Our History

2023-24

JUPITER’S JOURNEY TO THE THE EARTH by Franz Joseph Haydn
Baryshnikov Arts

2022-23

AMERICAN ONE ACTS: a double bill
-Highway 1, U.S.A.
by William Grant Still, libretto by Verna Arvey
-Down in the Valley
by Kurt Weill, libretto by Arnold Sundgaard
Baruch Performing Arts Center

2021-22

MONTEVERDI & other TREASURES FROM THE SEICENTO
Livestream from St. John’s in the Village

ZEMLINSKYS ZIMMER
Livestream from St. John’s in the Village

MOZART & FRIENDS
Livestream from St. John’s in the Village

2020-21

THE SHEPHERD KING by W.A MOZART
after Metastasio, in a new English Translation by Mark Herman & Ronnie Apter
Streaming on YouTube 

2019-20

ZEMLINSKY’S ZIMMER - an adaptation from Alexander von Zemlinsky
Deutsches Haus at NYU

PAST AND PRESENT: Scenes from American operas
featuring Better Gods by Luna Pearl Woolf, libretto Caitlin Vincent
Nolan Park, Governors Island

2018-19

OWEN WINGRAVE by Benjamin Britten
GK Arts Center

2017-18

THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE by Adrienne Danrich
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Concert Hall

PIRAMO E TISBE by J.A. Hasse
Baruch Performing Arts Center

2016-17

PRINCE OF PLAYERS by Carlisle Floyd
The Kaye Playhouse

THE ORIGIN OF LOVE in collaboration with SongFusion
Private Tribeca Loft

2015-16

L’AMANT ANONYME by Chevalier de Saint-Georges
59E59 Theaters

FLOYDIANA by Carlisle Floyd
as part of NYOA Inaugural festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music

2014-15

SLOW DUSK & MARKHEIM by Carlisle Floyd
in new arrangements by Inessa Zaretsky & Raymond J. Lustig
59E59 Theaters

10th ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT CONCERT
The Highline Hotel

2013-14

L’AMANT ANONYME – the workshop
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

OPPORTUNITY MAKES THE THIEF by Gioachino Rossini
libretto by Privadilli, in a translation by Marc Heman & Ronnie Apter
59E59 Theaters

NYOA LAUNCH CONCERT [New York Opera Alliance]
featuring a scene from L’Amant Anonymye by Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Le Poisson Rouge

2012-13

THE REFORMED DRUNNKARD by Christoph Willibald Gluck
59E59 Theaters

LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, ET FRATERNITÉ
music of Saint-Georges, Poulenc, Giordano & Bizet
Socrates Sculpture Park

2011-12

MAKE BELIEVE: a tribute to Jerome Kern
Socrates Sculpture Garden

MAN IN A BLACK COAT by Inessa Zaretsky
Bushwick Starr/Target Margin & Last Futurist Lab

TRAVELERS Operas by Gustav Holst
The Wandering Scholar & Sāvitri
59E59 Theaters

2010-11

BREAD & BUTTER (SLICE OF TOAST): scenes from popular operas
Victor Borge Hall

MITRIDATE, DE RI PONTO by W.A. Mozart
The JCC in Manhattan

2009-10

2 LITTLE TRAGEDIES OF PUSHKIN by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov & César Cui
Hudson Guild Theatre

NEW WORKS by Insessa Zaretsky with the Phoenix Chamber Ensemble
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

2008-9

THE BOHEMIANS: Act I of Puccini’s La Bohème in English
Socrates Sculpture Park

NEW VOICES: Ficklin, Sherman, & Zaretsky
The Kosciusczko Foundation

2007-8

CROSSCURRENTS: Saint-Georges, Copland, Gottschalk & Joplin
Socrates Sculpture Park

THE MOTHER OF US ALL by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein
The Box

2006-7

NY MUSIC: Bernstein, Gershwin & Weill
Socrates Sculpture Park 

2005-6

LA FINTA GIARDINIERA by W.A. Mozart
Hudson Guild Theater

2004-5

ADVENTURES FROM ORLANDO: Handel, Vivaldi, & Haydn
Dahesh Museum

GARDENS OF DISGUISE excerpts from W.A. Mozart
Kosciuszko Foundation