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Aida
Aida (sometimes spelled Aïda, pronounced /ɑːˈiːdɑː/ ah-EE-dah, from Arabic: عايدة, pronounced [ˈʕaːjdah], an Arabic female name meaning "visitor" or "returning") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio...
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- 1870
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- Dec 24, 1871
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Il trovatore
Il trovatore (The Troubadour) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
It was first performed at the Teatro Apollo...
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- 1953
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- Jan 19, 1853
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Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, original orthography Борисъ Годуновъ, Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1874 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed...
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- 1872
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- Feb 8, 1874
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Prince Igor
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor...
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- 1887
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- Nov 4, 1890
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Mefistofele
Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito.
Boito began consideration of an opera on the Faustian theme after completing his studies at the Milan...
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- 1867
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- Mar 5, 1868
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Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier (1762-1794), who was executed during the French Revolution...
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- 1896
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- Mar 28, 1896
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La forza del destino
La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro, o La fuerza del sino (1835), by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene...
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- 1861
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- Nov 10, 1862
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Louise
Louise is an opera ('roman musical') in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists.
The opera depicts Parisian...
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- 1896
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- Feb 2, 1900
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Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценсково уезда, Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uyezda) is an opera in four acts by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Op.29. The libretto was written by Alexander Preis and the composer, and is based on the...
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- 1932
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- Jan 22, 1934
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The Love for Three Oranges
The Love for Three Oranges (Russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам, or Lyubov k Tryom Apelsinam in transliteration) is an opera composed in 1919 by Sergei Prokofiev (his opus 33) to a libretto based on the play L'Amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi....
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- 1919
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- Dec 30, 1921
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A Life for the Tsar
A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя, Zhizn' za tsarya), as it is known in English, although its original name was Ivan Susanin (Russian: Иван Сусанин) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in five acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The...
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- 1836
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- Dec 9, 1836
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. It was first performed on 6 November 1902 in Milan.
The same play by Scribe and Legouvé...
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- 1902
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- Nov 6, 1902
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Four Saints in Three Acts
Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about twenty saints, and is in at least four acts. It was ground breaking for form, content, and its all...
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- 1928
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- May 20, 1933
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd is an opera by Benjamin Britten, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 December 1951. It is based on the short novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
E. M. Forster discussed the novel in his Clark lectures at...
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- 1951
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- Dec 1, 1951
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La favorite
La favorite (The Favorite, or as it is most commonly known by its Italian title today: La favorita) is an opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play Le comte de Comminges by...
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- Dec 2, 1840
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La Wally
La Wally is a four-act opera by Alfredo Catalani, composed on a libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed at La Scala, Milan on January 20, 1892, only months after both Verdi's Otello and Puccini's Manon Lescaut received their premieres.
The...
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- 1891
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- Jan 20, 1892
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Russian: Сказка о царе Салтане, Skazka o Tsare Saltane) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, seven scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by Vladimir Belsky, and is based on the poem of the same...
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- 1900
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- Nov 3, 1900
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The Snow Maiden
The Snow Maiden–A Spring Fairy Tale (Russian: Снегурочка–Весенняя сказка, Snegúrochka–Vesennyaya Skazka) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880-1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based...
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- 1881
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- Feb 10, 1882
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The Maid of Orleans
The Maid of Orleans (Russian: Орлеанская дева, Orleanskaja deva) is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich von Schiller’s The...
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- 1879
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- Feb 25, 1881
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Betrothal in a Monastery
Betrothal in a Monastery (original Russian title Обручение в монастыре) is an opera by Sergei Prokofiev, his sixth with an opus number. The libretto, in Russian, was by the composer and Mira Mendelson (his companion in later life), after Richard...
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- 1941
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- May 5, 1946
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The Gambler
The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Prokofiev had decided on this story as an operatic...
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- 1917
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- Apr 29, 1929
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The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Russian: Сказание о невидимом граде Китеже и деве Февронии, Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto...
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- 1905
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- Feb 20, 1907
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The Excursions of Mr. Broucek
The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and the 15th Century (Czech:: Výlety pánĕ Broučkovy) is the complete title of Leoš Janáček’s fifth opera, based on two Svatopluk Čech novels, Pravý výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce (1888) (The True Excursion of...
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- Apr 23, 1920
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Sigurd
Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau. Like Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, the story is based on the Niebelungenlied and the Eddas, with some crucial...
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- 1883
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- Jan 7, 1884
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Angelo
Angelo (Анджело in Cyrillic; Andželo in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by César Cui, composed during 1871-1875, with a libretto by Viktor Burenin based on Victor Hugo's prose play, Angelo, tyran de Padoue. This same play formed the basis...
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- 1875
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- Feb 1, 1876
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The Captain's Daughter
The Captain's Daughter (Капитанская дочка in Cyrillic; Kapitanskaja dočka in transliteration) is an opera in four acts (eight tableaux) by César Cui, composed during 1907-1909. The libretto was adapted by the composer from Aleksandr Pushkin's novel...
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- 1909
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- Feb 14, 1911
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Il Guarany
Il Guarany (The Guarany) is an Italian opera-ballo by Carlos Gomes, based on the Brazilian novel O Guarani, written by José de Alencar. The libretto was written by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville.
The world premiere was at La Scala, Milan on...
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- 1870
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- Mar 19, 1870
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Hérodiade
Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on December 19,...
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- 1881
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- Dec 19, 1881
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The Tsar's Bride
The Tsar's Bride (Russian: Царская невеста, Tsarskaya nevesta) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Il’ya Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey. Mey's play was first...
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- 1899
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- Nov 3, 1899
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Le Cid
Le Cid is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet, Édouard Blau and Adolphe d'Ennery. It is based on the play of the same name by Pierre Corneille.
It was first performed by a star-studded cast at the Opéra...
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- 1885
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- Nov 30, 1885
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Cléopâtre
Cléopâtre is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Payen. It was first performed in at the Opéra Monte-Carlo on February 23, 1914, nearly two years after Massenet's death.
Cléopâtre is one of three operas by Massenet...
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- 1912
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- Feb 23, 1914
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Esclarmonde
Esclarmonde is an opéra (Opéra romanesque) in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred-Édouard Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont.
It was first performed at the Opéra Comique in...
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- 1888
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- May 15, 1889
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Rusalka
Rusalka (Russian: Русалка, Rusálka) is an opera in four acts, six tableaux, by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composed during 1848-1855. The Russian libretto was adapted by the composer from Pushkin's incomplete dramatic poem of the same name. The premiere...
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- 1855
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- May 16, 1856
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Genoveva
Genoveva (Op. 81) is an opera in four acts by Robert Schumann in the genre of German Romanticism with a libretto by Robert Reinick and the composer. The only opera Schumann ever wrote, it received its first performance on 25 June 1850 at the...
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- 1849
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- Jun 25, 1850
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Jone
Jone is an opera in four acts by Errico Petrella. The Italian-language libretto was by Giovanni Peruzzini, after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's famous novel "The Last Days of Pompeii".
It was premiered at La Scala on Jan. 26, 1858, with the following...
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- Jan 26, 1858
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La campana sommersa
La campana sommersa is an opera in 4 acts by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. Its libretto is by Claudio Guastalla, based on the play Die versunkene Glocke by German author Gerhart Hauptmann. The opera's premiere was on November 18, 1927 in...
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- 1927
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- Nov 18, 1927
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Askold's Grave
Askold’s Grave (also: Askold's Tomb, Russian: Аскольдова могила – Askol’dova mogila) is an opera in 4 acts by Alexey Verstovsky (1799-1862) to a libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin (1789-1852).
It was the most successful of Verstovsky's six operas, and its...
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- Sep 28, 1835
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Dubrovsky
Dubrovsky (Russian: Дубровский) is an opera in four acts (5 scenes) Op. 58, by Eduard Nápravník, to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky after the novel of the same title (1832) by Alexander Pushkin.
Eduard Nápravník, Russia's leading...
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- 1894
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- Jan 15, 1895
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Salammbô
Salammbô [alternative title The Libyan] (Russian: Ливиец) is an unfinished opera-project in 4 acts by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, to his own libretto based on the novel of the same title by Gustave Flaubert (1862), as well as poems by...
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- 1866
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The Oprichnik
The Oprichnik or The Guardsman (Russian: Опричник, Oprichnik) is an opera in 4 acts, 5 scenes, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) to his own libretto after the tragedy The Oprichniks (Russian: Опричники) by Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792 – 1869). The...
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- 1872
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- Apr 24, 1874
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I Rantzau
I Rantzau (The Rantzau Family) is an opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni (1892), based on a libretto by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on the play Les Rantzau (1873) by French writers Erckmann and Chatrian, after their novel ...
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- 1892
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- Nov 10, 1892
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La jolie fille de Perth
La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1838–1875), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the novel by Sir Walter Scott.
It was completed before the end of...
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- Dec 26, 1867
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The Enchantress
The Enchantress (or The Sorceress, Russian: Чародейка, Charodéyka) is an opera in four acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on the libretto by Ippolit Shpazhinsky usng his drama with the same title. The opera was composed between September 1885 and May...
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- 1887
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- Nov 1, 1887
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Henry VIII
Henry VIII is an opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, from a libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
The action covers the period in Henry VIII's...
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- 1883
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- Mar 5, 1883
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Bacchus
Bacchus is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Catulle Mendès after Greek mythology. It was first performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris on May 5, 1909.
The story is based on the mythology surrounding Bacchus and...
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- 1908
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- May 5, 1909
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Cirano di Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's drama Cyrano de Bergerac. The opera received its first performance in Rome on 22 January 1936, conducted by Tullio Serafin,...
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- May 29, 1936
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Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini is an opera in four acts, composed by Riccardo Zandonai, with libretto by Tito Ricordi, (1865-1933), after a play by Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on February 19, 1914, and is still staged...
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- 1913
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- Feb 19, 1914
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Saul og David
Saul og David (Saul and David) is the first of the two operas by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen. The four-act libretto, by Einar Christiansen, tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the Book of Samuel. The first...
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- 1901
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- Nov 28, 1902
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Die Soldaten
Die Soldaten (The Soldiers) is a four act opera in German by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, based on the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. It is dedicated to Hans Rosbaud. Zimmermann himself faithfully adapted the play into the...
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- 1960
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- Feb 15, 1965
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The Italian Straw Hat
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (The Italian Straw Hat) is an opera by Nino Rota to an Italian-language libretto by the composer and Ernesta Rota, based on the play Le chapeau de paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche and Marc Michel.
The opera...
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- 1946
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- Apr 21, 1955
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The Haunted Manor
The Haunted Manor (Polish: Straszny dwór) is an opera in four acts composed by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko in 1861–1864. The libretto was written by Jan Chęciński. Despite being a romance and a comedy, it has strong Polish patriotic...
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- 1864
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- Sep 28, 1865
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Die Räuber
Die Räuber, op.25, (The Robbers) is an opera in four acts by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on the play by Friedrich Schiller.
It premiered on 3 June 1957 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf. It is dedicated to the memory of...
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- 1956
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- Jun 3, 1957
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Halka
Halka (Helen) is an opera by the Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko. The libretto was by Wlodzimierz Wolski (1824-1882), a young Warsaw poet with radical social views. It is part of the canon of Polish national operas.
The first performance of the...
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- 1847
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- Jan 1, 1848
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Jacobowsky und der Oberst
Jacobowsky und der Oberst, op.49, (Jacobovsky and the Colonel) is an opera in four acts by Giselher Klebe; his wife, Lore Klebe, wrote the libretto based on the play of the same name by Franz Werfel who gave it the subtitle Comedy of a Tragedy.
It...
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- Nov 2, 1965
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Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve (Russian: Ночь перед Рождеством, Noch' pered Rozhdestvom), is an opera in four acts with music and libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve",...
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- 1895
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- Dec 10, 1895
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Pan Voyevoda
Pan Voyevoda (Russian: Пан воевода, transliteration Pan vojevoda; Polish Pan wojewoda -- literally The Gentleman Provincial Governor), is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It is based on a libretto by Ilya Tyumenev. The work was completed in 1903...
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- 1903
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- Oct 16, 1904
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Servilia
Servilia (Russian: Сервилия, Serviliya, the name of a main character), is an opera in five acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The work was completed in 1901, and was first performed in 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto,...
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- 1903
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- Oct 16, 1904
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The Greek Passion
The Greek Passion (Czech Řecké pašije) is an opera in four acts by Bohuslav Martinů. The libretto, by the composer, is based on the novel The Greek Passion (or Christ Recrucified) by Nikos Kazantzakis. The opera exists in two versions. Martinů wrote...
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- 1957
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- Jul 20, 1999
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Dardanus
Dardanus is an opera in four acts by Antonio Sacchini. It was first performed at Versailles, on the 18th of September, 1784. The libretto was adapted by Nicolas-François Guillard from that of Jean-Philippe Rameau's earlier opera of the same name....
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- Sep 18, 1884
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Armida
Armida is an opera by Antonín Dvořák in four acts, set to a libretto by Jaroslav Vrchlický that was originally based on Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme liberata. Dvorak's opera was first performed at Prague's National Theatre on 25 March 1904; the...
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- 1903
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- Mar 25, 1904
