List of operas performed by the Santa Fe Opera

The Santa Fe Opera company is internationally known for introducing new and innovative operas as well as for its productions of works from the standard operatic repertoire. Its first season began on 3 July 1957.

1957
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* The Tower (Marvin David Levy) World premiere
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Serva Padrona (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)
* Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)

1958
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini)
* Capriccio (Richard Strauss), US premiere
* Wuthering Heights (Carlisle Floyd) Commissioned for world premiere
* Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)

1959
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* Regina (Marc Blitzstein)
* Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti)
* The Abduction from the Seraglio (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)

1960
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini)
* Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinsky)
* The Gondoliers (Arthur Sullivan)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)

1961
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinsky)
* Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
* Perséphone (Igor Stravinsky), US premiere
* News of the Day (Paul Hindemith) US Premiere
* The Ballad of Baby Doe (Douglas Moore)

1962
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* Oedipus Rex (Igor Stravinsky)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Perséphone (Igor Stravinsky)
* Mavra (Igor Stravinsky)
* Renard (Igor Stravinsky)
* Le Rossignol (Igor Stravinsky)
* Joan of Arc at the Stake (Arthur Honegger)

1963
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
* Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
* Le Rossignol (Igor Stravinsky)
* Joan of Arc at the Stake (Arthur Honegger)
* Lulu (Alban Berg), Acts I and II, US premiere
* L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Maurice Ravel)

1964
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* Lulu (Alban Berg), Acts I and II
* L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Maurice Ravel)
* Daphne (Richard Strauss), US premiere
* Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)

1965
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* The Nose (Dmitri Shostakovich), US premiere
* Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)
* The Stag King (Hans Werner Henze), US premiere
* Arabella (Richard Strauss)

1966
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
* Capriccio (Richard Strauss)
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini)
* Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Wozzeck (Alban Berg)
* Dialogues of the Carmelites (Francis Poulenc)

1967
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* Boulevard Solitude (Hans Werner Henze), US premiere
* Cardillac (Paul Hindemith), US premiere

1968
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
* Perséphone (Igor Stravinsky)
* Die Jakobsleiter (Arnold Schoenberg), US premiere
* The Bassarids (Hans Werner Henze), US premiere
* ' (Gaetano Donizetti)

1969
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* Le Rossignol (Igor Stravinsky)
* The Devils of Loudun (Krzysztof Penderecki), US premiere
* Help, Help, The Globolinks (Gian Carlo Menotti), US premiere

1970
* Help, Help, The Globolinks (Gian Carlo Menotti)
* Opera (Luciano Berio) Commissioned for world premiere
* Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
* Le rossignol (Igor Stravinsky)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)

1971
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Don Carlos (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Yerma (Heitor Villa-Lobos), World premiere
* The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner)
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)

1972
* La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)
* Pelléas et Mélisande (Claude Debussy)
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* Melusine (Aribert Reimann), US premiere
* Salome (Richard Strauss)

1973
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner)
* The Merry Widow (Franz Lehár)
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Maurice Ravel)
* Le rossignol (Igor Stravinsky)
* Owen Wingrave (Benjamin Britten), US premiere

1974
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* Lulu (Alban Berg), Acts I and II
* L'Egisto (Pier Francesco Cavalli), US premiere

1975
* L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (Maurice Ravel)
* Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
* The Cunning Little Vixen (), US premiere
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* La Vida Breve (Manuel de Falla)
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)

1976
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* L'Egisto (Pier Francesco Cavalli)
* The Mother of Us All (Virgil Thomson)

1977
* Pelléas et Mélisande (Claude Debussy)
* Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Italian Straw Hat (Nino Rota), US premiere
* Fedora (Umberto Giordano)

1978
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* The Duchess of Malfi (Stephen Oliver), US premiere
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* ' (Gioachino Rossini)
* Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)

1979
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* Lulu (Alban Berg), Acts I, II and III', , US premiere for Act III
* Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)

1980
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Erwartung (Arnold Schoenberg)
* Die Jakobsleiter (Arnold Schoenberg)
* Von Heute auf Morgen (Arnold Schoenberg), US Premiere
* Elektra (Richard Strauss)
* Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)

1981
* News of the Day (Paul Hindemith)
* La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* Daphne (Richard Strauss)
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)

1982
* Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)
* The Confidence Man (George Rochberg) Commissioned for world premiere
* Die Liebe der Danae (Richard Strauss), US premiere
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss)

1983
* L'Orione (Pier Francesco Cavalli), US premiere
* The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
* Don Pasquale (Gaetano Donizetti)
* Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach)
* Arabella (Richard Strauss)

1984
* We Come to the River (Hans Werner Henze), US premiere
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Violanta (Erich Korngold)
* Intermezzo (Richard Strauss), US premiere
* A Florentine Tragedy (Alexander von Zemlinsky), US premiere
* Il matrimonio segreto (Domenico Cimarosa)

1985
* Die Liebe der Danae (Richard Strauss)
* Orpheus in the Underworld (Jacques Offenbach)
* The Tempest (John Eaton) Commissioned for world premiere
* The English Cat (Hans Werner Henze), US premiere
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)

1986
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
* The King Goes Forth to France (Aulis Sallinen)
* The Egyptian Helen (Richard Strauss)
* L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Claudio Monteverdi)

1987
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Nose (Dmitri Shostakovich)
* Die schweigsame Frau (Richard Strauss)
* Ariodante (George Handel)

1988
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Black Mask (Krzysztof Penderecki), US Premiere
* Feuersnot (Richard Strauss)
* Friedenstag (Richard Strauss), US Premiere
* The Flying Dutchman (Richard Wagner)

1989
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* La Calisto (Pier Francesco Cavalli)
* Chérubin (Jules Massenet)
* Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
* A Night at the Chinese Opera (Judith Weir), US premiere

1990
* Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
* Orfeo ed Euridice (Christoph Gluck)
* Judith (Siegfried Matthus), US premiere
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)

1991
* ' (Wolfgang Rihm), US premiere
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Die schweigsame Frau (Richard Strauss)

1992
* Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
* Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
* The Sorrows of Young Werther (Hans-Jürgen von Bose)
* The Beggar's Opera (John Gay)
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)

1993
* Capriccio (Richard Strauss)
* The Protagonist (Kurt Weill)
* The Tsar Has His Picture Taken (Kurt Weill)
* Xerxes (George Handel)
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini)

1994
* Blond Eckbert (Judith Weir)
* The Abduction from the Seraglio (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* Intermezzo (Richard Strauss)

1995
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* Countess Maritza (Emmerich Kalman)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Modern Painters (David Lang) Commissioned for world premiere
* La Fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)

1996
* The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Emmeline (Tobias Picker) Commissioned for world premiere
* Daphne (Richard Strauss)
* (Benjamin Britten)

1997
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Semele (George Handel)
* Ashoka's Dream (Peter Lieberson) Commissioned for world premiere
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Arabella (Richard Strauss)

1998
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* A Dream Play (Ingvar Lidholm), US Premiere
* Béatrice et Bénédict (Hector Berlioz)
* Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)

1999
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* Idomeneo (Wolfgang Mozart)
* (Benjamin Britten)
* Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
* Dialogues of the Carmelites (Francis Poulenc)

2000
* Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Ermione (Gioacchino Rossini)
* Venus und Adonis (Hans Werner Henze), US Premiere
* Elektra (Richard Strauss)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Beggar's Opera (John Gay) Fall Showcase production

2001
* Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)
* Mitridate (Wolfgang Mozart)
* The Egyptian Helen (Richard Strauss)
* Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Wozzeck (Alban Berg)
* H.M.S. Pinafore (Arthur Sullivan) Fall Showcase production

2002
* Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
* La clemenza di Tito (Wolfgang Mozart)
* L’amour de loin (Kaija Saariaho), US premiere
* ' (Gioachino Rossini)
* La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Pirates of Penzance (Arthur Sullivan) Fall Showcase production

2003
* La belle Hélène (Jacques Offenbach)
* Cosi fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Intermezzo (Richard Strauss)
* Madame Mao (Bright Sheng) Commissioned for world premiere
* Katya Kabanova ()

2004
* Simon Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi)
* Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Béatrice et Bénédict (Hector Berlioz)
* Agrippina (George Handel)
* La sonnambula (Vincenzo Bellini)

2005
* Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)
* The Barber of Seville (Gioacchino Rossini)
* Lucio Silla (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
* Ainadamar (Osvaldo Golijov)

2006
* Carmen (Georges Bizet)
* The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Cinderella (Jules Massenet)
* Salome (Richard Strauss)
* The Tempest (Thomas Adès), US premiere

2007
* La bohème (Giacomo Puccini)
* Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Platée (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
* Daphne (Richard Strauss)
* Tea: A Mirror of Soul (Tan Dun), US premiere

2008 - Announced program
* Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
* The Marriage of Figaro (Wolfgang Mozart)
* Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
* Radamisto (George Frederick Handel)
* Adriana Mater (Kaija Saariaho), US premiere

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