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Grand Opera
Grand Opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterised by large-scale casts and orchestras, and (in their original productions) lavish and spectacular design and stage-effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events. The term is...
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Don Carlos
Don Carlos is a five-act Grand Opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien ("Don Carlos, Infante of Spain") by Friedrich Schiller. The...
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- 1867
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- Mar 11, 1867
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Les Huguenots
Les Huguenots is a French opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most popular and spectacular examples of the style of grand opera. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps.
Les Huguenots was some five years in creation....
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- 1836
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- Feb 29, 1836
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Les Troyens
Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid. Written between 1856 and 1858, Les Troyens was Berlioz's largest and most...
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- 1858
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La Juive
La Juive (The Jewess) is a grand opera in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on February 23, 1835.
La Juive was one of the most popular and admired works of the...
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- Feb 23, 1835
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Robert le diable
Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer, often regarded as the first grand opera. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne and has little connection to the medieval legend of Robert the Devil.
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- 1831
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- Nov 21, 1831
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L'Africaine
L'africaine (The African Woman) is a grand opera, the last work of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French libretto was written by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer's working title for the opera was 'Vasco da Gama', the hero. The events in the opera are,...
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- 1864
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- Apr 28, 1865
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Le prophète
Le prophète (The Prophet) is an opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe.
The opera was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique, Paris on 16 April 1849. The creators of the...
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- 1849
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- Apr 16, 1849
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Porin
Porin is a grand opera by Vatroslav Lisinski. The Croatian text was by Dimitrija Demeter. It was Lisinski's second opera, the second for Croatia.
It was composed during 1848-51 but not performed until 2 October 1897, when it was staged in Zagreb....
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- 1851
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- Oct 2, 1897
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Dom Sébastien
Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal (Don Sebastian, King of Portugal) is a French grand opera in five acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe, based on Paul-Henri Foucher's play Dom Sébastian de Portugal (1838), a historic...
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- Nov 13, 1843
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Le duc d'Albe
Le duc d'Albe or Il duca d'Alba (The Duke of Alba) is an opera in three acts originally composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1839 to a French language libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier. It received its first performance at the Teatro...
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- Mar 22, 1882
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Jessonda
Jessonda is a grand opera (Grosse Oper) in German by Louis Spohr, written in 1822. The German libretto was written by Eduard Gehe.
Spohr, who wrote the work in 1822, had been newly appointed Hofkapellmeister in Kassel. He had reservations about...
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- 1823
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- Jul 28, 1823
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Jérusalem
Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to a French libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz which was partly translated and adapted from Verdi's original 1843 Italian opera, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. It was Verdi's...
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- 1847
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- Nov 26, 1847
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Charles VI
Charles VI is a grand opera composed by Fromental Halevy to a libretto by Casimir and Germain Delavigne. The opera was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 15 March 1843. 20th-century performances were rare, but the opera was revived at Compiègne in 2005...
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- Mar 15, 1843
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Vanda
Vanda is a grand opera in five acts by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by Václav Beneš-Šumavský and František Zákrejs after a work by Julian Surzycki.
The opera was first performed in Prague at the Provisional Theatre on 17 April 1876...
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- 1875
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- Apr 17, 1876
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Dimitrij
Dimitrij is an opera by Antonín Dvořák in 4 acts, set a libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová. More specifically, it belongs to the genre of Grand Opera. The work was first performed in Prague, at the New Czech Theatre on 8 October 1882, after...
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- Oct 8, 1882
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Leben des Orest
Leben des Orest (The Life of Orestes) is a grand opera in five acts (eight scenes) with words and music both by Ernst Krenek. It is his opus 60 and the first of his own libretti with an antique setting. The score is inscribed with the dates of...
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- 1929
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- Jan 19, 1930
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La reine de Saba
La reine de Saba ("The Queen of Sheba") is a grand opera in four or five acts by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré inspired by Gérard de Nerval's Le voyage en Orient.
It premiered at the Paris Opera on February 28, 1862....
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- Feb 28, 1862
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Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Agnes von Hohenstaufen is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini. The German libretto is by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach. It was first staged at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin on 12 June 1829. Raupach categorised Agnes...
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- Jun 12, 1829
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Henry Clifford
Henry Clifford is a grand opera in three acts composed by Isaac Albéniz to an English libretto written by Francis Money-Coutts (under the pseudonym "Mountjoy"). It premiered at the Gran Teatro del Liceo on 8 May 1895. The opera is based on...
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- May 8, 1895
