Year of premiere |
Composed |
Composer |
Opera title |
Librettist and/or source(s) |
Television station
|
1938 |
|
Spike Hughes |
Cinderella[1] |
Spike Hughes |
BBC Television
|
1947 |
|
Spike Hughes |
St Patrick's Day |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
BBC Television
|
1951 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
Amahl and the Night Visitors |
Gian Carlo Menotti |
NBC
|
1952 |
|
Malcolm Arnold |
The Dancing Master |
Joe Mendoza, based on the play by William Wycherley |
BBC (rejected)[2]
|
1953 |
|
Bohuslav Martinů |
The Marriage |
Bohuslav Martinů |
NBC
|
1953 |
|
Bohuslav Martinů |
What Men Live By |
Bohuslav Martinů |
NBC
|
1954 |
|
Bernard Herrmann |
A Christmas Carol |
Maxwell Anderson after Charles Dickens |
CBS
|
1955 |
|
Lukas Foss |
Griffelkin |
Alastair Reid |
NBC
|
1955 |
|
Walter Kaufmann |
Christmas Slippers |
Betty Marsh |
Winnipeg[3]
|
1956 |
|
Norman Dello Joio |
The Trial at Rouen |
Norman Dello Joio |
NBC
|
1956 |
|
Leonard Kastle |
The Swing |
Leonard Kastle |
NBC
|
1956 |
|
Arthur Benjamin |
Mañana |
Caryl Brahms |
BBC Television[4]
|
1956 |
|
Malcolm Arnold |
The Open Window |
Sidney Gilliat |
BBC Television[5]
|
1957 |
|
Joan Trimble |
Blind Raftery[6] |
Cedric Cliffe, based on the novel by Donn-Byrne |
BBC Television
|
1957 |
|
Stanley Hollingsworth |
La Grande Bretèche |
Stanley Hollingsworth |
NBC
|
1959 |
|
Richard Arnell |
The Petrified Princess |
Richard Arnell |
BBC Television
|
1959 |
|
Guy Halahan |
The Spur of the Moment[7] |
Joe Mendoza, after Frank Baker, Miss Hargreaves |
BBC Television
|
1959 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
Maria Golovin |
Gian Carlo Menotti |
NBC
|
1959 |
|
Lee Hoiby |
Beatrice |
Marci Nardi |
WAVE
|
1959 |
|
Ezra Laderman |
Sarah |
Clair Rascom |
CBS
|
1959 |
|
Heinrich Sutermeister |
Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) |
Heinrich Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel |
Schweizer Fernsehen
|
1959 |
|
Henk Badings |
Salto mortale |
Henk Badings and Belcampo (Herman Pieter Schönfeld Wichers) |
Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
|
1959 |
|
Paul Angerer |
Passkontrolle |
|
ORF
|
1960 |
|
Arthur Bliss |
Tobias and the Angel |
Christopher Hassall |
BBC Television[8]
|
1961 |
|
Leonard Kastle |
Deseret |
Anne Howard Bailey |
NBC
|
1961 |
|
Jean Prodromidès |
Les Perses (The Persians) |
Jean Prat [fr], after Aeschylus |
RTF
|
1962 |
|
Igor Stravinsky |
The Flood |
Robert Craft |
CBS
|
1962 |
|
Phyllis Tate |
Dark Pilgrimage |
Phyllis Tate |
BBC Television
|
1962 |
|
Edwin Coleman |
A Christmas Carol[9] |
Margaret Burns Harris, after Charles Dickens |
BBC Television
|
1962 |
|
Riccardo Malipiero |
Battono alla porta |
Dino Buzzati |
RAI
|
1963 |
|
Ben McPeek |
The Bargain |
Ben McPeek |
CBC Television
|
1963 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
Labyrinth |
Gian Carlo Menotti |
NBC
|
1963 |
|
Carlisle Floyd |
The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair |
Carlisle Floyd |
NCE
|
1963 |
|
Ton de Leeuw |
Alceste |
Euripides |
Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
|
1964 |
|
Heinrich Sutermeister |
Das Gespenst von Canterville [de] |
Heinrich Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" |
Mainz, ZDF
|
1965 |
|
David Amram |
The Final Ingredient[10] |
Arnold Weinstein |
ABC
|
1965 |
|
Mark Bucci |
The Hero |
Mark Bucci |
National Educational Television
|
1965 |
|
Carl Davis |
The Arrangement[11] |
Leo Lehman [de] |
BBC Television
|
1965 |
|
Gian Carlo Menotti |
Martin's Lie |
Gian Carlo Menotti |
CBS
|
1966 |
|
R. Murray Schafer |
Loving |
R. Murray Schafer |
CBC Television
|
1967 |
|
Ezra Laderman |
The Trials of Galileo |
Joe Darion |
CBS Television
|
1967 |
|
Ingvar Lidholm |
Holländaren (The Dutchman) |
after August Strindberg |
Sveriges Television
|
1967 |
|
Christopher Whelen |
Some Place of Darkness[12] |
John Hopkins |
BBC Television
|
1968 |
|
Roman Vlad |
La fantarca [de; it] |
Giuseppe Berto's La fantarca [it] (1965) |
RAI
|
1968 |
|
Norman Kay |
The Rose Affair[13] |
After the novel by Alun Owen |
BBC Television
|
1969 |
|
Thomas Eastwood |
The Rebel[14] |
Ronald Duncan |
BBC Television
|
1969 |
|
Heinrich Sutermeister |
La croisade des enfants (The Children's Crusade) |
Heinrich Sutermeister, after Marcel Schwob |
TvR
|
1970 |
|
Jack Beeson |
My Heart's in the Highlands |
Jack Beeson |
PBS
|
1971 |
|
Heinrich Sutermeister |
Das Flaschenteufel |
Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp |
Mainz, ZDF
|
1971 |
1969–70 |
Benjamin Britten |
Owen Wingrave |
Myfanwy Piper, after Henry James |
BBC Two
|
1971 |
|
Ezra Laderman |
And David Wept |
Joe Darion, after the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba |
CBS Television[15][16]
|
1973 |
|
John Eaton |
Myshkin[17] |
Patrick Creagh after Dostoevsky's The Idiot |
PBS
|
1976 |
|
Alun Hoddinott |
Murder, The Magician[18] |
John Morgan |
HTV
|
1976 |
|
Godfrey Ridout |
The Lost Child |
John Reid |
CBC Television
|
1976 |
|
Raymond Pannell |
Aberfan[19] |
Beverly Pannell |
CBC Television
|
1977 |
|
Carl Davis |
Orpheus in the Underworld[20] |
John Wells |
BBC Television
|
1978 |
|
Norman Kay |
A Christmas Carol[21] |
John Morgan, after Charles Dickens |
HTV
|
1979 |
|
Alun Hoddinott |
The Rajah's Diamond[22] |
Myfanwy Piper, from R. L. Stevenson's New Arabian Nights |
BBC Television
|
1982 |
|
Peter Sculthorpe |
Quiros[23] |
Brian Bell |
ABC Television
|
1984 |
|
Robert Ashley |
Perfect Lives |
Robert Ashley |
Channel Four
|
1990 |
|
Salvador Brotons |
Reverend Everyman |
Gary Corseri, from Hofmannsthal's Jedermann |
WFSU-TV[24]
|
1991 |
|
Michael Nyman |
Letters, Riddles and Writs |
Jeremy Newson and Pat Gavin |
BBC Television
|
1993 |
|
Stewart Copeland |
Horse Opera[25] |
Jonathan Moore |
Channel Four
|
1993 |
|
Anthony Moore |
Camera[26] |
Peter Blegvad |
Channel Four
|
1994 |
1991–92 |
Gerald Barry |
The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit |
Meredith Oakes |
Channel Four
|
1994 |
1992 |
Orlando Gough |
The Empress[26] |
David Gale, from Wedekind |
Channel Four
|
1995 |
1993 |
Michael Torke |
King of Hearts[27] |
Christopher Rawlence |
Channel Four
|
1995 |
|
Mike Westbrook Kate Westbrook |
Good Friday, 1663[28] |
Helen Simpson |
Channel Four
|
2005 |
|
Judith Weir |
Armida |
Judith Weir |
Channel Four
|
2006 |
|
Jonathan Dove |
Man on the Moon |
Nicholas Wright |
Channel Four
|
2006 |
|
Alexina Louie |
Burnt Toast: 8 Mini Comic Operas About Love |
Dan Redican |
CBC Television
|
2015 |
|
Elena Kats-Chernin |
The Divorce |
Joanna Murray-Smith |
ABC TV (Australia)
|