List of Compositions By Philip Glass - Operas

Operas

• Einstein on the Beach for the Philip Glass Ensemble (1975–1976, with Robert Wilson)
• Satyagraha (1978–1979, premiered in 1980, libretto by Constance de Jong)
• Akhnaten (1983, libretto by Philip Glass and Shalom Goldman)
• the CIVIL warS – a tree is best measured when it is down, Act V – The Rome Section (1984, with Robert Wilson, libretto by Robert Wilson and Maita di Niscemi, including texts by Seneca the Younger)
• The making of the representative for Planet 8 (1985–1986, premiered in 1988, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her fourth novel from Canopus in Argos)
• The Voyage (1990, premiered in 1992, libretto by David Henry Hwang)
• White Raven (1991, premiered as O Corvo Branco in 1998, with Robert Wilson, libretto by Luísa Costa Gomes)
• The marriages between zones three, four, and five (1997, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her second novel from Canopus in Argos)
• Galileo Galilei (2002, libretto by Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein)
• Waiting for the Barbarians for voices, chorus and orchestra (2005, after the novel by J. M. Coetzee)
• Appomattox (2007, libretto by Christopher Hampton)
• Kepler (2009, libretto by Martina Winkel, including texts by Johannes Kepler and Andreas Gryphius)
• The Lost (2011–2012, after the play by Peter Handke, to be premiered in 2013)
• The Perfect American (2011, based on the book about Walt Disney by Peter Stephan Jungk, to be premiered at the Teatro Real, Madrid on January 22, 2013)