Featured Repertoire

Great American Voices performances will feature excerpts from some of opera and musical theater's most beloved repertoire. These works are frequently performed in opera houses and theaters around the country and represent a wide range of musical styles. Below each listing, you will find links to online information on each opera, including written articles, and in many cases, audio clips.

Samuel Barber
Vanessa
http://www.operapaedia.org/Opera.aspx?article=1177&id=4022

Leonard Bernstein
Candide [article]
West Side Story [article]

Georges Bizet
Carmen
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist.html#carmen

Aaron Copland
The Tender Land
http://www.operaworld.com/special/tender.shtml

Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist3.html#lucia

Carlisle Floyd
Susannah
http://www.operaworld.com/special/floyd1.shtml

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess [Synopsis/Biography/Operatic Gershwin]
http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/gershwin/porgy&bess.html

Charles Gounod
Faust
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist4.html#faust

Douglas Stewart Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe [Synopsis/Douglas Moore/All American Arias]
http://www.babydoe.org/opera.htm

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist3.html#cosi
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist2.html#flute
Don Giovanni
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist2.html#don
Le nozze di Figaro(The Marriage of Figaro) http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist2.html#marriage

Giacomo Puccini
La bohème
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist.html#boheme
Madama Butterfly
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist.html#butterfly
Tosca
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist2.html#tosca
Turandot
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist3.html#turan

Richard Rodgers
The King and I [article]
Oklahoma! [article]
The Sound of Music [article]
South Pacific [article]

Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist.html#barber

Stephen Sondheim
Sweeney Todd [Synopsis/Stephen Sondheim/Blood Will Tell/A Bloody Good Show]

Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist4.html#maus

Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier
http://archive.operainfo.org/broadcast/operaMain.cgi?id=68&language=1

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist4.html#aida
Il trovatore (The Troubador)
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist4.html#iltrov
La traviata
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist.html#traviata
Rigoletto
http://operaworld.com/cornerstones/operalist2.html#rigoletto

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