List of Compositions By Philip Glass - Chamber Operas, Music Theatre

Chamber Operas, Music Theatre

  • A Madrigal Opera for voices, violin and viola (1980)
  • The Photographer for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1982, based on the life of Eadweard Muybridge)
  • The Juniper Tree (1985, with Robert Moran)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (libretto after the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, 1987)
  • 1000 Airplanes on the Roof for voice and ensemble (text by David Henry Hwang, 1988)
  • Hydrogen Jukebox for voices and ensemble (libretto by Allen Ginsberg, 1990)
  • Orphée for voices and chamber orchestra (1991, after the film by Jean Cocteau and premiered in 1993)
  • La Belle et la Bête for voices and the Philip Glass Ensemble or chamber orchestra (1994, after the film by Jean Cocteau)
  • Les Enfants Terribles, Dance Opera for voices and three pianos (1996, after Cocteau's novel and the film by Jean-Pierre Melville)
  • The Witches of Venice, children's opera-ballet (1997)
  • Monsters of Grace, chamber opera for the Philip Glass Ensemble (1998, with 3D digital footage directed by Robert Wilson, libretto from works of Jalaluddin Rumi)
  • In the Penal Colony for voices and string quintet (2000, libretto after the short story by Franz Kafka)
  • The Sound of a Voice for voices and chamber ensemble including pipa (2003, libretto by David Henry Hwang)

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