Bluebeard's Castle by Bela Bartok
Bluebeard in Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book

Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
Cinderella by Charles Perrault, retold by Amy Ehrlich, pictures by Susan Jeffers

The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
The Flying Dutchman, retold byCatherine Storr

Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, translated by Charles Scribner, Jr., illustrated by Adrienne Adams

The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart, pictures by Riera Rojas

Orpheus and Eurydice by Christophe Willibald Gluck
Orpheus retold and illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak

Paul Bunyan by Benjamin Britten
The Story of Paul Bunyan by Barbara Emberley, woodcuts by Ed Emberley

Piper of Hamelin by Victor Nessler
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, retold and illustrated by Tony Ross

Romeo and Juliet by Charles-Francois Gounod
Romeo and Juliet for Kids by Lois Burdett

William Tell by Gioacchino Rossini
William Tell by Leonard Everett Fisher

Additional titles
Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch.
The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera by Shahrukh Husain.
Behind the Golden Curtain: Hansel and Gretel at the Great Opera House by E. Lee Spruyt.
Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera:Behind the Scenes with Composers, Cast, and Crew by Anne Siberell.
The Magic Flute by Anne Gatti, illustrated by Peter Malone
Opera by Alessandro Taverna.
The Phantom Cat of the Opera by David Wood, illustrated by Peters Day
The Random House Book of Opera Stories by Adele Geras
Sing Me a Story: The Metropolitan Opera's Book of Opera Stories for Children by Jane Rosenberg
The Young Person's Guide to the Opera by Anita Ganeri

Internet Resources about Opera for Youth
www.bostonchildrensopera.com
www.kidsop.com/kidsdra.htm
www.operaamerica.org
www.operaforyouth.org
www.oznet.net.au/opera

Compiled by Nancy Hurxthal and Kris Springer, with special thanks to Sally Welsh, Boston Public Library, 2002.