2012 in opera

Notable events relating to 2012 in opera:

Premieres

List of operas which premiered in 2012:

Date	Opera	Composer	Theatre
9 February	Thelma	Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	Surrey Opera, Ashcroft Theatre, London
8 August	The Francis Bacon Opera	Stephen Crowe	Camden Arts Centre, London
22 August	Mittwoch aus Licht	Karlheinz Stockhausen	Birmingham Opera Company, Argyle Works, Digbeth, Birmingham, UK
30 August	Ghost Patrol	Stuart MacRae	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
? July	Written on Skin	George Benjamin	Aix-en-Provence Festival
7 July	Swindon: The Opera	Betty Roe	Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon, UK
29 September	Dog Days	David T. Little	Peak Performances, Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, New Jersey

20 January	Ruthilde Boesch , 94, Austrian soprano
22 January	Rita Gorr, 85, Belgian mezzo-soprano
24 January	Patricia Neway, 92, American soprano
29 January	Camilla Williams, 92, American soprano
8 February	Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian baritone
14 February	Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor
18 February	Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano
10 April	Lili Chookasian, 90, American contralto
12 April	Stefánia Moldován , 80, Hungarian soprano
13 April	Margarita Lilowa , 76, Bulgarian-Austrian mezzosoprano/contralto
16 April	Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian soprano
20 April	Leandra Overmann , 55, Serbian mezzo-soprano/contralto
16 May	Maria Bieșu, 76, Moldovan soprano
18 May	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone
23 June	Franz Crass, 84, German bass
24 June	Jean Cox, 90, American tenor
1 July	Evelyn Lear, 86, American soprano
22 July	Nan Merriman, 92, American mezzo-soprano
7 August	Karl Helm , 73, German bass
23 August	Marlise Wendels , 89, German soprano
1 September	Amanda Thane, 59, Australian soprano^[1]
22 September	Grigory Frid, 97, Russian composer
30 September	Walter Dicks , 99, German baritone
27 October	Hans Werner Henze, 86, German composer
5 November	Elliott Carter, 103, American composer
4 December	Jonathan Harvey, 73, British composer
10 December	Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss soprano
11 December	Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian soprano
24 December	Richard Rodney Bennett, 76, British composer