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Fidelio
Fidelio (Op. 72) is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour...
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- 1805
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- Nov 20, 1805
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Anna Bolena
Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both telling of the life of Anne...
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- Dec 26, 1830
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Il re pastore
Il re pastore (The Shepherd King) is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Gianbattista Varesco. It is an opera seria. The opera was first performed on April 23 1775 in Salzburg, at the...
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- 1775
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- Apr 23, 1775
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The Death of Klinghoffer
The Death of Klinghoffer is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams to an English libretto by the poet Alice Goodman. It was first performed at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium, in 1991.
The opera tells the true...
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- 1991
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- Mar 19, 1991
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Dantons Tod
Dantons Tod (German for Danton's Death) is an opera by composer Gottfried von Einem. Librettists: Boris Blacher and Gottfried von Einem (after Büchner). Its first performance took place in Salzburg, August 6, 1947. It was revised in 1955.
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- 1946
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- Aug 6, 1947
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, his last. The opera is based on the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Myfanwy Piper wrote the English libretto. It was first performed at Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh, England on 16...
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- 1973
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- Jun 16, 1973
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Il turco in Italia
Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani. It was a re-working of a libretto by Caterino Mazzolà set as an opera (with the same title) by the...
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- Aug 14, 1814
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Les mamelles de Tirésias
Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is a surrealist two act opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, based on the play of the same title by Guillaume Apollinaire, which was written in 1903 but first performed in 1917. The opera premiered at...
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- 1944
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- Jun 3, 1947
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Oberto
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an existing libretto by Antonio Piazza probably called Rocester.
It was Verdi's first opera, written over a period of four...
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- 1841
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- Nov 17, 1839
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Francesca da Rimini
Francesca da Rimini (Russian: Франческа да Римини), Op. 25 is an opera in two acts by Sergei Rachmaninoff to a Russian libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is based on the story of Francesca da Rimini in the fifth canto of Dante's epic poem The...
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- 1905
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- Jan 24, 1906
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Bomarzo
Bomarzo is an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera, his Opus 34, to a Spanish libretto by Manuel Mujica Laínez, based on his 1962 novel about the 16th century Italian eccentric Pier Francesco Orsini. The opera had its world premiere at the Opera...
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- 1966
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- May 19, 1967
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Beatrix Cenci
Beatrix Cenci is an opera in two acts by Alberto Ginastera to a Spanish libretto by the composer and William Shand, based on the historical family of Beatrice Cenci, the Chroniques italiennes by Stendhal, and The Cenci by Percy Shelley. The first...
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- 1971
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- Sep 10, 1971
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La vida breve
La vida breve (Life is Short, also: The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw. The first performance was given at the Casino Municipale in Nice on April 1,...
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- 1904
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- Apr 1, 1913
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The English Cat
The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on Les peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise (The heartbreak of an English cat) by Honoré de Balzac. The opera...
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- 1983
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- Jun 2, 1983
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Hugh the Drover
Hugh the Drover (or Love in the Stocks) is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce...
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- 1914
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- Jul 4, 1924
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an opera in two acts with music by Krzysztof Penderecki and an English libretto by Christopher Fry. The opera is based on the epic poem of the same name by Milton. Penderecki himself characterized the work as a Sacra...
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- 1978
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- Nov 29, 1978
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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The world premiere of the opera was given on September 14th, 1954...
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- 1954
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- Sep 14, 1954
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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is an opera by the German composer Max von Schillings on a libretto by Beatrice von Dovsky. It was first performed on September 26, 1915 in the Hofoper in Stuttgart. The opera was dedicated to the Philosophy Faculty of the University of...
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- 1915
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- Sep 26, 1915
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Ascanio in Alba
Ascanio in Alba, K. 111, is a pastoral opera in two parts (Festa teatrale in due atti) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini. This youthful opera by Mozart contains outstanding arias and brilliant moments of musical...
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- 1771
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- Oct 17, 1771
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Gawain
Gawain is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by David Harsent. The story is based on the Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The opera was a commission from the Royal Opera House, London, where it was first...
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- 1991
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- May 30, 1991
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Der Traumgörge
Der Traumgörge (Görge the Dreamer) is an opera by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. Its libretto was written by Leo Feld. Its music was composed between 1904 and 1906.
Der Traumgörge was intended for performance at the Vienna State Opera (then...
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- 1907
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- Oct 11, 1980
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Il crociato in Egitto
Il crociato in Egitto (The Crusade in Egypt) is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at La Fenice theatre, Venice on 7 March, 1824. The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato,...
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- 1924
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- Mar 7, 1824
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Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave is an opera for television in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 85, and a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James.
BBC television commissioned an opera from Britten in 1966. In 1968, he and Piper...
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- 1970
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- May 16, 1971
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is an opera composed by the Danish composer Poul Ruders, to a libretto by Paul Bentley based on the novel of the same name written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
The opera is set in the United States in the early 21st...
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- 1998
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- Mar 6, 2000
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Intermezzo
Intermezzo is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to his own German libretto, described as a Bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen (bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes). It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on November 4,...
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- 1923
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- Nov 4, 1924
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Die ägyptische Helena
Die ägyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on June 6, 1928. Strauss had written the title role with Maria Jeritza in...
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- 1927
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- Jun 6, 1928
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Alina, regina di Golconda
Alina, regina di Golconda (Alina, Queen of Golconda) is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani after Michel-Jean Sedaine's French libretto for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's ballet-heroique Aline,...
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- May 12, 1828
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Rosmonda d'Inghilterra
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (Rosamund of England) is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani originally for Coccia's Rosmunda (1829). It is based on the legend of Rosamund Clifford (The...
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- Feb 27, 1837
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L'esule di Roma
L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto (The Exile from Rome, or the Proscribed Man) is a melodramma eroico, or heroic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Domenico Gilardoni wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano,...
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- Jan 1, 1828
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Silvano
Silvano is a dramma marinaresco (literally a "seafaring drama") or opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, 1895, from a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, based on a novel by Alphonse Karr.
It received its first performance on March 25, 1895 at...
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- 1895
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- Mar 25, 1895
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Enrico di Borgogna
Enrico di Borgogna (Henry of Burgundy) is an opera eroica or "heroic" opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Bartolomeo Merelli wrote the Italian libretto after Der Graf von Burgund by August von Kotzebue.
Enrico di Borgogna was the third opera...
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- Nov 14, 1818
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Facing Goya
Facing Goya (2000) is an opera in four acts by Michael Nyman on a libretto by Victoria Hardie. It is an expansion of their one-act opera called Vital Statistics from 1987, dealing with such subjects as physiognomy and its practitioners, and also...
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- 2000
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- Aug 3, 2000
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Telemaco
Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe (Telemachus, or Circe's Island) is an operatic dramma per musica in two acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The Italian libretto was written by Marco Coltellini after Carlo Sigismondo Capece.
The opera was written for...
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- Jan 30, 1765
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Thérèse
Thérèse is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie. It was first performed at the Opéra in Monte Carlo on 7 February 1907, with Lucy Arbell in the title role.
The story takes place during the French Revolution...
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- 1906
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- Feb 7, 1907
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The First Emperor
The First Emperor is an opera in two acts with a libretto written in English by Tan Dun and Ha Jin, and music by Tan Dun. The opera received its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera at the Lincoln Center in New York City on 21 December 2006, conducted...
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- Dec 21, 2006
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Adelaide di Borgogna
Adelaide di Borgogna, ossia Ottone, re d'Italia (Adelaide of Burgundy, or Otto, King of Italy) is a two-act opera composed by Gioachino Rossini (with contributions by Michele Carafa) to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt. It was premièred at the Teatro...
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- Dec 27, 1817
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Un re in ascolto
Un re in ascolto (A King Listens) is an opera by Luciano Berio, who also wrote the libretto. The libretto (in Italian) is based on an idea by Italo Calvino, incorporating excerpts from Friedrich Einsiedel and Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter's eighteenth...
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- 1984
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- Aug 7, 1984
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Lear
Lear is an opera in two acts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Reimann wrote the title role specifically for the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who...
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- 1978
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- Jul 9, 1978
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Taverner
Taverner is an opera with music and libretto by Peter Maxwell Davies. It is based on the life of the 16th century English composer John Taverner, but in what Davies himself acknowledged was a non-realistic treatment. The gestation for the opera...
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- 1968
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- Jul 12, 1972
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Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn
Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn (Peter Schmoll and his Neighbours) is the third opera by Carl Maria von Weber and the first for which the music has survived. It was written in 1802 when the composer was only 15 and premiered in Augsburg the...
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- 1802
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- Mar 1803
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A Flowering Tree
A Flowering Tree is an opera in two acts composed by John Coolidge Adams with libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, and commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln...
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- Nov 14, 2006
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Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, (Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a dramma per musica or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici. It had its debut at the Teatro...
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- Oct 4, 1815
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Figaro lässt sich scheiden
Figaro lässt sich scheiden, op.40, (Figaro Gets Divorced) is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe who also wrote the libretto based on the comedy of the same name by Ödön von Horváth.
It premiered on 28 June 1963 at the Hamburg State Opera. It was...
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- Jun 28, 1963
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Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie
Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie, op. 55, (The Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Lily) is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe; his wife, Lore Klebe, wrote the libretto based on the fairy tale Das Märchen, part of the novella Unterhaltungen deutscher...
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- May 15, 1969
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Das Mädchen aus Domrémy
Das Mädchen aus Domrémy, op.72, (The Girl from Domrémy) is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe who with his wife, Lore Klebe, also wrote the libretto based on the play Die Jungfrau von Orléans by Friedrich Schiller.
The opera premiered on June 19...
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- Jun 19, 1976
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Die Fastnachtsbeichte
Die Fastnachtsbeichte , op.90, (Carnival Confession) is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe. His wife, Lore Klebe, wrote the libretto based on the novella of the same name by Carl Zuckmayer.
The opera premiered on 20 December 1983 in Darmstadt,...
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- Dec 20, 1983
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Palmira, regina di Persia
Palmira, regina di Persia is an opera by Antonio Salieri: more specifically, it is a dramma eroicomico. The opera is in two acts and is set to a libretto by Giovanni de Gamerra.
Salieri mingled elements of comic opera and heroic opera to produce a...
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- Oct 14, 1795
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Europa riconosciuta
Europa riconosciuta is an opera in two acts by Antonio Salieri, designated as a dramma per musica, set to an Italian libretto by Mattia Verazi.
The opera takes place in Tyre and tells a story of love, violence and political discord in ancient times....
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- Aug 3, 1778
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The Second Mrs Kong
The Second Mrs Kong is an opera in two acts, with music by Sir Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by Russell Hoban. Glyndebourne Touring Opera first staged the opera on 24 October 1994. The cast included Philip Langridge, Helen Field and Michael...
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- Oct 24, 1994
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Gervaise Macquart
Gervaise Macquart, op. 119, is an opera in two acts by Giselher Klebe. His wife, Lore Klebe, wrote the libretto based on the novel L'Assommoir (in German: Der Totschläger) by Émile Zola.
The opera premiered on 10 November 1995 at the Deutsche Oper...
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- Nov 10, 1995
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Miss Julie
This article is about the opera by William Alwyn. For other works, see Miss Julie (disambiguation).
Miss Julie is an opera by William Alwyn with a libretto by the composer, based on the play Miss Julie by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The...
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- 1976
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- Jul 16, 1977
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The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree is an opera co-composed by Philip Glass and Robert Moran in 1985 to a libretto by Arthur Yorinks based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale. The opera is in two acts and is scored for two baritones, bass, mezzo-soprano, four sopranos,...
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- Dec 11, 1985
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Phaedra
Phaedra is a 'concert opera' in two-acts by Hans Werner Henze. Its first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera on 6 September 2007. The work is a co-commission and co-production with the Berliner Festspiele, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels...
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- Sep 6, 2007
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The Cunning Peasant
The Cunning Peasant (Šelma sedlák in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech-language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý.
The Cunning Peasant was written at a time when there was a lack of high-quality Czech dramatic writers. In his 1995...
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- 1877
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- Jan 27, 1878
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Appomattox
Appomattox is an opera in English based on the American Civil War, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by the playwright Christopher Hampton. The work had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on October 5, 2007, with a cast that...
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- Oct 5, 2007
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Amica
Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens). The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the...
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- Mar 16, 1905
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Zelmira
Zelmira is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas. Stendhal called its music Teutonic, comparing it with La...
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- Feb 16, 1822
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Are You There?
Are You There? is a "farcical musical play in two acts" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo to a libretto co-authored by Albert de Courville and Edgar Wallace. It premièred on 1 November 1913, at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London, but was unsuccessful...
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- Nov 1, 1913
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L'infedeltà delusa
L'infedeltà delusa ("Deceit Outwitted"), Hob. 28/5, is an operatic burletta per musica by Joseph Haydn. The Italian libretto was by Marco Coltellini, perhaps reworked by Carl Friberth who also took part in the first performance.
The earliest...
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- 1773
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- Jul 26, 1773
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Maometto II
Maometto secondo is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle, based on his earlier play Anna Erizo. The first performance took place in Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 3 December, 1820.
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- Dec 3, 1820
