A List of Possible Candidates

Below I am including a [stream of consciousness] list of [mostly contemporary] works, composers and dramatists that I feel could fit into this genre. This list is in no particular order and will be updated as new examples come to light or to mind:

• I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky & El Nino - Adams
• The Cave and Three Tales - Reich
• Einstein on the Beach [and many many others] - Glass
• Sequenzas - Berio
• Adventures and Nouvelles Aventures - Ligeti
• Improvement, Perfect Lives [and others] - Robert Ashley
• Nothing - Morton Feldman
• The music theatre works of R. Murray Schafer
• The plays of Mac Welman and Michel Tremblay
  
• Theatrical works by Crumb
• Sondheim
• Britten, Stravinsky and Orff's church parables and progressive stage works
• Myths and Hymns and Floyd Collins - Guettle
• Atlas [and others] - Meredith Monk
• Lost Highway - Neuwirth
• The Cradle will Rock - Blitzstein
• Some Chinese "Red" Operas
• The Carbon Copy Building, Aquanetta, Little Match Girl Passion, Decasia, Van Gogh and others - The crew at Bang on a Can [Lang, Gordon, Wolfe]
  
• Rehearsing Her Choir - Concept album by The Fiery Furnaces
• Tomorrow, In A Year - Concept album by The Knife
• I am a Bird Now - Concept album by Anthony and the Johnsons
  
• Mass - Bernstein
• Seven Deadly Sins [and others] - Weill
• 110 in the Shade and Celebration - Schmidt and Jones
• Urinetown
• The works of Pina Bausch
• The Manson Family: An Opera [and others] - Jon Moran [do yourself a favor and look him up on YouTube ... he is AMAZING!]
• Roratorio and the Europeras - Cage
• The works of Laurie Anderson, Robert Wilson, Amy X Nueberg, Louis Andriessen
• VALIS, Brain Opera, Transformations and others - Tod Machover
• Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs - Michael Nyman
• Operas and Musicals from the Yiddish Theater tradition
• Ursonate - Kurt Schwitters
• Many oratorios, cantatas, choral fantasies and passions - Penderecki, Guibaldina, Golijov ...
• Erwartung and Pierrot Lunaire - Arnold Schoenberg