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| x Ernani |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave | Italian Language |
Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. The first production took place at La Fenice Theatre, Venice on March 9, 1844.
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| x La traviata |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave | Italian Language |
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. The title "La traviata" means literally The Woman...
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| x Rigoletto |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave | Italian Language |
Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851. It is considered by...
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| x Tristan und Isolde |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1856...
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| x Cavalleria rusticana |
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Pietro Mascagni | Guido Menasci | Italian Language |
Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play written by Giovanni Verga based on his short story. Considered one of the...
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| x Pagliacci |
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Ruggero Leoncavallo | Ruggero Leoncavallo | Italian Language |
Pagliacci (Players, or Clowns) is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe. (Its name is sometimes incorrectly rendered as...
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| x Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Gottlieb Stephanie | German Language |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb...
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| x Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name. The title is commonly shortened to...
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| x Lohengrin |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel,...
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| x Parsifal |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail.
During the first act, Parsifal,...
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| x Tannhäuser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Tannhäuser (full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg / Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two Germanic legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest...
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| x Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is one of the most popular operas in the repertory, and is among the longest still commonly performed today,...
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| x Der Ring des Nibelungen |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas or 'music dramas' by the German composer Richard Wagner. The operas are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. The works are often...
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| x The Magic Flute |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Emanuel Schikaneder | German Language |
The Magic Flute (German Die Zauberflöte, K. 620) is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken...
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| x Otello |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Arrigo Boito | Italian Language |
Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's second to last opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro...
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| x Otello | Gioacchino Rossini | Italian Language |
Otello is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Berio di Salsi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.
First performance: Teatro del Fondo, Naples, 4 December 1816.
The opera deviates quite heavily from...
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| x Guillaume Tell | Gioacchino Rossini | Victor Joseph Etienne de Jouy | French Language |
Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique on August...
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| x The Barber of Seville | Gioacchino Rossini | Cesare Sterbini | Italian Language |
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto (based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville) by Cesare...
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| x Paradise Lost |
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Krzysztof Penderecki | Christopher Fry | English Language |
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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| x Dido and Aeneas |
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Henry Purcell | Nahum Tate | English Language |
Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in the spring of 1689. It comprises three acts and lasts about an hour, and is...
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| x Madama Butterfly |
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Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica | Italian Language |
Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by...
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| x Les Troyens |
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Hector Berlioz | Hector Berlioz | French Language |
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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| x The Little Prince |
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Rachel Portman | Nicholas Wright |
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.
The Little...
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| x Four Saints in Three Acts | Virgil Thomson | Gertrude Stein | English Language |
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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| x Siegfried |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It received its premiere at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of The...
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| x Die Walküre |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It is the source of the famous piece Ride of the Valkyries.
Wagner took his tale from the Norse...
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| x Das Rheingold |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Das Rheingold ("The Rhine Gold") is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. Das Rheingold was originally written as an introduction to the tripartite Ring; however, the cycle...
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| x Götterdämmerung |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Götterdämmerung (help·info) (English: Twilight of the Gods) is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas entitled Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its premiere at the Bayreuth...
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| x Octavia | Reinhard Keiser | German Language |
The Roman Unrest, or The Noble-Minded Octavia (German: Die römische unruhe, oder Die edelmütige Octavia), commonly called Octavia. Three part tragic opera by Reinhard Keiser, libretto by Barthold Feind.
Response to Handel's now-lost Nero, using the...
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| x Nixon in China |
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John Coolidge Adams | Alice Goodman | English Language |
Nixon in China (1987) is an opera with music by the American composer John Adams and a libretto by Alice Goodman, about the visit of United States President Richard M. Nixon to China in 1972, where he met with China's Chairman Mao Zedong and other...
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| x Pelléas et Mélisande |
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Claude Debussy | Claude Debussy | French Language |
Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 30 April 1902. The French libretto was adapted from the Symbolist play of the same name by...
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| x Porgy and Bess |
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George Gershwin | DuBose Heyward |
Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name which he co...
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| x Treemonisha |
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Scott Joplin | English Language |
Treemonisha is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Though it encompasses a wide range of musical styles other than ragtime, and Joplin himself never referred to it as such, it is still sometimes...
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| x Bluebeard's Castle |
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Béla Bartók | Béla Balázs | Hungarian |
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára; literally: The Castle of the Blue-Bearded Prince) is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer. It...
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| x Salome |
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Richard Strauss | Richard Strauss | German Language |
Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde.
The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its Dance...
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| x Elektra |
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Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | German Language |
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted from his drama of 1903—the first of many such collaborations between composer and librettist. It was first performed at the Dresden State...
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| x Die Frau ohne Schatten |
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Richard Strauss | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | German Language |
Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. When the work premiered in Vienna on 10 October 1919, critics and...
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| x La scala di seta | Gioacchino Rossini | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | Italian Language |
La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder or Die seidene Leiter) is an operatic farsa comica in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. It was first performed in Venice, Italy at the Teatro San Moisè on May 9, 1812. The...
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| x Capriccio |
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Richard Strauss | Clemens Krauss | German Language |
Capriccio is the final opera by German composer Richard Strauss, subtitled "A Conversation Piece for Music". The opera received its premiere performance at the Nationaltheater München on October 28, 1942. Clemens Krauss and Strauss himself wrote the...
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| x Penthesilea | Othmar Schoeck | Othmar Schoeck | German Language |
Penthesilea is a one-act opera by Othmar Schoeck, to a German-language libretto by the composer, after the work of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist. It was first performed at the Staatsoper in Dresden, Germany on 8 January 1927.
Schoeck used the...
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| x Il Signor Bruschino |
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Gioacchino Rossini | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | Italian Language |
Il signor Bruschino, ossia Il figlio per azzardo (Signor Bruschino, or The Gambling Son) is a one act operatic farce (farsa giocosa per musica) by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa, based upon the play Le fils par hasard, ou...
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| x Daphne |
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Richard Strauss | German Language |
Daphne is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his 13th opera, subtitled "A Bucolic Tragedy in One Act". The German libretto was by Joseph Gregor. The opera is based loosely on a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and also includes elements taken...
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| x Friedenstag |
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Richard Strauss | German Language |
Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his Opus 81, to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. Strauss had hoped to work again with Stefan Zweig on a new project after their previous collaboration of Die schweigsame Frau, but...
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| x Feuersnot |
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Richard Strauss | Ernst von Wolzogen | German Language |
Feuersnot (The Need for Fire or Fire Famine), Op. 50, is a Singgedicht (sung poem) or opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The German libretto was written by Ernst von Wolzogen, based on J. Ketel's report "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde" in the...
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| x Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Alexander Preis | Russian Language |
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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| x Lord Byron | Virgil Thomson | Jack Larson | English Language |
Lord Byron is an opera in three acts by Virgil Thomson to an original English libretto by Jack Larson, inspired by the historical character George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. This was Thomson's third and final opera. He wrote the opera on...
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| x Cendrillon |
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Jules Massenet | Henri Cain | French Language |
Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—billed as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Cain. It was composed in 1894–95 and was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 24 May 1899, at the height of...
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| x Hamlet |
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Ambroise Thomas | Michel Carré | French Language |
Hamlet is an opéra in five acts by the French composer Ambroise Thomas, with the libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on Shakespeare's Hamlet and a French adaptation of the play by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice. The work was premiered...
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| x Tosca |
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Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica | Italian Language |
Tosca (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtoska]) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on...
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| x Lulu |
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Alban Berg | Alban Berg | German Language |
Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904).
Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a...
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| x Wozzeck |
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Alban Berg | Alban Berg | German Language |
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. Since then it has established a solid place for itself in the mainstream operatic tradition, and modern productions...
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| x La fille du régiment | Gaetano Donizetti | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | French Language |
La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. It was written while the composer was living in Paris, with a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard....
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| x Ein wahrer Held | Giselher Klebe | Giselher Klebe | German Language |
Ein wahrer Held, op.69, (A True Hero) is an opera in three acts by Giselher Klebe who with his wife, Lore Klebe, also wrote the libretto based on the play The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge.
The opera premiered on 18 January...
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| x A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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Benjamin Britten | Peter Pears |
A Midsummer Night's Dream is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival...
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| x Terra Terra |
Terra Terra -The Aquarius Era is a musical work by Nicholas Lens. It is the second part of the operatic trilogy The Accacha Chronicles.
The work follows on the successful first partFlamma Flamma.
In 12 sections, the score combines orchestra, chorus...
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| x Bitter Sweet |
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Noel Coward | Noel Coward |
Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts written by Noel Coward and first produced in 1929 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. It ran for a very successful 967 performances.
The relatively simple plot - set in 19th century and early 20th century...
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| x La fedeltà premiata | Joseph Haydn | Joseph Haydn | Italian Language |
La fedeltà premiata (Fidelity Rewarded) is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn first performed at Eszterháza on 25 February 1781 to celebrate the reopening of the court theatre after a fire. It was revised for a new version first performed in...
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| x Madame Favart |
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Jacques Offenbach | French Language |
Madame Favart is an opéra comique, or operetta, in three acts by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot.
After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870) ended Napoleon II's reign, Offenbach's...
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| x La reine de Chypre |
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Fromental Halévy |
La reine de Chypre (The Queen of Cyprus) is a grand opera composed by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
La reine de Chypre, first performed at the Paris Opéra on 22 December 1841 with Gilbert Duprez in the role...
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