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Giuseppe Verdi | Arrigo Boito |
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 penultimate opera and is considered by many to be his greatest. It was first performed at the Teatro alla...
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| x Otello | Gioacchino Rossini |
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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Ambroise Thomas | Michel Carré |
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 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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Giuseppe Verdi | Francesco Maria Piave |
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 The Tempest | Thomas Adès | Meredith Oakes |
The Tempest is an opera by English composer Thomas Adès with a libretto in English by Meredith Oakes based on the play, The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
Following the success of Powder Her Face, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden commissioned a...
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| x Macbeth | Ernest Bloch | Edmond Fleg |
Macbeth is an opera in three acts, with music by Ernest Bloch to a libretto by Edmond Fleg, after the eponymous play of William Shakespeare. Bloch composed the opera between 1904 and 1906, but it did not receive its first performance until November...
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| x The Merry Wives of Windsor | Otto Nicolai | Hermann Salomon Mosenthal |
The Merry Wives of Windsor (in German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is an opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Hermann Salomon Mosenthal, based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare.
The opera is a...
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| x Antony and Cleopatra | Samuel Barber | Franco Zeffirelli |
Antony and Cleopatra is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber. The libretto was prepared by Franco Zeffirelli based on the play Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare. It originally made use of Shakespeare's language exclusively.
It...
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| x Falstaff |
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Giuseppe Verdi | Arrigo Boito |
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. It was Verdi's last opera, written in the composer's ninth decade, and...
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| x I Capuleti e i Montecchi | Vincenzo Bellini | Felice Romani |
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (Tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini.
The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called...
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| x Falstaff |
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Antonio Salieri |
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle (Falstaff, or The Three Jokes) is a dramma giocoso in two acts by Antonio Salieri, set to a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
One of the earliest operatic...
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| x Love's Labour's Lost | Nicolas Nabokov | Chester Kallman |
Love's Labour's Lost is an opera by Nicolas Nabokov, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, based on Shakespeare's play. It was first performed in Brussels in 1973.
The orchestration was by the German-American conductor Harold Byrns.
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| x Giulietta e Romeo | Nicola Vaccai | Felice Romani |
Giulietta e Romeo (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by the Italian composer Nicola Vaccai. The libretto, by Felice Romani, is based on the tragedy by of the same name by Luigi Scevola and, ultimately, on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was first...
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| x Romeo und Julie |
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Georg Benda | Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter |
Romeo und Julie is a singspiel in three acts by composer Georg Benda. The opera has a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter that is based upon Christian Felix Weiße's translation of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The opera was...
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