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  Betrothal in a Monastery

  Betrothal in a Monastery (Obrucheniye v monastïre in transliteration) was Sergei Prokofiev's sixth opera with an opus number. The libretto, in Russian, was by the composer and Mira Mendelson, after Richard Brinsley Sheridan's ballad opera libretto for Thomas Linley the younger's The Duenna....
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  War and Peace

  War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is an opera in two parts (an Epigraph and thirteen scenes), sometimes arranged as five acts, by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and Mira Mendelson, based on the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Although Tolstoy's...

• The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga

  The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (Russian: Боярыня Вера Шелога, Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga) is an opera in one act by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the libretto, which he based on the drama by Lev Alexandrovich Mey. The opera was composed in 1898 from material omitted from Rimsky-Korsakov's...

• The Story of a Real Man

  The Story of a Real Man (Повесть о настоящем человеке) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, his opus 117. It was written from 1947 to 1948, and was his last opera. The libretto, by the composer and Mira Mendelson, is based on the novel of the same name by Boris Polevoy...

• Daphnis et Eglé

  Daphnis et Eglé is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 30 October 1753 at Fontainebleau. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in one act. The librettist was Charles Collé, and this was the only artistic collaboration between Collé and Rameau. Paul F. Rice has commented that...

• Comedy on the Bridge

  Comedy on the Bridge (Veselohra na mostě in Czech) is an opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the comedy by Václav Kliment Klicpera. The first performance occurred over Czech Radio, Prague on 18 March 1937. The first staged performance was at Hunter...