List of Compositions By Erik Chisholm - Operas

Operas

• The Feast of Samhain, 1941
• The Inland Woman, 1951 (based on Mary Lavin’s 'The Green Death and the Black Death')
• Dark Sonnet, 1952 (based on the play 'Before Breakfast' by Eugene O'Neill)
• Black roses, 1954
• Simoon, 1953 (based on a text by August Strindberg)
• Unnatural Death, 1953
• The Midnight Court, 1954-61 (based on 'A Rhythmical Bacchanalia' by Bryon Merryman)
• The Canterbury Tales, 1961-62 (based on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales')
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1963 (based on Berthold Brecht's 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle')
• The Importance of Being Earnest, 1963 (based on Oscar Wilde's play of The Importance of Being Earnest)
• The Life and Loves of Robert Burns, 1963 (based on poems of Burns, and his correspondence with brother Gilbert and other contemporaries)
• The Wolflings

Dark Sonnet, Black roses and Simoon formed the three-act trilogy of Murder in Three Keys.