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Center for Contemporary Opera
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MISSION STATEMENT

The Center for Contemporary Opera was founded in November, 1982 by Richard Marshall and Robert Ward, and is the oldest company in the world devoted solely to contemporary opera.

The mission of the Center for Contemporary Opera is to:

  • Produce and develop new opera and music-theater works.
  • Revive rarely seen American operas written after the Second World War.
  • Promote an interest in new operatic and music-theater culture among the public.
  • Produce contemporary opera outside of our borders.

Statement of Need

Contemporary opera is a seldom performed genre. When it does receive attention, this usually takes the form of new operas produced from familiar composers. Moreover, even heralded new works with substantial initial interest often dissipate into masses and rarely secures a place in a company’s repertory. This was the case of A Death in the Family, premiered by the Minnesota Opera Company in 1983. Despite the National Institute for Music Theater naming it the best new opera of the year, and an Opera News’ review demanding “William Mayer’s three-act A Death in the Family, should immediately become a candidate for regular airings around the country…,” there were very few subsequent productions by other opera companies until CCO staged a production in 2012.

CCO represents artists from all along the spectrum, from America’s most well-known composers, to emerging artists, to composers from historically underrepresented groups.


Production Listings (Click column headers to sort) + Expand Filters
TITLECOMPOSERLIBRETTISTSTARTEND
We the Innumerable Niloufar Nourbakhsh Lisa Flanagan10/21/202210/21/2022
Artemisia Laura Schwendinger Ginger Strand11/3/201811/3/2018
Backwards from Winter Douglas Knehans Juanita Rockwell5/25/20185/25/2018
The Sorrows of Frederick Scott Wheeler Romulus Linney5/18/20185/18/2018
To Be Sung Pascal Dusapin 5/17/20185/19/2018
The Canterville Ghost Gordon Getty Gordon Getty10/19/201710/21/2017
Usher House Gordon Getty Gordon Getty10/19/201710/21/2017
Heloise and Abelard John Austin Christine Froula11/24/201511/24/2015
Bobby Chandler Carter Stephen Molton5/17/20155/17/2015
Falling Angel J. Mark Scearce Lucy Thurber5/15/20155/15/2015
Secret Agent Michael Dellaira J.D. McClatchy3/3/201010/22/2010
Clarence and Anita Ben Yarmolinsky Ben Yarmolinsky10/28/200810/29/2008
Alice in Wonderland Peter Westergaard Peter Westergaard6/4/20086/4/2008
Mario and the Magician Francis Thorne J.D. McClatchy4/1/20054/30/2005
Summer Stephen Paulus Edith Wharton, Joan Vail Thorne6/6/20026/20/2002
Kafka: Letter to My Father Stanley Walden Stanley Walden6/6/20006/29/2000
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