Dayton Opera takes great pride in its tradition of presenting the finest in opera.

Mark Adamo
Little Women – 2005

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio – 2011

Vincenzo Bellini
Norma – 1992

Leonard Bernstein
Candide – 1991, 2002

Alain Boublil/ Claude-Michel Schönberg
Les Misérables – 2000 (tour)

Georges Bizet
Carmen – 1966, 1974, 1979, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2005
The Pearl Fishers – 1991

Peter Brook
The Tragedy of Carmen – 2012

Gaetano Donizetti
The Daughter of the Regiment – 1975, 2011
Don Pasquale – 1978, 1994
The Elixir of Love – 1998, 2009
Lucia di Lammermoor – 1962, 1965, 1970, 1977, 1982, 2000

Carlisle Floyd
Susannah – 1995

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess – 1982 (co-production), 2001 (tour), 2010

Charles Gounod
Faust – 1962, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1998, 2010
Romeo and Juliette – 1978, 1987, 1997, 2012

Adolphus Hailstork
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common Ground – 1995

Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel – 1989, 1998

Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow – 1985, 1995, 2009

Ruggero Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci – 1965, 1975, 1985, 2002

Frederick Loewe
My Fair Lady – 1986

Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana – 1965, 2002

Jules Massenet
Manon – 1967, 1973

Gian Carlo Menotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors – 1993

Douglas Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe – 1988

Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov – 1964

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cosi fan tutte – 1999
Don Giovanni – 1968, 1977, 1990, 2000, 2007
The Impresario – 1991
The Magic Flute – 1972, 1984, 1993, 2002
The Marriage of Figaro – 1983, 1995 (Western Opera Theatre tour), 2004

Amilcare Ponchielli
La Gioconda – 1970

Giacomo Puccini
La boheme – 1963, 1967, 1976, 1983, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2011
Gianni Schicchi – 1985, 1993
The Girl of the Golden West – 1981
Madame Butterfly – 1964, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1986, 1992, 1997, 2006
Il tabarro – 1975
Tosca – 1961, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1996, 2005
Turandot – 1968, 1979, 1985, 2008

Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville – 1961, 1968, 1980, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2008
La Cenerentola – 1991, 2006

Camille Saint-Saëns
Samson & Delilah – 1973, 1980, 2007

Antonio Salieri
First the Music, Then the Words – 1991

Steven Sondheim
A Little Night Music – 1983

Johann Strauss
Die Fledermaus – 1966, 1970, 1978, 1985, 1993, 2006

Richard Strauss
Salome – 1969, 1979

Arthur Sullivan
The Mikado – 1990, 2010 (tour)
H.M.S. Pinafore – 1983, 1997, 2007
The Pirates of Penzance – 1988, 2005

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida – 1964, 1972, 1976, 1989, 2003
Un ballo in maschera – 1978
Don Carlo – 1980
Falstaff – 1987
Macbeth – 2008
Rigoletto – 1962, 1967, 1975, 1981, 1990, 2004
La traviata – 1965, 1972, 1979, 1983, 1992, 2001, 2009
Il trovatore – 1963, 1974, 1981, 1999

Richard Wagner
Lohengrin – 1971

Robert Ward
The Crucible – 1971

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Phantom of the Opera – 2003 (tour)

Robert Wright/George Forrest
Kismet – 1987