The Cunning Little Vixen
Incorporated within the production programming of "Animating Opera" was the America staged premiere of Messiaen's "Saint-François d'Assise", Virgil Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", as well as a commission for a new work by John Adams and Peter Sellars entitled "Doctor Atomic", which premiered on 1 October 2005. Other operas new to the SFO's repertoire during her directorship include Busoni's "Doktor Faust", Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" and Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen".