List of television operas

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This is a list of operas specifically composed and produced for television performance. It does not include productions of the established opera repertoire subsequently broadcast on television.

Contents

Year of premiereCom­posedComposerOpera titleLibrettist and/or source(s)Television station
1938Cinderella [1] BBC Television
1947 BBC Television
1951 Amahl and the Night Visitors NBC
1952 BBC (rejected) [2]
1953 NBC
1953 NBC
1954 CBS
1955 Griffelkin NBC
1955Christmas SlippersWinnipeg [3]
1956 NBC
1956 NBC
1956 BBC Television [4]
1956 BBC Television [5]
1957Blind Raftery [6] BBC Television
1957 NBC
1959 BBC Television
1959Joe Mendoza, after Frank Baker, Miss Hargreaves BBC Television
1959 Maria Golovin NBC
1959Beatrice WAVE
1959Sarah CBS
1959Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) Schweizer Fernsehen
1959Salto mortale Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1959Passkontrolle ORF
1960Tobias and the Angel BBC Television [8]
1961Deseret NBC
1961 RTF
1962 CBS
1962Dark Pilgrimage BBC Television
1962 BBC Television
1962Battono alla porta RAI
1963 CBC Television
1963 Labyrinth NBC
1963 NCE
1963 Alceste Euripides Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1964Mainz, ZDF
1965 ABC
1965 National Educational Television
1965 BBC Television
1965 Martin's Lie CBS
1966Loving CBC Television
1967 CBS Television
1967Holländaren (The Dutchman)after August Strindberg Sveriges Television
1967Some Place of Darkness [12] BBC Television
1968 Giuseppe Berto's La fantarca  [ it ] (1965) RAI
1968After the novel by Alun Owen BBC Television
1969 BBC Television
1969 TvR
1970My Heart's in the Highlands PBS
1971 Mainz, ZDF
19711969–70 Owen Wingrave BBC Two
1971And David Wept CBS Television [15] [16]
1973Myshkin [17] PBS
1976 HTV
1976 CBC Television
1976Aberfan [19] CBC Television
1977Orpheus in the Underworld [20] BBC Television
1978A Christmas Carol [21] HTV
1979 BBC Television
1982Quiros [23] ABC Television
1984 Perfect Lives Channel Four
1990Reverend Everyman WFSU-TV [24]
1991 Letters, Riddles and Writs BBC Television
1993Horse Opera [25] Channel Four
1993Camera [26] Channel Four
19941991–92 Channel Four
19941992 Channel Four
19951993 Channel Four
1995 Channel Four
2005 Armida Channel Four
2006 Man on the Moon Channel Four
2006Burnt Toast: 8 Mini Comic Operas About Love CBC Television
2015 ABC TV (Australia)

See also

References

  1. Wyver, John. "A tale of six Cinders, part 2: Cinderella (BBC, 1938, 1948, 1950)", Screen Plays, 12 January 2012
  2. Alberge, Dalya. "Malcolm Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold", The Guardian , 11 October 2012
  3. Margaret Ross Griffel (2012). Operas in English: A Dictionary , p. 91
  4. 1 February 1956, Radio Times , issue 1681, 29 January 1956
  5. 14 December 1956 Radio Times , issue 1726, 9 December 1956
  6. Blind Raftery, Radio Times , issue 1749, 21 May 1957, pp. 6, 17
  7. Radio Times, 14 June, 1959, p. 13
  8. 19 May 1960, Radio Times , 15 May 1960
  9. BBC Arts
  10. The New York Times, 12 April, 1965
  11. Radio Times, Issue 2168, 29 May, 1965
  12. Christopher Whelen. "Thoughts on Television Opera", in Composer 24 (1967), p. 17
  13. Spence, Keith (1968). "Television". The Musical Times . 109 (1505): 656. doi:10.2307/952713. JSTOR   952713.
  14. 4 April 1969, Radio Times , issue 2368, 29 March 1969, p. 71
  15. And David Wept at IMDb   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  16. "Ezra Laderman", Milken Archive of Jewish Music
  17. Wise Music
  18. British Film Institute
  19. Dzeguze, K. 'Situation tragedy', in Maclean's, 31 October, 1977
  20. 5 June 1977, Radio Times , issue 2795, 4 June 1977, p. 29
  21. "Norman Kay obituary". The Guardian . 30 May 2001. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  22. Radio Times Issue 2924, 24th November 1979
  23. Quiros : opera, Australian Music Centre
  24. Griffel, M. R., Operas in English: A Dictionary (2012), p. 413
  25. The Independent, 6 October, 1993
  26. 1 2 The Independent, 14 February, 1994
  27. Michaeltorke.com
  28. Mike Westbrook website

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