List of television operas

This is a list of operas specifically written for television performance.

Year of premiere	Composed	Composer	Opera title	Librettist and/or source(s)	Television station
1951 1951		Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	Amahl Amahl and the Night Visitors	Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	NBC
1953 1953		Martinu Bohuslav Martinů	Marriage The Marriage	Martinu Bohuslav Martinů	NBC
1953 1953		Martinu Bohuslav Martinů	What Men What Men Live By	Martinu Bohuslav Martinů	NBC
1955 1955		Foss Lukas Foss	Griffelkin Griffelkin	Reid Alastair Reid	NBC
1956 1956		Dello Joio Norman Dello Joio	Trial The Trial at Rouen	Dello Norman Dello Joio	NBC
1956 1956		Kastle Leonard Kastle	Swing The Swing	Kastle Leonard Kastle	NBC
1956 1956		Benjamin Arthur Benjamin	Manana Mañana	Brahms Caryl Brahms	BBC Television
1956 1956		Arnold Malcolm Arnold	Open The Open Window	Gilliat Sidney Gilliat	BBC Television
1957 1957		Trimble Joan Trimble	Blind Blind Raftery	Trimble Joan Trimble	BBC Television
1957 1957		Hollingsworth Stanley Hollingsworth	Grande La Grande Bretèche	Hollingsworth Stanley Hollingsworth	NBC
1959 1959		Arnell Richard Arnell	Petrified The Petrified Princess	Arnell Richard Arnell	BBC Television
1959 1959		Halahan Guy Halahan	Spur The Spur of the Moment	Halahan Guy Halahan	BBC Television
1959 1959		Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	Maria Golovin Maria Golovin	Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	NBC
1959 1959		Hoiby Lee Hoiby	Beatrice Beatrice	Nardi Marci Nardi	WAVE
1959 1959		Laderman Ezra Laderman	Sarah Sarah	Rascom Clair Rascom	CBS
1959 1959		Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister	Seraphine Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin)	Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel	Schweizer Fernsehen
1959 1959		Badings Henk Badings	Salto Salto mortale	Badings Henk Badings and Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers)	Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1959 1959		Angerer Paul Angerer	Passkontrolle Passkontrolle		ORF
1960 1960		Bliss Arthur Bliss	Tobias Tobias and the Angel	Hassall Christopher Hassall	BBC Television
1961 1961		Kastle Leonard Kastle	Deseret Deseret	Howard Bailey Anne Howard Bailey	NBC
1961 1961		Prodromides Jean Prodromidès	Perses Les Perses (The Persians)	Prat Jean Prat, after Aeschylus	RTF
1962 1962		Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky	Flood The Flood	Craft Robert Craft	CBS
1962 1962		Tate Phyllis Tate	Dark Pilgrimage Dark Pilgrimage	Tate Phyllis Tate	BBC Television
1962 1962		Coleman Edwin Coleman	Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol	Burns Margaret Burns Harris	BBC Television
1962 1962		Malipiero Riccardo Malipiero	Battono Battono alla porta	Buzzati Dino Buzzati	RAI
1963 1963		McPeek Ben McPeek	Bargain The Bargain	McPeek Ben McPeek	CBC Television
1963 1963		Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	Labyrinth Labyrinth	Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	NBC
1963 1963		Floyd Carlisle Floyd	Sojourner The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair	Floyd Carlisle Floyd	NCE
1963 1963		Leeuw Ton de Leeuw	Alceste Alceste	Euripides	Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
1964 1964		Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister	Gespenst Das Gespenst von Canterville	Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost	Mainz, ZDF
1965 1965		Bucci Mark Bucci	Hero The Hero	Bucci Mark Bucci	National Educational Television
1965 1965		Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	Martinl Martin's Lie	Menotti Gian Carlo Menotti	CBS
1966 1966		Schafer R. Murray Schafer	Loving Loving	Schafer R. Murray Schafer	CBC Television
1967 1967		Laderman Ezra Laderman	Trials of Galileo The Trials of Galileo	Darion Joe Darion	CBS
1967 1967		Lidholm Ingvar Lidholm	Holländaren Holländaren (The Dutchman)	after August Strindberg	Sveriges Television
1967 1967		Vlad Roman Vlad	Fantarca La fantarca	Giuseppe Berto	RAI
1969 1969		Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister	Croisade La croisade des enfants (The Children's Crusade)	Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister, after Marcel Schwob	Sion Sierre, TVR
1970 1970		Beeson Jack Beeson	My heart My Heart's in the Highlands	Beeson Jack Beeson	PBS
1971 1971		Sutermeister Heinrich Sutermeister	FlaschenteufelDas Flaschenteufel	Weibel Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp	Mainz, ZDF
1971 1971	1969-70	Britten Benjamin Britten	Owen Owen Wingrave	Piper Myfanwy Piper, after Henry James	BBC Two
1973		John Eaton	Myshkin	Patrick Creagh after Dostoevsky's The Idiot	PBS
1976 1976		Ridout Godfrey Ridout	Lost The Lost Child	Reid John Reid	CBC Television
1976 1976		Pannell Raymond Pannell	Aberfan Aberfan	Pannell Beverly Pannell	CBC Television
1991 1991		Nyman Michael Nyman	Letters Letters, Riddles and Writs	Newson Jeremy Newson and Pat Gavin	BBC Television
2005 2005		Weir Judith Weir	Armida Armida	Weir Judith Weir	Channel Four
2006 2006		Dove Jonathan Dove	Man Man on the Moon	Wright Nicholas Wright	Channel Four
2006 2006		Louie Alexina Louie	Burnt Burnt Toast: 8 Mini Comic Operas About Love	Redican Dan Redican	CBC Television

Sources

• Jennifer Barnes (2003). Television Opera. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer.
• Marcia Citron (2000). Opera on Screen. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Lionel Salter: Television, History, in Sadie, Stanley (ed) (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2., vol. 4, p. 680.
• Stephen C. Willis. "Opera composition". The Canadian Encyclopedia.