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18 Aug 2020

The Prison: Ethel Smyth

Ethel Smyth’s last large-scale work, written in 1930 by the then 72-year-old composer who was increasingly afflicted and depressed by her worsening deafness, was The Prison – a ‘symphony’ for soprano and bass-baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra. »

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26 Dec 2007

LULLY: Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide

Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide: Tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. »

17 Dec 2007

GLUCK: Alceste

Alceste: Tragédie opéra in three acts. »

06 Dec 2007

SACCHINI: Oedipe à Colone

Oedipe à Colone: Tragédie lyrique in three acts. »

18 Nov 2007

PAISIELLO: Fedra

Fedra: Dramma per musica in two acts. »

11 Nov 2007

BERLIOZ: Les Troyens

Les Troyens: Grand opéra in five acts. »

28 Oct 2007

WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Music drama in three acts. »

21 Oct 2007

MOZART: Der Schauspieldirektor

Der Schauspieldirektor [The Impresario], Singspiel in one act, K486. »

07 Oct 2007

SALIERI: Prima la musica e poi le parole

Divertimento teatrale in one act. »

23 Sep 2007

GIORDANO: Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier, an opera in four acts. »

16 Sep 2007

DONIZETTI: La Figlia del Reggimento

La figlia del reggimento [La Fille du régiment (‘The Daughter of the Regiment’)], Opéra comique in two acts. »

09 Sep 2007

PUCCINI: La Bohème

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

VERDI: Giovanna d’Arco

Giovanna d’Arco, dramma lirico in a prologue and three acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera. »

27 Aug 2007

MARSCHNER: Der Templer und die Jüdin

Der Templer und die Jüdin, Grosse romantische Oper in three acts. »

19 Aug 2007

GLUCK: Iphigénie en Tauride

Iphigénie en Tauride, Tragédie Lyrique in four acts. »

04 Jul 2007

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Coq d'Or

The Golden Cockerel [Zolotoy petushok (Le coq d’or)], a dramatized fable with a prologue, three acts and an epilogue. »

24 Jun 2007

HAYDN: Die Schöpfung

Die Schöpfung, Oratorium in drei TeilenMusic composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten based on selections from the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton. »

17 Jun 2007

HANDEL: Theodora

Theodora, oratorio in three acts (HWV 68). »

10 Jun 2007

HANDEL: Solomon

Solomon, an oratorio in three acts (HWV 67). »

04 Jun 2007

HANDEL: Israel in Egypt

Israel in Egypt, an oratorio in two parts (HWV 54). »

28 May 2007

HANDEL: Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63)

Judas Maccabaeus, a sacred drama in three acts (HWV 63). »

20 May 2007

HANDEL: Saul (HWV 53)

Saul, oratorio in three acts (HWV 53). »

17 May 2007

HANDEL: Jephtha (HWV 70)

Jephtha, oratorio in three parts (HWV 70). »

08 May 2007

MASSENET: Hérodiade

Hérodiade, opera in four acts. »

02 May 2007

STRAUSS: Salome

Salome, Musikdrama in one act. »

21 Apr 2007

VERDI: Nabucco (Nabucodonosor)

Nabucco (Nabucodonosor), Drama lirico in four parts. »

15 Apr 2007

ROSSINI: Mosè

Mosè (Moïse et Pharaon, ou Le passage de la Mer Rouge), Melodramma in four acts »

09 Apr 2007

SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila

Samson et Dalila, grand opera in three acts and four tableaux. »

03 Apr 2007

VERDI: Falstaff

Falstaff, commedia lirica in three acts. »

25 Mar 2007

VERDI: Rigoletto

Rigoletto, melodramma in three acts. »

18 Mar 2007

BOITO: Mefistofele

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

BIZET: Carmen

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

VERDI: Aida

Aida, opera in four acts. »

11 Feb 2007

LEONCAVALLO: I Pagliacci

I Pagliacci, dramma in a prologue and two acts. »

05 Feb 2007

MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana

Cavalleria Rusticana, melodramma in one act. »

28 Jan 2007

PUCCINI: La Bohème

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

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly, opera in two acts. »

07 Jan 2007

GIORDANO: Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier, an opera in four acts. »

25 Dec 2006

STRAUSS: Vier Letzte Lieder

Vier Letzte Lieder [Four Last Songs] »

22 Dec 2006

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'Été

Les Nuits d'Été (The Nights of Summer), Op. 7. »

10 Dec 2006

WAGNER: Wesendonck Lieder

Fünf Gedichte für eine Frauenstimme (“Wesendonck Lieder”) [Five Poems for a Female Voice] »

01 Dec 2006

MARSCHNER: Hans Heiling

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

MEYERBEER: Robert Le Diable

Robert Le Diable, grand opera in five acts. Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germaine Delavigne. »

19 Nov 2006

MARSCHNER: Der Vampyr

Der Vampyr, romantic opera in two acts in the version by Hans Pfitzner (1924). »

12 Nov 2006

DONIZETTI: Don Sebastiano

Don Sebastiano, Italian translation of Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal, a grand opera in five acts. »

10 Nov 2006

MEYERBEER: Les Huguenots

Les Huguenots, an opera in five acts.Music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864). Libretto by Eugéne Scribe and Emile Deschamps. »

27 Oct 2006

VERDI: Don Carlo — Berlin 1948

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

PUCCINI: Turandot

Turandot, dramma lirico in three acts. »

15 Oct 2006

DONIZETTI: Rita

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

Settling the Score — An Interview with Philip Gossett

Introduction: Philip Gossett is one of those rarities in academia: a scholar of the first order and a consummate teacher. »

01 Oct 2006

VIVALDI: Tito Manlio

Tito Manlio (Titus Manlius), dramma per musica in 3 acts. Music composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) based on a libretto by Matteo Noris (? – 1714). »

24 Sep 2006

VERDI: I vespri siciliani

I vespri siciliani, grand opera in five acts. Italian edition of Les vépres siciliennes. »

13 Aug 2006

WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde, Handlung (drama) in three acts.Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. »

30 Jul 2006

PONCHIELLI: La Gioconda

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). »

25 Jul 2006

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Un bain au sérail by Théodore Chassériau (1849)Musée du Louvre »

08 Jul 2006

BIZET: Carmen

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. »

23 Jun 2006

"Castrato" — In Search of a Lost Voice

Nestling artistically in a bowl, carefully arranged and lit to suit the camera early in the programme, the testicles seemed to glow softly with their hidden history, their inherent potential and, now, their very lack of future. »

19 Jun 2006

WAGNER: Der fliegende Holländer

Der fliegende Holländer. Romantic opera in 3 acts.Music composed by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer. »

11 Jun 2006

MOZART: Così fan tutte — La Scala 1956

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

ROSSINI: La Cenerentola

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

DONIZETTI: Poliuto

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

GLUCK: Alceste

Alceste. Tragedia in three acts (Italian version).Alceste. Tragédie opéra in three acts (French version). »

15 May 2006

GLUCK: Orfeo ed Euridice

Orfeo ed Euridice. Azione teatrale in three acts (Italian version).Orphée et Eurydice. Tragédie opéra in three acts (French version). »

30 Apr 2006

HANDEL: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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

BELLINI: I puritani

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

BELLINI: Norma — Trieste 1953

Norma: Tragedia lirica in due atti »

09 Apr 2006

BELLINI: La sonnambula — La Scala 1955

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. »

26 Mar 2006

SMETANA: Die verkaufte Braut

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

DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale

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

GOUNOD: Roméo et Juliette

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

CIMAROSA: Il Matrimonio Segreto

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

WEBER: Oberon

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

WEBER: Der Freischütz

Der Freischütz, Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen.Music composed by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). Libretto by Friedrich Kind. »

15 Feb 2006

ROSSINI: Armida — Venice 1970

Armida, Dramma per musica in tre atti. »

12 Feb 2006

WEBER: Euryanthe

Euryanthe, Romantische Oper in drei AufzügenMusic composed by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). Libretto by Wilhelmina Christiane von Chézy. »

22 Jan 2006

WAGNER: Parsifal

Parsifal. Bühnenweihfestspiel ("stage dedication play") in three acts.Music and libretto by Richard Wagner. »

15 Jan 2006

MOZART: La clemenza di Tito

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

MOZART: Idomeneo

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. »

06 Jan 2006

MOZART: Requiem

Requiem in D Minor (K. 626)Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Text based on the Mass for the Dead (Requiem Mass). »

01 Jan 2006

HAYDN: Die Schöpfung

Die Schöpfung, Oratorium in drei TeilenMusic composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten based on selections from the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton. »

28 Dec 2005

GOUNOD: Faust

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

BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust

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 »