Based on Louisa May Alcott’s enduringly popular novel about the adventures of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in civil-war era New England, Mark Adamo’s opera Little Women has been performed in more than 70 national and international engagements since its 1998 première by Houston Grand Opera and has achieved the status of an American classic.

This recording, with a superb cast expertly directed for television, vividly brings to life an opera that The New Yorker hailed as “A beautifully crafted work, brilliantly molding Alcott’s tale into operatic form” and that The New York Times dubbed a “masterpiece”.

Cast:
- Jo: Stephanie Novacek
- Meg: Joyce DiDonato
- Laurie: Chad Shelton
- Beth: Stacey Tappan
- Amy: Margaret Lloyd
- John Brooke: Daniel Belcher
- Friedrich Bhaer: Chen-Ye Yuan
- Cecilia March: Katherine Ciesinski
- Gideon March: James Maddalena
- Alma March: Gwendolyn Jones
- Mr Dashwood: Derrick Parker

Stage Production Director: Peter Webster
Directed for Television by Brian Large

Recorded at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center, Houston, Texas, 17–18 March 2000.

Total Running Time: 114:53
NTSC: No Region Coding
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Dual Layer Disc • PCM 2.0 • Dolby Digital 5.1 • DTS 5.1