The Top 25: 2017-2018
The most-produced operas in the U.S. and Canada, 2016–2017
1. Carmen
Kate Aldrich’s Carmen at Hawaii Opera Theatre (courtesy Hawaii Opera Theatre)
2. Madama Butterfly
3. Die Zauberflöte
4. Le Nozze di Figaro
5. Don Giovanni
Melinda Whittington as Donna Anna and Joshua Hopkins as Don Giovanni at Utah Opera (photo: Addie Salazar/Utah Opera)
6. La Traviata 7. Tosca
Sondra Radvanovsky as Tosca and Ambrogio Maestri as Scarpia at LA Opera (photo: Ken Howard)
8. Eugen Onegin
Svetlana Aksenova as Tatiana at The Dallas Opera (photo: Karen Almond)
9. Rigoletto
Raffaele Abete as the Duke at Opera Grand Rapids (photo: Joel Bissell)
10. Roméo et Juliette
11. Aida
Leah Crocetto as Aida at San Francisco Opera (photo: Cory Weaver)
12. La bohème
Keith Colclough as Colline, Dane Suarez as Rodolfo and E. Scott Levin as Schaunard at Pacific Opera Project (photo: Martha Benedict)
13. Lucia di Lammermoor
14. As Once
15. My Fair Lady
16. Die Entführung aus dem Serail
17. Turandot
18. Don Pasquale
19. Falstaff
20. Hänsel und Gretel
21. Norma
22. Sweeney Todd
23. Dead Man Walking
David Adam Moore as Joseph De Rocher at Lyric Opera of Kansas City (photo: Cory Weaver)
24. Oklahoma!
25. Il barbiere di Siviglia
This article was published in the Winter 2018 issue of Opera America Magazine .
