Amelia is an opera in two acts by Daron Hagen to a libretto in English by Gardner McFall based on a story by Stephen Wadsworth.

It revolves around the title character, Amelia, who is expecting her first child and explores her relationship with her father, Dodge, a United States Navy pilot who died in the Vietnam War.

Scene 1: America, the Mid-1960s Outside a suburban tract house a nine-year-old girl named Amelia sings a hymn to the stars as inside her mother folds laundry.

Her father, a navy pilot named Dodge, emerges from the house in dress whites and indicates to her that it is time for bed.

Scene 2: America, mid-1990s Amelia, now aged 31 and in the final trimester of pregnancy, awakens in the arms of her husband Paul, an aeronautical engineer.

"[3] Scene 1: America: the mid-1990s Amelia, extremely close to delivery, bursts into Paul's place of work and confronts him with her concerns.

Scene 3: The same hospital, a dozen or so hours later Amelia, who has insisted upon natural childbirth, despite the grave risk to herself, goes through the final minutes of her labor as, around her, doctors proceed with the business of the hospital, the father receives his boy's belongings in a small plastic bag, is counseled by a priest and grief counselor.

Heidi Waleson, in The Wall Street Journal, described the work as "both highly original and gripping.

"[5] George Loomis, in the Financial Times, wrote that "the expressive range of Hagen's music broadens memorably to accommodate the cascade of divergent emotions en route to a grand, life-affirming unaccompanied ensemble for the nine principal singers.

"[6] Anthony Tommasini, in The New York Times, described the opera as "earnest and original, if heavy-handed and melodramatic.

"[7] Bernard Jacobsen, in the Seattle Times, wrote, "Besides cleverly enabling the sung text to emerge with rare clarity, Hagen has fashioned a score of impassioned and compelling beauty.

"[8] Ivan Katz, in the Huffington Post, wrote "Daron Aric Hagen's score is well-composed and, in many respects, a work of genius.