Non-standard Repertoire
While much from the standard repertoire is performed, the company has distinguished itself with productions of some unusual and rare operas in the last decade.
These include The Pearl Fishers; Casanova's Homecoming by Argento; and Roberto Devereux by Donizetti during the 2009/10 season; Pinocchio by Dove in the 2008/09 season; The Fortunes of King Croesus (Keiser) and Rusalka in 2007/08; Rossini's La donna del lago and Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann; and § † The Grapes of Wrath by Ricky Ian Gordon) plus Léo Delibes's Lakmé in 2006/07.
The 2005/06 season saw @ Orazi e Curiazi by Saverio Mercadante and @ Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man (Petitgirard), while in 2004/05 they presented Donizetti's Maria Padilla and Nixon in China by John Adams. Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia and Passion by Stephen Sondheim appeared in 2003/04 while the previous season saw @ The Handmaid's Tale by Poul Ruders). In 2001/02 Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Mark Adamo's Little Women provided a contrast. Early in the decade, Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues and Kurt Weill's Street Scene were highlights of the 2000/01 season.
In 2011, Bernard Herrmann's sole opera Wuthering Heights was presented. The full opera has yet to receive a staging, as the official world premiere by Portland Opera in 1982 was abridged by some 30 minutes.
In 2011, Minnesota Opera commissioned and produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning (2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music) Silent Night by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell. In 2013, Minnesota Opera has commissioned and will produce Doubt by composer Douglas J. Cuomo and librettist John Patrick Shanley.
A complete list of earlier seasons' productions appears on the company's web site
§ World Premiere
@ American Premiere
† Commissioned by The Minnesota Opera or by The Minnesota Opera Midwest Tour
� Tour production
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