Around the world Lionel Friend has conducted a wide range of opera from Mozart through Verdi and Wagner to 20th-century masters and world premiere productions.

BEETHOVEN
Fidelio

BERG
Wozzeck; Lulu

BERLIOZ
Béatrice et Bénédict

BIZET
Les pêcheurs de perles; Carmen

David BLAKE
Toussaint; The Plumber’s Gift (world premiere); Scoring a Century (world premiere)

Havergal BRIAN
The Tigers (world premiere)

BRITTEN
Peter Grimes; The Rape of Lucretia; The Turn of the Screw; Death in Venice

CHAUSSON
Le roi Arthus

DALLAPICCOLA
Volo di notte; Il prigioniero

Peter Maxwell DAVIES
The Lighthouse

DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande

DELIUS
Fennimore and Gerda

DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena; Lucia di Lammermoor

Jonathan DOVE
L'augellino belverde (The little green swallow); Mansfield Park

DVOŘÁK
Rusalka

GERSHWIN
Porgy and Bess

Anthony GILBERT
The Chakravaka Bird (world premiere)

GLUCK
Iphigénie en Tauride

Elliot GOLDENTHAL
Grendel

Jonathan HARVEY
Inquest of Love (European premiere)

HOLST
Sāvitri

HUMPERDINCK
Hänsel und Gretel

JANÁČEK
Příhody lišky Bystroušky; Věc Makropulos

Elisabeth LUTYENS
The Linnet from the Leaf (world premiere)

MASSENET
Manon; Werther

MOZART
La finta giardiniera; Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte; Die Zauberflöte

MUSSORGSKY
Marriage

NICOLAI
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

OFFENBACH
Les contes d’Hoffmann

PENDERECKI
Die Teufel von Loudun (world premiere of final version)

PUCCINI
La bohème; Madama Butterfly

RAVEL
L’heure espagnole

ROSSINI
Il turco in Italia; Il barbiere di Siviglia; La gazza ladra

SCHUBERT
Fierrabras

SMETANA
The bartered bride

STRAVINSKY
Le rossignol; Mavra; Oedipus Rex; The Rake’s Progress

STRAUSS
Salome; Ariadne auf Naxos; Arabella

John TAVENER
Mary of Egypt (world premiere)

TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugène Onegin; The Queen of Spades

André TCHAIKOWSKY (Andrzej Czajkowski)
The Merchant of Venice

TIPPETT
The Midsummer Marriage

Victor ULLMANN
Der Kaiser von Atlantis

VERDI
Rigoletto; Il trovatore; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Falstaff

Richard WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer; Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Tristan und Isolde; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Parsifal

Siegfried WAGNER
An Allem ist Hütchen schuld

WALTON
The Bear (German premiere)

WEBER
Euryanthe

WEILL
Mahagonny-Songspiel; Die 7 Todsünden; Lost in the Stars

Judith WEIR
A Night at the Chinese Opera

Malcolm WILLIAMSON
English Eccentrics

Updated: January 2023