Opera America has published statistics the season just ended, and found that the number of North American works performed by professional companies increased to 60, against 34 a decade ago. The question: What were the most frequently performed American works in 1999-2000? No. 1, of course, is "Porgy & Bess." No. 5 seems like a trick, although technically it is "American" -- it's that West Coast Yankee Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress." So, name #2, 3, 4, and 6. (The modestly heartening figures also show over 100 North American operas premiered in the past decade, 37 (!) getting subsequent productions, thank you, John Adams! Almost half of the new works were introduced by companies with budgets under $1 million, only 25% by companies with top budgets, meaning over $7.5 million.) [log in to unmask], SF Attachments to [log in to unmask]