Der Schauspieldirektor
The company's initial offering, in July 1995, was a production of "Carmen" with Donna Ames and Adam Klein as Carmen and Don José. However, since then, PORTopera has presented relatively little French opera, concentrating instead on Italian literature, including three operas in Italian by Mozart. From the German repertoire, PORTopera has offered only Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, and its sole offering by a composer associated with America was Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium, both performed at the Merill Auditorium in 2000. The Young Artists have presented two rarities to punctuate a list of otherwise predominantly standard repertoire works: Bizet's "Dr. Miracle" in 2002 and Mozart's "L'Oca del Cairo" in 2006.