List of radio operas
This is a list of operas specifically written for radio performance.
| Broadcast premiere | Composed | Composer | Opera title | Librettist and/or source(s) | Radio station |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 1925[1] | Geoffrey Toye | The Red Pen | A. P. Herbert | British Broadcasting Company | |
| 24 December 1929[2] | Gustav Kneip | Christkinds Erdenreise (The Christ-child's journey on Earth) | Franz Peter Kürten | WERAG | |
| May 1931[3] | Walter Goehr | Malpopita | Berlin | ||
| July 1931[4] | Mark Lubbock | The King Can Do No Wrong | C Denis Freeman | British Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 25 October 1931[5] | Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli | L'ospite inatteso | Carlo Veneziani | Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche | |
| 26 April 1932[6] | Charles Wakefield Cadman | The Willow Tree | Nelle Richmond Eberhart | NBC | |
| 13 July 1933[7] | 1932 | Werner Egk | Columbus, Bericht und Bildnis (Columbus, report and portrait) | Bayerischer Rundfunk | |
| 6 October 1935[8] | Bohuslav Martinů | Hlas lesa (The Voice of the Forest) | Vítězslav Nezval | Czech Radio | |
| 15 October 1936[9] | Heinrich Sutermeister | Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider) | Albert Rösler, after Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne | Radio Bern | |
| 1937[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Flora | CBS Radio | ||
| 18 March 1937[8] | Bohuslav Martinů | Veselohra na mostě (Comedy on the Bridge) | Martinů, after Václav Kliment Klicpera | Czech Radio | |
| 17 October 1937[11] | Louis Gruenberg | Green Mansions | after the novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson | Columbia Broadcasting Company | |
| 1938[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Beauty and the Beast | R. Simon | CBS Radio | |
| 3 April 1939[12] | 1928 | Marcel Mihalovici | L'intransigeant Pluton | Jean-François Regnard | RTF |
| 22 April 1939[13] | Gian Carlo Menotti | The Old Maid and the Thief | Gian Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
| 2 November 1939[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Blennerhassett | Norman Corwin, Phillip Roll | CBS Radio | |
| 29 March 1942[14] | Randall Thompson | Solomon and Balkis | after The Butterfly that Stamped by Rudyard Kipling | CBS | |
| 15 September 1942[15] | Mark Lubbock | The Rose and the Violet | Barbara Cartland | British Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 10 October 1943[16] | Jacques Ibert | Barbe-bleu | W. Aguet | Radio Lausanne | |
| 1949[17] | Tibor Harsányi | Illusions, ou l'histoire d'un miracle | P. Brive, after E. T. A. Hoffmann | RTF | |
| 1 December 1949[18] | 1944–48 | Luigi Dallapiccola | Il prigioniero (The Prisoner) | after stories by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Charles De Coster. | RAI |
| 18 April 1950[12] | Marcel Mihalovici | Phèdre | Yvan Goll, after Jean Racine | RTF | |
| 21 July 1950[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | D'un diable de briquet | Chevreuille, after Hans Christian Andersen | Belgian radio | |
| 3 October 1950[20] | Ildebrando Pizzetti | Ifigenia | Pizzetti and A. Perrini | RAI | |
| 15 November 1950[21] | Nino Rota | I due timidi (The Two Timid Ones) | Suso Cecchi d'Amico | RAI | |
| 21 August 1951[22] | Rezső Kókai | Lészen ágyú (There shall be guns) | Péter Halász and József Romhányi | Magyar Rádió | |
| 11 October 1951[23] | 1950 | Renzo Bossi | Il principe felice (The Happy Prince) | Bossi, after Oscar Wilde | RAI |
| 19 November 1951[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Ein Landarzt | after Franz Kafka | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 5 March 1952[25] | Franz Reizenstein | Anna Kraus | Christopher Hassall | BBC Third Programme | |
| 5 May 1952[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | L'elixir du révérend père Gaucher | Chevreuille, after Alphonse Daudet | Belgian radio | |
| 12 June 1952[26] | Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Des Menschen Unterhaltsprozeß gegen Gott (The People's Maintenance Suit Against God) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, adapted by Matthias Bungart | WDR | |
| 5 November 1952[20] | Ildebrando Pizzetti | Cagliostro | Pizzetti | RAI | |
| 1953[27] | Hans Vogt | Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (The City Beyond the River) | Hermann Kasack | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC | |
| 4 December 1953[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Das Ende einer Welt (The End of a World) | Wolfgang Hildesheimer | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 10 January 1954[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | Atta Troll | Chevreuille, after Heinrich Heine Atta Troll, ein Sommernachtstraum | Belgian radio | |
| 24 September 1954[28] | Henk Badings | Orestes | Florence | ||
| 9 November 1954[12][29] | Marcel Mihalovici | Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming) | K. H. Ruppel, after Guy de Maupassant | Hessischer Rundfunk | |
| 15 November 1954[30] | Donald Swann, channelling Dame Hilda Tablet | Emily Butter | Henry Reed | BBC Third Programme | |
| 9 August 1955[31] | William Alwyn | Farewell Companions | H. A. L. Craig | BBC | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | Monsieur Petit Pois achète un château | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | Le bel ambitieux | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | La pauvre Eugénie | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | La Fille d'opéra | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 1957[28] | Henk Badings | Asterion | Johannesburg | ||
| 28 February 1957[33] | 1956 | Sven-Erik Bäck | Tranfjädrarna (The Crane Feathers) | Bertil Malmberg, after Junji Kinoshita | Swedish Radio |
| 1957[34] | 1956 | Winfried Zillig | Die Verlobung in St. Domingo (The engagement in St. Domingo) | After Heinrich von Kleist | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk |
| 30 July 1959[35] | Kurt Schwaen | Fetzers Flucht (Fetzer's Escape) | Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DDR 1) | ||
| 10 November 1959[36] | Grażyna Bacewicz | Przygoda Króla Artura (The Adventure of King Arthur) | Polish Radio | ||
| 19 November 1959[21] | Nino Rota | La notte di un nevrastenico | R. Bacchelli | RAI | |
| 12 July 1960[32] | 1959 | Germaine Tailleferre | Le Maître | Eugène Ionesco | Radio France |
| 30 September 1960[32] | 1957 | Germaine Tailleferre | La petite sirène | Ph. Soupault after H. C. Andersen' "The Little Mermaid" | Radio France |
| 1961[37] | Niccolò Castiglioni | Attraverso lo specchio (Through the Looking-Glass) | after Lewis Carroll and also his Alice in Wonderland | RAI | |
| 1961[38] | Piotr Perkowski | Girlandy (Garlands) | |||
| 14 February 1961[33] | Sven-Erik Bäck | Fågeln (The Bird) | P. Verner-Carlson, after A. Obrenovic | Swedish Radio | |
| 27 August 1961[39] | Emil Petrovics | C'est la guerre | Miklos Hubay | Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 12 August 1962[40] | Bruno Maderna | Don Perlimplin | Bruno Maderna, after Federico García Lorca | RAI | |
| 8 March 1964[41] | Humphrey Searle | The Photo of the Colonel | Searle, after Eugène Ionesco | BBC | |
| 1968[42] | Hans Ulrich Engelmann | Der Fall van Damm (The Case van Damm) | Markus Kuttner | Westdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 16 December 1969[43] | Bent Lorentzen | Euridice | Bent Lorentzen | DR (broadcaster) | |
| 17 May 1971[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (The Tedious Way to Natascha Ungeheuer's Apartment) | Gaston Salvatore | RAI | |
| 1972[44] | 1970–71 | Bernadetta Matuszczak | Humanae voces | after Genesis, Saint John, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Frank, etc. | Polish Radio |
| 1973[45] | Tomasz Sikorski | Sinbad the Sailor | after a poem by Bolesław Leśmian | Polish Radio | |
| 1975[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Jaro je tu (Spring Is Here) (1975) | |||
| 14 January 1977[47] | Anthony Gilbert | The Chakravaka-Bird | after poems by Mahadevi Varma, translated by A. K. Ramanujan, Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr. and Anthony Gilbert | BBC | |
| 1978[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Před vánocemi (Before Christmas) (1978) | |||
| 3 July 1979[44] | 1976–77 | Bernadetta Matuszczak | Apocalypsis | after Revelation | Polish Radio |
| 1980[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Jak přišel podzim (When Autumn Came) | |||
| 2 September 1982[48] | Karl Aage Rasmussen | Historien om Jonas (The story of Jonah) | Poul Borum | DR | |
| 14 September 1982[49] | 1982 | Thea Musgrave | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Musgrave | BBC Radio 3 |
| 4 January 1989[50] | 1986 | Nicola LeFanu | The Story of Mary O'Neill | S. McInerney | BBC |
| 1991[51] | Giulio Castagnoli | Al Museo in volo & a zompi (To the Museum) | Ugo Nespolo | Rai Radio 3 | |
| 1996[51] | Giulio Castagnoli | Lontananze vicino a noi | Dario Voltolini | RAI | |
| 14 April 2004[52] | Jüri Reinvere | The Opposite Shore | Tamu Tohver, Jüri Reinvere | Eesti Raadio | |
| 8 July 2005[53] | Amy Kohn | 1, Plum Square | Amy Kohn | WNYC | |
| 9 July 2010[54] | Robert Saxton | The Wandering Jew | Robert Saxton | BBC Radio 3 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Notes
- ↑ "Broadcasting", The Times, 24 March 1925, p. 23
- ↑ Andrew Oster (November 2010). Radio, rubble, and reconstruction: The genre of Funkoper in postwar occupied Germany and the German Federal Republic, 1946–1957 (PhD dissertation). Princeton University. p. 4.
- ↑ "Malpopita", review in Time, 11 May 1931.
- ↑ "The King Can Do No Wrong", Radio Times, Issue 408, 26th July 1931, p. 40
- ↑ Was wollen wir hören? Auslandsendungen vom 25. bis 31. Oktober 1931, Radio Wien, Year 8 No 4, 18th October 1931, p. 48
- ↑ Thomas Warburton: Cadman, Charles Wakefield, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 676.
- ↑ Erik Levi: Egk, Werner, in Sadie, vol 2, pp. 22–24.
- 1 2 Jan Smaczny: Martinů, Bohuslav, in Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 237–239.
- ↑ Erik Levi: Sutermeister, Heinrich, in Sadie, vol. 4, pp. 610–611.
- 1 2 3 Harry Haskell, Walter Simmons: Giannini, Vittorio, in Sadie, vol. 2, p. 405.
- ↑ Robert F. Nisbett: Gruenberg, Louis, in Sadie, vol. 2, pp. 555–556
- 1 2 3 Cosma, Viorel: Mihalovici, Marcel, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 386.
- ↑ Bruce Archibald: Menotti, Gian Carlo, in Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 332–334.
- ↑ Elliot Forbes: Thompson, Randall, in Sadie, vol. 4, p. 729.
- ↑ "The Rose and the Violet", Radio Times, Issue 989, 13 September, 1942, p. 10
- ↑ Richard Langham Smith: Ibert, Jacques, in Sadie, vol. 2, pp. 779–780
- ↑ Arthur Hoérée: Harsányi, Tibor, in Sadie, vol. 2, p. 651.
- ↑ Anthony Sellors: Dallapiccola, Luigi, in Sadie, vol 1, pp. 1050–1051.
- 1 2 3 Henri Vanhulst: Chevreuille, Raymond, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 838.
- 1 2 Guido M. Gatti, John C. G. Waterhouse: Pizzetti, Ildebrando, in Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 1025–1027.
- 1 2 Giordano Montecchi: Rota, Nino, in Sadie, vol. 4, pp. 68–69.
- ↑ Kókai Rezső-daljátékai: a Fülemüle, a Lészen ágyú és a Hét-falu kovácsa, pp. 38–39
- ↑ John C. G. Waterhouse: Bossi, Renzo, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 566.
- 1 2 3 Andrew Clements Henze, Hans Werner, in Sadie, vol. 2, pp. 695–697
- ↑ Hugo Cole: Reizenstein, Franz, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 1287.
- ↑ "Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Des Menschen Unterhaltprozess gegen Gott" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM. 23261.
- ↑ Vogt, Hans, in Sadie, vol. 4, p. 1037.
- 1 2 Jos Wouters, Leo Samama: Badings, Henk, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 275.
- ↑ Lionel Salter: Radio, Early History, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 1212
- ↑ Emily Butter
- ↑ Adrian Wright: The Innumerable Dance: The Life and Work of William Alwyn (2008), pp. 152–5
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tailleferre catalogue at Gérard Billaudot Editeur, December 1996
- 1 2 Andres Wiklund: Bäck, Sven-Erik, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 272.
- ↑ Andreas van Leeuwen: Winfried Zillig (1905-1963): Die Verlobung in St. Domingo. Analyse und Interpretation einer vergessenen Funkoper, in Acta Musicologica, Vol. 72, Fasc. 2 (2000), pp. 189-218 (30 pages)
- ↑ Fetzers Flucht - Eine Funkoper wird zur Fernsehoper, at mdr archives, visited 20.11.2024
- ↑ Adrian Thomas: Bacewicz, Grażyna, in Sadie, vol 1, p. 268.
- ↑ Niccolò Castiglioni: biography at Allmusic
- ↑ Piotr Perkowski: Information, Videos, News and Images
- ↑ Janos Kárpáti: Petrovics, Emil, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 988
- ↑ Raymond Fearn: Maderna, Bruno, in Sadie, vol. 3, pp. 140–141.
- ↑ Hugo Cole: Humphrey Searle, in Sadie, vol. 4, p. 281.
- ↑ Breitkopf & Härtel Catalogue, Nr. 2313
- ↑ Jens Brincker: Lorentzen, Bent, in Sadie, vol. 3, p. 45.
- 1 2 Adrian Thomas: Matuszczak, Bernadetta, in Sadie, Vol. 3, p. 273
- ↑ About Little Warsaw Autumn: Sinbad the Sailor by Tomasz Sikorski, after Bolesław Leśmian Deprecated link archived 2013-04-16 at archive.today
- 1 2 3 Otomar Kvěch: List of Works
- ↑ Hugo Cole: Gilbert, Anthony, in Sadie, vol 2, pp. 413–414.
- ↑ "Det Virtuelle Musikbibliotek: Rasmussen, Karl Aage: Historien om Jonas". Archived from the original on 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
- ↑ Griffel, Margaret Ross (2013). Operas in English: A Dictionary. Vol. 1. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 351. ISBN 9780810883253. Retrieved March 2, 2025.
- ↑ Christopher Wintle: LeFanu, Nicola, in Sadie, vol. 2, p. 1122.
- 1 2 Castagnoli, Giulio at Operone.de
- ↑ FIMIC (Finnish Music Information Centre): Jüri Reinvere: The Opposite Shore
- ↑ WNYC: Spinning on Air, Amy Kohn's radio opera 1 Plum Sq.
- ↑ BBC Radio 3: World premiere of The Wandering Jew, 9 July, 2010
Sources
- Sadie, Stanley, ed. (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.