Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman.
With music by Richard Auldon Clark and a libretto by the writer himself, the opera premieres on September 16 during Indiana's bicentennial celebrations.
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
"Abstract Opera No. 1", with music by Boris Blacher and a libretto based on an idea (by composer Werner Egk), "Hin und Zuruck" ("There and Back"), a sketch by Hindemith.
First up is the opera "Dog Days," a postapocalyptic saga composed by David T. Little with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.
This is Macbeth, composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and premièred in Florence in 1847.
Next year brings this major commission composed by Douglas J. Cuomo, with a libretto by John Patrick Shanley, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
But Universal said "Animal House: The Musical" would feature a score by the band Barenaked Ladies and a libretto by Michael Mitnick.
"Brundibar" is a children's opera, written in 1938 by the Czech composer Hans Krása, with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, a Czech writer and critic.
The work will have a libretto by Christian Struppeck, the general artistic director of the Raimund and Ronacher Theaters in Vienna.
