ABDALLAH, THE LAST MOORISH KING [cantata] Alfred Gilbert 1886 Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., London
ABON HASSAN William Dimond 1833 New Orleans
AETHIOP*, or THE CHILD OF THE DESERT Rayner Taylor,William Diamond 1814 G.F. Blake, Philadelphia
AFGAR Chas. Cuvillier, Douglas Furher 1920 New York (8 NOV 1920)
AHMED w. Mrs. Julia Dunne (W. Irving, “Pilgrim of Love”) 1875 New York (30 MAR 1875)
AHMED AL KAMEL, or THE PILGRIM OF LOVE C. E. Horn, Henry James Finn (W. Irving, “Pilgrim of Love”) 1840 [Score lost]
ALADDIN 1868 New York (14 JAN 1868)
ALADDIN Giuseppe Operti 1874 Boston: G. D. Russell
ALADDIN II [Lydia Thompson] 1872 New York
ALADDIN THE SECOND   [= NOUVEL ALADDIN] Florimund Ronger[=Herve], Alfred Thompson 1870 London (24 DEC 1870)
ALADDIN, JR. W. H. Batchelor, Jesse Williams, J. Cheever Goodwin 1895 New York (8 APR 1895)
ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP Charles Farley 1815 New York; London, 1813
ALADDIN, or THE WONDERFUL LAMP Thomas Comer, S. S. Steele 1847 Boston: Prentice & Clark; Oliver Ditson
ALADIN [sic], or THE WONDERFUL LAMP William Shield; John O’Keefe 1801 Philadelphia; London, 1788
ALGERIA V. Herbert, Glen MacDonough 1908 Chas. K. Harris
ALGERIAN R. de Koven, Glen MacDonough 1893 G. Schirmer
ALGERINE PIRATES, THE, or THE SPANISH LOVERS 1807 Boston
ALHAMBRA (W.Irving, “Three Beautiful Princesses”) 1873
ALI BA-BA, or THE FORTY BLACK SHEEP C. T. West, Fred Edmonds 1901 London: J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd.
ALI BABA Charles Lecocq 1887 Brussels
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES Otto Cesana, Eric Von der Goltz, jr. 1933
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES Bernice Eastman Johnston, Violet M. Thayer [LC:M1995.J69.A5]
ALI BABA, or MORGIANA AND THE FORTY THIEVES W. H. Batchelder, Harry B. Smith 1892 Cincinnati: John Church Co.
ALI PACHA John Howard Payne 1923 New York
ALI PASCHA VON JANINA Albert Lortzing 1824
ALI-POT-D’RHUM, ou UN TROUPIER AU SÉRAI Firmin Bernicat, Céhem Gédhé 187- Paris
ALLAH H. Lawrence Freeman 1932-47 Opera in one act, part of Zululand, never performed
ALLAH BE PRAISED Don Walker,George Marion, Jr. 1944
AMEER#, THE V. Herbert, Frederic Ranken, Kirke LaShelle 1899 M. Witmark; New York (4 DEC 1899)
AMERICAN CAPTIVE var. THE SULTAN, THE John Hodgkinson 1796 New York
AMERICAN CAPTIVE, or SIEGE OF TRIPOLI, THE w. John Ellison 1811 Boston
AMERICAN NAVAL PILLAR see TARS FROM TRIPOLI
ARABESQUE Ruth White Warfield, Cloyd Head, Eunice Tietjens 1925 New York, National Theatre
ARABIAN GIRL AND FORTY THIEVES (ALI BABA), AN J. Cheever Goodwin; David Henderson, producer 1899 New York (29 APR 1899)
ARABIAN NIGHT, AN Walter Rosemont, Darl MacBoyle 1918 Orpheus Music
ARABIAN NIGHTS 1887
ARABIAN NIGHTS Carmen Lombardo, J. J. Loeb 1954 Shapiro, Bernstein Decca DL‑9013; DL‑5542
ARABIAN NIGHTS, or ALADDIN’S WONDERFUL LAMP David Henderson, producer 1887 Chicago (12 SEPT 1887)
ARABS OF THE DESERT, or HARLEQUIN’S FLIGHT FROM EGYPT Alexander Reinagle 1799 Philadelphia (13 APR 1799); Arabian Nights
AWAKENED RAMESES, THE 1911 Univ. of Michigan Show
BABA Max Maretzek, Arnold & Sherwood 1876 New York (11 DEC 1876)
BARBE BLEUE Jacques Offenbach 1868 New York (13 JUL 1868)
BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA, THE 1804 New York
BATTLE OF ALGIERS, THE 1818 New York (rep. 1830, 1831)
BEDOUINS, THE, OR ARABS OF THE DESERT John Andrews Stevenson 180- London
BEGUM R. deKoven, Harry B. Smith 1887
BEY VON MAROCCO, DER Victor Holländer, Jakob Bettelheim 1893
BLUE BEARD, or FEMALE CURIOSITY* George Colman 1802 New York; London, 1798
BLUEBEARD, JR. Fred Eustis, Richard Maddern, Clay M. Greene 1889 Chicago (11 JUN 1889); New York (13 JAN 1890)
BROADWAY TO TOKIO R. DeKoven, A. Baldwin Sloane 1900 New York (23 JAN 1900)
CADI, THE Bill Nye 1891 New York (21 SEPT 1891)
CADY OF BAGDAD, THE Thomas Linley, Jr., A. Portal 1778
CAIRO (MECCA) Percy Fletcher, Oscar Asche 1920 London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Ltd.
CALIPH OF BAGDAD, THE François Boïeldieu 1830 New Orleans (“Grand Asiatic Ballet of Action”); Paris, 1800-01
CALIPH, THE Ludwig Englander, Harry B. Smith 1896 New York (3 SEPT 1896)
CAMEL DRIVER OF MECCA, THE D.S. & E.L. Ireland, Charles H. Orr 1925 Columbus, Ohio
CAPTIVE, THE Charles Dibdin, I. Bickerstaffe 1769 London (21 JUNE 1769)
CARAVAN OF CAIRO m. Andre E.M. Gretry; 1795 Charleston
CARAVAN, THE, or THE DRIVER AND HIS DOG William Reeve, Frederick Reynolds 1810 Philadelphia; London, 1803
CARAVANE DU CAIRE w. E. Morel de Chedeville 1783 Fontainebleu
CHAINS OF THE HEART, or THE SLAVE BY CHOICE Prince Hoare, Joseph Mazzinghi 1804 New York, London (9 DEC 1801)
CHILDREN OF CYPRUS (Winter Garden) 1865
CHILDREN OF CYPRUS (Barnum’s New American Museum) 1865
CHIN‑CHIN 1914 (Aladdin updated)
CHOW CHOW, A TALE OF PEKIN m. W. H. Brinkworth, w. James Barnes 1872 New York (9 SEPT 1872)
CHRIS AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP m. John Philip Sousa, w. Glen MacDonough 1899 (Aladdin in N.England Boarding School) (1 JAN 1900)
CHU CHIN CHOW Oscar Asche 1914 London
CRISS-CROSS Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach, Anne Caldwell 1925 New York
DAUGHTER OF THE DESERT, THE Otto Harbach [Hauerbach], Karl Hoschna 1902 [never produced]
DAY IN TURKEY, A Joseph Mazzinghi 1791 London (3 DEC 1791)
DEMON OF THE DESERT, THE [George L. Fox] 1850 New York
DESERET, or THE SAINT’S DIFFICULTIES Dudley Buck, W. A. Croffut 1880 New York (11 OCT 1880) [Mormon as sultan]
DESERT OF MAHOMET, THE Charles Gilpin 1910 Philadelphia: UPenn student show
DESERT SONG, THE S. Romberg, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein 1926
DÉSERT, ODE SYMPHONIQUE, LE Félicien David 1844 Paris
DEUX OMAR, LE Firmin Bernicat 1876
DREAM WITH MUSIC Clay Warnick, Edward Eager 1944 New York (18 MAY 1944)
DUO DE LA AFRICANA, EL Fenández Caballero
DWANGEE, THE ARAB (Barnum’s New American Museum) 1865 (24 DEC‑30 DEC 1865)
EGYPTIAN FESTIVAL w. Lege 1796 Philadelphia
EL HYDER William Barrymore 1828 New Orleans (“Grand Asiatic Melodrama”)
ENCHANTER, THE, or LOVE AND MAGIC J. C. Smith, D. Garrick 1760 London (DL 13 DEC 1760)
EXPLORERS, THE Walter H. Lewis, Bert L. Taylor 1901 Chicago, Dearborn Theater, 30 JUN 1901)
FAIRY OF THE WELL, THE
FALL OF ALGIERS, THE H. R. Bishop, J. H. Payne 1825 London; Philadelphia, 1827
FANTINITZA F. Von Suppe, F. Zell, R. Genee 1879
FIELDS’ REAL NEGRO MINSTRELS AND TROUPE OF ARABS Al G. Fields 1895 Columbus, OH, based troupe
FLAHOOLEY Sammy Fain, E.Y. Harburg 1951
FLIRTING PRINCESS, THE Adams, Hough, Howard, Orlob 1909 Chicago (1 NOV 1909)
FORTY THIEVES Comer [Board of Music Trade Catalogue]
FORTY THIEVES, THE [Lydia Thompson] 1869 New York (1 FEB 1869)
FORTY THIEVES, THE, or STRIKING OIL IN FAMILY JARS Michael Connelly 1869
FORTY THIEVES, THE, or THE FEMALE DUELIST Michael Kelly, George Colman 1807 Charleston; London, 1806;  New York, 1808 [Sheridan’s FORTY THIEVES]
FRIVOLITIES OF 1920 1920 New York (8 JAN 1920)
FROM BALTIMORE TO TURKEY Joe Bright, prod. 1924 Black touring production
GEEZER OF GECK, THE Paul Schindler, Robert Adam 1905 Chicago (24 AUG 1905)
GENIE, THE, or THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
GENII, THE, or HARLEQUIN’S VAGARIES John Durang 1788 New York [Henry Woodward,
GLI ARABI NELLE GALLIE Giovanni Pacini, Romanelli 1833 New York (18 NOV 1833) J.M. Eliot,
GRAND VIZIER, THE 1895 {Sequel to TABASCO}
HARLEQUIN FISHERMAN ENTERTAINMENT, London, 1752
HIS HIGHNESS THE BEY Will M. Hough, Frank R. Adams, Joe Howard 1904 Chicago (21 NOV 1904)
HORRORS, or THE MARAJAH OF ZOGOBAD (PRINCE ACHMET) 1879 New York (28 MAY 1879)
IN A PERSIAN GARDEN# Liza Lehmann 1896 Metzler & Co. [Rubaiyat]
IN KHORASSAN Harry S. Cyphers, Malcolm Maclure 1910 Newark, NJ
IN THE PASHA’S GARDEN Seymour
IRISHMAN IN BAGHDAD 1856 {Harvard Theatre Collection}
JACK IN DISTRESS see PREPARATIONS… 1796 Newport. RI
JEWEL OF ASIA L. Englander, F. Rankin 1903 New York (16 FEB 1903)
JOSEPHINE SOLD BY HER SISTERS Victor Roger 1886 New York (30 AUG 1886 [parody of Méhul’s Joseph
JUSTICE, or THE CALIPH AND THE COBBLER C.E. Horn, John Saville Faucit 1820 London
KATINKA R. Friml 1916 Schirmer
KHEDIVE, THE 1891 New York (27 OCT 1891)
KISMET m. Gustave Kerker, w. Richard F. Carroll 1895 New York (12 AUG 1895)
KISMET Oscar Asche 1911 E. Knoblock,”Hajj’s Hour”
KISMET see TIMBUKTU! Robert Wright, George Forrest 1953 [Borodin]
LALLA ROOKH David [Board of Music Trade Catalogue]
LALLA ROOKH (cantata) Frederic Clay, W. G. Wills 1877 London: Chappell
LALLA ROOKH, or THE CASHMERIAN MINSTREL (opera) C.E. Horn, M. J. Sullivan (after T. Moore) 1818 Dublin
LALLA ROOKH, or THE PEARL OF INDIA Joseph Foster 1872
LIEDER DES MIRZA SCHAFFY, DIE Louis Roth 1887
LITTLE SIMPLICITY Augustus Barratt, Rida Johnson Young 1918 New York (4 NOV 1918)
LOVIN’ SAM FROM ALABAM’ Rufus Greenlee, Thaddeus Drayton 1920s Touring show   (Cf. Ager and Yellin song)
MAGIC RING, THE Harold Levey, Zelda Sears 1923 New York (1 OCT 1923) [orig. Minnie and Me]
MAHMOUD S. Storace, M. Kelly 1796 London [no libetto pub.]
MAHMOUD THE ROBBER, or AMERICANS IN TRIPOLI 1804 Charleston
MAID AND THE MUMMY, THE Robin Hood Bowers, Richard Carle 1904 New York (25 JUL 1904); Witmark
MAMELUK, DER Ludwig Schytte 1903
MECCA Oscar Asche 1917 New York, 1920
MOROCCO BOUND* F. Osmond Carr, Adrian Ross 1893 London: Jos. Williams
MOUTH OF THE NILE, THE, or THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF AUGUST [1798] Thomas Atwood, Thomas J.Dibdin 1799 New York
MY DARLIN’ AIDA G. Verdi; Chas. Friedman 1952
NADIR AND ZULEIKA C.E. Horn 1832 New York
NAVAL PILLAR, or THE AMERICAN SAILOR’S GARLAND; AMERICAN TARS TRIUMPHANT see TARS FROM TRIPOLI John Moorehead, Thomas Dibdin 1800 Philadelphia
NINTH STATUE THE or THE PALACE OF FIRE AND WATER   [= THE IRISHMAN IN BAGDAD] C.E. Horn/ Hewitt 1817 New York [1001 Nights] DL, 29 Nov 1814 London
OH MY, OMAR James Thruber 1919 Ohio State Student Production
OOLAH Charles Lecocq 1889 New York [=La Jolie Persane, 1879]
ORIENTAL AMERICA? John W. Isham 1896 New York [1st all-black musical on B’way]
ORIENTAL SERENADERS? Buster Lee, Elmira Washington 1924 Touring revue
PANJANDRUM[Vocal Gems]# Woolson Morse, J. Cheever Goodwin 1893 T. B. Harms & Co.
PARADISE OF MAHOMET, THE R. Planquette, Louis Ganne; Harry B. Smith 1911 New York, 17 JAN 1911; Paris, 1906
PEARL OF BAGDAD* John M. Loretz, Jr. 1872 rev. text 1884; overture pub.*
PERSIAN GARDEN, A Anatol Friedland, E.A. Woolf 1912
PERSIAN HUNTERS, or THE ROSE OF GURGISTAN C.E. Horn; Thos. Noble, G. Perry 1817 London, 13 AUG 1817
PERSIAN PRINCESS*, THE Sidney Jones, Percy Greenbank 1909 Keith, Prowse & Co. Ltd.,London
POMME DE TURQUIE, LA Pauline Thys-Sébault 1857 Paris
PREPARATIONS FOR A CRUISE AGAINST THE TRIPOLITANIANS 1796 Newport, RI
PRINZESSIN VOM NIL, DIE Victor Holländer 1915
RAINMAKER OF SYRIA [not MidEast] , THE Leo Fall, Rudolph Aronson, Sydney Rosenfeld 1893 New York
RÉNÉGAT DE TANGER, LA Victor Massé 1845 Paris (unpublished?)
REVELS J. J. McNally 1880 New York (25 OCT 1880)
ROSE OF ALGERIA, THE Victor Herbert 1909
ROSE OF PERSIA, THE A. Sullivan; Basil Hood 1900 Pearl/Gem 120, side 6,#3, 1974
ROSE OF STAMBOUL, THE S. Romberg, Leo Fall, H. Atteridge 1922 [Vienna, 1916]
SADAK AND KALASRADA 1862 (Barnum’s American Museum)
SAHARA DERBY, THE Henry Sullivan, T. H. McKnight, S.J. Flanigan 1923 Dartmouth [College] Players
SAID PASHA m. Richard Stahl, w. Scott Marble 1889 New York (25 FEB 1889)
SARATSIN [THE SARACEN] César Cui 1899 (14 NOV 1899)
SARDANAPOLOUS Giuseppe Operti, Chas. Calvert 1876 [after Byron] (14 AUG 1876)
SELIMA AND AZORE, or THE POWER OF ENCHANTMENT w. J. F. Marmontel m. A. Gretry 1776 London (5 DEC 1776) New York (1 JUN 1787)
SERAGLIO, THE Charles Dibdin, E. Thompson 1776 Philadelphia (19 MAY 1794)
SESOSTRA Leon Pavi, Henri Hirschmann 1912 New York (5 MAR 1912), spoof of SUMURUN
SHEIK OF HARLEM, THE Irwin C. Miller, Donald Heywood 1923-24 Lafayette Theatre, Harlem
SHEIKH STEPS OUT, THE 1937
SIEGE OF ALGIERS, THE Jonathan S. Smith 1823 Philadelphia
SIEGE OF TRIPOLI, or VALOUR TRIUMPHANT, THE 1822 New York {ballet d’action}
SIN(D)BAD THE SAILOR Michael Connelly, Henry B. Farnie 1869
SINBAD [Lydia Thompson] 1868 New York, Niblo’s
SINBAD [Louise Montague] 1892 New York (27 JUN 1892)
SINBAD S. Romberg 1918
SLAVE IN ARABY, A Alfred J. Silver, S. Guise 1931 London, J. Curwen
SLAVE OF BAGDAD [Board of Music Trade Catalogue]
SLAVES IN ALGIERS, or A STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM; A STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY Alexander Reinagle, Susannah Rowson 1794 Philadelphia
SOLIMAN SECOND [SOLIMEN II, OU LES TROIS SULTANES] Gibert, Charles Simon Fravart 1761
SPHINX, THE Charles Dibdin 1797 London {M1508 Case}
SPHINX, THE 1895 Boston; New York (8 JUL 1895)
SULTAN OF MOCHA, THE Alfred Cellier 1880 New York (14 SEPT 1880); London, 16 NOV 1874
SULTAN OF SULU#, THE Alfred G. Wathall, George Ade 1902 M. Witmark  [Philippines, not Middle East]
SULTAN, THE, or A PEEP INTO THE SERAGLIO James Hook, I. Bickerstaffe 1783 S.A. & P. Thompson, London, 1775
SULTAN, THE, or PEEP INTO THE SERAGLIO; THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE; AMERICAN CAPTIVE; ROXALANA; FEMALE CAPTIVE Charles Dibdin, Isaac Bickerstaff 1794 New York [no vocal score extant]
SULTAN, THE, or SOLYMAN AND ZAYDE Thomas A. Arne 1758
SUMURUN Victor Hollaender, Friedrich Freska 1912 NY premiere of German show (16 JAN  1912),  Max Reinhardt directing; LC has score.
TABASCO m. George Chadwick, w. R. A. Barnet 1894 New York {see GRAND VIZIER}
TAR AND THE TARTAR, THE Adam Itzel, Jr., Harry B. Smith 1891 Chicago (15 APR 1891), New York  (11 MAY 1891)
TARS FROM TRIPOLI, or A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN HEROES; OUR GALLANT NAVY James Hewitt, H. Carnock 1806 New York adapted from NAVAL PILLAR
TATOOED MAN, THE V. Herbert, Harry B. Smith 1907 New York (18 FEB 1907)
THALABA THE DESTROYER Robert Southey 1833 New York (13 MAY 1833)
THREE HUNCHBACKS, THE 1870 New York (22 MAY 1870) [Arabian Nights setting]
TIMBUKTU! rev. KISMET [set in Mali] Wright, Forrest, Borodin 1978
TRIP TO AFRICA, A* F. von Suppé 1883 U.S. production (23 SEPT 1884)
TRIP TO ARABY, A Matt Housely, prod. 1927 Black touring show
TWO CADIS*, THE Julius Eichberg 1868
TWO CALIPHS, THE William Reeve, Charles Dibdin, Jr. 17– London: Button & Whitaker
UMPIRE*, THE Joe Howard 1905 Chicago (2 DEC 1905)
UNE NUIT DE CLÉOPÂTRE Victor Massé 1885 Paris (25 APR 1885)
VETERAN TAR [THE TRIPOLITAN TAR, THE, or AMERICAN TARS ON AN ENGLISH SHORE; AMERICAN TARS TRIUMPHANT; TRIPOLITAN PRIZE S. Arnold, A. Reinagle, Samuel Arnold 1802 New York
WIZARD OF THE NILE, THE V. Herbert, Harry B. Smith 1895 New York (4 NOV 1895)
YOUNG TURK, THE Max Hoffman 1910 New York (31 JAN 1910)
ZAÏDA Wilhelm Meyer-Lutz 1868
ZANINA, or THE ROVER OF CAMBAYE Genee’s NISIDA 1881 New York (17 JAN 1881)
ZULEIKA, or THE SULTAN ENCHANTED Jacque Barzun 1928 Columbia U. Varsity Show