List of television operas

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

Year of premiereComposedComposerOpera titleLibrettist and/or source(s)Television station
1938 Spike Hughes Cinderella[1] Spike HughesBBC Television
1947 Spike Hughes St Patrick's Day Richard Brinsley SheridanBBC Television
1951 Gian Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1952 Malcolm Arnold The Dancing Master Joe Mendoza, based on the play by William WycherleyBBC (rejected)[2]
1953 Bohuslav Martinů The Marriage Bohuslav MartinůNBC
1953 Bohuslav Martinů What Men Live By Bohuslav MartinůNBC
1954 Bernard Herrmann A Christmas Carol Maxwell Anderson after Charles DickensCBS
1955 Lukas Foss Griffelkin Alastair ReidNBC
1955 Walter Kaufmann Christmas Slippers Betty MarshWinnipeg[3]
1956 Norman Dello Joio The Trial at Rouen Norman Dello JoioNBC
1956 Leonard Kastle The Swing Leonard KastleNBC
1956 Arthur Benjamin Mañana Caryl BrahmsBBC Television[4]
1956 Malcolm Arnold The Open Window Sidney GilliatBBC Television[5]
1957 Joan Trimble Blind Raftery[6] Cedric Cliffe, based on the novel by Donn-ByrneBBC Television
1957 Stanley Hollingsworth La Grande Bretèche Stanley HollingsworthNBC
1959 Richard Arnell The Petrified Princess Richard ArnellBBC Television
1959 Guy Halahan The Spur of the Moment Guy HalahanBBC Television
1959 Gian Carlo Menotti Maria Golovin Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1959 Lee Hoiby Beatrice Marci NardiWAVE
1959 Ezra Laderman Sarah Clair RascomCBS
1959 Heinrich Sutermeister Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) Heinrich Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and PantagruelSchweizer Fernsehen
1959 Henk Badings Salto mortale Henk Badings and Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers)Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1959 Paul Angerer PasskontrolleORF
1960 Arthur Bliss Tobias and the Angel Christopher HassallBBC Television[7]
1961 Leonard Kastle Deseret Anne Howard BaileyNBC
1961 Jean Prodromidès Les Perses (The Persians) Jean Prat, after AeschylusRTF
1962 Igor Stravinsky The Flood Robert CraftCBS
1962 Phyllis Tate Dark Pilgrimage Phyllis TateBBC Television
1962 Edwin Coleman A Christmas Carol Margaret Burns HarrisBBC Television
1962 Riccardo Malipiero Battono alla porta Dino BuzzatiRAI
1963 Ben McPeek The Bargain Ben McPeekCBC Television
1963 Gian Carlo Menotti Labyrinth Gian Carlo MenottiNBC
1963 Carlisle Floyd The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair Carlisle FloydNCE
1963 Ton de Leeuw AlcesteEuripidesNederlandse Omroep Stichting
1964 Heinrich Sutermeister Das Gespenst von Canterville Heinrich Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville GhostMainz, ZDF
1965 Mark Bucci The Hero Mark BucciNational Educational Television
1965 Carl Davis The Arrangement Leo LehmanBBC Television
1965 Gian Carlo Menotti Martin's Lie Gian Carlo MenottiCBS
1966 R. Murray Schafer Loving R. Murray SchaferCBC Television
1967 Ezra Laderman The Trials of Galileo Joe DarionCBS Television
1967 Ingvar Lidholm Holländaren (The Dutchman)after August StrindbergSveriges Television
1967 Roman Vlad La fantarcaGiuseppe BertoRAI
1967 Christopher Whelen Some Place of Darkness[8] John HopkinsBBC Television
1969 Thomas Eastwood The Rebel[9] Ronald DuncanBBC Television
1969 Heinrich Sutermeister La croisade des enfants (The Children's Crusade) Heinrich Sutermeister, after Marcel SchwobSion Sierre, TVR
1970 Jack Beeson My Heart's in the Highlands Jack BeesonPBS
1971 Heinrich SutermeisterDas Flaschenteufel Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle ImpMainz, ZDF
19711969-70 Benjamin Britten Owen Wingrave Myfanwy Piper, after Henry JamesBBC Two
1971 Ezra Laderman And David Wept Joe Darion, after the Biblical story of David and BathshebaCBS Television

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1973 John Eaton Myshkin Patrick Creagh after Dostoevsky's The Idiot PBS
1976 Godfrey Ridout The Lost Child John ReidCBC Television
1976 Raymond Pannell Aberfan Beverly PannellCBC Television
1977 Carl Davis Orpheus in the Underworld[12] John WellsBBC Television
1984 Robert Ashley Perfect Lives Robert AshleyChannel Four
1991 Michael Nyman Letters, Riddles and Writs Jeremy Newson and Pat GavinBBC Television
19941991-2 Gerald Barry The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit Meredith OakesChannel Four
2005 Judith Weir Armida Judith WeirChannel Four
2006 Jonathan Dove Man on the Moon Nicholas WrightChannel Four
2006 Alexina Louie Burnt Toast: 8 Mini Comic Operas About Love Dan RedicanCBC Television

References
  1. Wyver, John. 'A tale of six Cinders, part 2: Cinderella (BBC, 1938, 1948, 1950)' in Screen Play, 12 January 2012
  2. Alberge, Dalya. 'Malcolm Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold', in The Guardian, 11 October 2012
  3. Margaret Ross Griffel (2012). Operas in English: A Dictionary, p 91
  4. BBC Genome
  5. BBC Genome
  6. Radio Times Issue 1749, 19 May 1957, p 6, 17
  7. BBC Genome
  8. The Guardian, 28 March 2006
  9. Radio Times, Issue 2368, 27 March 1969, p 71
  10. IMDb
  11. Milken Archive of Jewish Music
  12. Radio Times, Issue 2795, 2 June 1977, p 29

Sources
  • Jennifer Barnes (2003). Television Opera. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9780851159126.
  • Marcia Citron (2000). Opera on Screen. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  • Lionel Salter: Television, History, in Sadie, Stanley (ed) (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link), vol. 4, p. 680.
  • Stephen C. Willis. "Opera composition". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  • 'Television's audience for opera', in The Guardian, 8 December 1966, p 8.
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