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| x The Silver Tassie | Mark-Anthony Turnage |
The Silver Tassie is an opera in four acts by the English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. The English libretto was written by Amanda Holden after Sean O'Casey. The opera was composed between 1997 and 1999.
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| x Eyes and No Eyes |
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Eyes and No Eyes, or The Art of Seeing is a one-act musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music originally by Thomas German Reed that premiered on July 5, 1875 at St. George's Hall in London and ran for only a month. The...
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| x Guillaume Tell |
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André Ernest Modeste Grétry | Michel-Jean Sedaine | French Language |
Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opéra comique, described as a drame mise en musique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Michel-Jean Sedaine based on a play of the same name by Antoine-Marin Lemierre.
It was first performed at...
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| x The Adventures of Pinocchio | Jonathan Dove | Alasdair Middleton | English Language |
This article is about the Jonathan Dove opera. For the Carlo Collodi novel see: The Adventures of Pinocchio. For other works with this title see: The Adventures of Pinocchio (disambiguation)
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a 2007 opera in two acts by...
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| x A Wedding | William Bolcom | Arnold Weinstein |
A Wedding is a comic opera based on Robert Altman's 1979 film A Wedding and was composed by William Bolcom with a libretto written by Robert Altman and Arnold Weinstein.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago commissioned the work, and the opera was first...
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| x Teseo | George Frideric Handel | Nicola Francesco Haym | Italian Language |
Teseo (Theseus, HWV 9) is an opera seria with music by George Frideric Handel, the only Handel opera that is in five acts. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Philippe Quinault's Thésée. It was Handel's third London...
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| x Daphnis et Chloé |
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Jacques Offenbach | French Language |
Daphnis et Chloé is a one-act operetta by Jacques Offenbach. The libretto was by Clairville (alias of Louis Nicolaïe (1822-1879)) and Jules Cordier (alias of Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle (1802-1859)), based on the story of Daphnis and Chloe.
It...
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| x Ruslan and Lyudmila |
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Mikhail Glinka | Nestor Kukolnik | Russian Language |
Ruslan and Lyudmila (Russian: Руслан и Людмила, Ruslan i Lyudmila) is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The multi...
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| x Mirandolina | Bohuslav Martinů | Bohuslav Martinů | Italian Language |
Mirandolina (H. 346) is a comic opera in three acts by Bohuslav Martinů, with a libretto (in Italian) by the composer after Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Mistress of the Inn (1751).
The opera was written in 1953-4. It incorporates in places stretches...
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| x Europa riconosciuta |
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Antonio Salieri | Mattia Verazi |
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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| x Women Generals of the Yangs |
Women Generals of the Yangs (杨门女将, pinyin yangmen nujiang ) is a Beijing Opera by Du Mingxin to a Chinese libretto, based on the Yangju Opera Commanding the troops at 100 years old. First performance: China Peking Opera Company, 1960.
It is set...
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| x The Bohemian Girl |
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The Bohemian Girl is an opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Cervantes tale, La Gitanilla.
The opera was first produced in London at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 27, 1843. The...
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| x Flight | Jonathan Dove |
Flight is an English opera in three acts, with music by Jonathan Dove and libretto by April De Angelis. The work was commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera and premiered on 24 September 1998 by Glyndebourne Touring Opera. After it's large success, the...
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| x Flavio | George Frideric Handel | Nicola Francesco Haym | Italian Language |
Flavio, re di Longobardi (Flavio, King of the Lombards, HWV 16) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Matteo Noris's Il Flavio Cuniberto. It was Handel's fourth full...
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| x Zaide |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Zaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition...
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| x Galileo Galilei |
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Philip Glass | Mary Zimmerman | English Language |
Galileo Galilei is an opera based on excerpts from the life of Galileo Galilei which premiered in 2002 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Music by Philip Glass, libretto by Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein. The piece is presented in one act consisting...
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| x Macbeth |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave | Italian Language |
Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was Verdi's tenth opera and also the first of Shakespeare's plays...
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| x Mitridate, re di Ponto |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Italian Language |
Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mithridates, King of Pontus), K. 87 (74a), is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine.
Mozart...
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| x The Contrabandista |
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Sir Arthur Sullivan |
The Contrabandista, or The Law of the Ladrones, is a two-act comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand. It premiered at St. George's Hall, in London, on 18 December 1867 under the management of Thomas German Reed, for a run of 72 performances...
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| x La Guirlande | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Jean-François Marmontel | French Language |
La Guirlande (full name La Guirlande, ou Les Fleurs Enchantées) is the name of an acte de ballet adapted from a libretto by Jean-François Marmontel, with music composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. It debuted on 21 September 1751 at the Paris Opéra.
The...
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| x Jenůfa |
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Leoš Janáček | Leoš Janáček | Czech Language |
Jenůfa (Czech) (help·info) (Její pastorkyňa, "Her Stepdaughter" in Czech) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. It was first performed at the Brno...
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| x The Dreamers | David Conte |
The Dreamers is a chamber opera in four scenes with music by David Conte and libretto by Philip Littell.
Commissioned and premiered by Sonoma City Opera in September 1996, the opera centers around a town of "dreamers" who, though separated by sexual...
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| x Il re pastore |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Pietro Metastasio | Italian Language |
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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| x La finta semplice |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Marco Coltellini | Italian Language |
La finta semplice (The Pretended Simpleton), K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa in three acts for soloists and orchestra, composed in 1769 by then 13-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by the court poet Marco Coltellini based on an...
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| x Das Liebesverbot |
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Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner | German Language |
Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) is an early opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Described as a grosse komische Oper, it was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted...
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| x Dardanus |
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Antonio Sacchini |
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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| x Cups and Saucers |
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Cups and Saucers is a one-act "satirical musical sketch" written and composed by George Grossmith. It was first produced in 1876 on tour as a vehicle for Grossmith and Florence Marryat, as part of Entre Nous, their series of piano sketches. The...
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| x La mascotte | French Language |
La mascotte ("The Mascot") is an operetta by Edmond Audran. The French libretto was by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot. The title (in English) initiated the use of the word 'mascot' in the English language to mean an animal, human, or thing...
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| x The Princess of the Stars |
The Princess of the Stars is an experimental opera or music drama by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. The opera is notable because it must be performed around and on a lake, preferably as far from civilization as possible. The opera was...
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| x The Rival Poets |
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Edward German |
The Rival Poets, or the Love Charm is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by W. H. Scott. The opera was first performed under the title The Two Poets at the Royal Academy of Music in London in July 1886.
The opera,...
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| x The Sorcerer |
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Sir Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert |
The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It was Gilbert and Sullivan's third opera together.
The Sorcerer opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique in the Strand in London, where it...
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| x The Nightingale |
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Igor Stravinsky | Igor Stravinsky | Russian Language |
The Nightingale (Solovyei) is a Russian conte lyrique in three acts by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on the tale of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, was written by the composer and Stepan Mitussov.
Stravinsky had begun work on the...
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| x Owen Wingrave | Benjamin Britten | Myfanwy Piper | English Language |
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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| x Pauline |
Pauline is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen to a libretto by Henry Hersee after The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, first performed 22 September 1876 at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
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| x The Photographer |
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Philip Glass | English Language |
The Photographer is a chamber opera by composer Philip Glass that is based on the homicide trial of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. The opera is based on words drawn from the trial as well as Muybridge's letters to his wife. Commissioned by the...
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The Lucky Star is an English comic opera, in three acts, composed by Ivan Caryll, with dialogue by Charles H. Brookfield (revised by Helen Lenoir) and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Aubrey Hopwood. It was produced by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and...
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| x Comedy on the Bridge | Bohuslav Martinů | Bohuslav Martinů | Czech Language |
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...
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| x Geneviève de Brabant |
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Jacques Offenbach | Etienne Tréfeu | French Language |
Geneviève de Brabant is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1859. The plot is based on the medieval legend of Genevieve of Brabant.
For the 1867 version a comic duet for bass and baritone in the character...
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| x Alahor in Granata | Gaetano Donizetti | Italian Language |
Alahor in Granata is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an anonymous Italian libretto (indicated only with the initials "M.A.") after Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's text Gonzalve de Cordoue , ou Granade reconquise (1793). It premiered on...
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| x Merrie England |
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Edward German |
Merrie England is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by Basil Hood. It opened at the Savoy Theatre in London on April 2, 1902, then under the management of William Greet, and ran for a total of 176 performances. It...
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| x Le roi malgré lui | Emmanuel Chabrier | Emile de Najac | French Language |
Le roi malgré lui (King in Spite of Himself or The reluctant king) is an opéra-comique in three acts by Emmanuel Chabrier with an original libretto by Emile de Najac and Paul Burani.
Around May 1883 Chabrier wrote to his publishers that he was...
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| x Jaguarita l'Indienne |
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Fromental Halévy |
Jaguarita l'Indienne is a three act opéra comique, to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe de Leuven, with music by Fromental Halévy.
The opera was premiered on 14 May 1855 at the Théâtre-Lyrique, Paris, with the soprano...
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| x Merry Mount |
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Howard Hanson |
Merry Mount is an opera in three acts by American composer Howard Hanson; its libretto, by Richard Stokes, is loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Maypole of Merry Mount", taken from his Twice Told Tales. Hanson's only opera, it...
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| x Puss in Boots | César Cui | Russian Language |
Puss in Boots (Кот в сапогах in Cyrillic; Kot v sapogakh in transliteration) is a short opera-fairytale for children in three acts, four tableaux, composed by César Cui in 1913. The libretto was written by Marina Stanislavovna Pol'. It was premiered...
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| x Ib and Little Christina |
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Franco Leoni |
Ib and Little Christina refers to two theatrical adaptations by Basil Hood of the 1855 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen of the same name.
The first was a play styled "A Picture in 3 Parts", with incidental music by Arthur Bruhns and was first...
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| x The Tender Land | Aaron Copland | English Language |
The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the...
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Francesco Cavalli | Giovanni Faustini | Italian Language |
Egisto (Aegisthus) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a favola dramatica musicale. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini, his second text for Cavalli.
It was first performed in Venice at the...
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| x Olivo e Pasquale | Gaetano Donizetti | Jacopo Ferretti | Italian Language |
Olivo e Pasquale (Olivo and Pasquale) is a melodramma giocoso, a romantic comedy opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Jacopo Ferretti wrote the Italian libretto after Simeone Antonio Sografi's play.
It premiered on January 7, 1827 at the Teatro...
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| x Orione | Francesco Cavalli | Italian Language |
Orione (Orion) is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli with a libretto by Francesco Melosio. It was first performed at the Royal Theatre, Milan in June 1653 to celebrate the election of Ferdinand IV as King...
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| x Martha | Friedrich von Flotow | German Language |
Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond (Martha, or The Market at Richmond) is a 'romantic comic' opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow, set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges....
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| x Bang! | John Rutter | English Language |
Bang! is an opera for young people by John Rutter to an English libretto by David Richard Grant. It was first performed in 1975.
It was premiered at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon by the Trinity Boys Choir.
The story is based on The Gunpowder Plot....
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Jean-Baptiste Lully | Jean Galbert de Campistron |
Acis et Galatée (Acis and Galatea) is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Unlike most of his operas, which are designated tragédies en musique, Lully called this work a pastorale-héroïque, because it was on a pastoral theme and had only three acts ...
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| x Alexander Twice | Bohuslav Martinů | French Language |
Alexandre bis ( 'Alexander Twice' in English translation, 'Dvakrát Alexandr' in Czech translation) is a surrealist comic opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů, (H. 255), composed in 1937 to an original libretto written in French by André Wurmser.
The...
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Gaetano Donizetti | Felice Romani | Italian Language |
Lucrezia Borgia is a melodramma, or opera, in a prologue and two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after the play by Victor Hugo, in its turn after the legend of Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia Borgia was first performed...
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| x Djamileh |
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Georges Bizet | Louis Gallet | French Language |
Djamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset.
De Musset wrote Namouna in 1832, consisting of 147 verses in three 'chants' (only the last dozen or so...
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| x La reine de Saba |
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Charles Gounod | Jules Barbier | French Language |
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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Jules Massenet | Édouard Blau | French Language |
Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on the German epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Although Massenet wrote and...
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André Ernest Modeste Grétry | Jean-François Marmontel | French Language |
Le Huron is a French opéra comique in two acts by André Grétry. The libretto is by Jean François Marmontel based on the story L'ingénu (1767) by Voltaire. It was the composer's first big success with Parisian audiences.
It was first performed at the...
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| x La Navarraise | Jules Massenet | Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie | French Language |
La Navarraise is an opera in one act by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain, based on Claretie's novel La Cigarette. It was first performed at Covent Garden in London on June 20, 1894, with Emma Calvé in the title...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Russian Language |
Kashchey the Deathless (Russian: Кащей бессмертный, Kashchey bessmertnïy), aka Kashchey the Immortal, is a one-act opera in three scenes (styled a "little autumnal fairy tale") by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer,...
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