These are the operas I've attended in person, and unless otherwise noted the performances were all seen at San Francisco Opera. It's as complete a list as I can recall, but I suspect I have forgotten a couple of smaller or foreign productions (I don't save programs anymore). The numbers refer to productions (including revivals), and not performances seen within a run. If you're reading this, you're probably already an opera enthusiast and know who the composers are so I didn't bother to list them (since there's nothing really avant-garde or obscure on the list- if that ever changes I'll add the composers). My first performance was Carmen in 1996- that's when the bug bit, to give you the era in which these have been seen. If the text is in blue, it means I really loved it. Eventually I will add links to performances which were discussed on this blog.
L'Amico Fritz (Merola)
A Flowering Tree (SFS)
Aida 2
Ainadamar (Opera Parallele)
Alcina
Appomattox
Ariodante
Il Barbiere di Siviglia 6 (SFO, Merola)
Billy Budd
The Birds (LAO)
La Boheme 4 (SFO, Baz Luhrman's)
Bonjour M. Gauguin (West Edge Opera)
Boris Gudunov
Cavalleria Rusticana
Certitude and Joy (Erling Wold Fabrications, comp. Wold)
Cosi Fan Tutte 2
The Cunning Little Vixen
Cyrano de Bergerac
La Damnation de Faust 4 (SFO, LAO, Met, SFS)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
La Fille du Régiment
Der Fliegende Holländer 3 (LAO, SFO, SFS)
La Forza del Destino
Dido and Aeneas (Urban Opera)
Doctor Atomic
Doktor Faust
Don Carlo 2
Don Giovanni 4 (SFO, LAO)
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (SFS)
Einstein on the Beach (Berkeley 2012)
L'Elisir d'Amore 3 (LAO, SFO, Merola)
Eugene Onegin
La Fanciulla del West
Faust
Fidelio 3 (LAO, SFO, SFS)
The Fly (LAO)
Four Saints in Three Acts 2 (Mark Morris Dance Group, Ensemble Parallele)
From the House of the Dead (Met)
Gotterdammerung 4 (LAO, SFO-1999, 2011, Mariinsky)
Le Grand Macabre
The Great Gatsby (Ensemble Parallele)
Heart of a Soldier
Idomeneo 2
Iphigenie en Tauride
L'Italiana in Algeri 2 (Met, SFO)
Jenufa (Met)
Kát'a Kabanová
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
the little match girl passion (SF Lyric Opera)
Lohengrin 2 (LAO, SFO)
Louise
Lucia di Lammermoor 2
Lucrezia Borgia
Luisa Miller
Lulu (Met)
Macbeth
Machine (comp. Clark Suprynowicz, the Crucible)
Madama Butterfly 3
The Makropoulos Case (SFO, Aix-en Provence)
Manon Lescaut
The Marriage of Figaro 3 (SFO, Merola)
Moby Dick
The Mother of Us All
Nabucco
El Nino 2 (SFS)
Nixon in China
Norma
Orleanskaya Dyeva (Joan of Arc)
Orphée (Ensemble Parallele)
Otello 3 (SFO, Opera Carolina)
Pagliacci
The Pearl Fishers
Porgy and Bess
Postcard from Morocco (Merola)
Il Postino
The Rape of Lucretia (Castleton)
Rigoletto 3 (LAO, SFO, Met)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete cycles): SFO 1999, Mariinsky 2006 (Costa Mesa, CA), LAO 2010, SFO 2011
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame)
The Rake's Progress
Das Rheingold 6 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny (LAO)
Rodelinda
La Rondine
Der Rosenkavalier
Saint François d'Assise
Salome 2 (Met, SFO)
Samson et Dalila 2
Siegfried 4 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
Simon Boccanegra 2
The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) (LAO)
Tannhauser
Tosca 3 (SFO, Swedish National Opera)
Die Tote Stadt
La Traviata 3 (SFO, ENO)
Tristan un Isolde 4 (LAO, SFO, LAP)
Il Trittico 2 (LAO, SFO)
Il Trovatore 2
Trouble in Tahiti (Opera Parallele)
The Tsar's Bride
Turandot 2 (Rome, Met)
Un Ballo in Maschera 2
Die Walkure 7 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
Werther
The Witch of Endor (Urban Opera)
Wozzeck 2 (SFO, London Phil)
Die Zauberflöte 2
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) (LAO)
L'Amico Fritz (Merola)
A Flowering Tree (SFS)
Aida 2
Ainadamar (Opera Parallele)
Alcina
Appomattox
Ariodante
Il Barbiere di Siviglia 6 (SFO, Merola)
Billy Budd
The Birds (LAO)
La Boheme 4 (SFO, Baz Luhrman's)
Bonjour M. Gauguin (West Edge Opera)
Boris Gudunov
I Capuleti ed i Montecchi
Carmen 6 (SFO, HGO, SFLO, Utah Opera )Cavalleria Rusticana
Certitude and Joy (Erling Wold Fabrications, comp. Wold)
Cosi Fan Tutte 2
The Cunning Little Vixen
Cyrano de Bergerac
La Damnation de Faust 4 (SFO, LAO, Met, SFS)
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
La Fille du Régiment
Der Fliegende Holländer 3 (LAO, SFO, SFS)
La Forza del Destino
Dido and Aeneas (Urban Opera)
Doctor Atomic
Doktor Faust
Don Carlo 2
Don Giovanni 4 (SFO, LAO)
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (SFS)
Einstein on the Beach (Berkeley 2012)
L'Elisir d'Amore 3 (LAO, SFO, Merola)
Eugene Onegin
La Fanciulla del West
Faust
Fidelio 3 (LAO, SFO, SFS)
The Fly (LAO)
Four Saints in Three Acts 2 (Mark Morris Dance Group, Ensemble Parallele)
From the House of the Dead (Met)
Gotterdammerung 4 (LAO, SFO-1999, 2011, Mariinsky)
Le Grand Macabre
The Great Gatsby (Ensemble Parallele)
Heart of a Soldier
Idomeneo 2
Iphigenie en Tauride
L'Italiana in Algeri 2 (Met, SFO)
Jenufa (Met)
Kát'a Kabanová
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
the little match girl passion (SF Lyric Opera)
Lohengrin 2 (LAO, SFO)
Louise
Lucia di Lammermoor 2
Lucrezia Borgia
Luisa Miller
Lulu (Met)
Macbeth
Machine (comp. Clark Suprynowicz, the Crucible)
Madama Butterfly 3
The Makropoulos Case (SFO, Aix-en Provence)
Manon Lescaut
The Marriage of Figaro 3 (SFO, Merola)
Moby Dick
The Mother of Us All
Nabucco
El Nino 2 (SFS)
Nixon in China
Norma
Orleanskaya Dyeva (Joan of Arc)
Orphée (Ensemble Parallele)
Otello 3 (SFO, Opera Carolina)
Pagliacci
The Pearl Fishers
Porgy and Bess
Postcard from Morocco (Merola)
Il Postino
The Rape of Lucretia (Castleton)
Rigoletto 3 (LAO, SFO, Met)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete cycles): SFO 1999, Mariinsky 2006 (Costa Mesa, CA), LAO 2010, SFO 2011
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame)
The Rake's Progress
Das Rheingold 6 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny (LAO)
Rodelinda
La Rondine
Der Rosenkavalier
Saint François d'Assise
Salome 2 (Met, SFO)
Samson et Dalila 2
Siegfried 4 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
Simon Boccanegra 2
The Stigmatized (Die Gezeichneten) (LAO)
Tannhauser
Tosca 3 (SFO, Swedish National Opera)
Die Tote Stadt
La Traviata 3 (SFO, ENO)
Tristan un Isolde 4 (LAO, SFO, LAP)
Il Trittico 2 (LAO, SFO)
Il Trovatore 2
Trouble in Tahiti (Opera Parallele)
The Tsar's Bride
Turandot 2 (Rome, Met)
Un Ballo in Maschera 2
Die Walkure 7 (LAO, SFO, Mariinsky)
Werther
The Witch of Endor (Urban Opera)
Wozzeck 2 (SFO, London Phil)
Die Zauberflöte 2
Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) (LAO)
