The Gypsy Baron
From 1997 to 2004, Winter was Composer-in-Residence at the Ohio Light Opera, and oversaw productions of many of his opera translations, including "Boccaccio" (von Suppé), "The Gypsy Baron" (Strauss), "The Merry Widow" (Lehàr) and "Die Fledermaus" (Strauss). The OLO commissioned a number of critical editions of seldom performed operettas, starting with Victor Herbert's "Eileen" (1997), utilizing Herbert's original manuscripts in the collection of the Library of Congress. Similar reconstructions followed: Herbert's "The Red Mill" (2001) and "Sweethearts" (2002), and Reginald De Koven's "Robin Hood" (2004). These works were issued as CDs on the Newport and Albany labels.