MONO-OPERAS and MONO-DRAMAS
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[updated 04/16/07]
SOPRANO
Michel van der Aa: One
Noa Ain: Joan of Arc (dramatic coloratura)
Dominick Argento: Miss Havisham's Wedding Night (also: 2 female mimes) more info
Makiko Asaoka: Ningyo-no-Sora
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Gary Bachlund: The Little Match Girl (1994)
Brian Banks: Alas Rotas (Broken Wings), Part I
Jeremy Beck: Black Water
Thomas Benjamin: The Joy that Kills
Friedrich Justin Bertuch: Polyxena (1775)
Harrison Birtwistle: Monodrama (with speaker)
William Bolcom: Medusa
Victoria Bond: Molly Manybloom
June Boyce-Tillman: A Life Apart
Elizabeth Brown and Stephanie Skaff: Rural Electrification
Nigel Butterley: The Owl
Augusta Cecconi-Bates: The Molly Brant One Woman Opera
info about the real Molly Brant
Alison Bauld: Mad Moll
William Bolcom: Medusa (dramatic soprano)
Dinos Constantinides: Intimations or Fugue for Two Voices (also: 1 speaker, 1mime)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
Peter Maxwell Davies: Revelation and Fall (for dramatic soprano)
David Del Tredici: Dracula
Michael Dellaira: Maud
Rohan Drape: Foreign Knowledge: I Have Made a Heap of All that I Could Find
Solomon Epstein: Water Songs
José Evangelista: Alice & Friends
José Evangelista: La Porte
Steven Everett: Still Life
Morton Feldman: Neither more info
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Carlisle Floyd: Flower and Hawk
Grigorii Samuilovich Frid: Dnevnik Anny Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank) more info
Nikolay Georgiev: Medeya
Vittorio Giannini: The Medead
Ricky Ian Gordon: Orpheus and Euridice
Iain Hamilton: Cleopatra (1977)
Edward Hines: Dear Ann Landers (Can a Dog Get Drunk on Wine?)
Lee Hoiby: The Italian Lesson
Heinz Holliger: Not I
Alexandros Kalogeras: Cassandra
Faraj Karaev: Journey to Love
Frederick Koch: The Birth of a Child
Oliver Kohlenberg: Kirjeitä männynkävylle, Op. 60b
Libby Larsen: Songs from Letters: Calamity Jane to her Daughter Janey 1880-1902
Stephen Leek: Sole Print
Vladimir Levitt: Tenderness
Ricardo Llorca: The Dark Side
Alexander Lokshin: Marguerite
Cosimo Manicone: Requiem para Edith Stein
Tomás Marco: Ojos verdes de luna
Yoritsuno Matsudaira: Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)
Stephen McNeff: Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe II
Bongane Ndodana: Umuntu: Threnody and Dances
Harold Oliver: A Dog's Tale [flute, clarinet, violin, piano]
Stephen Oliver: Waiting
Allen Otte and Mara Helmuth: Clotho: The Life of Camille Claudel
Henry Papale: Julia
Héctor Parra: Strette
Thomas Pasatieri: Before Breakfast (also: 2 speakers)
Jean Piché: Yo soy la desintegración
Matthias Pintscher: Hérodiade-Fragmente
Francis Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
Serge Provost: L'Adorable Verrotière
Natalia Raidorodsky: The White Cliffs
Aribert Reimann: Inane
Lou Rodgers: The Warrior Saint
Steve Rouse: Waiting for Daylight
Robert Xavier Rodriguez: Concert Suite from Frida
Marjorie Rusche: Brenda
Lyudmyla Samodaieva: Tanok s tinnju - 2 (Dance with Shadow - 2)
Lyudmyla Samodaieva: Delires - II. Alchimie Du Verbe (also sung by countertenor)
Peter Schat: Kind en Kraai (Child and Crow), Op. 26 (high soprano)
Arnold Schoenberg: Erwartung, Op. 17
Roger Sessions: Idyll of Theocritus
Zack Settel: L'Enfant des Glâces (also: 1 speaker)
Zack Settel: Pacambo
Olexander Shchetynsky: Annunciation
Misha V. Stefanuk: The Torrent, Op. 72
Morton Subotnick: Jacob's Room
Timothy Sullivan: Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Heinrich Sutermeister: Consolatio Philosophiae
Heinrich Sutermeister: Niobe
Mikael Tariverdiev: Waiting (or The Wait or Expectation)
John Taverner: The Immurement of Antigone
Alain Thibault: Ne blâmez jamais les bédouins
Ernst Toch: Egon und Emilie,Op. 48 (also: 1 speaker)
Kunio Toda: Anna la Bonne
Bruce Trinkley: Memorial from "Lost in Translation"
Bruce Trinkley: Paradise Reneged (from "Lost in Translation"
Karmella Tsepkolenko: Zwischen zwei Feuern (Between Two Fires; Mizh dvokh vohniv) (also sung by mezzo)
Richard Vella: Tales of Love
Judith Weir: King Harald's Saga (a capella)
Hugo Weisgall: The Stronger (also: 1 female mime)
Mike Westbrook: Cape Gloss
Gillian Whitehead: Alice
Gillian Whitehead: Hotspur
James Woods: The Táin
James Yannatos: Sounds of Desolation and Joy
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MEZZO-SOPRANO or CONTRALTO
Linda Ayers: Another Victim Found in Rubble
Virko Baley: Klytemnestra
Josef Bardanashvili: Eva
Seymour Barab: Everything Must be Perfect
Benjamin Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93
Giulio Castagnoli: Il Re (with reciter)
Gordon Crosse: Memories of Morning:Night, Op. 30
Peter Maxwell Davies: The Medium
Gary Eister: Like Writing on Water
Julia Gomelskaya: The Divine Sarah (1999)
Ron Hannah: Hundreds and Thousands
Lee Hoiby: Bon Appétit
Jean Ivey: Testament of Eve
Victor Kioulaphides: Dry Smoke
Harue Kondoh: Monodrama, Izakaya Otogibanashi
Iryna Kyrylina: Three Portraits
Nicola LeFanu: The Old Woman of Beare
Neil McKay: Patterns
Eric Moe: Tri-Stan
George Rochberg: Phaedra
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: String of Pearls
David Schiff: Vashti
Salvatore Sciarrino: Infinito nero
Linda Catlin Smith: Hieroglyphs
Ethel Smyth: Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine
David Stock: A Little Miracle
Hirokazu Sugano: Adachigahara no kijo
Mikael Tariverdiev: Waiting (or The Wait or Expectation)
John Tavener: The Immurement of Antigone
Kunio Toda: Anna la Bonne
Karmella Tsepkolenko: Zwischen zwei Feuern (Between Two Fires) (also sung by soprano)
Elizabeth Vercoe: Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine (mezzo-soprano, piano)
Gillian Whitehead: Eleanor of Aquitaine
John Zorn: Rituals
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COUNTERTENOR
Hans-Jürgen von Bose: Kafka-Projekt
Jakob Draminsky Højmark: <MR.X>_ _ _</MR.X>
Lyudmyla Samodaieva: Delires - II. Alchimie Du Verbe (also sung by soprano)
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TENOR
Carson Cooman: Rossini in the Kitchen (Rossini aux Fourneaux), Op. 615 (2005)
Nathan Currier: A Kafka Cantata
Andrew Ford: Night and Dreams: The Death of Sigmund Freud (for elderly voice)
Andrew Ford: Whispers
Silvio Foretić: Semi-Mono-Opera (semiopera semiseria)
Daron Aric Hagen: Songs of Madness and Sorrow (1996)
Hans Werner Henze: Der Langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
Martin Hennessy: A Letter to East 11th Street - Part I (2003) (also: non-singing actress)
Wilfried Hiller: Ijob (for elderly singer; also: 1 female speaker, 1 male speaker)
Leonard Lehrman: The Family Man
Hanna Kulenty: Przypoviesc o Ziarne (Parable of the Grain)
Steven Mackey: Ravenshead
more info
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BARITONE
Kalevi Aho: The Key
Dominick Argento: A Water-Bird Talk
more info
V. Arzoumanov: Oma Gawa
Lera Auerbach: La Vita Nova, Op. 20
Tim Brady: Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Barry Conyngham: Bony Anderson
Barry Conyngham: Fix
Solomon Epstein: The Wild Boy (high lyric baritone; also: young male dancer)
Andrew Ford: Casanova Confined
Matthew Greenbaum: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Hans Werner Henze: El Cimarrón
Warner Hutchinson: The Sacrilege of Alan Kent
Martin Kalmanoff: Harmfulness of Tobacco
Yuri Kasparov: Nevermore (1992) (also: 17 non-singing performers)
Ilya Levinson: The Tell-Tale Heart
Rodney Lister: Colors for Anna (1991)
Bernadetta Matuszczak: The Diary of a Fool (also: 1 speaker, 1 mime)
Marcel Mihalovici: Krapp, ou La Dernière Band
Kazu Munakata: Ah Money
Stephen Oliver: Bad Times (1975)
Stanojlo Rajičić: The Diary of a Madman (dramatic baritone)
Larry Sitsky: De Profundis Espistola in carcere et vinculis
Leo Smit: Thomas Jefferson
Michael White: Diary of a Madman (a.k.a. The Mad Man's Diary)
Oded Zehavi: Shaul (with soprano treble)
Sergey Zyatkov: Hi
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BASS-BARITONE or BASS
Yuri Butsko: Diary of a Madman
Russell Currie: Caliban
Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
Domenico Cimarosa: Il Maestro di Capella
Yuri Kasparov: Nevermore (a.k.a. The Raven)
Gerard Pape: Monologue
F. Yanov-Yanovsky: Accompanist
Qu Xiao-song: The Last String
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UNDETERMINED OR UNSPECIFIED
Hidehiko Arashino: Zigoku no Sobei
Hidehiko Arashino: Oman·Kowai
Evgeny Anatolyevich Baev: Pygmalion and Galatea
A. Barbus: Gentleness
John Joseph Becker: Faust (Triptych)
Leonid Bobylev: ...With the Last Kissing...
Iury (Jurij) M. Boutsko (Bucko): Luđakovi zapisi (Notices of a Madman)
Jozef Gahér: Dante Alighieri
Gara Garayev (a.k.a. Kara Karaev): Nezhnost (Tenderness) (female voice)
Vitaly Hubarenko: Nizhnist/Lysty kokhannia (Tenderness/Love Letters)
Toshi Ichiyanagi: Hi no Yuigon
Bernadetta Maruszczak: Pamiêtnik wariata (The Lunatic's Diary)
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Love Chain (male voice)
Edward Sadoyan: Tree of Life
Bruce Saylor: It Had Wings
Kaneda Shin-ichi: Chikyu ni Yasashii Kodomo (The Earth-Friendly Children)
Eduard (or Ede) Terényi: Kalevala
Bruce Trinkley: Cyber from "Lost in Translation"
Hiroyuki Yamamoto: Imaginative Landscape (female voice)
Ghenadie Ciobanu: Ateh: sau revelaţille prinţesei khazare
Traditional Korean Opera form: Pansori (for solo voice and drum)
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