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| x Grand Opera |
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Les Huguenots |
Grand Opera is a genre of 19th-century opera generally in four or five acts, characterised by large-scale casts and orchestras, and (in their original productions) lavish and spectacular design and stage-effects, normally with plots based on or...
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| Le prophète | |||
| L'Africaine | |||
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| x Dramma giocoso | Don Giovanni |
Dramma giocoso (Italian, literally: jocular drama; plural: drammi giocosi) is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather...
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| L'italiana in Algeri | |||
| La Cenerentola | |||
| Il viaggio a Reims | |||
| L'equivoco stravagante | |||
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| x Savoy opera |
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The Savoy Operas denote a style of comic opera that developed in Victorian England in the late 19th century, with W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan as the original and most successful practitioners. The name is derived from the Savoy Theatre, which...
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| x Semi-opera | The Indian Queen |
The terms Semi-opera, dramatic[k] opera and English opera were all applied to Restoration entertainments that combined spoken plays with masque-like episodes employing singing and dancing characters. They usually included machines in the manner of...
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| Dioclesian | |||
| King Arthur | |||
| The Fairy-Queen | |||
| Alceste | |||
| x Comic opera | Der geduldige Socrates |
Comic opera, or light opera, denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending.
Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an...
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| Le portrait de Manon | |||
| Belfagor | |||
| La grotta di Trofonio | |||
| Milton | |||
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| x Opera seria |
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Mitridate, re di Ponto |
Opera seria (usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to ca. 1770. The term itself was rarely used at...
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| The Bassarids | |||
| Armida | |||
| Creso | |||
| Temistocle | |||
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| x Singspiel | The Magic Flute |
A Singspiel (literally, "song-play") (plural: Singspiele) is a form of German-language music drama, regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias (which were often...
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| Die Entführung aus dem Serail | |||
| Zaide | |||
| Der Schauspieldirektor | |||
| Octavia | |||
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| x Opéra bouffon | Orpheus in the Underworld |
Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian genre of opera called opera buffa performed in 18th-century France, either in the original language or in French translation. The term is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique.
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| Le toréador | |||
| Les deux avares | |||
| x Opéra comique |
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Don César de Bazan |
Opéra comique (pl., opéras comiques) is a French genre of opera that contains spoken dialogue, and sometimes recitatives, in addition to arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St...
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| Manon | |||
| L'étoile du nord | |||
| Le comte Ory | |||
| Le postillon de Lonjumeau | |||
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| x Opéra bouffe | La belle Hélène |
Opéra bouffe (plural, opéras bouffes) is a genre of late 19th century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens that gave its name to the form.
Opéra bouffes are known...
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| L'étoile | |||
| La bonne d'enfant | |||
| La Périchole | |||
| Le testament de la tante Caroline | |||
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| x Opera buffa | The Marriage of Figaro |
The term opera buffa (Italian, plural: opere buffe) was at first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ...
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| L'arbore di Diana | |||
| Le nozze di Figaro | |||
| La serva padrona | |||
| Ubu Rex | |||
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| x Opera semi-seria | La sonnambula |
Opera semiseria ('semi-serious opera') is an Italian genre of opera, popular in the early and middle 19th century.
Related to the opera buffa, opera semiseria contains elements of comedy but also of pathos, sometimes with a pastoral setting. It can...
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| Benvenuto Cellini | |||
| La Zingara | |||
| Gianni di Calais | |||
| Torquato Tasso | |||
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| x Opéra féerie |
Opéra féerie (plural, opéras féeries) is a French genre of opera or opéra-ballet based on fairy tales, often with elements of magic in their stories. Popular in the 18th century, from the time of Jean-Philippe Rameau onwards, the form reached its...
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| x Ballad opera |
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The Beggar's Opera |
The term ballad opera is used to refer to a genre of English stage entertainment originating in the 18th century and continuing to develop in the following century and later. There are many types of ballad opera. This article describes the principal...
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| x Género chico |
Género chico (literally, "little genre") is a Spanish genre of short light musical plays. It is a subgenre of zarzuela, the Spanish operetta. It differs from zarzuela grande and most other opera forms both by being short and by aiming at a...
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| x Lyric tragedy | Oedipe |
Tragédie en musique (French lyric tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique, is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century. Operas in this genre are usually...
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| Didon | |||
| Amadis | |||
| La vestale | |||
| Orazi e Curiazi | |||
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| x Science-fiction operas |
Science-fiction opera is a style of opera whose subject-matter fits in or near the science fiction genre. Although currently only a small number of science-fiction operas have been written, the style’s popularity is growing rapidly. Like science...
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| x Opera electronica |
Opera electronica is a modern music style that utilizes and mixes the traditional use of voices and acoustic instruments with electronical means (samplers, synthesizers, Computers and so on). This modern Opera style had appeared in the pioneering...
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| x Chamber opera | Le piccole storie - ai margini delle guerre |
Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.
The term and form were invented by Benjamin Britten in the 1940s, when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be...
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| Satyricon | |||
| Le pauvre matelot | |||
| Mozart and Salieri | |||
| Powder Her Face | |||
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| x Beijing opera |
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Beijing opera or Peking opera (simplified Chinese: 京剧; traditional Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and...
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| x Opera in two acts | La conquista | ||
| Death in Venice | |||
| Les mamelles de Tirésias | |||
| Assassinio nella cattedrale | |||
| Francesca da Rimini | |||
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| x Children's opera | La figlia del mago |
These operas are written for a juvenile audience or may be performed by children.
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| Pollicino | |||
| The Little Sweep | |||
| Puss in Boots | |||
| Ivan the Fool | |||
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| x Comic opera in two acts | Mare nostro | ||
| Don Chisciotte della Mancia | |||
| The Marriage | |||
| Guillaume Tell | |||
| Falstaff | |||
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| x Opera in one act | Night | ||
| Salvatore Giuliano | |||
| Il tabarro | |||
| Suor Angelica | |||
| Gianni Schicchi | |||
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| x Romantische Oper | Der fliegende Holländer |
Romantische Oper (literally German romantic opera) was a genre of early nineteenth-century German opera, developed not from the German Singspiel of the eighteenth-century but from the opéras comiques of the French Revolution. It offered...
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| Tannhäuser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg | |||
| Lohengrin | |||
| Silvana | |||
| Euryanthe | |||
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| x Melodramma in three acts | Il corsaro | ||
| Rigoletto | |||
| La traviata | |||
| Un ballo in maschera | |||
| Dorilla in Tempe | |||
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| x Quasi un melodramma in three acts | Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil | ||
| x Musical action in one act | La nascita di Orfeo | ||
| x Opera in three acts | Charlotte Corday | ||
| La fanciulla del West | |||
| Turandot | |||
| The Rake's Progress | |||
| Einstein | |||
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| x Marionette opera | Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir | ||
| El retablo de Maese Pedro | |||
| x Lyric comedy | La rondine | ||
| La rondine by Giacomo Puccini - Third version completed by Lorenzo Ferrero | |||
| Platée | |||
| Thaïs | |||
| Les Paladins | |||
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| x Operetta |
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The Merry Widow |
Operetta (Italian, plural: operette) is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.
Operetta grew out of the French opéra comique around...
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| The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar - Instrumentation for chamber orchestra by Lorenzo Ferrero | |||
| Les Cloches de Corneville | |||
| Prima la musica e poi le parole | |||
| Moscow, Cheryomushki | |||
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| x Opéra-ballet | Le villi |
Opéra-ballet was a popular genre of French Baroque opera. It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways. It contained more dance music than the tragédie and the plots were not necessarily...
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| Le temple de la Gloire | |||
| Mlada | |||
| Mlada | |||
| Les Indes galantes | |||
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| x Lyric drama | Edgar | ||
| Manon Lescaut | |||
| Eugene Onegin | |||
| Il piccolo Marat | |||
| Werther | |||
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| x Opera in four scenes | La bohème | ||
| x Melodramma in one act | Cavalleria rusticana | ||
| x Dramma in two acts | Pagliacci | ||
| Sigismondo | |||
| x Legende dramatique | The Damnation of Faust | ||
| x Opera-Oratorio | Oedipus rex | ||
| De Temporum Fine Comoedia | |||
| El Niño | |||
| x Opera in five acts | La morte d'Orfeo | ||
| Ariane | |||
| Sapho | |||
| Don Quichotte | |||
| Khovanshchina | |||
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| x Opera in four acts | Billy Budd | ||
| Hérodiade | |||
| Esclarmonde | |||
| Cléopâtre | |||
| Halka | |||
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| x Tragic opera | Roma | ||
| Ermione | |||
| Imelda de' Lambertazzi | |||
| Il castello di Kenilworth | |||
| Maria di Rohan | |||
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| x Melodramma giocoso | Matilde di Shabran | ||
| Il campanello | |||
| La pietra del paragone | |||
| Un giorno di regno | |||
| Francesca di Foix | |||
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| x Comic opera in three acts | The Fair at Sorochintsï | ||
| Tom Jones | |||
| The Bartered Bride | |||
| Viola | |||
| The Secret | |||
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| x Fairy tale opera | Die Kluge | ||
| Hänsel und Gretel | |||
| Königskinder | |||
| Cendrillon | |||
| x Literaturoper | Antigone |
Literaturoper (literature opera, plural Literaturopern) is opera with music composed for a pre-existing text, as opposed to an opera with a libretto written specifically for the work.
Although the term is German, the term can be used for any kind of...
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| Les mamelles de Tirésias | |||
| Eine florentinische Tragödie | |||
| Die Soldaten | |||
| Guglielmo Ratcliff | |||
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| x Music drama | Das verratene Meer |
Music drama is the term ascribed to the revolutionary medium of artistic expression created by the German composer Richard Wagner. This was a musical dramatic work for the theatre, where the music does not stop and is a part of the emotional telling...
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| The Immortal Hour | |||
| x Musical legend | Palestrina | ||
| x Tango opera | María de Buenos Aires | ||
| x Comedie-ballet | La princesse de Navarre | ||
| x Dramma serio | Demetrio e Polibio | ||
| Aureliano in Palmira | |||
| x Melodramma in two acts | La gazza ladra | ||
| La donna del lago | |||
| Tancredi | |||
| Il pirata | |||
| La straniera | |||
| x Melodramma | Semiramide |
Melodramma is an Italian term for opera, used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early 19th century Italian libretto. Characteristic are the influence of French bourgeois drama, female instead of male...
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| I masnadieri | |||
| Luisa Miller | |||
| Aroldo | |||
| Alfredo il Grande | |||
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| x Dramma semiserio | Torvaldo e Dorliska | ||
| Adelson e Salvini | |||
| x Folk opera | The Kiss | ||
| x Miniature opera | A Hand of Bridge |
A miniature opera is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed.
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| x Zeitoper | Jonny spielt auf |
Zeitoper (German: "opera of the times") was a short-lived genre of opera associated with Weimar Germany. It is not known when or by whom the term was coined, but by 1928 Kurt Weill ("Zeitoper" in Melos) was able to complain that it was more a slogan...
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| Neues vom Tage | |||
| Transatlantic | |||
| Von heute auf morgen | |||
| Hin und zurück | |||
| x Azione teatrale | L'isola disabitata |
Azione teatrale (English theatrical action, plural azioni teatrali) is a genre of opera, popular in Italy in the late 17th and 18th centuries. It is also sometimes referred to as azione scenica, componimento dramatico or componimento da camera.
An...
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| Le cinesi | |||
| Il sogno di Scipione | |||
| Orfeo ed Euridice | |||
| Intolleranza 1960 | |||
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| x Rock opera |
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Blondel |
A rock opera is a musical work that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent...
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| x Monodrama | Eight Songs for a Mad King |
A monodrama (also Solospiel in German; "solo play") is a theatrical or operatic piece played by a single actor or singer, usually portraying one character.
In opera, a monodrama was originally a melodrama with one role such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
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| Die glückliche Hand | |||
| Erwartung | |||
| La voix humaine | |||
