List of radio operas

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This is a list of operas specifically written for radio performance.

Broadcast premiereCom­posedComposerOpera titleLibrettist and/or source(s)Radio station
British Broadcasting Company
WERAG
Berlin
British Broadcasting Corporation
NBC
1932 Bayerischer Rundfunk
Czech Radio
Radio Bern
CBS Radio
Czech Radio
after the novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson Columbia Broadcasting Company
CBS Radio
1928 RTF
NBC
CBS Radio
after The Butterfly that Stamped by Rudyard Kipling CBS
British Broadcasting Corporation
Radio Lausanne
RTF
1944–48after stories by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Charles De Coster. RAI
RTF
D'un diable de briquetBelgian radio
RAI
RAI
Magyar Rádió
1950 RAI
after Franz Kafka Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
BBC Third Programme
Belgian radio
WDR
RAI
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Belgian radio
Florence
Hessischer Rundfunk
BBC Third Programme
BBC
Radio France
Radio France
Radio France
Radio France
Johannesburg
1956 Swedish Radio
1956After Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DDR 1)
Polish Radio
RAI
1959 Eugène Ionesco Radio France
1957Ph. Soupault after H. C. Andersen' "The Little Mermaid" Radio France
after Lewis Carroll and also his Alice in Wonderland RAI
Swedish Radio
C'est la guerreHungarian Broadcasting Corporation
RAI
BBC
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
DR (broadcaster)
RAI
1970–71after Genesis, Saint John, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Frank, etc. Polish Radio
after a poem by Bolesław Leśmian Polish Radio
Jaro je tu (Spring Is Here) (1975)
after poems by Mahadevi Varma, translated by A. K. Ramanujan, Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr. and Anthony Gilbert BBC
1976–77after Revelation Polish Radio
Jak přišel podzim (When Autumn Came)
Historien om Jonas (The story of Jonah) DR
1986The Story of Mary O'Neill BBC
Rai Radio 3
RAI
Eesti Raadio
WNYC
BBC Radio 3

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  11. 1 2 3 Cosma, Viorel: Mihalovici, Marcel, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 386.
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  31. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tailleferre catalogue at Gérard Billaudot Editeur, December 1996
  32. 1 2 Andres Wiklund: Bäck, Sven-Erik, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 272.
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  36. Niccolò Castiglioni: biography at Allmusic
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  38. Janos Kárpáti: Petrovics, Emil, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 988
  39. Raymond Fearn: Maderna, Bruno, in Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 140–141.
  40. Hugo Cole: Humphrey Searle, in Sadie, vol. 4, p. 281.
  41. Breitkopf & Härtel Catalogue, Nr. 2313
  42. Jens Brincker: Lorentzen, Bent, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 45.
  43. 1 2 Adrian Thomas: Matuszczak, Bernadetta, in Sadie, Vol. 3, p. 273
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  45. 1 2 3 Otomar Kvěch: List of Works
  46. Hugo Cole: Gilbert, Anthony, in Sadie, vol 2, pp. 413–414.
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  48. Christopher Wintle: LeFanu, Nicola, in Sadie, vol. 2, p. 1122.
  49. 1 2 Castagnoli, Giulio at Operone.de
  50. FIMIC (Finnish Music Information Centre): Jüri Reinvere: The Opposite Shore
  51. WNYC: Spinning on Air, Amy Kohn's radio opera 1 Plum Sq.
  52. BBC Radio 3: World premiere of The Wandering Jew, 9 July, 2010

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