Volume VII. Opera: underlined means that a full or partial recording is available on this website.
Book I: Full length: medium size orchestra:
1. Hamlet: 3 acts: 2.5 hours: 6-7 singers, C, S, A(B), Ct/b T, b, B, pno. or orch. (Shakespeare);
2. Edward II: 2 acts; 2.5 hours; C, T, T, b. B, (B), N, pno,. or orch. (Marlowe);
3. King Lear: 90 minutes 5-7 singers: C, S, M/Ct/b, T, BA; N, pno. or orch. (Shakespeare);
4. The Balcony: 2 acts; 2 hours & 13 minutes; 4-13 singers: M; 4S, 4T, 4B, pno. orch. (Genet).
Book II: Opera Cycles: ensembles & medium size orchestra:
1. When Animals Speak: 1 hours, 10 minutes; 4-6 singers, pno. or orch.
Parrot I: The Swallow & The Prince: 45 minutes; 4-6 singers, pno. or orch. (Wilde).
Parrot II: (3) Aesop's Fables: 25 minute opera set: 4 singers, pno. or orch. (Aesop).
2. Moratorium: 3 operas: 2 hours & 6 minutes; S A T B soloists & chorus, pno, or orch.
1. Antigon: 75 minutes: S A T B soloists & chorus, pno. or orch.: (Sophocles)
2. Daniel: 32 minutes: S T B soloists & chorus, pno. or orch. (anon. tr. u.c.)
3. Jepthah's Daughter: 19 minutes: S (B),chorus; pno., ensemble or orch, (dancers) (Hillyer )
3. Three Myths; 2 hours; 7 singers, chorus, & ens.
1. The Other Wise Man: 45 minutes: singers: SSAABB, chorus, fl., bn., hrp. & hand bells or pno. (van Dyke)
2. Ritual: 17 minutes & 20 seconds: S M A T B soloists & chorus, fl., hn., vc., or pno.. (Hubbard)
3. The Masque of The Witches: 40+ minutes; S S M T Bb B; N; S A T B chorus; opt. dancers; pno. or orch..
4. Odds & Endings: 1 hour & 6 minutes; 4 soloists, pno, or ens. & orch.
1. Kali: 14 minutes: S M B; w. w. perc., hrp., vln., pno.:
2. Sineater: 19 minutes: 6 (or less) singers, actor, vla. or vc. or, pno.;
3. Eye of Carrot: 11-12 minutes: S B, pno. or various ens.: perc., str.... or pno,;
4. Birthday on The Moon: 21 minutes & 25 seconds; SATB, pno, or; & orch. (Mussorgsky/Pushkin quote: Russian).
5. Four Philosophic Operas: untimed; pno.; 6-7 singers (fachs & genders flexible):
1. Cannon Law: 10 #; 1-6 singers & pno.;
2. Egg: 10 #; 7 singers & pno,;
3. Philosophy of Not-Knowing: 9#; 6 singer, pno.;
4. New Hope Christian Fellowship..: 6 #; 12 actors, 2 singers & pno. Needs cutting!
Book III: Cantata Ballets: ensembles & medium size orchestra:
1a-b. Ample Make This Bed: (A.I.D.S.): 1 hour & 50 minutes: Bb & male chorus, male reader, dancers, pno., or orch. (Dickinson);
1c-d. Ample Make This Bed: (A.I.D.S.): 95 minutes: Bb & trio/small chorus, male reader, dancers, pno., or ens. (Dickinson);
1a-d. Ample Make This Bed: (Covid-19): may also employ women, an octave up.
2. The Journey: 75 minutes; 4-5 singers, 4-5 dancers; 1-2 N; perc. hrp., str. & or pno.
Book IV: Children's Operas and ballet: singers, dancers, piano, flute & guitar or orch.:
1. Alice: piano (med. orch.); 1a. Alice in Wonderland: 90 min. C S A T b b B actors (Carroll);
1b. Through the Looking-glass: 60 min. C S A T b actors (Carroll);
2. Pinocchio: 60 min. S bB fl. & guit. N (withheld) ballet with songs (Collodi);
3. Whinnie-the-Pooh: 90 min. S M T T B N, pno. or fl. & guit., actors (Milne).
4. The Island Curse: 12#; SATB; withheld (Walther).C A T B, pno. or med. size orch..
5. The Bunny Wars: 12#; SATB; withheld (Walther).C A T B, pno. or med. size orch..