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17 Jun 2020
Ariadne auf Naxos, Oper with a prologue and one act.
Music composed by Richard Strauss. Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. »
17 Jun 2020
La Vestale, a tragédie lyrique in three acts. »
14 Jun 2020
Boris Godunov, an opera in four acts with prologue
Modest Mussorgsky, composer. Libretto by the composer, based on Alexander Pushkin's drama Boris Godunov and Nikolai Karamazin's History of the Russian Empire
First performance: 8 February 1874 at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg »
08 Apr 2020
Il Trovatore, dramma in four parts. »
03 Apr 2020
Only a few months following the premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, Hugo von Hofmannsthal proposed a new opera to Richard Strauss based on Molière’s comedy-ballet, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (in German, Der Bürger als Edelmann). »
03 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
03 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
02 Apr 2020
Arabella: Lyrische Komödie in three acts »
02 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
02 Apr 2020
La Gioconda, dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo's Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835). »
02 Apr 2020
Don Carlo, an opera in four acts. Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller’s dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien. Revised version in four acts (French text revised by Du Locle, Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini). »
02 Apr 2020
Un ballo in maschera, a melodramma in three acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Antonio Somma, based upon the work of Eugène Scribe Gustave III ou Le bal masqué (1833) »
04 Nov 2019
Medea: Melodramma tragico in three acts. »
16 Sep 2019
Die Tote Stadt, an opera in three acts.Music composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). Libretto by Paul Schott (Julius and E. W. Korngold) after the novel Bruges la morte by Georges Rodenbach. »
06 Sep 2019
Manon Lescaut, dramma lirico in quattro atti »
03 Sep 2019
Elektra: Tragedy in one act. »
28 Mar 2019
Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà. Dramma giocoso in two acts.Music composed by Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte from the comedy La luna de la Sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara. »
22 Oct 2015
Hamlet: Opéra in five acts. Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier after The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. »
20 Oct 2013
Das Liebesverbot: Grosse komische Oper in two acts. »
09 Sep 2011
Le Cid, Opéra in 4 acts »
02 Sep 2011
I puritani, opera seria in three acts »
30 Aug 2011
Zaira, Tragedia lirica in two acts. »
22 Jul 2011
Athalia: Oratorio (sacred drama) in 3 acts »
12 Nov 2010
Lucrezia Borgia: Melodramma in a prologue and two acts. »
01 Sep 2010
La Esmeralda: Opéra in four acts. »
12 Aug 2010
Ernani: Dramma lirico in four parts. »
14 Jul 2010
Oberst Chabert (Colonel Chabert): Tragic opera in 3 acts. »
23 Jun 2010
Otello: Dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare. »
24 Apr 2010
Le Marchand de Venise (“The Merchant of Venice”): Opéra in three acts. »
17 Mar 2010
Gli Equivoci (The Comedy of Errors): Opera in two acts. »
07 Feb 2010
Der Sturm: Opera in three acts »
30 Jan 2010
The Fairy-Queen: Semi-opera in five acts. »
18 Jan 2010
Macbeth: Melodramma in quattro parti. »
03 Jan 2010
Das Liebesverbot: Grosse komische Oper in two acts. »
13 Dec 2009
Falstaff: Commedia lirica in three acts. »
30 Nov 2009
Hamlet: Opéra in five acts.Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier after The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. »
15 Nov 2009
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia (‘Othello, or The Moor of Venice’): Dramma in three acts. »
18 Oct 2009
Béatrice et Bénédict: Opéra comique in two acts »
11 Oct 2009
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), a comical-fantastical opera in three acts with dance. »
29 Sep 2009
Otello: Dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare. »
06 Sep 2009
Werther: Drame lyrique en 4 actes et 5 tableauxMusic composed by Jules Massenet. Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
23 Aug 2009
Mignon: Opéra comique in three acts. »
26 Jul 2009
Faust, Opéra en cinq actes. »
12 Jul 2009
Faust, Opéra en cinq actes. »
15 Jun 2009
Turandot, dramma lirico in three acts. »
10 Jun 2009
I masnadieri [The bandits]: Melodramma in four parts
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17 May 2009
The Maid of Orléans: [Orleanskaya deva]: Opera in four acts »
11 May 2009
Guglielmo Tell: Melodramma tragico in four acts »
03 May 2009
Maria Stuarda: Tragedia lirica in two or three acts. »
26 Apr 2009
Don Carlo: Opera in four acts. »
19 Apr 2009
Luisa Miller: Melodramma tragico in three acts. »
12 Apr 2009
Götterdämmerung: Third day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in a prologue and three acts. »
06 Apr 2009
Siegfried: Second day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. »
29 Mar 2009
Die Walküre: First day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts.
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22 Mar 2009
Vorabend (preliminary evening) of Der Ring des Nibelungen, in four scenes. »
15 Mar 2009
Il Barbiere di Siviglia [Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (‘Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution’)]: Commedia in two acts. »
08 Mar 2009
Medea (Médée): Opéra comique in three acts. »
01 Mar 2009
La sonnambula, Melodramma in due atti »
22 Feb 2009
Tosca: A melodrama in three acts. »
15 Feb 2009
Armida, Dramma per musica in tre atti. »
08 Feb 2009
La Traviata: Melodramma in three acts.
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01 Feb 2009
Un ballo in maschera: Melodramma in three acts »
25 Jan 2009
Il Pirata: Melodramma in two acts. »
18 Jan 2009
Norma: Tragedia lirica in two acts. »
11 Jan 2009
Lucia di Lammermoor: Opera in three acts. »
04 Jan 2009
Turandot, dramma lirico in three acts. »
28 Dec 2008
Gianni Schicchi: Opera in one act (no. 3 of Il trittico) »
21 Dec 2008
Suor Angelica: Opera in one act (no.2 of Il trittico). »
14 Dec 2008
Il Tabarro [The Cloak]: Opera in one act (no.1 of Il Trittico). »
07 Dec 2008
La Rondine: Commedia lirica in three acts. »
01 Dec 2008
La Fanciulla del West: Opera in three acts. »
23 Nov 2008
La Fanciulla del West: Opera in three acts. »
16 Nov 2008
Madama Butterfly, opera in two acts. »
09 Nov 2008
Tosca: A melodrama in three acts. »
02 Nov 2008
La Bohème, opera in four acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica, based
on episodes from Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème. »
26 Oct 2008
Intermezzo: Bürgerliche Komödie with symphonic interludes in two acts.
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20 Oct 2008
Salome, Musikdrama in one act. »
05 Oct 2008
Capriccio: Konversationsstück für Musik in one act. »
21 Sep 2008
Arabella: Lyrische Komödie in three acts »
14 Sep 2008
Die ägyptische Helena: Oper in two acts. »
07 Sep 2008
Die ägyptische Helena: Oper in two acts. »
01 Sep 2008
Die Frau ohne Schatten: Oper in three acts »
24 Aug 2008
Die Frau ohne Schatten: Oper in three acts »
17 Aug 2008
Der Rosenkavalier (‘The Knight of the Rose’): Komödie für Musik in 3 acts. »
10 Aug 2008
Der Rosenkavalier (‘The Knight of the Rose’): Komödie für Musik in 3 acts. »
04 Aug 2008
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Singspiel in 3 Acts. »
27 Jul 2008
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Singspiel in 3 Acts. »
20 Jul 2008
Idomeneo, rè di Creta: Dramma per musica in tre atti (K. 366). »
13 Jul 2008
Idomeneo, rè di Creta: Dramma per musica in tre atti (K. 366). »
06 Jul 2008
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (K. 588). Opera buffa in two acts. »
30 Jun 2008
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (K. 588). Opera buffa in two acts. »
22 Jun 2008
Die Zauberflöte: Singspiel in two acts, K. 620 »
15 Jun 2008
Die Zauberflöte: Singspiel in two acts, K. 620 »
08 Jun 2008
La Clemenza di Tito: Opera seria in two acts, K621. »
01 Jun 2008
La Clemenza di Tito: Opera seria in two acts, K621. »
25 May 2008
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Opera buffa in four acts, K492 »
18 May 2008
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Opera buffa in four acts, K492 »
11 May 2008
Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni (K. 527): Drama giocoso in two acts »
04 May 2008
Il dissoluto punito ossia il Don Giovanni (K. 527): Dramma giocoso in two acts »
27 Apr 2008
Chérubin: Comédie chantée in three acts. »
21 Apr 2008
Marie-Magdeleine: Drame sacré in three acts and four scenes »
13 Apr 2008
Le Cid: opéra in four acts and ten tableaux. »
06 Apr 2008
Esclarmonde: Opéra romanesque in four acts and eight tableaux. »
30 Mar 2008
Cendrillion, Conte de Fées in 4 ActsMusic composed by Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Libretto by Henri Cain after Perrault. »
16 Mar 2008
Manon: Opéra comique in 5 acts and 6 tableaux »
09 Mar 2008
Thaïs: Comédie lyrique in three acts and seven scenes. »
03 Mar 2008
Fetonte: Dramma per musica in three acts. »
25 Feb 2008
La Partenope: Dramma per musica in three acts. »
19 Feb 2008
Medea (Médée): Opéra comique in three acts. »
10 Feb 2008
Andromaca: Dramma per musica in three acts. »
03 Feb 2008
Ermione: Azione tragica in two acts. »
27 Jan 2008
Ippolito ed Aricia: Tragedia in five acts. »
20 Jan 2008
Idomeneo: Opera seria in three acts. »
13 Jan 2008
Paride ed Elena: Dramma per musica in five acts. »
10 Jan 2008
Orphée: Opera in four acts.
Music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck (arranged by Hector Berlioz, 1859).
Libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi »
26 Dec 2007
Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide: Tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. »
17 Dec 2007
Alceste: Tragédie opéra in three acts. »
06 Dec 2007
Oedipe à Colone: Tragédie lyrique in three acts. »
18 Nov 2007
Fedra: Dramma per musica in two acts. »
11 Nov 2007
Les Troyens: Grand opéra in five acts. »
28 Oct 2007
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Music drama in three acts. »
21 Oct 2007
Der Schauspieldirektor [The Impresario], Singspiel in one act, K486. »
07 Oct 2007
Divertimento teatrale in one act. »
23 Sep 2007
Andrea Chénier, an opera in four acts. »
16 Sep 2007
La figlia del reggimento [La Fille du régiment (‘The Daughter of the Regiment’)], Opéra comique in two acts. »
10 Sep 2007
L’elisir d’amore, Melodramma giocoso in two acts. »
09 Sep 2007
La Bohème, opera in four acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica, based
on episodes from Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème. »
02 Sep 2007
Giovanna d’Arco, dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera. »
27 Aug 2007
Der Templer und die Jüdin, Grosse romantische Oper in three acts. »
19 Aug 2007
Iphigénie en Tauride, Tragédie Lyrique in four acts. »
04 Jul 2007
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17), Drama in three acts.Music composed by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759). Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani. »
04 Jul 2007
The Golden Cockerel [Zolotoy petushok (Le coq d’or)], a dramatized fable with a prologue, three acts and an epilogue. »
08 May 2007
Hérodiade, opera in four acts. »
02 May 2007
Salome, Musikdrama in one act. »
21 Apr 2007
Nabucco (Nabucodonosor), Drama lirico in four parts. »
15 Apr 2007
Mosè (Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge), Melodramma in four acts »
09 Apr 2007
Samson et Dalila, grand opera in three acts and four tableaux. »
03 Apr 2007
Falstaff, commedia lirica in three acts. »
25 Mar 2007
Rigoletto, melodramma in three acts. »
18 Mar 2007
Mefistofele, Opera in un prologo, quattro atti e un epilogoMusic and libretto by Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), based on Faust: Eine Tragödie by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
27 Feb 2007
Opéra comique in four acts.Music composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée’s novella, Carmen. »
20 Feb 2007
Aida, opera in four acts. »
11 Feb 2007
I Pagliacci, dramma in a prologue and two acts. »
05 Feb 2007
Cavalleria Rusticana, melodramma in one act. »
28 Jan 2007
La Bohème, opera in four acts.
Music composed by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica, based
on episodes from Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de Bohème. »
15 Jan 2007
Madama Butterfly, opera in two acts. »
07 Jan 2007
Andrea Chénier, an opera in four acts. »
01 Dec 2006
Hans Heiling, romantic opera in three acts and prologue.Music composed by Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861). Libretto by Philipp Eduard Devrient, based on Bohemian legends. »
28 Nov 2006
Robert Le Diable, grand opera in five acts. Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germaine Delavigne. »
19 Nov 2006
Der Vampyr, romantic opera in two acts in the version by Hans Pfitzner (1924). »
12 Nov 2006
Don Sebastiano, Italian translation of Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, a grand opera in five acts. »
10 Nov 2006
Les Huguenots, an opera in five acts.Music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by Eugéne Scribe and Emile Deschamps. »
27 Oct 2006
Don Carlo, an opera in five acts. Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller’s dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien. French text revised by Du Locle, Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini. »
22 Oct 2006
Turandot, dramma lirico in three acts. »
15 Oct 2006
Rita ou Le mari battu, a comic opera in one act.Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Gustave Vaëz. »
08 Oct 2006
Il Signor Bruschino, Farsa giocosa per musica in one act »
01 Oct 2006
The character configuration in Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio is unusual because of its musical pairing of the prima donna Servilia with the seconda donna Vitellia not just once, but twice in the second act of the opera. »
01 Oct 2006
Tito Manlio, Vivaldi’s second opera in Mantua for the 1718/19 season, is fraught with political and familial tensions.1 »
24 Sep 2006
I vespri siciliani, grand opera in five acts. Italian edition of Les vépres siciliennes. »
13 Aug 2006
Tristan und Isolde, Handlung (drama) in three acts.Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. »
30 Jul 2006
La Gioconda, dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo's
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835). »
08 Jul 2006
Opéra comique in four acts.Music composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy after Prosper Mérimée’s novella, Carmen. »
19 Jun 2006
Der fliegende Holländer. Romantic opera in 3 acts.Music composed by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer. »
11 Jun 2006
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (K. 588). Opera buffa in two acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. »
08 Jun 2006
La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo. Dramma giocoso in two acts.Music composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868). Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Perrault. »
21 May 2006
Poliuto, Tragedia lirica in three acts.Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after the tragedy Polyeucte (1640) by Pierre Corneille. »
18 May 2006
Alceste. Tragedia in three acts (Italian version).Alceste. Tragédie opéra in three acts (French version). »
15 May 2006
Orfeo ed Euridice. Azione teatrale in three acts (Italian version).Orphée et Eurydice. Tragédie opéra in three acts (French version). »
30 Apr 2006
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17), Drama in three acts.Music composed by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759). Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani. »
20 Apr 2006
I puritani, opera seria in three actsMusic composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Libretto by Carlo Pepoli from Têtes rondes et Cavaliers (1833) by Jacques Ancelot and Xavier Saintine. »
17 Apr 2006
Norma: Tragedia lirica in due atti »
09 Apr 2006
La sonnambula, Melodramma in due attiMusic composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835). Libretto by Felice Romani, based on La Sonnambule ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau Seigneur (1827) by Eugène Scribe. »
07 Apr 2006
I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Tragedia lirica in due atti e quattro parti.Music composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Libretto by Felice Romani, based on the play Giulietta e Romeo (1818) by Luigi Scevola. »
26 Mar 2006
Die verkaufte Braut (The Bartered Bride; Prodaná nevěsta)Comic opera in three acts.Music composed by Bedřich Smetana. Libretto by Karel Sabina »
23 Mar 2006
Don Pasquale, Dramma buffo in three acts.
Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and the
composer after Angelo Anelli’s libretto for Stefano Pavesi’s Ser
Marcantonio (1810), which was derived from Epicœne or The
Silent Woman by Ben Jonson (1609). »
20 Mar 2006
Roméo et Juliette, Opéra en cinq actes
Music composed by Charles François Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. »
12 Mar 2006
Il Matrimonio Segreto, Melodramma giocoso in two acts.Music composed by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801). Libretto by Giovanni Bertati after The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick. »
02 Mar 2006
Oberon, Romantic opera in three actsMusic by Carl Maria von Weber. Libretto by James Robinson Planché after Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland and the 13th-century French romance Huon de Bordeaux »
18 Feb 2006
Der Freischütz, Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen.Music composed by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). Libretto by Friedrich Kind. »
15 Feb 2006
Armida, Dramma per musica in tre atti. »
12 Feb 2006
Euryanthe, Romantische Oper in drei AufzügenMusic composed by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). Libretto by Wilhelmina Christiane von Chézy. »
22 Jan 2006
Parsifal. Bühnenweihfestspiel ("stage dedication play") in three acts.Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. »
15 Jan 2006
La clemenza di Tito. Opera seria in due atti (K. 621).Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà based on a text by Pietro Metastasio. »
08 Jan 2006
Idomeneo, rè di Creta. Dramma per musica in tre atti (K. 366).Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco after Idomenée by Antoine Danchet. »
28 Dec 2005
Faust, Opéra en cinq actesMusic composed by Charles Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
25 Dec 2005
La damnation de Faust, Légende dramatique en quatre partiesMusic composed by Hector Berlioz. Libretto by Hector Berlioz, Almire Gandonanière and Gérard de Nerval after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
16 Dec 2005
Mefistofele, Opera in un prologo, quattro atti e un epilogoMusic and libretto by Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), based on Faust: Eine Tragödie by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
11 Dec 2005
La Forza del Destino, a melodramma in quattro attiMusic composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama Don Alvaro o La fuerza del sino by Angel Perez de Saavedra »
04 Dec 2005
Martha, an opera in four acts.Music composed by Friedrich von Flotow. Libretto by Wilhelm Friedrich.First performance: 25 November 1847 at Theater an der Wien, Vienna. »
01 Dec 2005
La serva padrona, intermezzo in two partsMusic composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Libretto by Gennar'antonio Frederico.First performance: 28 August 1733, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples. »
27 Nov 2005
Fidelio, an opera in two acts »
24 Nov 2005
Here we offer three selections from Macbeth with Maria Callas performing the role of Lady Macbeth. These are from a live performance given on 7 December 1952 at La Scala. Victor de Sabata conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano. »
20 Nov 2005
VERDI: Macbeth, melodramma in quattro parti.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by William Shakespeare. »
12 Nov 2005
Music composed by Johann Strauss II.Libretto by Richard Genée based on Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy/Karl Haffner.First performance: 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna. »
29 Oct 2005
Fedora, a melodrama in three acts.Umberto Giordano, composer. Arturo Colautti, librettist, based on the play with the same name by Victorien SardouFirst performance: 17 November 1898 at Teatro Lirico Internazionale, Milan »
24 Oct 2005
Tosca, a melodrama in three acts
Giacomo Puccini, composer. Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.
First performance: 14 January 1900 at Teatro Costanzi, Rome »
23 Oct 2005
A few years ago, I had the rare experience of attending a performance of Tosca in a small farm community where opera was a fairly new commodity. After the second act ended, with Scarpia's corpse lying center stage, I happened to overhear a young, wide-eyed woman say to her companion, "I knew she was upset, but I didn't think she'd KILL him!" »
15 Oct 2005
Eugene Onegin, lyrical scenes in three acts and seven tableaux.Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, composer. Libretto by the composer, based on the verse novel by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.
First performance: 29 March 1879 at the Maliy Theatre, Moscow. »
10 Oct 2005
The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), an opera in three acts.
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, composer. Modest Tchaikovsky and composer, librettists.
First performance: 19 December 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg. »
05 Oct 2005
Manon Lescaut, dramma lirico in quattro atti
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), composer. Luigi Illica and Domenico Oliva, librettists.
First performance: 1 February 1893 at Teatro Regio, Turin. »
18 Sep 2005
By early 1835 Giovanni Pacini had written almost fifty operas during the course of a career launched in 1813. He was tired and he was discouraged. Not only had his earlier works been overshadowed by the force of Rossini’s musical personality, but even after the departure of the Pesarese from Italy in 1823, Pacini’s star did not shine brighter. In his fascinating Memoirs, the composer examined these years and acknowledged his own limitations. Though the first performances of his Irene, o L’assedio di Messina (Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 30 November 1833) were largely rescued by the singers, Pacini knew the creative vein he had been mining was empty. Maturing under the spell of Rossini, he had not yet shown himself to be more than an able follower: “I began to realize that I should withdraw from the field.—Bellini, the divine Bellini, and Donizetti had surpassed me.” »
11 Sep 2005
Das Rheingold is the first of the four works that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen. On the title page of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner refers to Das Rheingold as a Vorabend (a preliminary evening). Nevertheless, Das Rheingold sets the foundation on which the remainder of the Ring is built. »
11 Sep 2005
Experienced listeners gain nothing but lose very little when a mediocre, even bad performance of Wagner’s stage works is released on DVD. »
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