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1. Bombastes Furioso

Composer:: Pauline Alderman
Title:: Bombastes Furioso
Librettist/Literary Source:: William Barnes Rhodes
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1938
Country:: United States

2. Mamzelle Figaro

Composer:: Paul Hastings Allen
Title:: Mamzelle Figaro
Librettist/Literary Source:: Paul Hastings Allen, Enrico Golisciani
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1948
Country:: United States

3. Groceries and Notions

Composer:: Martha Alter
Title:: Groceries and Notions
Librettist/Literary Source:: Katharine Kinard Doughtie
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

4. Helen Retires

Composer:: George Antheil
Title:: Helen Retires
Librettist/Literary Source:: John Erskine
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

5. The Witches' Well

Composer:: Adeline Carola Appleton
Title:: The Witches' Well
Librettist/Literary Source:: Adeline Carola Appleton, Percy Davis
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1928
Country:: United States

6. Song of David

Composer:: Ira Arnstein
Title:: Song of David
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

7. A Drumlin Legend

Composer:: Ernst Bacon
Title:: A Drumlin Legend
Librettist/Literary Source:: Helen Carus
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

8. A Tree on the Plains

Composer:: Ernst Bacon
Title:: A Tree on the Plains
Librettist/Literary Source:: Paul Horgan
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1942
Country:: United States

9. By Gemini!

Composer:: Murray Baylor
Title:: By Gemini!
Librettist/Literary Source:: Elisabeth Barbou, Murray Baylor
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

10. Cabildo

Composer:: Amy Marcy Beach
Title:: Cabildo
Librettist/Literary Source:: Nan Bagby Stephens
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1945
Country:: United States

11. The Enchanted Kiss

Composer:: Robert Russell Bennett
Title:: The Enchanted Kiss
Librettist/Literary Source:: Robert Alfred Simon, [William Sydney Porter] O. Henry
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1945
Country:: United States

12. Endymion

Composer:: Robert Russell Bennett
Title:: Endymion
Librettist/Literary Source:: Robert Alfred Simon, Bernard de Fontenelle
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1935
Country:: United States

13. Maria Malibran

Composer:: Robert Russell Bennett
Title:: Maria Malibran
Librettist/Literary Source:: Robert Alfred Simon
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1935
Country:: United States

14. Judas Iscariot

Composer:: Arthur C. Berdahl
Title:: Judas Iscariot
Librettist/Literary Source:: David A. Johnson
Genre:: Oratorio
Year:: 1938
Country:: United States

15. Il cancelleto d'oro

Composer:: Alberto Bimboni
Title:: Il cancelleto d'oro
Librettist/Literary Source:: Armando Romano
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1936
Country:: United States

16. In the Name of Culture

Composer:: Alberto Bimboni
Title:: In the Name of Culture
Librettist/Literary Source:: Norma Frizelle Stolzenbach
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

17. Winona

Composer:: Alberto Bimboni
Title:: Winona
Librettist/Literary Source:: Perry Williams
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

18. The Cradle will Rock

Composer:: Marc Blitzstein
Title:: The Cradle will Rock
Librettist/Literary Source:: Marc Blitzstein
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

19. I've Got the Tune

Composer:: Marc Blitzstein
Title:: I've Got the Tune
Librettist/Literary Source:: Marc Blitzstein
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

20. No for an Answer

Composer:: Marc Blitzstein
Title:: No for an Answer
Librettist/Literary Source:: Marc Blitzstein
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1941
Country:: United States

21. Regina

Composer:: Marc Blitzstein
Title:: Regina
Librettist/Literary Source:: Marc Blitzstein, Lillian Hellman
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

22. Triple Sec

Composer:: Marc Blitzstein
Title:: Triple Sec
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ronald Jeans
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1929
Country:: United States

23. The Venetian Glass Nephew

Composer:: Eugene Bonner
Title:: The Venetian Glass Nephew
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ruth Hale
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

24. The Asra

Composer:: Joseph Carl Breil
Title:: The Asra
Librettist/Literary Source:: Joseph Carl Breil, Heinrich Heine
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

25. Truth

Composer:: Domenico Brescia
Title:: Truth
Librettist/Literary Source:: George Sterling
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

26. Paul Bunyan

Composer:: Benjamin Britten
Title:: Paul Bunyan
Librettist/Literary Source:: Wystan Hugh Auden
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1941
Country:: United States

27. The Boor

Composer:: Mark Bucci
Title:: The Boor
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eugene Haun, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

28. Lyneia

Composer:: William Clifton Byrd
Title:: Lyneia
Librettist/Literary Source:: Charlotte Shockley
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

29. The Garden of Mystery

Composer:: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Title:: The Garden of Mystery
Librettist/Literary Source:: Nellie Richmond Eberhart
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

30. The Willow Tree

Composer:: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Title:: The Willow Tree
Librettist/Literary Source:: Nellie Richmond Eberhart
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1933
Country:: United States

31. A Witch of Salem

Composer:: Charles Wakefield Cadman
Title:: A Witch of Salem
Librettist/Literary Source:: Nellie Richmond Eberhart
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

32. The Blonde Donna, or The Fiesta of Santa Barbara

Composer:: Ernest Trow Carter
Title:: The Blonde Donna, or The Fiesta of Santa Barbara
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ernest Trow Carter
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

33. The Congo

Composer:: Louis Cheslock
Title:: The Congo
Librettist/Literary Source:: Vachel Lindsay
Genre:: Oratorio
Year:: 1942
Country:: United States

34. The Jewel Merchants

Composer:: Louis Cheslock
Title:: The Jewel Merchants
Librettist/Literary Source:: James Branch Cabell
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1940
Country:: United States

35. The Nightingale

Composer:: Joseph Waddell Clokey
Title:: The Nightingale
Librettist/Literary Source:: Willis Knapp Jones, Hans Christian Andersen
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

36. Our American Cousin

Composer:: Joseph Waddell Clokey
Title:: Our American Cousin
Librettist/Literary Source:: Willis Knapp Jones, Tom Taylor
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

37. The Second Hurricane

Composer:: Aaron Copland
Title:: The Second Hurricane
Librettist/Literary Source:: Edwin Denby
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

38. Kykunkor (The Witch Woman)

Composer:: Asadata Dafora
Title:: Kykunkor (The Witch Woman)
Librettist/Literary Source:: Asadata Dafora
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

39. The Man Without a Country

Composer:: Walter Damrosch
Title:: The Man Without a Country
Librettist/Literary Source:: Arthur Guiterman, Edward Everett Hale
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

40. Onteora's Bride

Composer:: Dezso D'Antalffy
Title:: Onteora's Bride
Librettist/Literary Source:: James Parker Coombs, A. Silverman
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

41. The Sailing of the Nancy Bell

Composer:: Allan G. Davis
Title:: The Sailing of the Nancy Bell
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1948
Country:: United States

42. The Ordering of Moses

Composer:: Robert Nathaniel Dett
Title:: The Ordering of Moses
Librettist/Literary Source:: Robert Nathaniel Dett
Genre:: Oratorio
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

43. Escape from Liberty

Composer:: Robert Doellner
Title:: Escape from Liberty
Librettist/Literary Source:: Douglas M. Fellows
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1948
Country:: United States

44. Little Black Sambo

Composer:: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Title:: Little Black Sambo
Librettist/Literary Source:: Shirley Graham Du Bois, Charlotte Chorpenning
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1938
Country:: United States

45. Tom-Tom

Composer:: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Title:: Tom-Tom
Librettist/Literary Source:: Shirley Graham Du Bois
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1932
Country:: United States

46. The Prophet

Composer:: Robert James Dvorak
Title:: The Prophet
Librettist/Literary Source:: Kahlil Gibran
Genre:: Oratorio
Year:: 1947
Country:: United States

47. Wings

Composer:: George Edwards
Title:: Wings
Librettist/Literary Source:: Joseph Sexton Thompson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

48. Pierrot of the Minute

Composer:: Lehman Engel
Title:: Pierrot of the Minute
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ernest Dowson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1929
Country:: United States

49. La balteira

Composer:: Óscar Esplá
Title:: La balteira
Librettist/Literary Source:: Irene Lewisohn
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1935
Country:: United States

50. Nun's Priest's Tale

Composer:: Ross Lee Finney
Title:: Nun's Priest's Tale
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ross Lee Finney, Geoffrey Chaucer
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1935
Country:: United States

51. Slow Dusk

Composer:: Carlisle Floyd
Title:: Slow Dusk
Librettist/Literary Source:: Carlisle Floyd
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States

52. Camille

Composer:: Hamilton Forrest
Title:: Camille
Librettist/Literary Source:: Hamilton Forrest, Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1930
Country:: United States

53. Namiko-San

Composer:: Aldo Franchetti
Title:: Namiko-San
Librettist/Literary Source:: Leo Duran
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

54. The Princess and the Vagabond

Composer:: Isadore Freed
Title:: The Princess and the Vagabond
Librettist/Literary Source:: Pearl Cleveland Wilson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1948
Country:: United States

55. The Flapper

Composer:: Lawrence Freeman
Title:: The Flapper
Librettist/Literary Source:: Lawrence Freeman
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1928
Country:: United States

56. The Plantation

Composer:: Lawrence Freeman
Title:: The Plantation
Librettist/Literary Source:: Lawrence Freeman
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1930
Country:: United States

57. Voodoo

Composer:: Lawrence Freeman
Title:: Voodoo
Librettist/Literary Source:: Lawrence Freeman
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1928
Country:: United States

58. The Brownings go to Italy

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: The Brownings go to Italy
Librettist/Literary Source:: George Arthur Hawkins-Ambler
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1938
Country:: United States

59. The Chilkoot Maiden

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: The Chilkoot Maiden
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1927
Country:: United States

60. A Christmas Tale

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: A Christmas Tale
Librettist/Literary Source:: Barret Harper Clark, Maurice Bouchor
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1929
Country:: United States

61. Frithjof

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: Frithjof
Librettist/Literary Source:: Clement Burbank Shaw, Esaias Tegnér
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1929
Country:: United States

62. Joan of Arc

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: Joan of Arc
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1929
Country:: United States

63. A Legend of Spain

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: A Legend of Spain
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

64. The Legend of the Piper

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: The Legend of the Piper
Librettist/Literary Source:: Josephine Preston Peabody
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

65. Little Women

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: Little Women
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eleanor Everest Freer, Louisa May Alcott
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

66. Massimilliano, the Court Jester

Composer:: Eleanor Everest Freer
Title:: Massimilliano, the Court Jester
Librettist/Literary Source:: Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

67. Luana

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: Luana
Librettist/Literary Source:: Howard Emmett Rogers, J. Keirn Brennan
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1930
Country:: United States

68. Music hath Charms, or Annina

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: Music hath Charms, or Annina
Librettist/Literary Source:: Rowland Leigh
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

69. The Three Musketeers

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: The Three Musketeers
Librettist/Literary Source:: William Anthony McGuire, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1928
Country:: United States

70. The Vagabond King

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: The Vagabond King
Librettist/Literary Source:: Brian Hooker, William H. Post
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

71. The White Eagle

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: The White Eagle
Librettist/Literary Source:: Brian Hooker, William H. Post
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1927
Country:: United States

72. The Wild Rose

Composer:: Rudolf Friml
Title:: The Wild Rose
Librettist/Literary Source:: Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

73. Porgy and Bess

Composer:: George Gershwin
Title:: Porgy and Bess
Librettist/Literary Source:: Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1935
Country:: United States

74. Beauty and the Beast

Composer:: Vittorio Giannini
Title:: Beauty and the Beast
Librettist/Literary Source:: Robert Alfred Simon, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1939
Country:: United States

75. Blennerhasset

Composer:: Vittorio Giannini
Title:: Blennerhasset
Librettist/Literary Source:: Philip Roll, Norman Corwin
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1939
Country:: United States

76. Flora

Composer:: Vittorio Giannini
Title:: Flora
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

77. La monaca bianca

Composer:: Clemente Giglio
Title:: La monaca bianca
Librettist/Literary Source:: Francis Marion Crawford
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

78. The Music Robber

Composer:: Isaac Van Grove
Title:: The Music Robber
Librettist/Literary Source:: Richard Leroy Stokes
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

79. The Emperor Jones

Composer:: Louis Gruenberg
Title:: The Emperor Jones
Librettist/Literary Source:: Kathleen de Jaffa, Eugene O'Neill
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1933
Country:: United States

80. Green Mansions

Composer:: Louis Gruenberg
Title:: Green Mansions
Librettist/Literary Source:: William Henry Hudson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

81. Jack and the Beanstalk

Composer:: Louis Gruenberg
Title:: Jack and the Beanstalk
Librettist/Literary Source:: John Erskine, Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

82. The Witch of Brocken

Composer:: Louis Gruenberg
Title:: The Witch of Brocken
Librettist/Literary Source:: Emil Ferdinand Malkowski, J. Lillian Vandevere
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

83. The Isle of Cuckoo

Composer:: Homer Grunn
Title:: The Isle of Cuckoo
Librettist/Literary Source:: Charles O. Roos, Juanita E. Roos
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1931
Country:: United States

84. The Legend of Hani

Composer:: Henry Hadley
Title:: The Legend of Hani
Librettist/Literary Source:: Junius Cravens
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1933
Country:: United States

85. I Hear America Call

Composer:: Richard Hageman
Title:: I Hear America Call
Librettist/Literary Source:: Bernard Vincent Grossman
Genre:: Oratorio
Year:: 1941
Country:: United States

86. Harald's Dream

Composer:: Eugen David Haile
Title:: Harald's Dream
Librettist/Literary Source:: Eugen David Haile
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1933
Country:: United States

87. Merry Mount

Composer:: Howard Hanson
Title:: Merry Mount
Librettist/Literary Source:: Richard Leroy Stokes, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1933
Country:: United States

88. The Bleeding Heart of Timpanogas

Composer:: William Frederick Hanson
Title:: The Bleeding Heart of Timpanogas
Librettist/Literary Source:: William Frederick Hanson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1937
Country:: United States

89. Tam-Man-Nacup

Composer:: William Frederick Hanson
Title:: Tam-Man-Nacup
Librettist/Literary Source:: William Frederick Hanson
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1928
Country:: United States

90. Deep River

Composer:: William Franke Harling
Title:: Deep River
Librettist/Literary Source:: Lawrence Stallings
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1926
Country:: United States

91. A Light from St. Agnes

Composer:: William Franke Harling
Title:: A Light from St. Agnes
Librettist/Literary Source:: Minnie Maddern Fiske
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1925
Country:: United States

92. The Birds of Rhiannon

Composer:: Edward Harris
Title:: The Birds of Rhiannon
Librettist/Literary Source:: Waldemar Young
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1930
Country:: United States

93. Saint Francis of Assisi

Composer:: Charles Hart (2)
Title:: Saint Francis of Assisi
Librettist/Literary Source:: Irving Pichel
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1927
Country:: United States

94. Saul

Composer:: Charles Hart (2)
Title:: Saul
Librettist/Literary Source:: Benjamin Allen Purrington
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1940
Country:: United States

95. The Sorcerer's Drum

Composer:: Charles Hart (2)
Title:: The Sorcerer's Drum
Librettist/Literary Source:: Daniel Webster Evans
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1932
Country:: United States

96. Even unto Bethlehem

Composer:: Fritz Hart
Title:: Even unto Bethlehem
Librettist/Literary Source:: Fritz Hart
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1943
Country:: United States

97. The O'Flynn

Composer:: Franklin Hauser
Title:: The O'Flynn
Librettist/Literary Source:: Brian Hooker, Russell Janney
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

98. The Piper

Composer:: Eugene Heyes
Title:: The Piper
Librettist/Literary Source:: Dan Totheroh, Robert Browning
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1938
Country:: United States

99. Africana

Composer:: Donald Heywood
Title:: Africana
Librettist/Literary Source:: Donald Heywood, Abe Tuvim
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1934
Country:: United States

100. Dreams in Spades

Composer:: Serge Hovey
Title:: Dreams in Spades
Librettist/Literary Source:: Serge Hovey
Genre:: Opera
Year:: 1949
Country:: United States