List of radio operas
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This is a list of operas specifically written for radio performance.
| Broadcast premiere | Composed | Composer | Opera title | Librettist and/or source(s) | Radio station |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 1925[1] | Geoffrey Toye | The Red Pen | A. P. Herbert | British Broadcasting Company | |
| 24 December 1929[2] | Gustav Kneip | Christkinds Erdenreise (The Christ-child's journey on Earth) | Franz Peter Kürten | WERAG | |
| May 1931[3] | Walter Goehr | Malpopita | Berlin | ||
| July 1931[4] | Mark Lubbock | The King Can Do No Wrong | C Denis Freeman | British Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 25 October 1931[5] | Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli | L'ospite inatteso | Carlo Veneziani | Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche | |
| 26 April 1932[6] | Charles Wakefield Cadman | The Willow Tree | Nelle Richmond Eberhart | NBC | |
| 13 July 1933[7] | 1932 | Werner Egk | Columbus, Bericht und Bildnis (Columbus, report and portrait) | Bayerischer Rundfunk | |
| 6 October 1935[8] | Bohuslav Martinů | Hlas lesa (The Voice of the Forest) | Vítězslav Nezval | Czech Radio | |
| 15 October 1936[9] | Heinrich Sutermeister | Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider) | Albert Rösler, after Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne | Radio Bern | |
| 1937[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Flora | CBS Radio | ||
| 18 March 1937[8] | Bohuslav Martinů | Veselohra na mostě (Comedy on the Bridge) | Martinů, after Václav Kliment Klicpera | Czech Radio | |
| 17 October 1937[11] | Louis Gruenberg | Green Mansions | after the novel Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson | Columbia Broadcasting Company | |
| 1938[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Beauty and the Beast | R. Simon | CBS Radio | |
| 3 April 1939[12] | 1928 | Marcel Mihalovici | L'intransigeant Pluton | Jean-François Regnard | RTF |
| 22 April 1939[13] | Gian Carlo Menotti | The Old Maid and the Thief | Gian Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
| 2 November 1939[10] | Vittorio Giannini | Blennerhassett | Norman Corwin, Phillip Roll | CBS Radio | |
| 29 March 1942[14] | Randall Thompson | Solomon and Balkis | after The Butterfly that Stamped by Rudyard Kipling | CBS | |
| 15 September 1942[15] | Mark Lubbock | The Rose and the Violet | Barbara Cartland | British Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 10 October 1943[16] | Jacques Ibert | Barbe-bleu | W. Aguet | Radio Lausanne | |
| 1949[17] | Tibor Harsányi | Illusions, ou l'histoire d'un miracle | P. Brive, after E. T. A. Hoffmann | RTF | |
| 1 December 1949[18] | 1944–48 | Luigi Dallapiccola | Il prigioniero (The Prisoner) | after stories by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Charles De Coster. | RAI |
| 18 April 1950[12] | Marcel Mihalovici | Phèdre | Yvan Goll, after Jean Racine | RTF | |
| 21 July 1950[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | D'un diable de briquet | Chevreuille, after Hans Christian Andersen | Belgian radio | |
| 3 October 1950[20] | Ildebrando Pizzetti | Ifigenia | Pizzetti and A. Perrini | RAI | |
| 15 November 1950[21] | Nino Rota | I due timidi (The Two Timid Ones) | Suso Cecchi d'Amico | RAI | |
| 21 August 1951[22] | Rezső Kókai | Lészen ágyú (There shall be guns) | Péter Halász and József Romhányi | Magyar Rádió | |
| 11 October 1951[23] | 1950 | Renzo Bossi | Il principe felice (The Happy Prince) | Bossi, after Oscar Wilde | RAI |
| 19 November 1951[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Ein Landarzt | after Franz Kafka | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 5 March 1952[25] | Franz Reizenstein | Anna Kraus | Christopher Hassall | BBC Third Programme | |
| 5 May 1952[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | L'elixir du révérend père Gaucher | Chevreuille, after Alphonse Daudet | Belgian radio | |
| 12 June 1952[26] | Bernd Alois Zimmermann | Des Menschen Unterhaltsprozeß gegen Gott (The People's Maintenance Suit Against God) | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, adapted by Matthias Bungart | WDR | |
| 5 November 1952[20] | Ildebrando Pizzetti | Cagliostro | Pizzetti | RAI | |
| 1953[27] | Hans Vogt | Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (The City Beyond the River) | Hermann Kasack | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC | |
| 4 December 1953[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Das Ende einer Welt (The End of a World) | Wolfgang Hildesheimer | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 10 January 1954[19] | Raymond Chevreuille | Atta Troll | Chevreuille, after Heinrich Heine Atta Troll, ein Sommernachtstraum | Belgian radio | |
| 24 September 1954[28] | Henk Badings | Orestes | Florence | ||
| 9 November 1954[12][29] | Marcel Mihalovici | Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming) | K. H. Ruppel, after Guy de Maupassant | Hessischer Rundfunk | |
| 15 November 1954[30] | Donald Swann, channelling Dame Hilda Tablet | Emily Butter | Henry Reed | BBC Third Programme | |
| 9 August 1955[31] | William Alwyn | Farewell Companions | H. A. L. Craig | BBC | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | Monsieur Petit Pois achète un château | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | Le bel ambitieux | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | La pauvre Eugénie | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 28 December 1955[32] | Germaine Tailleferre | La Fille d'opéra | Denise Centore | Radio France | |
| 1957[28] | Henk Badings | Asterion | Johannesburg | ||
| 28 February 1957[33] | 1956 | Sven-Erik Bäck | Tranfjädrarna (The Crane Feathers) | Bertil Malmberg, after Junji Kinoshita | Swedish Radio |
| 1957[34] | 1956 | Winfried Zillig | Die Verlobung in St. Domingo (The engagement in St. Domingo) | After Heinrich von Kleist | Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk |
| 30 July 1959[35] | Kurt Schwaen | Fetzers Flucht (Fetzer's Escape) | Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DDR 1) | ||
| 10 November 1959[36] | Grażyna Bacewicz | Przygoda Króla Artura (The Adventure of King Arthur) | Polish Radio | ||
| 19 November 1959[21] | Nino Rota | La notte di un nevrastenico | R. Bacchelli | RAI | |
| 12 July 1960[32] | 1959 | Germaine Tailleferre | Le Maître | Eugène Ionesco | Radio France |
| 30 September 1960[32] | 1957 | Germaine Tailleferre | La petite sirène | Ph. Soupault after H. C. Andersen' "The Little Mermaid" | Radio France |
| 1961[37] | Niccolò Castiglioni | Attraverso lo specchio (Through the Looking-Glass) | after Lewis Carroll and also his Alice in Wonderland | RAI | |
| 1961[38] | Piotr Perkowski | Girlandy (Garlands) | |||
| 14 February 1961[33] | Sven-Erik Bäck | Fågeln (The Bird) | P. Verner-Carlson, after A. Obrenovic | Swedish Radio | |
| 27 August 1961[39] | Emil Petrovics | C'est la guerre | Miklos Hubay | Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation | |
| 12 August 1962[40] | Bruno Maderna | Don Perlimplin | Bruno Maderna, after Federico García Lorca | RAI | |
| 8 March 1964[41] | Humphrey Searle | The Photo of the Colonel | Searle, after Eugène Ionesco | BBC | |
| 1968[42] | Hans Ulrich Engelmann | Der Fall van Damm (The Case van Damm) | Markus Kuttner | Westdeutscher Rundfunk | |
| 16 December 1969[43] | Bent Lorentzen | Euridice | Bent Lorentzen | DR (broadcaster) | |
| 17 May 1971[24] | Hans Werner Henze | Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (The Tedious Way to Natascha Ungeheuer's Apartment) | Gaston Salvatore | RAI | |
| 1972[44] | 1970–71 | Bernadetta Matuszczak | Humanae voces | after Genesis, Saint John, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Frank, etc. | Polish Radio |
| 1973[45] | Tomasz Sikorski | Sinbad the Sailor | after a poem by Bolesław Leśmian | Polish Radio | |
| 1975[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Jaro je tu (Spring Is Here) (1975) | |||
| 14 January 1977[47] | Anthony Gilbert | The Chakravaka-Bird | after poems by Mahadevi Varma, translated by A. K. Ramanujan, Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr. and Anthony Gilbert | BBC | |
| 1978[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Před vánocemi (Before Christmas) (1978) | |||
| 3 July 1979[44] | 1976–77 | Bernadetta Matuszczak | Apocalypsis | after Revelation | Polish Radio |
| 1980[46] | Otomar Kvěch | Jak přišel podzim (When Autumn Came) | |||
| 2 September 1982[48] | Karl Aage Rasmussen | Historien om Jonas (The story of Jonah) | Poul Borum | DR | |
| 14 September 1982[49] | 1982 | Thea Musgrave | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Musgrave | BBC Radio 3 |
| 4 January 1989[50] | 1986 | Nicola LeFanu | The Story of Mary O'Neill | S. McInerney | BBC |
| 1991[51] | Giulio Castagnoli | Al Museo in volo & a zompi (To the Museum) | Ugo Nespolo | Rai Radio 3 | |
| 1996[51] | Giulio Castagnoli | Lontananze vicino a noi | Dario Voltolini | RAI | |
| 14 April 2004[52] | Jüri Reinvere | The Opposite Shore | Tamu Tohver, Jüri Reinvere | Eesti Raadio | |
| 8 July 2005[53] | Amy Kohn | 1, Plum Square | Amy Kohn | WNYC | |
| 9 July 2010[54] | Robert Saxton | The Wandering Jew | Robert Saxton | BBC Radio 3 |