2023

2022

2019

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Angel of the Amazon on Tour!
Music & Libretto by Evan Mack
Directed by Nancy Rhodes
At Notre Dame Academy in
Hingham, Massachusetts

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Angel of the Amazon
Music & Libretto by Evan Mack
Directed by Nancy Rhodes
At The Sheen Center

Music For Peace
Held in New York, New York

National Association of Teachers of Singing
Held in Chicago, Illinois

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Paradigm Shifts: Music
and Film Festival

Held in New York, New York

Anna Christie
Music by Edward Thomas and
Libretto by Joseph Masteroff at
Baruch Performing Arts Center

Ocean Dream Music by Victor Kioulaphides Libretto by Nancy Rhodes Laanesaarte Kammerorkester, Saaremaa, ESTONIA

2018

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2017

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Paradigm Shifts: Music and Film Festival
Held in New York, New York and Seoul, Korea

2016

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The Astronaut's Tale
Music by Charles Fussell Libretto by Jack Larson New York Premiere At Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM Fisher

Paradigm Shifts: Music & Film Festival

2015

Paradigm Shifts: Music and Film Festival

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2014

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A Wake Or A Wedding Music and Libretto by Richard Pearson Thomas. New York Premiere At Baruch Performing Arts Center

Paradigm Shifts: Music and Film Festival

2012

Singing Stein
Ned Rorem's Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters
Virgil Thomson's Capital Capitals
Texts by Gertrude Stein At Symphony Space

2011

Angel of the Amazon
Music and Libretto by Evan Mack
*World Premiere
At the Baryshnikov Arts Center

2010

The Theory of Everything Workshop performances
Music by John David Earnest
Libretto by Nancy Rhodes At Lang Recital Hall

2009

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I Tre Compagni
(The Three Companions)
Music and Libretto by Louis Gioia
*World Premiere
Gerald W. Lynch Theatre

Four Saints in Three Acts - 75th Anniversary Celebration. Music by Virgil Thomson Libretto by Gertrude Stein. At The Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY

2008

Shaw Sings!
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Passion, Poison and Petrifaction
Music by Philip Hagemann
Libretto based on text by George Bernard Shaw
At Symphony Space

2007

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Kiss Me Kate Music by Cole Porter Libretto by Samuel and Bella Spewack Directed by Nancy Rhodes At the National Opera of Albania

Through the Looking Glass: American Opera Backwards and Forwards Wall to Wall Opera, Symphony Space

Commission: The Theory of Everything Music by John David Earnest Libretto by Nancy Rhodes

2006

2005

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Gertrude Stein Musical Trilogy
Three Sisters Who are Not Sisters
Music by Ned Rorem
Libretto by Gertrude Stein

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Capital Capitals
Music by Virgil Thomson
Libretto by Gertrude Stein
New York Premiere Staging

Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On
Music by William Banfield
Story & Text by poet Karren LaLonde Alenier
World Premiere
At Symphony Space

2004

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A Perfect Plan
Music and Libretto by Seymour Barab
World premiere
At Symphony Space*

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The Diary of Anne Frank
An Opera by Grigori Frid
Words from Anne Frank's Diary
Translation by Alla Gomon and James Briscoe
Encompass production booked at Cleveland Opera

West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein
At The National Opera of Albania in Tirana
The first American musical ever staged in Albania
filmed for television production
Directed by Nancy Rhodes
Conducted by John Yaffé

2003

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Approaching Infinity

A Full Moon in March
Music by John Harbison
Libretto based on the play by W.B. Yeats

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The End of a World
Music by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
*American premiere At The Connelly Theatre

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Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On
Music by William Banfield
Libretto by Karren L. Alenier

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The Diary of Anne Frank An Opera by Grigori Frid
Words from Anne Frank's Diary
Translation by Alla Gomon and James Briscoe
At The Shea Theatre, Performing Arts Services
Suffolk County Community College

2002

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The Diary of Anne Frank
An Opera by Grigori Frid
Words from Anne Frank's Diary
Translation by Alla Gomon and James Briscoe
At The Connelly Theatre
*American premiere

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Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On
Music by William Banfield
Libretto by Karren L. Alenier

2001

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Only Heaven Music by Ricky Ian Gordon Based on the poetry of Langston Hughes At The Connelly Theatre

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Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On
Music by William Banfield
Libretto by Karren L. Alenier
*World premiere

2000

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Un Racconto Fiorentino
Music and Libretto by Louis Gioia
*World premiere At Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

1998-
1999

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Venus in Africa
Music by George Antheil
Libretto by Michael Dyne
*New York premiere

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Phaedra
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Benjamin Britten set from Robert Lowell's translation of Phèdre by Jean Racine
*New York premiere

1997-
1998

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Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night
Music by Dominick Argento
Libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour

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Ocean Dream
Music by Victor Kioulaphides
Libretto by Nancy Rhodes
*World premiere

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I Will Wait
Music and Libretto by Arif Mardin
*World premiere

1996-
1997

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Ladies in a Maze
Music by Richard Pearson Thomas
*World premiere

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Transatlantic
Music and Libretto by George Antheil

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Home and the River
Music by George Quincy
Libretto by Benjamin Barber
*World premiere

1995-
1996

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A Picnic Cantata
Music by Paul Bowles
Libretto by Paul Schuyler

1995

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Only Heaven
Music by Ricky Ian Gordon
Poetry by Langston Hughes
*World premiere

1993-
1994

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Desert of Roses
Music by Robert Moran
Libretto by Michael John LaChiusa
*New York premiere

1992-
1993

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The Glass Woman
Music by Sorrel Hays
Libretto by Sorrel Hays and Sally Ordway
Book by Sally Ordway and Nancy Rhodes
*World premiere

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1988

Carmen
Music by Bizet
Opera Mobile, Oslo, Norway

1987

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Kiss Me Kate
Music by Cole Porter
State Theatre & Opera
Ankara, Turkey

1985

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Lord Byron
Music by Virgil Thomson
Libretto by Jack Larson
Co-production with New York Opera Repertory Theatre
at Alice Tully Hall in honor of Virgil Thomson's 89th Birthday

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1984

Death in Venice
Written by Benjamin Britten
Gota Lejon Theatre, Stockholm

1982

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The Monkey Opera
Music by Roger Tréfousse
Libretto by Jane DeLynn
*World premiere

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Encompass performs at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam: Eccentrics, Outcasts, and Visionaries,
A Century of American Opera, 1850 - 1950
(17 fully staged scenes with orchestra,
7 singers, chorus & dancers).

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American Parlor (songs of America)
Tours Amsterdam, Den Hague, Rotterdam, and Utrecht

1981

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Transatlantic
Music and Libretto by George Antheil
*American premiere

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Der Vampyr
Music by Heinrich Marschner
German Libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück
English Translation by Michael Feingold
*American premiere

Aria da Capo
Music by José Luis Greco
Play by Edna St. Vincent Millay
World premiere

The Girl on the Via Flaminia
Music by Waddy Thompson
Libretto by Elsa Rael
Based on the book by Alfred Hayes
World premiere

1980

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Elizabeth and Essex
Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Music by Doug Katsaros
Libretto by Richard Engquist
*World premiere

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Postcard from Morocco
Music by Dominick Argento
Libretto by John Donahue

The Stronger
Music by Hugo Weisgall
Libretto by August Strindberg

Hello Out There
Music and Libretto by Jack Beeson
Play by William Saroyan

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Tartuffe
Music by Kirke Mechem
Based on the play by Moliere
At the San Francisco Opera
Directed by Nancy Rhodes
*World Premiere

1979

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Regina
Music and Libretto by Marc Blitzstein
Based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

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Porch
Play by Jeffrey Sweet
*World premiere

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Fantasies Take Flight: A Night of Short Opera.
Operas by Samuel Barber, Charles Strouse, Sheldon Harnick, Lukas Foss, Peter Westergaard, and Tom Johnson

A Hand of Bridge
Music by Samuel Barber
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti

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Introductions and Good-Byes
Music by Lukas Foss
Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti

Frustration
Music and Libretto by Sheldon Harnick

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The Four-Note Opera
Music and Libretto by Tom Johnson

Satisfaction
Music and Libretto by Charles Strouse

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Mr. and Mrs. Discobolus
Music by Peter Westergaard
On the poem by Edward Lear
*American premiere

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The Wise Woman (Die Kluge)
Music and Libretto by Carl Orff
*New York premiere

1978

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Pantaloon: He Who Gets Slapped
Music by Robert Ward
Libretto by Bernard Stambler

St. Joan of the Stockyards
Additional Music by Paul Kazanoff
Play by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Naomi Replansky
*World premiere"

Women Founders of the American Theatre, 1910-1945
Series of plays including Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, plays by Zoe Aikins, Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Zona Gale, and Hallie Flanagan

1977

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The Tender Land
Music by Aaron Copland
Libretto by Horace Everette

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The Yellow Wallpaper
Play by Gloria Albee
*World premiere

1976

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The Mother of Us All
Music by Virgil Thomson
Text by Gertrude Stein

“One of the aspects that is unique about Encompass is the amount of artistic work we do on each and every production from the director’s concept, design concept, and musical preparation, working with the singers for the highest-level acting and musical performances, and of course working with the composer, librettist, striving to illuminate the essence of whatever the piece is about through intense theatrical and musical qualities.”

— Nancy Rhodes, Artistic Director