | Barab | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| A Piece of String | Barab | Barab | |
| A Place to Call Home | Barnes | Barnes | Los Angeles Opera |
| A Puppet's Tale | Waxman | Waxman | not available |
| fidelio, or the prisoner of the state | David | David | |
| Il Postino | Catán | Catán | Los Angeles Opera |
| Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) | Opran | Opran | not available |
| Pacamambo | Settel | Mouawad | Chants Libres, Compagnie lyrique de création |
| Pacific Overtures | Sondheim | Sondheim | Winter Garden Theatre |
| Padrevia | Pasatieri | Pasatieri, after Boccaccio | |
| Pandora's Box | Effinger | Monsour | |
| Pandora's Box | MacSems | MacSems | not available |
| Pandora's Locker | Burry | Burry | The Glenn Gould Professional School |
| Pantomime | Poùhe | Somers | San Diego Opera |
| Paradise Gardens East | Kayden | Gagliano | not available |
| Paranoia — A Psycho-Opera | Eddins | Lopate | Caterwaul! |
| Paris and Oenone (or Did the Trojan War Take Place?) | Hagemann | Gall | Manhattan School of Music |
| Passages | Petit | Monnier | Opéra de Reims |
| Passion | Sondheim | Sondheim | Plymouth Theatre |
| Passion in the Principal's Office | Barab | Barab | |
| Patience & Sarah | Kimper | Persons | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | Hailstork | Martin | |
| Paul's Case | Spears | Spears & Kathryn Walat | |
| Pearl | Davidson | Davidson | University of Miami |
| Peony Pavilion | Dun | Xianzu
Translation by Cyril Birch | Vienna Festival |
| Pepito's Golden Flower | Mary | Mary | |
| Perpetual | Kanitz | Terry | |
| Persephone's Sister | Orlando | Elhai | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Peter Ibbetson | Taylor | Collier and Deems Taylor | Metropolitan Opera |
| Phaust | Schemmer | Schemmer | |
| Phillip Marshall | Barab | Barab | |
| Phoenix Park, A Poet's Journey | Strickland | Gilbert | Downtown Music Productions |
| Phrenic Crush | Bielawa | Ehn | Haas Foundation Creative Works Fund |
| Pimooteewin (The Journey) | Hui | Highway | Soundstreams Canada |
| Pizza Con Funghi (Mushroom Pie) | Barab | Barab | |
| Plump Jack | Getty | Getty | |
| Poe 2, Hawthorne 1 (Three One-Act Operas) | Bernstein | Kondek | The University of Akron Opera Theatre |
| Pontalba | Musgrave | Musgrave | New Orleans Opera |
| Pope Joan: An Operatic Heresy | Musto | Lanctot | New York City Opera |
| Porgy and Bess | Gershwin | Heyward and Ira Gershwin | Rouben Mamoulian |
| Postcard from Morocco | Argento | Donahue | Minnesota Opera |
| Powers of Two | Truax | Truax | Modern Baroque Opera |
| Practice in the Art of Elocution | Beeson | Beeson | Mark Peloquin |
| Predators | Barab | Barab | |
| Prima Donna | Wainwright | Colomine | Manchester International Festival |
| Processions | Callahan | Pizzato | University of St. Thomas |
| Propeller | Childs | Chamberlain | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Puppy and the Big Guy (a partnership project with D.A.R.E.) | Tinsley | Pogue | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| Purgatory | Weisgall | Yeats | |
| Puss in Boots | de Mets | Andruski | |
| Spark Plugs | Granger | Granger | |
| The Pardoner's Tale | Sokoloff | Hart | |
| The Parliament of Fowls | Craton | Chaucer | not available |
| The Passion of Jonathan Wade | Floyd | Floyd | New York City Opera |
| The Passion of Rita St. James | Conte | Walker | San Francisco Conservatory, Musical Theatre Program |
| The Passion of Serge and Bacchus | Isaac, PhD | Thompson, MD | not available |
| The Penitentes | Pasatieri | Bailey | |
| The Perfect Match | Young | Dalby | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| The Photographer | Glass | Byrne | The Holland Festival |
| The Picnic | Cumming | Butler | Reiman Opera Studio of New York University |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Liebermann | Liebermann | L'Opera de Monte-Carlo |
| The Pied Piper | Barab | Barab | |
| The Pied Piper | Hagemann | Hagemann | |
| The Pink Siamese | Barab | Otto | Detroit Institute of Arts |
| The Pipe of Desire | Converse | Barton | Boston Opera Company |
| The Poe Project | Myers, Anthony Gach and Patrick Soluri | Long, Royce Vavrek and Deborah Brevoort | |
| The Poet's Miracle | Ilic | Grace | not available |
| The Portrait | Llewellyn | Llewellyn | Co-Opera |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Paulus | Graham | Opera Theatre of St. Louis |
| The Pot of Fat | Chanler | Pickman | |
| The Prince of Tides | Fowler | Fowler | Opera University of South Carolina |
| The Proposal | Humel | Humel | |
| The Proposal | Walker | Carter | |
| The Protagonist | Weill | Kaiser | |
| The Purple Gang | Jex | Child | |
| A Question of Faith | Shepard | Harnick | |
| A Question of Taste | Schuman | McClatchy | Glimmerglass Opera |
| A Quiet Place | Bernstein | Wadsworth | Houston Grand Opera |
| Queen of the Night | Strauss | Strauss | Atelier de la Main d'Or |
| Queenie Pie | Ellington | Wolfe | American Music Theater Festival |
| Queer | Wold | Morace | ODC Theater / Erling Wold’s Fabrications |
| The Queen and the Rebels | Moss | Moss | |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Barab | Barab | Music Theatre for Children |
| Rain | Owen | Owen | Camerata New York |
| Rajah's Ruby | Barab | Barab | |
| Rappaccini's Daughter | Cohen | Abrahams | Lake George Opera Festival |
| Rappaccini's Daughter | Garwood | Garwood | The Pennsylvania Opera Theatre |
| Rappaccini's Daughter | Catán | Tovar | Teatro del Palacio de Bellas Artes |
| Rappahannock County | Gordon | Campbell | Virginia Opera<br> Virginia Arts Festival<br> Modlin Center at the University of Richmond<br> TPAC at University of Texas |
| Rapunzel | Harrison | Morris | |
| Rasputin | Reise | Reise, in collaboration with Frank Corsaro | New York City Opera |
| Ravenshead | Mackey | Eckert | Musical Traditions, Inc. |
| Rebecca | Lefkowitch | Lefkowitch | not available |
| Red Carnations | Baksa | Baksa | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
| Red Emma | Kulesha | Bolt | Canadian Opera Company, du Maurier Theatre |
| RedDust | Rosenblum | Hsueh-chin and Gertrude Stein | Opera Theater of Pittsburgh |
| Reflections of the Watermoon | Burgess | Burgess | Great East Productions |
| Regina | Blitzstein | Blitzstein | Shubert Theatre |
| Remember You, Member Me | Weinstock | Rno | not available |
| Requiem | Valitsky | Acker | not available |
| Resurrection | Machover | Harrington with additional materials by Braham Murray | Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. |
| Richard III | Turok | Turok | |
| Río de Sangre | Davis | Gale
Alicia Partnoy (translation) | The Florentine Opera Company |
| River of Women/Rio de Mujeres | Armienta | Armienta | The Music Theater Collaborative, other productions, Basoti, and Mission Chamber Orchestra |
| Robbers | Rorem | Rorem | Mannes College Opera Workshop |
| Roman Fever | Stringer | Stringer | Albuquerque St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church |
| Romeo and Juliet | Hoiby | Shulgasser | College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati |
| Romulus | Karchin | Karchin | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| Romulus Hunt | Simon | Brackman | Metropolitan Opera Guild |
| Rosalinda | Mattox and Jose Ramon Urbay | Paul and George Mattox | Hispanic-American Lyric Theatre |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | Garfein | Garfein | |
| Rosina | Titus | Field | The Minnesota Opera Company |
| Rostam | Dilworth | Dilworth | not available |
| Rumpelstiltskin | DiChiera | Hill | |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Epstein | Epstein | |
| Running Man | Murray | Eady | Music-Theatre Group |
| Ruth | Hagemann | Hagemann | Southern Illinois University |
| Ryan/MacLennan Project | Ryan | MacLennan | Pacific Opera Victoria |
| The Ragsman and the Gypsies | Angelini | Nassar | Greater Utica Guild, Inc. |
| The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky | Auden | Teatro la Fenice, Venice |
| The Ransom of Red Chief | Rodriguez | Dibbern | Lyric Opera of Dallas and NEA |
| The Rape of the Lock | Mason | Mason | not available |
| The Raven King | Burtch | Morris | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| The Reconciliation | Craton | Markoe | not available |
| The Red Mill | Herbert | Blossom | |
| The Refuge | Theofanidis | Lax | Houston Grand Opera |
| The Rehearsal | Benjamin | Macdonald | Lake George Opera Festival |
| The Richest Girl in the World Finds Happiness | Sandow | Sandow | Eastern Opera Theatre |
| The Rings of Rap | Rodwin | Hinds | A.S.K. Theatre Projects |
| The Rising, An Irish Allegory | Evans | Yeats Maud Gonne, Padraic Pearse and others, arranged by the composer | not available |
| The Risk of Flight | Childs | Childs | Nautilus Music-Theatre |
| The Rivals | Mechem | Mechem | Skylight Opera Theatre |
| The Robin Woman: Shanewis | Cadman | Eberhart | Metropolitan Opera |
| The Ruined Maid | Barab | Barab | |
| Un Racconto Fiorentino | Gioia | Gioia | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| A Secular Masque | Turok | Dryden | |
| A Star Over Fifth Avenue (Umbrella Title when Della's Gift and Holy Night are performed together) | Welcher | Woodruff | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Previn | Littell | San Francisco Opera |
| A Sunny Morning | Stringer | Stringer and Jerry Benbow | Opera Southwest |
| Die Sündflut | Danner | Hampe and Claus C. Henneberg | Dresden Music Festival |
| Il Siciliano o L'amor Pittore | Corsaro | Corsaro | not available |
| Le Senatori | Lackey | Lackey | Emporia State University Opera Theatre |
| S. | Perera | Congdon | not available |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Coppola | Coppola | Opera Tampa at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Blitzstein, completed by Leonard Lehrman | | |
| Sack of Calabasas | Fletcher | Fletcher | |
| Sade | Wilkinson | Skofield | not available |
| Saga of the Hidden Sun | Garza | Shaw | |
| Salsipuedes | Catán | Alberto and Francisco Hinojosa | Houston Grand Opera |
| Sanctuary | Callahan | Kirby | University of St. Thomas, Sacred Arts Festival |
| Sanctuary Song | Richardson | Chan | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Santa Claus, A Morality | Smith | cummings | |
| Sara McKinnon | Shinn | Medoff | Doña Ana Lyric Opera, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces/CU Opera at the University of Colorado |
| Sarah and Hagar | Cohen | Kondek | not available |
| Saturnalia | Ibarra | Komunyakaa | Music-Theatre Group |
| Satyagraha | Glass | Glass and Constance DeJong | Netherlands Opera |
| Say Cheese | Barab | Barab | |
| Say It Ain't So, Joe | Hughes | Hughes | Guerilla Opera |
| Scenes in Wonderland | Barab | Barab | |
| Scourge of Hyacinths | León | León | |
| Screen Test | Brady | Sobol | Opera Ontario |
| Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Schwartz | Schwartz | Opera Santa Barbara |
| Seasons in Hell — A Life of Rimbaud | Blumenfeld | Kondek | University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music |
| Seijo | Hoffman | Grimes | New England Conservatory Opera Theatre |
| Sekidera Komachi | Shields | Shields | |
| Semmelweis | Lustig | Doherty and Matt Gray | |
| Send (who are you? I love you) | LaChiusa | LaChiusa | Houston Grand Opera |
| Serena in X-Tremis — A musical fable | Robinson | Shank | not available |
| Serenade at Noon | Fuchs | Vermel | |
| Serendip | Westbrooke | Westbrooke | not available |
| Sergej Krikalow | Hatley | Birnbaum | in negotiation |
| Sextet | Hurwit | Goldsmith, Harvey Perr | Bijou Theatre, New York |
| Sganarelle | Archer | Archer | Edmonton Opera |
| Shadowboxer | Proto | Chenault | Maryland Opera Studio, University of Maryland |
| Shadows Among Us | Laderman | Rosten | |
| Shak - An Irreverent Day of WM. Shakespeare | Shirer | Shirer | not available |
| Sharon's Grave | Wargo | Keane | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| She Never Lost a Passenger: the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad | Kander | Kander | |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Rusche | Joffe | American Chamber Opera Company |
| She Told Me This... | Wallace | Tan | Musiqa |
| Shelter | Gordon
David Lang
Julia Wolfe
Bang on a Can | Artman | Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Musikfabrik |
| Shelter | Palmer | Salverson | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| Shine! | Anderson | Goldsmith | Virginia Museum Theatre, Richmond, VA |
| Shining Brow | Hagen | Muldoon | Madison Opera |
| Shot! - An Opera | Vehar | Vehar
Valerian Ruminski | Nickel City Opera |
| Siddhartha | Theofanidis | Summers | Houston Grand Opera |
| Signor Deluso | Pasatieri | Pasatieri, after Molière | Wolf Trap Company |
| Silent Night | Puts | Campbell | Minnesota Opera |
| Simeon | Gustafson | Burke | Bob Jones University |
| Simón Bolivar | Musgrave | Musgrave | Virginia Opera |
| Singers Glen | Parker | Parker | |
| Singers of Bremen | Barnes | Schulman | not available |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Night | Peaslee | Cavander | American Opera Projects, Inc., Family Opera Initiative |
| Sister Beatrice | Fine | Fine | not available |
| Sive | Wargo | Wargo | not available |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Weisgall | Johnston | New York City Opera |
| Skellig | Machover | Almond | Northern Sinfonia |
| Slain in the Spirit — The Promis of Jim Jones | Mahal | Yankowitz | not available |
| Slaying the Dragon | Ching | Frankel | Center City Opera Theater |
| Sleeping Beauty | Barab | Barab | |
| Slow Dusk | Floyd | Floyd | Syracuse University |
| Snow Leopard | Harper | Nieboer | The Minnesota Opera and The New Music-Theater Ensemble |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarves | Barab | Barab | |
| So This Duck Walks Into a Psychiatrists Office | Maurer | Hoptman | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| Socrates | Feo | Calcaño | OMAC Music SM |
| Sodom | Addison | Hansard | |
| Soldier Songs | Little | Little | Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble |
| Solomon and Balkis | Thompson | Thompson | Harvard University |
| Somebody's Children | Kander | Kander | |
| SomersFest | Somers | various | Soundstreams Canada |
| Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt | Mazzoli | Vavrek | |
| Song of Houston | Theofanidis | Lax | Houston Grand Opera |
| Song of Majnun | Sheng | Porter | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| Songs From the F Train | Lyons | Covington
Alexis Cummings
Najaya Royal | |
| Sorry, Wrong Number | Beeson | Beeson | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Spinoza | Drossin | Trawick | Cleveland Opera |
| Sredni Vashtar | Cassels-Brown | Adams | not available |
| St. Joan of Arc | Carilli | Gerth | not available |
| Star Thoughts | Ceely | Gatineau | not available |
| Starbird | Mollicone | Pogue | Texas Opera Theater |
| Sterlingman, or Generosity Rewarded | Roy | Roy | |
| Stitch | Palmer | Chatterton | Soundstreams Canada |
| Stone Soup | Dorff | McQuilkin | Young Audiences of Eastern Pennsylvania Opera Workshop |
| Storm at Sea | Csonka | Geiger-Torel | Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches |
| Strange Fruit | Carter | Ross Sorkin | Long Leaf Opera |
| Street Scene | Weill | Rice | Broadway |
| Sub Pontio Pilato | Wold | Bisso | Erling Wold's Fabrications |
| Summer | Paulus | Vail Thorne | Berkshire Opera Company |
| Summer and Smoke | Hoiby | Wilson | St. Paul Opera Association |
| Sun Yat-sen | Ruo | Chong | |
| Suor Isabella | Rodriguez | Dibbern | Univerisity of Texas Dallas |
| Supper at Emmaus (Adapted from a Biblical Episode) | Carter | Carter | not available |
| Suppose a Wedding | Lehrman | Lehrman, after Bernard Malamud | |
| Surrender Road | Hummon | Hummon | Nashville Opera Association |
| Susanna and the Elders | Fink | Moreland | not available |
| Susannah | Floyd | Floyd | The Theatre Guild |
| Susannah Martin | Reid | Lane | not available |
| Svadba | Sokolovic | Laprise | Queen of Puddings Music Theatre |
| Sweat | Hulse | Hulse | not available |
| Sweeney Todd | Sondheim | Wheeler | Richard Barr |
| The Sailing of Nancy Belle | Davis | Davis | Syracuse University |
| The Sailor-Boy and the Falcon | Siskind | Steinberg | Crane School of Music, SUNY-Potsdam |
| The Saint of Bleecker Street | Menotti | Menotti | Broadway |
| The Sandman | Cabaniss | Langworthy and David Herskovits | Target Margin Theater |
| The Satin Cloak — A Chamber Opera in Two Acts | Halpern | Halpern | Operaworks |
| The Scarecrow | Turrin | Stambler | University of Texas at Austin |
| The Scarf | Hoiby | Duncan | Spoleto Festival, Italy |
| The Scarlet Letter | DiDomenica | Eglin | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Garwood | Garwood | Academy of Vocal Arts |
| The Scarlet Letter | Laitman | Mason | University of Central Arkansas |
| The Scarlet Princess | Louie | Hwang | Canadian Opera Company |
| The Scrimshaw Violin | Saylor | Levi | Nine Circles Chamber Theatre |
| The Seagull | Pasatieri | Elmslie | Houston Grand Opera |
| The Second Hurricane | Copland | Denby | Music School of the Henry Street Settlement |
| The Secret Agent | Dellaira | McClatchy | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| The Secret Cave | Lane | Lane | The Children's Opera Company of Ossining |
| The Seduction of a Lady | Wargo | Wargo | Lake George Opera Festival |
| The Servant of Two Masters | Giannini | Stambler | New York City Opera |
| The Shadow | Daniel | Poch-Goldin | Tapestry New Opera Works |
| The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep | Smith | MacKay | |
| The Shepherds' Christmas | Russo | Swan | Columbia College Theater/Music Department |
| The Shivaree | Beckwith | Reaney | |
| The Shoemakers' Holiday | Argento | Olon-Scrymgeour | The Minnesota Opera |
| The Shot | Skupinsky | Skupinsky | |
| The Shoulder | Schreier | Hurlin | Red Wing |
| The Sibyl | Persichetti | Persichetti | The Pennsylvania Opera Theater |
| The Silent Prince | Sucharitkul | Sucharitkul | Opera Vista |
| The Silver River | Sheng | Hwang | Santa Fe Opera |
| The Silver Tassie | Turnage | Holden | English National Opera |
| The Singing | Levy | Champagne | not available |
| The Singing Child | Menotti | Menotti | Spoleto Festival USA |
| The Snow Globe | Ewing | Ewing | Nashville Opera |
| The Snow Queen | Fine | Fine | not available |
| The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair | Floyd | Floyd | East Carolina Opera Workshop |
| The Song of Eddie | Faberman | Joffe | The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College |
| The Sound of a Voice | Glass | Hwang | American Repertory Theater |
| The Splendid Splinter | Silverman | Campbell | Music-Theatre Group |
| The Spurt of Blood | Toovey | Toovey | The Banff Centre for the Arts |
| The Spy | Lackey | Lackey | not available |
| The Stoned Guest | Bach; Edited by Peter Schickele | Bach | Carnegie Hall |
| The Story of Harriet Tubman | Musgrave | Musgrave | Mobile Opera Company |
| The Stranger's Tale | Tucker | Sheeley | Sorg Opera |
| The Stronger | Weisgall | Hart | with piano - Hilltop Opera Company; with orchestra - Composers Forum, Columbia University |
| The Student from Salamanca | Bach | Bach | New York City Opera |
| The Summer King | Sonenberg | Nester | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| The Sweet Bye and Bye | Beeson | Elmslie | Juilliard Opera Center |
| A Tale of the Roly Poly Pudding (Children's One-Act) | Griebling | Griebling | not available |
| A Tango for Monsieur Lautrec | Zulueta | Romano and Jean-Louis Bachellier | Opéra de Nancy |
| A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud (TRC) | Scearce | Scearce | Capitol Opera |
| Das Treffen in Teltge (Meeting at Teltge) | Mayer | Willaschek | Theater Dortmund |
| Tale for a Deaf Ear | Bucci | Bucci | Tanglewood Music Festival |
| Tales of Malamud | Blitzstein and Leonard Lehrman | | |
| Tamar | Ward-Steinman | Adams | Central City Opera |
| Taming of the Shrew | Giannini | Giannini and Dorothy Fee | Cincinnati |
| Tamu-Tamu (The Guests) | Menotti | Menotti | International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences |
| Tango | Rodriguez | Rodriguez | Voices of Change, The Chicago Ensemble and the 20th-Century Consort |
| Tania | Davis | La Chiusa | American Music Theater Festival |
| Tartuffe | Mechem | Mechem | American Opera Projects and San Francisco Opera |
| Tea: A Mirror of Soul | Dun | Ying | Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
| Tess | Harris | Harris | not available |
| Thanksgiving | Levi | Levi | Opera Theatre of Rochester |
| That Pig of a Molette | Shepard | Harnick | |
| The Tailor of Gloucester | Wilson | Telles | Cinnabar Theater |
| The Tale of Genji | Miki | Graham | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| The Telephone or l’Amour a Trois | Menotti | Menotti | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Adolphe | Adolphe | Greater Miami Opera |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Butts | Butts | In Mid Air Productions |
| The Tempest | Eaton | Porter | Santa Fe Opera |
| The Tempest | Hoiby | Shulgasser | Des Moines Metro Opera |
| The Tender Land | Copland | Everett | New York City Opera |
| The Tenor | Weisgall | Shapiro and Ernst Lert | |
| The Theory of Everything | Earnest | Rhodes | Encompass New Opera Theatre |
| The Thief of Love | Silver | Silver | Stony Brook Opera |
| The Three Fat Women of Antibes | Reese | Hassing | San Jose State University Opera Workshop |
| The Three Stories | Stringer | Stringer | First Unitarian Church of Albuquerque |
| The Thunder of Horses | Franklin | Albano | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| The Tibetan Book of the Dead | Gordon | van Itallie | Houston Opera Studio |
| The Tinker of Tivoli | Jacobsen | Jacobsen | Westminster Conservatory Youth Opera Workshop |
| The Toy Shop | Barab | Barab | |
| The Transposed Heads | Glanville-Hicks | Glanville-Hicks | |
| The Trial of Lucullus | Sessions | Hayes | |
| The Trial of Mary Lincoln | Pasatieri | Bailey | |
| The Triumph of Punch | Vernon | Harwig | |
| The Triumph of St. Joan | Joio | Joio | New York City Opera |
| The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz | Salzman | Vasilevski | International Opera Centrum |
| The Tyrant | Dresher | Lewis | Musical Traditions |
| Thérèse Raquin | Picker | Scheer | The Dallas Opera |
| This Is the Rill Speaking | Hoiby | Shulgasser | |
| Three Decembers | Heggie | Scheer | Houston Grand Opera |
| Three Sisters | Pasatieri | Elmslie | |
| Three Sisters Who are Not Sisters | Rorem | Stein | Temple University |
| Three, Two, One, Bang! | Chen | Chen | Long Leaf Opera and The ArtsCenter |
| Through Roses | Neikrug | Neikrug | South Bank Sumer Festival<br> National Theatre |
| Tight-Rope | Biscardi | Butler | University of Wisconsin-Madison Opera |
| Timberbrit | Cooper | Igarashi | Incubator Arts Project |
| Time and Again Barelas | Aguila | Aguila and Digby Wolfe | New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Chorus |
| Titus Andronicus | McAndrew | Shakespeare (ed. Ian McAndrew) | not available |
| To Scratch an Angel | Frankel | Frankel | not available |
| Tom Sawyer | Elkus | Elkus | |
| Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Sullivan | Sullivan | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Tony and the Wonderful Door | Opran | Opran | not available |
| Tony Beaver | Marais | Berton | |
| Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast | Salerni | Gioia | OperaWorks<br> CSU-Northridge<br> Southern California Opera Guild <br> Los Angeles Opera |
| Tornrak | Metcalf | Metcalf | |
| Transatlantic | Antheil | Antheil | Frankfurt, Germany |
| Transformations | Susa | Sexton | The Minnesota Opera |
| Transit of Venus | Davies | Hunter | Manitoba Opera Association |
| Travels | Bond | Goethe | Opera Roanoke |
| Treemonisha | Joplin | Joplin | Morehouse College and Atlanta Symphony |
| Trilogy of Poe (Three Choreo-Dramas) | Furgeri | Poe | Ryan Repertory Company |
| Trilogy — Three One-Acts from Ionesco Plays | Hatley | Ionesco | in negotiation |
| Trouble in Tahiti | Bernstein | Bernstein | Brandeis University |
| Trouble the Water | Rosen | Rosen | not available |
| Troubled Island | Grant Still | Hughes and Verna Arvey | City Center Opera Company (New York City Opera) |
| Tumbledown Dick, or The Taste of the Times | Larsen | Sutton | The Minnesota Opera Company |
| Twelfth Night | Amram | Papp | Lake George Opera Festival |
| Twilight Voices | Hoffman | LeFaive | Chaspen Opera Theater |
| Two Boys | Muhly | Lucas | English National Opera |
| Tyendinaga | Dusatko | Hill | Opera Ontario |
| The Ugly Duckling | Duncan | Malone | Nashville Opera |
| The Ugly Duckling | Wolf | Burgess | Southern California Conservatory of Music Young Musical Theater |
| The Unicorn in the Garden | Smith | Lonstreth | |
| The Unmusical Impresario | Davis | Davis
Kent Heddie Root | |
| Ulysses | Rudenstein | Joyce | The Players' Ring |
| Under the Double Moon | Davis | Atherton | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| Untitled | Blanchard | Cristofer | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| Untold Lies | Elhai | Payne | Nautilus Music-Theater |
| A Very Special Gift | Barab | Barab | |
| A View from the Bridge | Morris | Widney | Lake George Opera Festival |
| A View From the Bridge | Bolcom | Miller and Arnold Weinstein | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| A Visit to the Country | Wargo | Wargo | Greater Miami Opera |
| Le vampire et la nymphomane | Provost | Gauvreau | Chants Libres |
| The Veil | Rogers | Rogers | Indiana University |
| The Village Singer | Paulus | Browne | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| The Vinland Traveler | Burry | Burry | MUN Opera Roadshow |
| The Visitation | Schuller | Schuller | Hamburgische Staatsoper |
| The Visitors | Chávez | Kallman | |
| The Voice of Ariadne | Musgrave | Elguera | English Opera Group<br> Aldeburgh Festival |
| The Voyage | Glass | Hwang | Metropolitan Opera |
| The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe | Argento | Nolte | The Minnesota Opera |
| Van Gogh | Gordon | Gordon | Bang on a Can |
| Vanessa | Barber | Menotti | Metropolitan Opera |
| Vanity and the Goddess Sarasvati | Oesterle | Oesterle | Queen of Puddings Music Theatre |
| Vanity Fair | Kayden | Cavanagh | Orleans Arena Theatre |
| Vanqui | Burrs | Williams | Opera/Columbus |
| Vasya Whitefeet | Craton | Craton | not available |
| Venus in Africa | Antheil | Dyne | |
| Vera of Las Vegas | Hagen | Muldoon | Center for Contemporary Opera |
| Villon | Read | Leicht | The Minnesota Opera Company |
| Vincent | Rands | McClatchy | Indiana University Opera Theater (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) |
| Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera | Little | Vavrek | Bard College Conservatory |
| Virtual Motion — A One-Man "Hyper-Opera" | Rodwin | Rodwin | Sacred Fools Theatre |
| Voce di Diva | Waters | Gould | Opera Excelsior |
| Voices for a Mirror | Kupferman | Reid | |
| Voicing Emily | Hammond | Noonan | Malthouse Theatre |
| Volpone | Musto | Campbell | Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts |
| Volpone -- A Satire in Music | Antheil | Perry | |
| Voodoo on the Bayou | Chambers | Glass and Wendy Mae Chambers | not available |
| A Water Bird Talk | Argento | Argento | New Opera Theatre and Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| A Way Home | Greene | Keliher | |
| A Wedding | Bolcom | Weinstein and Robert Altman | Lyric Opera of Chicago |
| Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story | Hailstork | Gonzales | Cincinnati Opera |
| The Wage of Sin | Murray | Murray | Amarillo Opera, Inc. |
| The Walled-Up Wife | Lyons | Lyons | American Opera Projects, Inc. |
| The Warrior | Rogers | Corwin | The Metropolitan Opera |
| The Wedding | Wilson | Reid | Cinnabar Theater |
| The Whitechapel Whirlwind | Fredrics | Weinstein | not available |
| The Widow's Lantern | Ott | Ott | Pensacola Opera |
| The Wild Boy | Epstein | Epstein | not available |
| The Wings of Daedalus | Squillante | Squillante and David Haughton | Associazione Italiana Opera Lirica Contemporanea |
| The Wings of the Dove | Moore | Ayer | New York City Opera |
| The Wish | Antheil | Antheil | |
| The Wish | Skupinsky | Skupinsky | |
| The Wish | Antheil | Ian | |
| The Wives of the Magi — An Ecumenical Play with Music for December | Traditional music | Shank and Adele Edling Shank | not available |
| The Wolf by the Ears | Wilson | Lennon
Dana Wilson | Ithaca College |
| The Women | Pasatieri | Pasatieri | Aspen Festival, Colorado |
| The Women in the Garden | Fine | Fine | San Francisco Conservatory |
| The Wooden Sword | Silver | Kitsakos | Stony Brook Univsersity |
| The Woodlanders | Paulus | Graham | Opera Theatre of Saint Louis |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | Glass | Hampton | Theater Erfurt |
| Wake for Don Corsinio | Stringer | Stringer | Albuquerque First Unitarian Church |
| Wakonda's Dream | Davis | Komunyakaa | Opera Omaha |
| Warning! — Explicit Material | Rodwin | Rodwin | not available |
| Washington Square | Pasatieri | Elmslie | Michigan Opera Theatre |
| We Are Sons | Rojahn | Rojahn | Guerilla Opera |
| Welfare — The Opera | Picket | Picket | New York City Opera |
| What Next? | Carter | Griffiths | Staatsoper Unter den Linden |
| What Price Confidence? | Krenek | Krenek | Saa |