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Hänsel und Gretel
Hänsel und Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy tale opera). The libretto was written by Adelheid Wette (Humperdinck's sister), based on the Grimm brothers' Hansel and...
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- 1893
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- Dec 23, 1893
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Brundibár
Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. The name comes from a Czech colloquialism...
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- 1939
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- 1942
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed on December 24, 1951 in New York City, at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center...
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- 1951
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- Dec 24, 1951
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La Cenicienta
La Cenicienta (Cinderella) is an opera in three acts composed by Chilean artist Jorge Peña Hen (1928–1973), to a libretto by the Chilean author, Oscar Jara Azocar (1910–1988).
This opera is one of the few operas in the world composed with the aim to...
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- 1966
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince, subtitled A Magical Opera, is an opera in two acts by Rachel Portman to an English libretto by Nicholas Wright, based on the 1943 book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. First performance: Houston, 2003.
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- May 2003
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L'enfant et les sortilèges
L'enfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts) is an opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Colette. It is the second Ravel opera, the first being L...
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- 1925
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- Mar 21, 1925
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Bang!
Bang! is an opera for young people by John Rutter to an English libretto by David Richard Grant. It was first performed in 1975.
It was premiered at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon by the Trinity Boys Choir.
The story is based on The Gunpowder Plot....
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- 1975
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Puss in Boots
Puss in Boots (Кот в сапогах in Cyrillic; Kot v sapogakh in transliteration) is a short opera-fairytale for children in three acts, four tableaux, composed by César Cui in 1913. The libretto was written by Marina Stanislavovna Pol'. It was premiered...
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- 1913
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- 1915
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The Snow Bogatyr
The Snow Bogatyr (Снежный богатырь in Cyrillic; Snežnyj bogatyr' in transliteration) is an opera-fairytale for children in one act, two tableaux, by César Cui, composed in 1905. The libretto was written by a school teacher named Marina Stanislavovna...
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- 1905
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- May 15, 1906
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Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood (Красная шапочка in Cyrillic; Krasnaja šapočka in transliteration) is an opera-fairytale for children in two acts (three tableaux) by César Cui, composed in 1911. The libretto was written by Marina Stanislavona Pol', based on...
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- 1911
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Ivan the Fool
Ivan the Fool (Иванушка-дурачёк in Cyrillic; Ivanuška-duračok in transliteration) is an opera-fairytale for children in three tableaux, by César Cui, composed in 1913. The libretto was written by Nadezhda Nikolaevna Dolomanova, using Russian folk...
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- 1913
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Königskinder
Königskinder (The King's Children) is a stage work by Engelbert Humperdinck that exists in two versions: as a melodrama and as an opera or more precisely a Märchenoper. The libretto was written by Ernst Rosmer (pen name of Else Bernstein-Porges),...
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- 1897
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- Jan 23, 1897
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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 'fantasy' opera in one act by Oliver Knussen, his Opus 20, to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title. Knussen composed the music over the period 1979 to 1983, on...
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- 1983
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- Jan 9, 1984
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
This article is about the Jonathan Dove opera. For the Carlo Collodi novel see: The Adventures of Pinocchio. For other works with this title see: The Adventures of Pinocchio (disambiguation)
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a 2007 opera in two acts by...
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- 2007
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- Dec 21, 2007
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La figlia del mago
This is a children's opera in two acts by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero on a libretto by Marco Ravasini written in 1981, subtitled "giocodramma melodioso" as opposed to a "melodramma giocoso." The witty...
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- 1981
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- Jul 31, 1981
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The Little Sweep
The Little Sweep is an opera for children in three scenes by the English composer Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Eric Crozier. It was first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival on 14 June 1949. It originally formed part of a longer ...
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- 1949
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- Jun 14, 1949
