2010 in opera

Events relating to 2010 in opera:

Premieres

List of operas which premiered in 2010:

Date	Opera	Composer	Theatre
18 January	The Child Dreams	Gil Shohat	Israeli Opera
26 February	Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera	David T. Little	Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
1 March	Émilie	Kaija Saariaho	Opéra National de Lyon
12 March	Bliss	Brett Dean	Sydney Opera House
3 March	Knight Crew	Julian Philips	Glyndebourne
17 April	Shadowboxer	Frank Proto	University of Maryland School of Music, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
30 April	Moby-Dick	Jake Heggie	Dallas Opera
7 May	Queen of Knives	Eric Stern	Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, Oregon
8 May	Amelia	Daron Hagen	Seattle Opera
13 June	The Golden Ticket	Peter Ash	Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
24 July	Life is a Dream	Lewis Spratlan	Santa Fe Opera
7 August	Sonya's Story	Neal Thornton	Riverside Studios, London
10 September	’u’	Eef van Breen	Theater Zeebelt, The Hague
25 September	Gisela!	Hans Werner Henze	Maschinenhalle Zeche Zweckel , Gladbeck, Germany
8 October	Pecan Summer	Deborah Cheetham	WestSide Performing Arts Centre, Mooroopna, Australia

17 February	Kathryn Grayson, 88, American soprano and film star
5 March	Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor
23 March	Blanche Thebom, 91, American mezzo-soprano
1 April	Morag Beaton, 83, Scottish-Australian soprano
10 April	William Walker, 78, American baritone and General Director of the Fort Worth Opera
5 May	Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian mezzo-soprano
24 May	Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German soprano
25 May	Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African tenor
27 May	Peter J. Hall, 84, British-born American costume designer
2 June	Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian baritone
14 June	Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian tenor
16 June	Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian contralto
5 July	Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian bass
14 July	Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor
15 July	Luo Pinchao, 98, Chinese opera singer
21 July	Anthony Rolfe Johnson, 69, British tenor
19 September	László Polgár, 63, Hungarian bass
28 September	Dolores Wilson, 82, American soprano
10 October	Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian soprano
5 November	Shirley Verrett, 79, American mezzo-soprano/soprano
30 November	Peter Hofmann, 66, German tenor
3 December^{[N 1]}	Hugues Cuénod, 108, Swiss tenor