A number of other possibilities:
By better-known composers:
Rimsky-Korsakov: MOZART AND SALIERI, BOYARINA VERA SHELOGA, THE BARBER OF
BAGHDAD, KATSCHEI THE IMMORTAL
Maxwell Davies: THE MEDIUM, RESURRECTION
Walton: THE BEAR
Menotti: THE ISLAND GOD, THE TELEPHONE, THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF, AMAHL
AND THE NIGHT VISITORS, AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL, THE SINGING CHILD
Michael Nyman: THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT
Hoiby: THE SCARF, SOMETHING NEW FOR THE ZOO, THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
Shostakovich: THE GAMBLERS
Janacek: THE EXCURSIONS OF MR BROUCEK TO THE MOON
Donizetti: BETLY, LA ROMAZESCA E L'UOMO NERO, THE BELL, RITA, PIQUANT
NIGHTMARES OF THEATRICAL LIFE OR VIVA LA MAMMA
Viktor Ullman: DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS
Korngold: VIOLANTA, DER RING DES POLYKRATES
Gershwin: BLUE MONDAY
Randall Thompson: SIMON AND BALKIS
Holst: SAVITRI
Rossini: LA SCALA DI SETA, L'OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO, IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO,
LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO
Adolphe Adam: PIERRE ET CATHERINE
Rachmaninoff: ALEKO
De Falla: EL RETABLO DE MAESE PEDRO
PDQ Bach: THE STONED GUEST
Bernstein: TROUBLE IN TAHITI, A QUIET PLACE
Puccini: GIANNI SCHICCHI, IL TABARRO, SUOR ANGELICA, LE VILLI
Massenet: THERESE, LA NAVARRAISE, LA GRAND' TANTE
Handel: CLORI TIRSI E FILENO
Bright Sheng: THE SONG OF MAJNUN
Mozart: THE IMPRESARIO, BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE
Bizet: DJAMILEH, LE DOCTEUR MIRACLE
Eugen d'Albert: DIE TOTEN AUGEN (could be interesting on a double bill
with Tchaikovsky's IOLANTA)
Hindemith: THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER
Mascagni: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Schubert: DER VERSCHWORENEN
Rousseau: LE DEVIN AU VILLAGE
Bartok: DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE
Carlisle Floyd: THE SOJOURNER AND MOLLIE SINCLAIR, SLOW DUSK
Lukas Foss: THE JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, INTRODUCTIONS AND
GOODBYES
Victor Herbert: MADELEINE
Douglas Moore: THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER, GALLANTRY
R. Strauss: ELEKTRA, SALOME, ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, DAPHNE, FEUERSNOT (one of
those words that makes you wonder about the German language)
Harbison: FULL MOON IN MARCH
Argento: A WATER BIRD TALK, MISS HAVISHAM'S WEDDING NIGHT, THE BOOR (same
story as Walton's THE BEAR), POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO
Jacopo Peri: EURIDICE
Jack Beeson: DR. HEIDEGGER'S FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, HELLO OUT THERE
Robert Ward: ROMAN FEVER
Rorem: BERTHA
Pasatieri: THE WOMEN, LA DIVINA, PADREVIA, CALVARY, SIGNOR DELUSO
Amy Beach: CABILDO
Dello Joio: THE RUBY
Chabrier: UNE EDUCATION MANQUEE
Haydn: THE BUDDING SOPRANO
Pergolesi: LA SERVA PADRONA
Wolf-Ferrari: IL SEGRETO DI SUSANNA
von Weber: ABU HASSAN
von Suppe: DIE SCHOENE GALATEA
Britten: THE PRODIGAL SON, THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE, CURLEW RIVER
Seymour Barab: LA PIZZA CON FUNGHI
William Schuman: THE MIGHTY CASEY, A QUESTION OF TASTE
Weisgall: THE STRONGER
George Antheil: THE BROTHERS, VENUS IN AFRICA, THE WISH
John Eaton: THE CRY OF CLYTAEMNESTRA, MA BARKER, MYSHKIN
Hans Werner Henze: VENUS AND ADONIS, THE BASSARIDS
Birtwistle: PUNCH AND JUDY
Dallapiccola: IL PRIGIONIERO
Thea Musgrave: AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Vaughn Williams: RIDERS TO THE SEA, THE SHEPHERDS OF THE DELECTABLE
MOUNTAINS
Libby Larsen: A WRINKLE IN TIME
Kurt Weill: DER PROTAGONIST, DER ZAR LAESST SIXH PHOTOGRAPHIEREN, ROYAL
PALACE
Blitzstein/Lehrmann: THE HARPIES, IDIOTS FIRST, KARLA, SUPPOSE A WEDDING
Clemens von Franckenstein: RAHAB
Mollicone: THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR, EMPEROR NORTON, STARBIRD, THE
MASK OF EVIL
Gilbert & Sullivan: TRIAL BY JURY
Tchaikovsky: IOLANTA
Martinu: TEARS OF THE KNIFE
Poulenc: LA VOIX HUMAINE, LES MAMELLES DE TERESIAS
Lennox Berkeley: THE DINNER PARTY (aka A DINNER ENGAGEMENT)
Franz Schreker: FLAMMEN
Zemlinsky: EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGOEDIE
Ravel: L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES, L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE
Liszt: DON SANCHE
Rameau: ACTEON
I should think you'd be able to find at least some of these scores in your
library.
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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