Opera Composer

Pietro Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer, most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece, Cavalleria rusticana, caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and singlehandedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian...

Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Paul Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became...

Luigi Rossi (ca. 1597 - 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an early age he went to Naples. There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de...

Antonio Lotti (January 5, 1667 – January 5, 1740) was an Italian composer of classical music. Lotti was born January 5, 1667 Venice although his father Matteo was Kapellmeister at Hannover at the time. In 1682, Lotti began studying with Lodovico Fuga and Giovanni...

Azio Corghi (9 March, 1937 – is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli.

Erkki Melartin (February 2 1875–February 14 1937) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. Interestingly enough, he shares identical birth and death years with more famous composer Maurice...

is a prolific Japanese opera composer. Between 1978 and 1999 she wrote 18 operas, many of them performed in Tokyo by the Nihon Opera Kyokai or the Nikikai Opera. One work was performed in Italy. In general she has preferred Japanese subjects, however her second...

Domenico Alberti (around 1710 – 1740) was an Italian singer, harpsichord and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods. Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote opera, song and sonatas for keyboard instrument, for...

Bedřich Smetana (pronounced ; 2 March 1824 - 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava (better known as The Moldau from the German), the second in a cycle of six which he entitled Má vlast ("My Country"), and for his opera The...

Camille Erlanger (May 24, 1863 - April 24, 1919) was a Paris-born French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes and in 1888 won the Prix de Rome for his opera Velléda. Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery....

Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen. Bizet was born in Paris at 28 Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne. He was registered with the legal name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet,...

Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australia/New Zealand composer. Maria Grenfell was born in Malaysia in 1969 and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, graduating with a Master of Music degree from the University of Canterbury. She completed further studies in the USA,...

Thea Musgrave (b. 27 May 1928, Barnton, Edinburgh) is a Scottish-born, American-based composer of opera and classical music. She studied at Edinburgh University and then in Paris, returning to Britain and working on a number of operas in the late 1950s and 1960s. She...

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (, (often pronounced in English as ) ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and opera...

Moya Henderson (born in Quirindi, New South Wales, on 2 August 1941) is an Australia composer. A graduate of the University of Queensland, she also studied in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen after which she became a lecturer at the University of Sydney. She was...

Antonio Maria Bononcini (June 18, 1677 - July 8, 1726), was an Italian cellist and composer, the younger brother of the better-known Giovanni Bononcini. Bononcini was born and died at Modena in Italy. He worked for some years with his brother, and joined him in the...

Charles Jean Baptiste Grisart (29 September 1837 Paris - 11 March 1904 Compiègne) was a French opera composer.

Webster A. Young is a composer of ballets and operas. He is the artistic director of the Long Island Opera Company. Young, Webster A.Young, Webster A.

Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé, Lorient, 7 March, 1822 - died Paris, 5 July, 1884) was a French composer. Massé studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera....

Grigory Samuilovich Frid also Grigori Fried (Russian: Григо́рий Самуи́лович Фри́д, born September 22 N.S., 1915, Petrograd, now St. Petersburg) - is a Russia composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera. Frid studied in the Moscow...

Petar Stojanović (September 7, 1877 – September 11, 1957) was a Serbia violinist and composer of operetta, ballet and orchestral music. (His birthday is also variously given as September 6 and August 25.) He was born in Budapest and studied the violin there with Jenő...

Eduard Künneke (also spelled Künnecke) (27 January 1885 - 27 October 1953) was a German composer of operetta, opera and theatre music. He was born in Emmerich. His daughter was the actress and singer Evelyn Künneke. Künneke studied musicology and literature in Berlin...

Richard Danielpour (born 28 January 1956 in New York) is an American composer. Danielpour studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986. His primary...

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (, ) (June 17 1882 – April 6 1971) was a Russia composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by '...

Bartholomäus Aich was a South-German organist and composer in the 17th century. Little is known about his life: originally from the village of Uttenweiler near Biberach an der Riß in Upper Swabia, he was the organist of the Franciscan abbey of Lindau/Lake Constance. ...

Vasily Pavlovich Lobanov also Vassily Lobanov (Васи́лий Па́влович Лоба́нов, born January 2, 1947) is a Russian composer and pianist. Lobanov studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1963 - 1971: piano with Lev Naumov and composition with Sergey Balasanyan. He also studied...

Jorge Washington Peña Hen (January 16 1928 – October 16 1973) was a Chile composer and an academic at the University of Chile. He was murdered by the Caravan of Death. His children's opera La Cenicienta was composed in 1966. It was restaged in 2004 by Fondazione...

Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings became his most famous composition and is widely considered a masterwork of modern classical music. Barber was...

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, also Voustin or Wustin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Кузьми́ч Ву́стин, born: April 24, 1943, Moscow) is a Russia composer. He studied composition first with Grigory Frid at a regional music college, and later with Vladimir Ferè at the Moscow...

Francesca Caccini (September 18, 1587 – c. 1640) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was probably the most famous and influential female European composer, in any genre...