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“Hercules,” with a secular story drawn from Greek mythology, is nominally an oratorio—it was unstaged at its London premiere and carries a moral lesson—but it is highly theatrical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Shanghai music director Long Yu, “Émigré” was given its world premiere at Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall on Nov. 17 in an unstaged performance.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

The octogenarian Schnebel was in the audience – as was David Sawer, whose Flesh and Blood, a new BBC commission, is a dramatic scene for two singers: it is unstaged, but performed in costume.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2013

Few realized that Ms. Saariaho’s theatrical career had actually begun with a little-known ballet, “Maa,” unstaged since its premiere in 1991.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2010

It is a comforting thought that adhesion to this decision will suffer certain unstaged actions of crowned heads to remain in charitable oblivion.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright