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s and their major works. The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of opera from light music to more formal styles.


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Michel van der Aa Michel van der Aa (; born 10 March 1970) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Early years Michel van der Aa was born 10 March 1970 in Oss. He trained as a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and studie ...
(1970– ): '' After Life'', '' One'' *
Ludwig Abeille Johann Christian Ludwig (Louis) Abeille (20 February 1761 in Bayreuth – 2 March 1838 in Stuttgart) was a German pianist, organist, conductor, music teacher and composer. Life His father was baronial valet and his mother was Christine Louise ...
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Amor und Psyche ''Amor und Psyche'' is an opera (''singspiel'') in four acts composed by Ludwig Abeille to a German ''libretto'' by Franz Carl Hiemer (1768–1822). Based on the story of Cupid and Psyche, the opera premiered on January 18, 1800, at the Hoftheate ...
'', '' Peter und Ännchen'' *
Paul Abraham Paul Abraham ( hu, Ábrahám Pál, links=no; 2 November 1892 – 6 May 1960) was a Jewish-Hungarian composer of operettas, who scored major successes in the German-speaking world. His specialty – and own innovation – was the insertion of ...
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Ball im Savoy ''Ball im Savoy'' (''Ball at the Savoy'') is a jazz operetta in three acts and a prelude by Paul Abraham to a libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda. It premiered on 23 December 1932 at the Großes Schauspielhaus, Berlin. However, H ...
'', '' Die Blume von Hawaii'', '' Viki'', '' Viktoria und ihr Husar'' *
Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and '' Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le pos ...
(1803–1856): '' Le chalet'', ''
Le postillon de Lonjumeau ''Le postillon de Lonjumeau'' (''The Postillion of Lonjumeau'') is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. The opera has become the most successful of Adam's works, a ...
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La poupée de Nuremberg ''La poupée de Nuremberg'' (English: ''The Nuremberg Doll'') is a one-act opéra comique by Adolphe Adam to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Arthur de Beauplan. The story is based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story ''Der Sandmann''. The wo ...
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Si j'étais roi ''Si j'étais roi'' (English: ''If I Were King'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam. The libretto was written by Adolphe d'Ennery and Jules-Henri Brésil. It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique (Théâtre-Hist ...
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Le toréador ''Le toréador, ou L'accord parfait'' (''The Toreador, or The Perfect Agreement'') is an ''opéra comique'' in two acts by the French composer Adolphe Adam with a libretto by Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage. It was first performed at the Opéra-C ...
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Mark Adamo Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...
(1962– ): ''
Little Women ''Little Women'' is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Alcott wrote the book, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, at the request of her publisher. The story follows the lives ...
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Lysistrata ''Lysistrata'' ( or ; Attic Greek: , ''Lysistrátē'', "Army Disbander") is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponne ...
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John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
(1947– ): ''
The Death of Klinghoffer ''The Death of Klinghoffer'' is an American opera, with music by John Adams to an English-language libretto by Alice Goodman. First produced in Brussels and New York in 1991, the opera is based on the hijacking of the passenger liner ''Achille L ...
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Doctor Atomic ''Doctor Atomic'' is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on how leading figures at Los Alamos dealt with the gre ...
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A Flowering Tree ''A Flowering Tree'' is an opera in two acts composed by John Adams with libretto by Adams and Peter Sellars, and commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, the San Francisco Symphony, the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln Cente ...
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El Niño El Niño (; ; ) is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (approximately between the International Date L ...
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I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky ''I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky'' is a 1995 "song play" with music composed by John Adams and a libretto by June Jordan. Summary The story takes place in the aftermath of the 1994 earthquake in Los Angeles, and covers the r ...
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Nixon in China ''Nixon in China'' is an opera in three acts by John Adams with a libretto by Alice Goodman. Adams's first opera, it was inspired by U.S. president Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China. The work premiered at the Houston G ...
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Thomas Adès Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: '' The Tempest'' (2004), ''V ...
(1971– ): ''
Powder Her Face ''Powder Her Face'', Op. 14 (1995), is a chamber opera in two acts by the British composer Thomas Adès, with an English libretto by Philip Hensher. The opera is 100 minutes long. It was commissioned by the Almeida Opera, a part of London's A ...
'', '' The Tempest'', ''
The Exterminating Angel ''The Exterminating Angel'' ( es, El ángel exterminador, links=no) is a 1962 Mexican surrealist film written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal, and produced by Pinal's then-husband Gustavo Alatriste. It tells the story of a g ...
'' * Samuel Adler (1928– ): ''
The Disappointment ''The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity'' is a ballad opera composed by Samuel Adler (composer), Samuel Adler in two acts with a prologue and epilogue, to a text by an unknown author writing under the pseudonym "Andrew Barton". William Pet ...
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Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
(1860–1909): '' Henry Clifford'', '' Pepita Jiménez'', ''
Merlin Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and le ...
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Eugen d'Albert Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer. Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to stud ...
(1864–1932): '' Flauto solo'', '' Tiefland'', ''
Die toten Augen ''Die toten Augen'' (''The Dead Eyes'') is an opera (called a or 'stage poem' by the composer) with a prologue and one act by Eugen d'Albert to a libretto in German by Hanns Heinz Ewers and (Achille Georges d'Ailly-Vaucheret) after Henry's own ...
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Tomaso Albinoni Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...
(1671–1750): '' Artamene'', ''
Didone abbandonata ''Didone abbandonata'' is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. The opera was accompanied by the intermezzo '' L'impresario delle Isole Canarie'', also ...
'', '' Il tiranno eroe'', ''
La Statira ''La Statira'' is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni with a libretto by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. It was first performed at the Teatro Capranica in Rome during the Carnival season of 1726. The plot co ...
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Zenobia Septimia Zenobia (Palmyrene Aramaic: , , vocalized as ; AD 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry; she was probably not a commoner and she married the ruler of the city, ...
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Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ''Risurrezione'' (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera ''Turandot'' in 1926. He had considerable success with several o ...
(1875–1954): ''
Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...
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Risurrezione ''Risurrezione'' (''Resurrection''), is an opera or ''dramma'' in four acts by Franco Alfano. The libretto was written by Camillo Antona Traversi and Cesare Hanau (only Hanau signed it), based on the 1899 novel ''Resurrection'' (russian: Воск ...
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Sakùntala ''La leggenda di Sakùntala'' (titled ''Sakùntala'' in its revised version) is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto, basing his work on Kālidāsa's 5th-century BC drama '' Shakuntala''. Première, loss, reconstruction ...
'' * Francisco António de Almeida (c.1702–?1755): '' La Spinalba'' *
William Alwyn William Alwyn (born William Alwyn Smith; 7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher. Life and music William Alwyn was born William Alwyn Smith in Northampton, the son of Ada Tyler (Tompkins ...
(1905–1985): ''
Miss Julie ''Miss Julie'' ( sv, Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve and the following morning, which is Midsummer and the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist. The setting is an estate of ...
'' * Garland Anderson (1933–2001): '' Soyazhe'' *
Johann André Johann André (28 March 1741 – 18 June 1799) was a German musician, composer and music publisher of the Classical period. He was born and died in Offenbach am Main. In 1774, as the patriarch of a Huguenot family, André founded one of the firs ...
(1741–1799): ''
Erwin und Elmire ''Erwin und Elmire'' is an opera in two acts by Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, with a libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Oliver Goldsmith's ballad of Angelica and Edwin, ''The Hermit'', in his sentimental novel ''The V ...
'', '' Der Töpfer'' *
Mark Andre Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964) is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as "Marc André," his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre's compositions ''durch'' (2006), ''...auf... III'' (2 ...
(1964– ): '' Wunderzaichen'' *
Hendrik Andriessen Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 – 12 April 1981) was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriess ...
(1892–1981): ''
Philomela Philomela () or Philomel (; grc-gre, , ; ) is a minor figure in Greek mythology who is frequently invoked as a direct and figurative symbol in literary and artistic works in the Western canon. Family Philomela was the younger of two daugh ...
'', '' De Spiegel uit Venetië'' *
Louis Andriessen Louis Joseph Andriessen (; 6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although ...
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Rosa – A Horse Drama ''Rosa, A Horse Drama'' also called ''Rosa – The Death of a Composer'' is an opera in 12 scenes by Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen with a libretto by English film maker Peter Greenaway. The libretto was the sixth in Greenaway's '' Death of a Com ...
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Writing to Vermeer ''Writing to Vermeer'' is an opera in six scenes composed by Louis Andriessen with incidental electronic music by Michel van der Aa. The English-language libretto, inspired by the paintings of Johannes Vermeer, was written by Peter Greenaway. Sas ...
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La Commedia ''La Commedia'' is an opera in five parts composed by Louis Andriessen. A retelling of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the multi-language libretto was constructed by Andriessen using extracts from Dante's poem as well as several other sources including ...
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Pasquale Anfossi Pasquale Anfossi (5 April 1727 – February 1797) was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome. He wrote more than 80 operas, both ...
(1727–1797): ''
L'avaro ''The Miser'' ( it, L'avaro) is a 1990 Italian comedy film directed by Tonino Cervi. It is a loose adaptation of Molière's comedy ''The Miser''. Plot The rich and miserly Don Arpagone lives his days following precise patterns and commanding ...
'', '' Il curioso indiscreto'', ''
La vera costanza ' (''True Constancy''), Hob. 28/8, is an operatic dramma giocoso by Joseph Haydn. The Italian libretto was a shortened version of the one by Francesco Puttini set by Pasquale Anfossi for the opera of the same name given in Rome in 1776. The stor ...
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Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...
(1739–1807): ''
Erwin und Elmire ''Erwin und Elmire'' is an opera in two acts by Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, with a libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Oliver Goldsmith's ballad of Angelica and Edwin, ''The Hermit'', in his sentimental novel ''The V ...
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George Antheil George Johann Carl Antheil (; July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of t ...
(1900–1959): ''
Transatlantic Transatlantic, Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic may refer to: Film * Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950 * Transatlantic Enterprises, an American production company in the late 1970s * ''Transatlantic'' (1931 film), ...
'', '' Helen Retires'', ''
Volpone ''Volpone'' (, Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-perform ...
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Francesco Araja Francesco Domenico Araja (or Araia, Russian: Арайя) (June 25, 1709 in Naples, Kingdom of Sicily – between 1762 and 1770 in Bologna, States of the Church) was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 opera ...
(1709–c. 1770): ''
Tsefal i Prokris ''Cephalus and Prokris'' (russian: Цефал и Прокрис – ''Tsefal i Prokris''), is an opera seria in three acts by the Italian composer Francesco Araja. Dating to 1755, it was the first opera written in the Russian language. Araja compo ...
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Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский; – ) was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music. Biography Arensky was born into an affluent, music-loving ...
(1861–1906): ''
Dream on the Volga ''Dream on the Volga'' (Russian: Сон на Волге) is an opera in four acts composed by Anton Arensky. The libretto was adapted by Arensky from Alexander Ostrovsky's melodrama ''Voyevoda''. The opera premiered on January 2, 1891 at the ...
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Dominick Argento Dominick Argento (October 27, 1927 – February 20, 2019) was an American composer known for his lyric operatic and choral music. Among his best known pieces are the operas '' Postcard from Morocco'', '' Miss Havisham's Fire'', ''The Masque of An ...
(1927– ): '' Casanova's Homecoming'', ''
Christopher Sly Christopher Sly is a minor character in William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew.'' He is a drunk man who is easily dominated by women, set up as a Foil (literature), foil to Petruchio, the central male character in the play. Role ''The T ...
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Postcard from Morocco ''Postcard from Morocco'' is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue that was commissioned by the Center Opera Company (now the Minnesota Opera). It is based on ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' by Robert ...
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Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of ''The Beggar's Opera'', whic ...
(1710–1778): ''
Alfred Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlu ...
'', '' Artaxerxes'', ''
Comus In Greek mythology, Comus (; grc, Κῶμος, ''Kōmos'') is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Dionysus. He was represented as a winged youth or a child-like satyr and represents ana ...
'', '' The Cooper'', ''
Eliza ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, E ...
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The Fairy Prince ''The Fairy Prince'' is a masque in three acts by composer Thomas Arne. The English libretto, by George Colman the Elder, is based on Ben Jonson’s ''Oberon, the Faery Prince'' (1611). The work premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 1 ...
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Love in a Village ''Love in a Village'' is a ballad opera in three acts that was composed and arranged by Thomas Arne. A pastiche, the work contains 42 musical numbers of which only five were newly composed works by Arne. The other music is made up of 13 pieces bo ...
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Rosamond Rosamond is a feminine given name, which may refer to: People *Rosamond Carr (1912–2006), American humanitarian and author *Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176), English mistress of King Henry II * Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964), Irish ...
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Thomas and Sally ''Thomas and Sally'' (also known as ''The Sailor's Return'') is a dramatic pastoral opera in two acts by the composer Thomas Arne with an English libretto by Isaac Bickerstaffe. The opera was meant to be performed as an "after piece", which is a ...
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Samuel Arnold Samuel Arnold may refer to: *Samuel Arnold (composer) (1740–1802), English composer and organist * Samuel Arnold (Connecticut politician) (1806–1869), U.S. Representative from Connecticut * Samuel Arnold (conspirator) (1834–1906), co-conspira ...
(1740–1802): '' The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern'', ''
Inkle and Yarico ''Inkle and Yarico'' is a comic opera first staged in London, England, in August 1787, with music by Samuel Arnold and a libretto by George Colman the Younger. Plot Inkle, an English trader, is shipwrecked in the West Indies, and survives wit ...
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Leo Ascher Leo Ascher (17 August 1880 – 25 February 1942) was an Austrian composer of operettas, popular songs and film scores. Biography Ascher was born in Vienna. His father, Moritz Ascher, was a local umbrella manufacturer. Leo wrote his first com ...
(1880–1942): '' Hoheit tanzt Walzer'' *
Daniel Auber Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when ...
(1782–1871): ''
Le cheval de bronze ''Le Cheval de bronze'' (''The Bronze Horse'') is an '' opéra comique'' by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed on 23 March 1835 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse in Paris. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's ...
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Les diamants de la couronne ''Les diamants de la couronne'' (''The Crown Diamonds'') is an ''opéra comique'' by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart in Paris on 6 March 1841. The libretto (in three acts) is by ...
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Le domino noir ''Le domino noir'' (''The Black Domino'') is an ''opéra comique'' by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed on 2 December 1837 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse in Paris.Wild and Charlton (2005), p. 226. The libre ...
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Fra Diavolo Fra Diavolo (lit. Brother Devil; 7 April 1771–11 November 1806), is the popular name given to Michele Pezza, a famous guerrilla leader who resisted the French occupation of Naples, proving an "inspirational practitioner of popular insurrect ...
'', '' Gustave III'', '' Haydée'', ''
Manon Lescaut ''The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut'' ( ) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of ''Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité'' (''Memoirs and Adventures of a Ma ...
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La muette de Portici ''La muette de Portici'' (''The Mute Girl of Portici'', or ''The Dumb Girl of Portici''), also called ''Masaniello'' () in some versions, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe. ...
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La part du diable ''La part du diable'' ("The Devil's share" also known by the English title ''Carlo Broschi'') is an opéra comique by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, loosely based on an incident from the life of the singer Farinelli. It premi ...
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Edmond Audran Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 184017 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas. After beginning his career in Marseille as an organist, Audran composed religious music and ...
(1842–1901): ''
La mascotte ''La mascotte'' (''The Mascot'') is a three-act opéra comique with music by Edmond Audran and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot. The story concerns a farm girl who is a "mascotte": someone with the mystic power to bring good luck to all aroun ...
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Les noces d'Olivette ''Les noces d'Olivette'' is an opéra comique in three acts composed by Edmond Audran, with a libretto by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot. The farcical romance story concerns Olivette, who loves Valentine (who is also loved by a Countess) ...
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Svitlana Azarova Svitlana Azarova ( uk, Світлана Азарова; born 9 January 1976) is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer of contemporary classical music, originally from the Ukrainian SSR. Early years Svitlana Azarova was born on 9 January 1976, in Izmail, ...
(1976– ): '' Momo og tidstyvene''


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Grażyna Bacewicz Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ...
(1909–1969): '' The Adventure of King Arthur'' *
Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical period (music), Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After living in Italy for ...
(1735–1782): ''
Temistocle ''Temistocle'' (''Themistocles'') is an opera seria in three acts by the German composer Johann Christian Bach. The Italian text is an extensive revision of the libretto by Metastasio first set by Antonio Caldara in 1736, by Mattia Verazi, cou ...
'', '' Amadis de Gaule'' *
Michael William Balfe Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially ''The Bohemian Girl''. After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to co ...
(1808–1870): ''
The Bohemian Girl ''The Bohemian Girl'' is an Irish Romantic opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Miguel de Cervantes' tale, ''La Gitanilla''. The best-known aria from the piece is "I Dreamt I Dwel ...
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The Maid of Artois ''The Maid of Artois'' is an opera by Michael William Balfe, written in 1836 to a libretto by Alfred Bunn, manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, who based his work on Eugène Scribe's stage version of Abbé Prévost's novel ''Manon Le ...
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The Rose of Castille ''The Rose of Castille'' (or ''Castile'') is an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris and Edmund Falconer, after the libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Clairville (alias ...
'', '' L'étoile de Seville'', '' The Siege of Rochelle'' *
Granville Bantock Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Biography Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon.Hadden, J. Cuthbert, 1913, ''Modern Music ...
(1868–1946): '' The Seal Woman'' *
Samuel Barber Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. The music critic Donal Henahan said, "Proba ...
(1910–1981): ''
Antony and Cleopatra ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (First Folio title: ''The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around ...
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A Hand of Bridge ''A Hand of Bridge'', opus 35, is an opera in one act composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes. It premiered as a part of Menotti' ...
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Vanessa Vanessa may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Vanessa'' (Millais painting), an 1868 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais * ''Vanessa'', a 1933 novel by Hugh Walpole * ''Vanessa'', a 1952 instrumental song written by Bernie ...
'' * Francisco A. Barbieri (1823–1894): '' Jugar con fuego'', ''
Los diamantes de la corona ''Los diamantes de la corona'' is a zarzuela in three acts by the composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri with a libretto by Francisco Camprodón.Salter, Lionel. Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, Londo ...
'', '' El barberillo de Lavapiés'' *
John Barnett John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...
(1802–1890): '' Mountain Sylph'', '' Fair Rosamond'', ''
Farinelli Farinelli (; 24 January 1705 – 16 September 1782) was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi (), a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera. Farinelli h ...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ''The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'' (german: Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) is a 1972 West German romantic drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. Featuring an all-female cast, the plot tak ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest ''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious ...
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Jiří Bárta Jiří Bárta (19 June 1935 – 4 January 2012) was a Czech pianist and composer. Biography Jiří Bárta was born in Šumice, Uherské Hradiště District. In his youth, he studied piano with organist and composer Emil Hába (1900–1982). He ...
(1935–2012): '' Čitra'' (Chitra) *
Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...
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Bluebeard's Castle ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' ( hu, A kékszakállú herceg vára, link=no, or ''The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle'') is a one-act expressionism, expressionist opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet ...
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Jan Zdeněk Bartoš Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (4 June 1908, Dvůr Králové nad Labem – 1 June 1981, Prague) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Biography Bartoš started to play the violin as a pupil of Karel Hršel in Hradec Králové. In 1924, after he graduated from busi ...
(1908–1981): '' Prokletý zámek'' (The Cursed Mansion) *
Franco Battiato Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes, a ...
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Genesi Genesi is an international group of technology and consulting companies in the United States, Mexico and Germany. It is most widely known for designing and manufacturing ARM architecture and Power ISA-based computing devices. The Genesi Group cons ...
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Amy Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her Gaelic Symphony, "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symph ...
(1867–1944): '' Cabildo'' *
Jack Beeson Jack Hamilton Beeson (July 15, 1921 – June 6, 2010) was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are ''Lizzie Borden'', ''Hello Out There!'', and ''The Sweet Bye and Bye''. Early life Born in Muncie ...
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Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines ''Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines'' is an opera in three acts by Jack Beeson written in 1975 to a libretto by Sheldon Harnick after the 1901 play of the same name by Clyde Fitch. The play had previously been adapted for a 1916 silent film. Th ...
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Hello Out There ''Hello Out There!'' is a one-act play by the Armenian-American playwright William Saroyan written early in August 1941. Plot The play is set in a small Texas jail. There are two major characters, Photo-Finish and Emily, whom Saroyan refers to sim ...
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Lizzie Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ost ...
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Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
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Fidelio ''Fidelio'' (; ), originally titled ' (''Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with ...
'' * Ján Levoslav Bella (1843–1936): '' Wieland der Schmied'' *
Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giu ...
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Adelson e Salvini ''Adelson e Salvini'' (''Adelson and Salvini'') is a three-act opera semiseria composed by Vincenzo Bellini from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. The opera was based on the 1772 novel ''Épreuves du Sentiment'' by François-Thomas-Marie de B ...
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Beatrice di Tenda ''Beatrice di Tenda'' is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by . Initially, a play by Alexandre Dumas was chosen as the subject for the opera, but Bellini had reserv ...
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Bianca e Fernando ''Bianca e Fernando'' (''Bianca and Fernando'') is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. The original version of this opera was presented as ''Bianca e Gernando'' and was set to a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on ''Bianca e Fernando a ...
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I Capuleti e i Montecchi ''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 Nicol ...
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Norma Norma may refer to: * Norma (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Astronomy *Norma (constellation) * 555 Norma, a minor asteroid *Cygnus Arm or Norma Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy Geography *Norma, Lazi ...
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Il pirata ''Il pirata'' (''The Pirate'') is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian libretto by Felice Romani which was based on a three-act ''mélodrame ''from 1826: ''Bertram, ou le Pirate'' (''Bertram, or The Pirate'') by Charles Nodie ...
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I puritani ' (''The Puritans'') is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a libretto ...
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La sonnambula ''La sonnambula'' (''The Sleepwalker'') is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the '' bel canto'' tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ''ballet-pantomime'' written by Eug ...
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La straniera ''La straniera'' (''The Foreign Woman'') is an opera in two acts with music by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on the novel ''L'Étrangère'' (2 vols, 1825) by Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt, although ...
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Ralph Benatzky Ralph Benatzky (5 June 1884 – 16 October 1957), born in Mährisch Budwitz ( Moravské Budějovice) as Rudolph Franz rantišekJosef Benatzky, was an Austrian composer of Moravian origin. He composed operas and operettas, such as '' Casanova ...
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Bezauberndes Fräulein ''Bezauberndes Fräulein'' (''The Charming Young Lady'') is a musical comedy in four scenes, similar in style to an operetta. Ralph Benatzky wrote both music and libretto, inspired by the French farce ''La petite chocolatière'' by Paul Gavault ...
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Meine Schwester und ich ''Meine Schwester und ich'' (''My Sister and I'') is a musical comedy in two acts with prelude and postlude. Ralph Benatzky composed the music and also wrote the libretto together with Robert Blum. Benatzky based the work on a contemporary comedy ...
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The White Horse Inn ''The White Horse Inn'' (or ''White Horse Inn'') (German title: ''Im weißen Rößl'' ) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salz ...
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Georg Benda Georg Anton Benda ( cz, Jiří Antonín Benda, italic=no, link=no; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia. Biography Born into a family of notable musicians ...
(1722–1795): ''
Ariadne auf Naxos (''Ariadne on Naxos''), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the work' ...
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Medea In Greek mythology, Medea (; grc, Μήδεια, ''Mēdeia'', perhaps implying "planner / schemer") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea figures in the myth of Jason an ...
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Pygmalion Pygmalion or Pigmalion may refer to: Mythology * Pygmalion (mythology), a sculptor who fell in love with his statue Stage * ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau * ''Pygmalion'' (Rousseau), a 1762 melodrama by Jean-Jacques ...
'', '' Romeo und Julie'', '' Walder'' *
Julius Benedict Sir Julius Benedict (27 November 1804 – 5 June 1885) was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career. Life and music Benedict was born in Stuttgart, the son of a Jewish banker, and in 1820 learnt compo ...
(1804–1885): ''
The Lily of Killarney ''The Lily of Killarney'' is an opera in three acts by Julius Benedict. The libretto, by John Oxenford and Dion Boucicault, is based on Boucicault's own play ''The Colleen Bawn''. The opera received its premiere at Covent Garden Theatre, Londo ...
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Arthur Benjamin Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893, in Sydney – 10 April 1960, in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of '' Jamaican Rumba'' (1938) and of the ''Storm Clouds Cantata'', f ...
(1893–1960): '' The Devil Take Her'' *
George Benjamin (composer) Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher. He is well known for operas '' Into the Little Hill'' (2006), '' Written on Skin' ...
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Written on Skin ''Written on Skin'' is an opera by the British composer George Benjamin. Benjamin's first full-length opera, it was premiered at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra as a commission from five opera centres,John All ...
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The Corley Conspiracy ''The Corley Conspiracy'' is an opera by Tim Benjamin to a libretto by Sean Starke, who also directed. The work premiered on 19 September 2007 in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre in London; the orchestral parts were played by the ensemble ...
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Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.Zachary Woo ...
(1936–2012): ''
The Mines of Sulphur ''The Mines of Sulphur'' is an opera in three acts by Richard Rodney Bennett, his first full-length opera, composed in 1963. Beverley Cross wrote the libretto, based on his play ''Scarlet Ribbons'', at the suggestion of Colin Graham, who eventual ...
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Demofonte ''Demofonte'' (also ''Demofoonte''; ''Il Demofoonte''; ''Demofoonte, ré di Tracia'' ing of Thrace ''Démophon''; ''Demophontes''; or ''Dirce, L'usurpatore innocente'' irce, the Innocent Usurper is an opera seria libretto by Metastasio. The lib ...
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Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( , ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...
(1885–1935): ''
Lulu Lulu may refer to: Companies * LuLu, an early automobile manufacturer * Lulu.com, an online e-books and print self-publishing platform, distributor, and retailer * Lulu Hypermarket, a retail chain in Asia * Lululemon Athletica or simply Lulu, a C ...
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Wozzeck ''Wozzeck'' () is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. The opera is based on the drama ''Woyzeck'', which the German playwright Georg Büchner left incomplete at h ...
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Erik Bergman Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911, in Nykarleby – 24 April 2006, in Helsinki) was a composer of classical music from Finland. Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later prohibited from bein ...
(1911–2006): '' The Singing Tree'' *
Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...
(1925–2003): ''
Opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...
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Un re in ascolto ''Un re in ascolto'' (''A King Listens'') is an opera by Luciano Berio, who also wrote the Italian libretto. It is based on a short story from the collection '' Under the Jaguar Sun'' by Italo Calvino, but incorporates excerpts from Friedrich Einsi ...
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Outis Outis (a transliteration of the Ancient Greek pronoun = "nobody" or "no one") is an often used pseudonym that appeared famously in Classical Greek legends. Modern artists, writers, and others in public life have adopted the use of this pseudonym in ...
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Cronaca del luogo ''Cronaca del luogo'' (''Chronicle of the Place'') is an opera by Luciano Berio. The Italian libretto was compiled by his wife, Talia Pecker Berio, incorporating excerpts from Rabbinic literature and the poetry of Paul Celan and Marina Tsvetayeva. ...
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Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
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Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
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Ruth Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United States * Ruth, Alabama * Ruth, Ar ...
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Michael Berkeley Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords. Early life Berkeley is the eldest of the three sons of Elizabeth Freda (née Bernstein ...
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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have not changed very much in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody ''Ah! vous dira ...
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Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...
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Hector Berlioz In Greek mythology, Hector (; grc, Ἕκτωρ, Hektōr, label=none, ) is a character in Homer's Iliad. He was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense o ...
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Béatrice et Bénédict ''Béatrice et Bénédict'' (''Beatrice and Benedick'') is an '' opéra comique'' in two acts by French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself, based in general outline on a subplot in Shakespeare's ''Much Ado About N ...
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Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini (, ; 3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the ''Cellini Salt Cellar'', the sculpture of ''Perseus with the Head of Medusa'', and his autobiography ...
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La damnation de Faust ''La damnation de Faust'' (English: ''The Damnation of Faust''), Op. 24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "''légende dramatique'' ...
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Les francs-juges ''Les francs-juges'' (translated as "The Free Judges" or "The Judges of the Secret Court") is the title of an unfinished opera by the French composer Hector Berlioz written to a libretto by his friend Humbert Ferrand in 1826. Berlioz abandoned the ...
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Les Troyens ''Les Troyens'' (; in English: ''The Trojans'') is a French grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself from Virgil's epic poem the ''Aeneid''; the score was composed between 1856 and 1858. ''Les Tro ...
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Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...
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Candide ( , ) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled ''Candide: or, All for the Best'' (1759); ''Candide: or, The ...
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A Quiet Place ''A Quiet Place'' is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck. The plot revolves around a father (Krasinski) and a mo ...
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Trouble in Tahiti ''Trouble in Tahiti'' is a one-act opera in seven scenes composed by Leonard Bernstein with an English libretto by the composer. It is the darkest among Bernstein's "musicals", and one of only two for which he wrote the words and the music. (He ...
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West Side Story ''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
'' * Louise Bertin (1805–1877): '' La Esmeralda'' *
Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he ...
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Estrella de Soria ''Estrella de Soria'' is a three-act opera by Franz Berwald, to a libretto by Otto Prechtler translated into Swedish by Ernst Wallmark. It was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm on 9 April 1862 and had five performances in that r ...
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The Modiste ''Modehandlerskan'' (''The Modiste'' or ''The Dressmaker'') is a three-act operetta by Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald (23 July 1796 – 3 April 1868) was a Swedish Romantic composer. He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manag ...
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Oscar Bianchi Oscar Bianchi (born 1975 in Milan) is a Gaudeamus Laureate composer of Italian and Swiss citizenships. He is a recipient of several international prizes and honors. He is noted for his large scale works, in particular his cantata ''Matra'' for ...
(1975– ): '' Thanks to My Eyes'' * Francesco Bianchi (1752–1810): '' Alonso e Cora'', '' Arbace'', ''
Calto Calto is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about west of Rovigo. Calto borders the following municipalities: Castelmassa, Ceneselli, Salara, Sermide e Felon ...
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La morte di Cesare ''La morte di Cesare'' (''The Death of Caesar'') is an ''opera seria'' in three acts by Francesco Bianchi. The libretto was by Gaetano Sertor, after Shakespeare's play ''Julius Caesar''. ''La morte di Cesare'' was one of six texts that Sertor wro ...
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Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many compositions, his better known works include ''Th ...
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Gawain Gawain (), also known in many other forms and spellings, is a character in Arthurian legend, in which he is King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table. The prototype of Gawain is mentioned under the name Gwalchmei in the earliest ...
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The Mask of Orpheus ''The Mask of Orpheus'' is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle, electronic music realised by Barry Anderson (composer), Barry Anderson and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff. It was premiered in London at the English National Opera on 21 May 198 ...
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The Minotaur In Greek mythology, the Minotaur ( , ;. grc, ; in Latin as ''Minotaurus'' ) is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "pa ...
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Punch and Judy Punch and Judy is a traditional puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife Judy. The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically Mr. Punch and one other character w ...
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Yan Tan Tethera Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in ...
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Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...
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Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
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Djamileh ''Djamileh'' is an ''opéra comique'' in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, ''Namouna'', by Alfred de Musset. Composition history De Musset wrote ''Namouna'' in 1832, consisting of 147 verses in thr ...
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Le docteur Miracle ''Le docteur Miracle'' (''Doctor Miracle'') is an opérette in one act by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto, by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy, is based on Sheridan's play ''Saint Patrick's Day''. Bizet wrote the work when he was j ...
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Don Procopio ''Don Procopio'' is a two-act opera buffa by Georges Bizet with an Italian libretto completed in 1859, and first performed in 1906. Background Bizet spent 1857 to 1860 in Italy as winner of the Prix de Rome. Looking for inspiration for a work to s ...
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Ivan IV Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan ...
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La jolie fille de Perth ''La jolie fille de Perth'' (''The Fair Maid of Perth'') is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1838–1875), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jules Adenis, after the 1828 novel ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' by Sir Walt ...
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La maison du docteur ''La maison du docteur'' is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet with a French libretto by Henry Boisseaux. Some music scholars assert that the opera was composed in 1852 while others believe that it was written in 1855. Either way the ...
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Les pêcheurs de perles ' (''The Pearl Fishers'') is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré. It was premiered on 30 September 1863 at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, and was given 18 performances in ...
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Terence Blanchard Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
(1962– ): ''
Champion A champion (from the late Latin ''campio'') is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition. There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, an ...
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are pr ...
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Arthur Bliss Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he qu ...
(1891–1975): ''
The Olympians ''The Olympians'' is an opera in three acts by Arthur Bliss to a libretto by J. B. Priestley, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 29 September 1949, conducted by Karl Rankl in a production by Peter Brook. After the initial ...
'', '' Tobias and the Angel'' *
Marc Blitzstein Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical ''The Cradle Will Rock'', directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Wo ...
(1905–1964): '' Regina'' *
Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing music ...
(1880–1959): ''
Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
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Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (October 3, 1834, Prague – May 1, 1874, Prague), was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist. Biography Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. Aft ...
(1834–1874): '' In the Well'' ( V studni) *
Karl-Birger Blomdahl Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October 1916 – 14 June 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names ...
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Aniara ''Aniara'' ( sv, Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a c ...
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John Blow John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque music, Baroque period. Appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in late 1668,Venus and Adonis'' *
Luigi Boccherini Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European ...
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Philippe Boesmans Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher. He studied to be a pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and was self-taught as a composer, influenced by the Liège Group of Henri Pou ...
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Julie Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhava ...
'', '' La passion de Gilles'', '' Reigen'', ''
Wintermärchen ' is an opera by Philippe Boesmans to a libretto by Luc Bondy and after Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale''. It was premiered on 10 December 1999 at La Monnaie in Brussels. The German premiere followed in 2001 at the Staatstheater Braunschweig. ...
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Craig Bohmler Craig Bohmler (born April 7, 1956)Hansen, Niels-Henning."En tilgang til den klassiske Musik" NielsHenning.dk. p. 145. Retrieved August 12, 2019. is an American composer who specializes in opera and musical theater. His musicals include ''Gunmetal B ...
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Riders of the Purple Sage ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre, the novel has been called ...
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François-Adrien Boieldieu François-Adrien Boieldieu (, also ) (16 December 1775 – 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". His date of birth was also cited as December 15 by his biographer and writer Lucien Augé de Lass ...
(1775–1834): '' Le calife de Bagdad'', ''
La dame blanche ''La dame blanche'' (English: ''The White Lady'') is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scott ...
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a ro ...
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Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse ''Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse'' (''Don Quixote at the Duchess'') is a "comic ballet" (''comédie lyrique'') by the France, French baroque music, baroque composer Joseph Bodin de Boismortier. Although it is described as a ballet, it is sung throu ...
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Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best ...
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Mefistofele ''Mefistofele'' () is an opera in a prologue and five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he was libret ...
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William Bolcom William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He ...
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A View from the Bridge ''A View from the Bridge'' is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a one-act verse drama with ''A Memory of Two Mondays'' at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful, and M ...
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McTeague ''McTeague: A Story of San Francisco'', otherwise known as simply ''McTeague'', is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence ...
'' * Joseph Bologne (1745–1799): '' L'amant anonyme'' *
Antonio Maria Bononcini Antonio Maria Bononcini (18 June 1677 – 8 July 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. Like his brother, he studied with Giovanni Pa ...
(1677–1726): '' Griselda'' *
Giovanni Bononcini Giovanni Bononcini (or Buononcini) (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) (sometimes cited also as Giovanni Battista Bononcini) was an Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers. Biography E ...
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Muzio Scevola ''Muzio Scevola'' (; "Mucius Scaevola", HWV 13) is an opera seria in three acts about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was ...
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Xerse ''Il Xerse'' ( in its 1660 French version ''Xerxès'') is an opera by Francesco Cavalli (specifically, a ''dramma per musica'') about Xerxes I. The libretto was written by Nicolò Minato, and was later set by both Giovanni Bononcini (1694, ''Xer ...
'', '' Griselda'', ''
Almahide ''Almahide'' is a pasticcio opera arranged by John Jacob Heidegger. Musically the work was based on Attilio Ariosti, Ariosti’s ''Amor tra nemici'' (1708), but most of the arias were replaced by the work of other composers, including six arias f ...
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Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...
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Prince Igor ''Prince Igor'' ( rus, Князь Игорь, Knyáz Ígor ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic '' The Lay of Igor's Host'', which re ...
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Rutland Boughton Rutland Boughton (23 January 187825 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Gre ...
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The Immortal Hour ''The Immortal Hour'' is an opera by English composer Rutland Boughton. Boughton adapted his own libretto from the play of the same name by Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym of writer William Sharp. ''The Immortal Hour'' is a fairy tale or fairy op ...
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Antonio Braga Antonio Braga (22 January 1929 – 26 May 2009 in Naples) was an Italian classical composer. Born in Naples, he wrote ballets, concerto, ouvertures, symphonies and three operas. Works Ballets *Les Abeilles a Naples (1955) *C’è un albero a ...
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1492 epopea lirica d'America ''1492 epopea lirica d'America'' is an opera in four acts by Antonio Braga. Composed from 1985 to 1989, it stage premiered on 13 October 1992 at the Teatro Nacional in Santo Domingo to mark the Columbus Quincentenary. Recordings * ''1492 epopea ...
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Walter Braunfels Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He c ...
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Prinzessin Brambilla ''Prinzessin Brambilla'' (''Princess Brambilla''), Op. 12b, is an opera in a prologue and five scenes by Walter Braunfels. The German libretto, written by the composer, is based on the novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann published in 1820. Composition ...
'', '' Verkündigung'', '' Die Vögel'' * Eef van Breen (1978– ): '' ’u’'' *
Nicolae Bretan Nicolae Bretan ( hu, Bretán Miklós, translit=; 25 March 1887 – 1 December 1968) was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor, and music critic. Biography Bretan was born in Năsăud. He studied at the Conservatory of Cluj (1906– ...
(1887–1968): '' Arald'', ''
Golem A golem ( ; he, , gōlem) is an animated, anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is entirely created from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud). The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late 16th-century ...
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Horia Horia or ''Horea'' may refer to: Places in Romania Communes *Horea, Alba *Horia, Constanța * Horia, Neamț *Horia, Tulcea * Hilișeu-Horia, Botoșani Villages *Horea, in Sanislău, Satu Mare *Horia, in Vladimirescu, Arad *Horia, in Surdila-Greci, ...
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Tomás Bretón Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer. Biography Tomás Bretón was born in Salamanca. He completed his musical studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown, where he ea ...
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La verbena de la Paloma ' (''The Fair of the Virgin of la Paloma'') —subtitled ''El boticario y las chulapas y celos mal reprimidos''— is an 1894 zarzuela with a libretto by and music by Tomás Bretón. It premiered on 17 February 1894 in Teatro Apolo, Madrid. It ...
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La Dolores ''La Dolores'' is a Spanish opera (''ópera Española'') in 3 acts by Tomás Bretón. The libretto was arranged by composer himself from a same-name drama by Josep Feliu i Codina (1892). The opera was first performed at the Teatro de la Zarzuela ...
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Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
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Albert Herring ''Albert Herring'', Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera ''The Rape of Lucretia''. The libretto, by Eric Cr ...
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Billy Budd ''Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)'' is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quick ...
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The Burning Fiery Furnace ''The Burning Fiery Furnace'' is an English music drama with music composed by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 77, to a libretto by William Plomer. One of Britten's three ''Parables for Church Performances'', this work received its premiere at the St ...
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Curlew River ''Curlew River – A Parable for Church Performance'' (Op. 71) is an English music drama, with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer. The first of Britten's three 'Parables for Church Performance', the work is based on the ...
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Death in Venice ''Death in Venice ''(German: ''Der Tod in Venedig'') is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912. It presents an ennobled writer who visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly obsessed by the sight of a Poli ...
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Gloriana ''Gloriana'', Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 ''Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History''. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera Hous ...
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The Little Sweep ''The Little Sweep'', Op. 45, is an opera for children in three scenes by the English composer Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Eric Crozier. ''Let's Make an Opera!'' ''The Little Sweep'' is the second part of a stage production entitled ' ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...
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Noye's Fludde ''Noye's Fludde'' is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children. First performed on 18 June 1958 at that year's Aldeburgh Festival, it is based on the 15th-century ...
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Owen Wingrave ''Owen Wingrave'', Op. 85, is an opera in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten and libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James. It was originally written for televised performance. Britten had been aware of the story sin ...
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Paul Bunyan Paul Bunyan is a giant lumberjack and folk hero in American and Canadian folklore. His exploits revolve around the tall tales of his superhuman labors, and he is customarily accompanied by Babe the Blue Ox. The character originated in the or ...
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Peter Grimes ''Peter Grimes'', Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George Crabbe's long narrative poem '' The Borough''. The "borough" of the opera is a fictional ...
'', '' The Prodigal Son'', ''
The Rape of Lucretia ''The Rape of Lucretia'' (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based his English libretto on André Obey's play '. Performance history The opera was fi ...
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The Turn of the Screw ''The Turn of the Screw'' is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in ''Collier's Weekly'' (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898, it was collected in ''The Two Magics'', published by Macmill ...
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Rudolf Brucci Rudolf Brucci (Bruči) (March 30, 1917 – October 30, 2002), was a composer of Croatian and Italian origin, born in Zagreb. He was married to Yugoslavian opera singer, . He began his artistic life playing viola in various orchestras, ranging from ...
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Max Bruch Max Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920) was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a prominent staple of the standard v ...
(1838–1920): '' Die Loreley'' * Arthur Bruhns (1874–1928): ''
Ib and Little Christina ''Ib and Little Christina'' refers to two theatrical adaptations by Basil Hood of the 1855 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Andersen of the same name: a play (1900) and an opera (1901). Play The first version was a play subtitled "A Pi ...
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Ignaz Brüll Ignaz Brüll (7 November 184617 September 1907) was a Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna. His operatic compositions included ''Das goldene Kreuz'' (''The Golden Cross''), which became a repertory work for several de ...
(1846–1907): '' Das goldene Kreuz'' *
Alfred Bruneau Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Life Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservator ...
(1857–1934): ''
Angelo Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church *Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Rom ...
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L'attaque du moulin ''L'attaque du moulin'' (''The Attack on the Mill'') is a ''drame lyrique'' (opera) in four acts by the French composer Alfred Bruneau. The libretto, by Louis Gallet with the collaboration of Émile Zola, is based on a short story by Zola (included ...
'', '' L'enfant roi'', ''
Messidor Messidor () was the tenth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word , which means ''harvest''. Messidor was the first month of the summer quarter (). It started on 19 or 20 June. It ended on 18 or 19 Jul ...
'', '' L'ouragan'', '' La rêve'' *
Joanna Bruzdowicz Joanna Bruzdowicz (17 May 1943 – 3 November 2021) was a Polish composer. Life Born in Warsaw, Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music (composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Pr ...
(1943– ): '' The Penal Colony'', '' The Women of Troy'', '' The Gates of Paradise'' *
Mark Bucci Mark Bucci (26 February 1924, New York City – 22 August 2002, Camp Verde, Arizona) was an American composer, lyricist, and dramatist. Influenced by Giacomo Puccini, his work is composed in a contemporary yet lyrical style, which frequently empl ...
(1924–2002): ''
Tale for a Deaf Ear ''Tale for a Deaf Ear'' is an opera in one act with music and lyrics by Mark Bucci, sung in three languages and based on a story by Elizabeth Enright that appeared in the April 1951 edition of '' Harper's Magazine''. The work was commissioned by S ...
'' * August Bungert (1845–1915): '' Die Odyssee'' *
Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, d ...
(1917–1993): '' Blooms of Dublin'' *
Paul Burkhard Paul Burkhard (21 December 1911, Zürich – 6 September 1977, Zell) was a Swiss composer. He primarily wrote oratorios, musicals and operettas. The contemporaneous and similarly named Swiss composer Willy Burkhard was no relation to him. Probab ...
(1911–1977): '' Feuerwerk (Der schwarze Hecht)'', '' Hopsa'' *
Keith Burstein Keith Burstein born 1957 as Keith Burston (the anglicised form adopted by his father of the surname, which Burstein later dropped) is an English composer, conductor and music theorist with Russian family origins. He is noted for his fervent cha ...
(1957– ): ''
Manifest Destiny Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the 19th century in the United States, 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America. There were three basic tenets to the concept: * The special vir ...
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Alan Bush Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed pro ...
(1900–1995): '' Men of Blackmoor'', ''
Wat Tyler Wat Tyler (c. 1320/4 January 1341 – 15 June 1381) was a leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England. He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the institution of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms. Wh ...
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Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...
(1866–1924): ''
Arlecchino Harlequin (; it, Arlecchino ; lmo, Arlechin, Bergamasque pronunciation ) is the best-known of the ''zanni'' or comic servant characters from the Italian ''commedia dell'arte'', associated with the city of Bergamo. The role is traditionally be ...
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Die Brautwahl ''Die Brautwahl'' (''The Bridal Choice'') is a "comic-fantastic" opera in three acts and an epilogue by Ferruccio Busoni. The German libretto, by Busoni himself, is based on a short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. Busoni began work on this, his first c ...
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Doktor Faust ''Doktor Faust'' is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer, based on the myth of Faust. Busoni worked on the opera, which he intended as his masterpiece, between 1916 and 1924, but it was still incomplete at the time ...
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Turandot ''Turandot'' (; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano in 1926, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. ''Turandot'' best-known aria is "Nessun dorma", whi ...
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Sylvano Bussotti Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic n ...
(1931–2021): ''
La Passion selon Sade (The Passion according to Sade) is an opera by Sylvano Bussotti who also wrote the libretto, and was the set designer and director. The subtitle is "mistero da camera", describing it as a chamber mystery play. It was Bussotti's first work for the ...
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Francesca Caccini Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" , given to her by the Florentines and probably a ...
(1587–1630/1640): ''
La liberazione di Ruggiero ''La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina'' (''En.'' "The Liberation of Ruggiero from the island of Alcina") is a comic opera in four scenes by Francesca Caccini, first performed 3 February 1625 at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale in Florence, ...
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Giulio Caccini Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – buried 10 December 1618) was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre ...
(1551–1618): '' Euridice'', '' Il rapimento di Cefalo'' *
John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...
(1912–1992): '' Europeras'' *
Robert Cambert Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera '' Pomone'' was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières. His first position was ...
(c.1627–1677): '' Pomone'' *
André Campra André Campra (; baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several '' tra ...
(1660–1744): ''
Alcine ''Alcine'' (English: ''Alcina'') is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Danchet, is based on cantos IV, VI and VII of Ariosto's epi ...
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Les âges ' (English: ''The Ages'') or ' is an ''opéra-ballet'' in a prologue and three acts by the French composer André Campra. The libretto is by Louis Fuzelier. It was first performed by the Académie royale de musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Roya ...
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Le carnaval de Venise ''Le carnaval de Venise'' (English: ''The Carnival of Venice'') is a '' comédie-lyrique'' in a prologue and three acts by the French composer André Campra. The libretto is by Jean-François Regnard. It was first performed on 20 January 1699 by t ...
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L'Europe galante ''L'Europe galante'' (''Galant Europe'') is an opéra-ballet in a prologue and four entrées by André Campra to a French libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte. The opera is regarded as the first opéra-ballet, with the entrées sharing a comm ...
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Les fêtes vénitiennes ''Les festes vénitiennes'' ("Venetian Festivities"), also spelled ''Les fêtes vénitiennes'', is an ''opéra-ballet'' by the French composer André Campra. It consists of a prologue (later sometimes omitted, abridged or replaced) and three ''en ...
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Hésione ''Hésione'' (English: ''Hesione'') is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Antoine Danchet, is based on the Greek myth of Hesione and Laome ...
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Idoménée ''Idoménée'' (English: ''Idomeneus'') is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. ''Idoménée'' was first performed on 12 January 1712 by the Académie royale de ...
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Iphigénie en Tauride ''Iphigénie en Tauride'' (, ''Iphigenia in Tauris'') is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard. With ''Iphigénie,'' Gluck took ...
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Tancrède ''Tancrède'' is a 1702 ''tragédie en musique'' (a French opera in the lyric tragedy tradition) in a prologue and five acts by composer André Campra and librettist Antoine Danchet, based on ''Gerusalemme liberata'' by Torquato Tasso. The opera ...
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Michele Carafa Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Par ...
(1787–1872): '' La belle au bois dormant'' *
David Carlson David Carlson (born 13 March 1952) is an American composer. Early life Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts. From 1988 to 1992 he was coo ...
(1952– ): '' The Midnight Angel'', ''
Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever writte ...
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Frank Osmond Carr Frank Osmond Carr (23 April 1858 – 29 August 1916), known as F. Osmond Carr, was an English composer who wrote the music for several Victorian burlesques before turning to the new genre of Edwardian musical comedy, and also composing some comic ...
(1858–1916): ''
His Excellency Excellency is an honorific style (manner of address), style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder ...
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Pavlos Carrer Pavlos Carrer (also Paolo Carrer; el, Παύλος Καρρέρ; 12 May 1829 – 7 June 1896) was a Greek composer, one of the leaders of the Ionian art music school and the first to create national operas and national songs on Greek plots, Gr ...
(1829–1896): '' Dante e Bice'', '' Isabella d'Aspeno'', '' La Rediviva'', '' Marcos Botsaris'', '' Fior di Maria'', '' I Kyra Frossyni'', '' Maria Antonietta'', '' Despo'', '' Marathon – Salamis'' *
Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...
(1908–2012): ''
What Next? ''What Next?'' is a 1928 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Forde, Pauline Johnson and Frank Stanmore. It was made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. There is a copy held at the BFI archive. Premise A ma ...
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Alfredo Catalani Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas ''Loreley'' (1890) and ''La Wally'' (1892). ''La Wally'' was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's ...
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Loreley The Lorelei ( ; ), spelled Loreley in German, is a , steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. ...
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La Wally ''La Wally'' is an opera in four acts by composer Alfredo Catalani, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 20 January 1892. The libretto is based on a hugely successful ' by Wilhelmine von Hillern (1836–1916), ' ...
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Daniel Catán Daniel Catán Porteny (April 3, 1949 – April 9, 2011) was a Mexican composer, writer and professor known particularly for his operas and his contribution of the Spanish language to the international repertory. With a compositional style ...
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Rappaccini's Daughter "Rappaccini's Daughter" is a Gothic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'' in New York, and later in the 1846 collection ''Mosses from an Old Manse'' ...
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Florencia en el Amazonas ''Florencia en el Amazonas'' (English title: ''Florencia in the Amazon'') is an opera in two acts composed by Daniel Catán. It contains elements of magical realism in the style of Gabriel García Márquez and uses a libretto by Marcela Fuentes-B ...
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Eduard Caudella Eduard Caudella (22 May (or 3 June) 1841 – 15 April 1924) was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps ( 17 February 18206 June 1881 ...
(1841–1924): '' Commandant Baltag'', ''
Petru Rareş Petru is a given name, and may refer to: * Petru I of Moldavia (Petru Mușat, 1375–1391), ruler of Moldavia * Petru Aron (died 1467), ruler of Moldavia * Petru Bălan (born 1976), Romanian rugby union footballer * Petru Cărare (1935–2019), wri ...
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Emilio de' Cavalieri Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 155011 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri, the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors, was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of th ...
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Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo ''Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo'' (Portrayal of the Soul and the Body) is a musical work by Emilio de' Cavalieri to a libretto by Agostino Manni (1548-1618). With it, Cavalieri regarded himself as the composer of the first opera or oratori ...
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Francesco Cavalli Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque music, Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverd ...
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Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne ''Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne'' (''The Loves of Apollo and Daphne'') is an opera by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli. It was Cavalli's second operatic work and was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice during the Carnival season ...
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Artemisia Artemisia may refer to: People * Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece * Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under th ...
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Elena Elena may refer to: People * Elena (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Joan Ignasi Elena (born 1968), Catalan politician * Francine Elena (born 1986), British poet Geography * Elena (town), a town in Veliko ...
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Eliogabalo ''Eliogabalo'' (''Heliogabalus'') is an opera by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli based on the life of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus. The author of the original libretto is unknown but it was probably reworked by Aurelio Aureli. The oper ...
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Ercole amante ''Ercole amante'' (''Hercules in Love'', French: ''Hercule amoureux'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by Francesco Cavalli. Its Italian libretto is by Francesco Buti, based on Sophocles' ''The Trachiniae'' and on the ninth book of Ovid ...
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Erismena ''Erismena'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. First performed in Venice in 1655, it was designated as a ''dramma per musica''. Libretto The Italian libretto was by Aurelio Aureli, the only work by this writer for ...
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Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
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Giasone ''Giasone'' (''Jason'') is an opera in three acts and a prologue with music by Francesco Cavalli and a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. It was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice on 5 January 1649, during carnival. The plot is loos ...
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Hipermestra ''Hipermestra'' is an opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Francesco Cavalli - more specifically, it is a '' festa teatrale''. The opera was set to a libretto by G. A. Moniglia, and was first performed at Florence on 12 June 1658. The plot is based ...
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Oristeo Oristeo is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a ''dramma per musica''. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini. The opera is notable for containing one of the first examples of a da capo aria, ' ...
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Ormindo ''L'Ormindo'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli to an original Italian libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The manuscript score is held at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice,The score has been digitized bIMSLP while a copy o ...
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Mutio Scevola ''Mutio Scevola'' or ''Muzio Scevola'' (''Mucius Scaevola'') is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli, with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. It was based on the story of the Roman hero, Gaius Mucius Sca ...
'', '' Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo'', ''
Pompeo Magno ''Pompeo Magno'' (''Pompeius Magnus'') is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a ''dramma per musica''. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato. Performance history It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro ...
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Rosinda ''Rosinda'', also known as ''La Rosinda'', is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. It was first performed at the Teatro Sant 'Apollinare, Venice in 1651-02 durin ...
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Scipione affricano ''Scipione affricano'' (''Scipio Africanus'') is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a ''dramma per musica''. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato, based on Livy's " The Continence of Scipio". ...
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Veremonda ''Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona'' (''Veremonda, the Amazon of Aragon''; also known as ''Il Delio'') is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli. The libretto is by Giulio Cicognini with revisions by Giul ...
'', '' La virtù dei strali d'Amore'', ''
Xerse ''Il Xerse'' ( in its 1660 French version ''Xerxès'') is an opera by Francesco Cavalli (specifically, a ''dramma per musica'') about Xerxes I. The libretto was written by Nicolò Minato, and was later set by both Giovanni Bononcini (1694, ''Xer ...
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Ludvík Čelanský Ludvík or Ludvik is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ludvík Aškenazy (1921–1986), Czech writer and journalist *Ludvik Buland (1893–1945), Norwegian trade unionist * Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931), Czech conductor and c ...
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Kamilla Kamilla and Kamila are feminine given names. Notable people with these names include: Kamila * Kamila Aliyeva (born 1967), Azerbaijani politician * Kamila Gasiuk-Pihowicz (born 1983), Polish politician * Kamila Valieva (born 2006), Russian figu ...
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Alfred Cellier Alfred Cellier (1 December 184428 December 1891) was an English composer, orchestrator and conductor. In addition to conducting and music directing the original productions of several of the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan works and writing th ...
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After All! ''After All!'' is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier. It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte, along with ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' and another short piece ...
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Dora's Dream ''Dora's Dream'' is a one-act operetta, with music composed by Alfred Cellier and a libretto by Arthur Cecil. The piece was first performed at the Royal Gallery of Illustration on 3 July 1873, with Fanny Holland and Arthur Cecil starring in the ...
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Dorothy Dorothy may refer to: *Dorothy (given name), a list of people with that name. Arts and entertainment Characters *Dorothy Gale, protagonist of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum * Ace (''Doctor Who'') or Dorothy, a character playe ...
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The Mountebanks ''The Mountebanks'' is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and Ivan Caryll and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns a magic potion that causes the person to whom it is administered to become what he or she has pre ...
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The Sultan of Mocha ''The Sultan of Mocha'' is a three act comic opera of 1874 with a libretto by Albert Jarrett and a score by Alfred Cellier. It was first produced at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester in 1874 and revived in London in 1876 and 1887 (with a new lib ...
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Topsyturveydom ''Topsyturveydom'' (sometimes spelled ''Topsyturvydom'' or ''Topseyturveydom'') is a one-act operetta by W. S. Gilbert with music by Alfred Cellier. Styled "an entirely original musical extravaganza", it is based on one of Gilbert's Bab Ballad ...
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François Cellier François Arsène Cellier (14 December 1849 – 5 January 1914), often called Frank, was an English conductor and composer. He is known for his tenure as musical director and conductor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company during the original runs ...
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Captain Billy ''Captain Billy'' is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Harry Greenbank and music by François Cellier. It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre on 24 September 1891 until 16 January 1892, as a curtain raiser to ''The Nautch Girl'', and f ...
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Friedrich Cerha Friedrich Cerha (born 17 February 1926) is an Austrian composer, conductor and music educator. Education and Career Cerha was born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at the Viennese Music Academy (violin with Váša Příhoda, composition with A ...
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Baal Baal (), or Baal,; phn, , baʿl; hbo, , baʿal, ). ( ''baʿal'') was a title and honorific meaning "owner", "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during Ancient Near East, antiquity. From its use among people, it cam ...
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Antonio Cesti Pietro Marc'Antonio Cesti () (baptism 5 August 162314 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation". Biogra ...
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Orontea ''Orontea'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni). Performance history The first performance took place in Innsbruck on 19 ...
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Il pomo d'oro ''Il pomo d'oro'' (''The Golden Apple'') is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed ope ...
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Emmanuel Chabrier Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and pianist. His Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked ...
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Briséïs or (''Briséïs, or the Lovers of Corinth'') is an operatic by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's . Composition and performance history It seems likely that Catulle Mendès (who had already ...
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Une éducation manquée (''An Incomplete Education'') is an in one act and nine scenes by Emmanuel Chabrier. The French libretto is by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. Composed in 1878–79, the work, which is set in the 18th century, is in a lively, light oper ...
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Fisch-Ton-Kan ''Fisch-Ton-Kan'' is an opéra bouffe in one act by Emmanuel Chabrier of which only some numbers survive. The French libretto was by Paul Verlaine, and probably Lucien Viotti, after the 'parade chinoise' ''Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de le Tarta ...
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Gwendoline Gwendoline is a feminine given name, a variant of Gwendolen. Notable people called Gwendoline *Gwendoline Maud Syrie Barnardo (1879–1955), a British interior decorator *Gwendoline Butler (born 1922), an English writer of mystery fiction *Gwendo ...
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Le roi malgré lui ''Le roi malgré lui'' (''King in Spite of Himself'' or ''The reluctant king'') is an opéra-comique in three acts by Emmanuel Chabrier of 1887 with an original libretto by Emile de Najac and Paul Burani. The opera is revived occasionally, but h ...
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Ruperto Chapí Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (27 March 1851 – 25 March 1909) was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers. Biography Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home to ...
(1851–1909): ''Roger de Flor'', '' Música clásica'', '' La serenata'', '' Las bravías, La revoltosa,
El puñao de rosas ''El puñao de rosas'' (''A Bunch of Roses'') is a one-act zarzuela "of Andalusian customs" (''de costumbres andaluzas'') by Spanish composer Ruperto Chapí to a libretto by Carlos Arniches and . It was successfully premiered on 30 October 1902, ...
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Margarita la tornera ''Margarita la tornera'' (''Margarita the Gatekeeper'') is an opera in three acts composed by Ruperto Chapí to a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, based on a dramatic poem by José Zorrilla. It premiered on 24 February 1909 at the Teatro Real ...
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Gustave Charpentier Gustave Charpentier (; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera ''Louise''.Langham Smith R., "Gustave Charpentier", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Life and ca ...
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Julien Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * Julien (opera), ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * Julien (album), ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * Julien (song), "Julien" (so ...
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Louise Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013 * "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929 *"Louise", by Clan of ...
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'', ''Marche en rondeau''. This theme is still us ...
(1643–1704): '' Actéon'', '' Les arts florissants'', ''
David et Jonathas ''David et Jonathas'' (''David and Jonathan''), H. 490, is an opera in five acts and a prologue by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, first performed at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, on 28 February 1688. The libretto, by ...
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La descente d'Orphée aux enfers ''La descente d'Orphée aux enfers'' H.488 (English: ''The Descent of Orpheus to the Underworld'') is an incomplete chamber opera in two acts by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. It was probably composed in early 1686 and performed ...
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Médée ''Médée'' is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635. Summary The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée. After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa. Médée ...
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Les plaisirs de Versailles ''Les plaisirs de Versailles'' H.480 (English: ''The Pleasures of Versailles'') is a short opera (or ''divertissement'') by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. It was intended for performance at the new courtly entertainment known as ''l ...
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Francis Chassaigne Francis Chassaigne (also known as Francisque Chassaigne) (30 October 1847 – 21 December 1922) was a Belgian-born French composer of operettas, songs, and numerous pieces of dance music for piano. The English-language versions of his operettas, ...
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Le droit d'aînesse ''Le droit d'aînesse'' ("The Birthright") is an opéra bouffe, a form of operetta, in three acts by Francis Chassaigne with a French libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. It premiered in Paris in 1883. An English-language version ti ...
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Ernest Chausson Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish. Life Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a ...
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Carlos Chávez Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by nativ ...
(1899–1978): '' The Visitors'' *
Deborah Cheetham Deborah Joy Cheetham (born 24 November 1964), is an Aboriginal Australian soprano, actor, composer and playwright. Early life and education Cheetham is a member of the Stolen Generations; she was taken from her mother when she was three weeks o ...
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Pecan Summer ''Pecan Summer'' is an opera written and composed by the Indigenous Australian singer Deborah Cheetham, who also sang in every season. It was orchestrated by Jessica Wells. It is the first opera written by an Indigenous Australian and involving an ...
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Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the gre ...
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Les Abencérages (English: ''The Abencerrages, or The standard of Granada'') is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini with a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy, based on the novel ''Gonzalve de Cordoue'' by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. It was first perfor ...
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Les deux journées ''Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau'' (''The Two Days, or The Water Carrier'') is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini with a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. It takes the form of an opéra comique, meaning not that the subject matte ...
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Eliza ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, E ...
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Faniska ''Faniska'' is an opera eroica in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on the melodrama ''Les mines de Pologne'' (1803) by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt. Background In June 1805, Cherubini ...
'', '' L'hôtellerie portugaise'', '' Lodoïska'', ''
Médée ''Médée'' is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635. Summary The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée. After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa. Médée ...
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Pimmalione ''Pimmalione'' (''Pygmalion'') is an opera in one act by Luigi Cherubini, first performed at the Théâtre des Tuileries, Paris, on 30 November 1809. The libretto is an adaptation by Stefano VestrisStefano Vestris, "a stage poet of no ability", w ...
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Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin ( ko, 진은숙 ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was self-taught piano from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as w ...
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Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
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Michael Ching Michael Ching (born September 29, 1958)Cuyler, Antonio Christopher"The Career Paths of Non-European-American Executive Opera Administrators in the United States" Florida State University, 2007. pp. 59–64. is an American composer, conductor, and ...
(1958– ): '' Buoso's Ghost'', '' A Midsummer Night's Dream: Opera A Cappella'', '' Speed Dating Tonight!'' *
Francesco Cilea Francesco Cilea (; 23 July 1866 – 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas ''L'arlesiana'' and ''Adriana Lecouvreur''. Biography Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indicatio ...
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Adriana Lecouvreur ''Adriana Lecouvreur'' () is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play ''Adrienne Lecouvreur'' by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé. It was first performed on 6 November 1902 at t ...
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L'arlesiana () is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. It was revised as a three-act opera i ...
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Gloria Gloria may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music * Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise * Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise ** Gloria (Handel) ** Gloria (Jenkins) ...
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Domenico Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa (; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan school and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is ''Il matrimonio segreto'' (1792); most of his ...
(1749–1801): '' L'Armida immaginaria'', '' Le astuzie femminili'', '' La Cleopatra'', ''
Le donne rivali ''Le donne rivali'' is an intermezzo in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by a now unknown poet. It is speculated that Giuseppe Petrosellini may have been the author of the libretto. The opera premiered at the Teatro ...
'', '' La finta parigina'', '' Giannina e Bernardone'', '' L'impresario in angustie'', '' Il maestro di cappella'', ''
Il matrimonio segreto ' (''The Secret Marriage'') is a dramma giocoso in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, based on the 1766 play ''The Clandestine Marriage'' by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick. It was first performed on ...
'', '' Gli Orazi e i Curiazi'' *
Frederic Clay Frederic Emes Clay (3 August 1838 – 24 November 1889) was an English composer known principally for songs and his music written for the stage. Although from a musical family, for 16 years Clay made his living as a civil servant in HM Treasury ...
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Ages Ago ''Ages Ago'', sometimes stylised as ''Ages Ago!'' or ''Ages Ago!!'', is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay that premiered on 22 November 1869 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration. It marked the b ...
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The Gentleman in Black ''The Gentleman in Black'' is a two-act comic opera written in 1870 with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Frederic Clay. The "musical comedietta" opened at the Charing Cross Theatre on 26 May 1870. It played for 26 performances, until th ...
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Happy Arcadia ''Happy Arcadia'' is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music originally by Frederic Clay that premiered on 28 October 1872 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration. It was one of four collaborations between Gilbert and Cla ...
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Princess Toto ''Princess Toto'' is a three-act comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and his long-time collaborator Frederic Clay. Its pre-London tour opened on 24 June 1876 at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, starring Kate Santley, W. S. Penley and J. H. Ryley. It tr ...
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Thomas Clayton Thomas Clayton (July 1777 – August 21, 1854) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. He served in the Delawa ...
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Rosamond Rosamond is a feminine given name, which may refer to: People *Rosamond Carr (1912–2006), American humanitarian and author *Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176), English mistress of King Henry II * Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964), Irish ...
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Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus ''Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus'' by Thomas Clayton was the first Italian-style opera (in English) to be staged in England. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 16 January 1705. There were various historical women named Arsinoe, but from th ...
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Carlo Coccia Carlo Coccia (14 April 1782 – 13 April 1873) was an Italian opera composer. He was known for the genre of opera semiseria. Life and career Coccia was born in Naples, and studied in his native city with Pietro Casella, Fedele Fenaroli, an ...
(1782–1873): '' Arrighetto'', ''
Caterina di Guisa ''Caterina di Guisa'' is an opera in two acts by Carlo Coccia to a libretto by Felice Romani based on the 1829 play ''Henry III and His Courts'' by Alexandre Dumas. ''Caterina di Guisa'' premiered on 14 February 1833 at the Teatro alla Scala in Mil ...
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Clotilde Clotilde ( 474–545), also known as Clothilde, Clotilda, Clotild, Rotilde etc. (Latin: Chrodechildis, Chlodechildis from Frankish ''*Hrōþihildi'' or perhaps ''*Hlōdihildi'', both "famous in battle"), was a Queen of All the Franks. She was ...
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Juan J. Colomer Juan José Colomer (born Juan José Revueltas Colomer in Alzira, Valencia, Alzira, Valencia (province), Valencia, Spain, 1966) is a Spanish composer. Personal life Juan Colomer started his music studies at age eight in his local music school, " ...
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El Pintor ''El Pintor'' (Spanish for "the painter"; also an anagram of "Interpol") is the fifth studio album by the American Rock music, rock band Interpol (band), Interpol. It was released through Matador Records and Soft Limit on September 8, 2014, inter ...
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Paul Constantinescu Paul Constantinescu (; 30 June 1909, Ploieşti – 20 December 1963) was a Romanian composer. Two of his main influences are Romanian folk music and Byzantine chant, both of which he used in his teaching. One of his students was composer Margar ...
(1909–1963): '' Pana Lesnea Rusalim'', '' A stormy night'', '' O noapte furtunoasa'' *
David Conte David Conte (born 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guita ...
(1955– ): '' The Dreamers'', '' Gift of the Magi'' *
Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...
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The Second Hurricane ''The Second Hurricane'' is an opera in two acts by Aaron Copland to a libretto by Edwin Denby. Specifically written for school performances, it lasts just under an hour and premiered on April 21, 1937, at the Henry Street Settlement playhouse in ...
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The Tender Land ''The Tender Land'' is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. History The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera aft ...
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Azio Corghi Azio Corghi (9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022) was an Italian composer, academic teacher and musicologist. He composed mostly operas and chamber music. His operas are often based on literature, especially in collaboration with José Saramago a ...
(1937–2022): '' Il dissoluto assolto'', ''
Divara – Wasser und Blut '' Divara – Wasser und Blut'' (''Divara, Water and Blood'') is a German-language opera by Azio Corghi to a libretto by the composer after the play ''In Nomine Dei'' by José Saramago, which tells the story of the Dutch "Anabaptist queen" Divara ...
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John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, an ...
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The Ghosts of Versailles ''The Ghosts of Versailles'' is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, w ...
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Peter Cornelius Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Life He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard (1793–1843) and Friederike (1789–1867) Cornelius, actors i ...
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Der Barbier von Bagdad ''Der Barbier von Bagdad'' (''The Barber of Baghdad'') is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on ''The Tale of the Tailor'' and ''The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers'' in ''One Thousand a ...
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'', '' Gunlöd'' *
Noël Coward Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time'' magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and ...
(1899–1973): '' Bitter Sweet'' *
Frederic Hymen Cowen Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Early years and musical education Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica, the fifth and last c ...
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Harold or the Norman Conquest ''Harold, or the Norman Conquest'' is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Edward Malet, edited by Frederic Edward Weatherly, adapted into the German by L.A. Caumont, and first performe ...
'', '' Pauline'', ''
Signa Signa () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about west of Florence. Signa borders the following municipalities: Campi Bisenzio, Carmignano, Lastra a Signa, Poggio a Caiano, ...
'', '' Thorgrim'' *
César Cui César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
(1835–1918): ''
Angelo Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger". People People with the given name *Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church *Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Rom ...
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The Captain's Daughter ''The Captain's Daughter'' (russian: «Капитанская дочка», Kapitanskaya dochka) is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal ''Sovremen ...
'', '' Feast in Time of Plague'', '' Le flibustier'', ''
Ivan the Fool Ivan the Fool () or Ivan the Ninny is a lucky fool stock character who appears in Russian folklore, a very simple-minded, but, nevertheless, lucky young man. Ivan is described as a likeable fair-haired and blue-eyed youth. The approximate se ...
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Little Red Riding Hood "Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th century European folk tales. The two best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brother ...
'', '' Mademoiselle Fifi'', '' The Mandarin's Son'', ''
Mateo Falcone ''Mateo Falcone'' is an 1829 short story by Prosper Mérimée. It first appeared in the May issue of ''Revue de Paris''. Its tightly focused narrative was well received and it has been called the original French short story. Plot The narrator rec ...
'', '' Prisoner of the Caucasus'', ''
Puss in Boots "Puss in Boots" ( it, Il gatto con gli stivali) is an Italian fairy tale, later spread throughout the rest of Europe, about an anthropomorphic cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for hi ...
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The Saracen ''The Saracen'' is a two-part novel written by Robert Shea. The continuous tale has two separate portions: ''The Land of the Infidel'' and ''The Holy War''. Basically ignored during its publication and then out of print although still enjoying st ...
'', '' The Snow Bogatyr'', '' William Ratcliff'' *
César Cui César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
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Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
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Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...
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Mlada ''Mlada'' (russian: Млада, italic=yes, the name of a main character) was a project conceived in 1870 by Stepan Gedeonov (1816–1878), director of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatres, originally envisioned as a ballet to be composed by ...
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Douglas J. Cuomo Douglas J. Cuomo (born February 13, 1958) is an American television composer. Biography Born in Tucson, Arizona, raised in the San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco ...
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Doubt Doubt is a mental state in which the mind remains suspended between two or more contradictory propositions, unable to be certain of any of them. Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief. It may involve uncertainty, ...
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Charles Cuvillier Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912, played as ''The Naughty Princess'' in London) and with ''The Lilac Domino'', wh ...
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Lilac Domino ''Der lila Domino'' (''The Lilac Domino'') is an operetta in three acts composed by Charles Cuvillier. The original German libretto is by Emmerich von Gatti and Bela Jenbach, about a gambling count who falls in love at a masquerade ball with a ...
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Chaya Czernowin Chaya Czernowin (Hebrew: חיה צ'רנובין, ; born December 7, 1957) is an Israeli American composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie, a biannu ...
(1957– ): '' Pnima...ins Innere'', ''
Adama Adama ( Oromo: ' or ', Amharic: አዳማ), formerly Nazreth ( am, ናዝሬት), is a city in the central Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, the city sits between the base of an e ...
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Nicolas Dalayrac Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (; bapt. 13 June 175326 November 1809), nicknamed the Musician poet, more commonly Nicolas Dalayrac, was a French composer of the Classical period. Intended for a military career, he made the acquaintance of many mu ...
(1753–1809): '' L'amant statue'', ''
Les deux petits savoyards ''Les deux petits savoyards'' (''The Two Little Savoyards'') is a comic opera in one act by the French composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 14 January 1789. The libretto ...
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Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Biography Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current Pazin, Croa ...
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Il prigioniero ''Il prigioniero'' (''The Prisoner'') is an opera (originally a radio opera) in a prologue and one act, with music and libretto by Luigi Dallapiccola. The opera was first broadcast by the Italian radio station RAI on 1 December 1949. The work is ba ...
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Ulisse ''Ulisse'' is an opera in a prologue and two acts composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to his own libretto based on the legend of Ulysses. It premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (in German translation by Karl-Heinrich Kreith as ''Odysseus'') on 29 Se ...
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Volo di notte ''Volo di notte'' (''Night Flight'') is a one-act opera composed by Luigi Dallapiccola to an Italian libretto he wrote based on the novel '' Vol de nuit'' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Flor ...
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Ikuma Dan was a Japanese composer. Biography Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo M ...
(1924–2001): '' Yūzuru'' (''Twilight Crane''), ''
Takeru is a masculine Japanese given name. Orthography Takeru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 武, "warrior" * 猛, "fierce" * 健, "health" * 尊, "noble" * 岳, "mountain" The name can also be written in hiragana or ka ...
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Richard Danielpour Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956) is an American composer. Early life Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian Jewish descent and grew up in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied at Oberlin College and the New En ...
(1956– ): '' Margaret Garner'' *
Alexander Dargomyzhsky Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky ( rus, link=no, Александр Сергеевич Даргомыжский, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhskiy., ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ dərɡɐˈmɨʂskʲɪj, Ru-Aleksandr-Sergeevich- ...
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Rusalka In Slavic folklore, the rusalka (plural: rusalky/rusalki; ; pl, rusałka}) is a typically feminine entity, often malicious toward mankind and frequently associated with water, with counterparts in other parts of Europe, such as the French Melus ...
'', '' The Stone Guest'' (''Kammeny Gost'') * Michael Kevin Daugherty (1954– ): '' Jackie O'' *
Antoine Dauvergne Antoine Dauvergne (3 October 1713 – 11 February 1797) was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne was born in Moulins, Allier. He served as master of the ''Chambre du roi'', director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and direct ...
(1713–1797): '' Les troqueurs'' *
Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...
(1934–2016): '' The Doctor of Myddfai'', ''
Eight Songs for a Mad King ''Eight Songs for a Mad King'' is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow, based on words of George III. The work was written for the South-African actor Roy Hart and the composer's ensemble, the Pierrot Players. ...
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Kommilitonen! ''Kommilitonen!'' (''Young Blood!'', or ''Student Activists'', literally ''Fellow Students!'') is an opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The libretto is by David Pountney, who was also the director of the premiere performances in March 2011. Gene ...
'', '' The Lighthouse'', ''
The Martyrdom of St Magnus ''The Martyrdom of St Magnus'' is a chamber opera in one act (with nine scenes) by the British composer Peter Maxwell Davies. The libretto, by Davies himself, is based on the novel ''Magnus'' by George Mackay Brown. The opera was first performe ...
'', '' Mr Emmet Takes a Walk'', ''
Resurrection Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which ...
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Victor Davies Victor Albert Davies is a Canadian composer, pianist, and conductor, best known for his opera ''Transit of Venus'' and '' The Mennonite Piano Concerto''. Biography Davies was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939. As a child and teenager, he st ...
(1939– ): ''
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Anthony Davis Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. (born March 11, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays the power forward and center positions. Davis is an eight-time NB ...
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X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X ''X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X'' is an opera with music by Anthony Davis and libretto by Thulani Davis, to a story by Christopher Davis. It is based on the life of the civil rights leader Malcolm X. Performance history The opera premiered i ...
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Under the Double Moon ''Under the Double Moon'' is an album by pianist and composer Anthony Davis and vibraphonist Jay Hoggard recorded in West Germany in 1980 for the MPS label.
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Tania Tania is usually a given name. It may refer to: Given name * Tânia Alves, Brazilian actress and singer * Tania Brishty, Bangladesh actress and model * Princess Tania de Bourbon Parme, French designer * Tania de Jong, Dutch-born Australian sopran ...
'', '' Amistad'', '' Wakonda's Dream'' * Don Davis (1957– ): '' Río de Sangre'' *
Claude Debussy (Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...
(1862–1918): '' Pelléas et Mélisande'', ''
Rodrigue et Chimène ''Rodrigue et Chimène'' (English: ''Rodrigo and Ximena'') is an unfinished opera in three acts by Claude Debussy. The French libretto, by Catulle Mendès,Langham Smith, Richard. Rodrigue et Chimène. In: ''New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macm ...
'', '' Le diable dans le beffroi'', '' La chute de la maison Usher'' *
Reginald De Koven Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas. Biography De Koven was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and moved to Europe in 1870, where he receive ...
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The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven) ''The Canterbury Pilgrims'' is an opera by the American composer Reginald De Koven. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 8, 1917 just as the US was on the verge of declaring war on Germany. The unfolding world events caused its c ...
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Brett Dean Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor. Biography Brett Dean was born, raised and educated in Brisbane. He started learning violin at the age of eight, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan a ...
(1961– ): ''
Bliss BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C b ...
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Miguel del Aguila --> Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places *Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands *São Miguel (disambi ...
(1957– ): '' Time and Again Barelas'' *
Léo Delibes Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. His works include the ballets ''Coppélia'' (1870) and '' Sylvia'' (1876) and the opera ''Lakm ...
(1836–1891): '' Jean de Nivelle'', ''
Lakmé ''Lakmé'' is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. The score, written from 1881 to 1882, was first performed on 14 April 1883 by the Opéra-Comique at the (second) Salle Favart in P ...
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Le roi l'a dit ''Le roi l'a dit'' (''The King Has Spoken'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet. It is a lively comedy, remarkably requiring 14 singers – six men and eight women.MacDonald H. "Le roi l'a ...
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Frederick Delius Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...
(1862–1934): ''
Fennimore and Gerda (subtitled ''Two Episodes from the Life of Niels Lyhne in Eleven Pictures'', RT I/8) is a German-language opera with four interludes, by the English composer Frederick Delius. It is usually performed and recorded in English, as ''Fennimore and Ge ...
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Koanga ''Koanga'' is an opera written between 1896 and 1897, with music by Frederick Delius and a libretto by Charles Francis Keary, inspired partly by the book '' The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life'' by George Washington Cable (1880). Inspiratio ...
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A Village Romeo and Juliet ''A Village Romeo and Juliet'' is an opera by Frederick Delius, the fourth of his six operas. The composer himself, with his wife Jelka, wrote the English-language libretto based on the short story "''Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe''" by the Swis ...
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Rudolf Dellinger Rudolf Dellinger (8 July 1857 – 24 September, 1910) was a German Bohemian composer and Kapellmeister. He almost exclusively composed operettas and was considered to be among the most outstanding composers of his time. Born into a family o ...
(1857–1910): ''
Don Cesar The Don CeSar is a hotel located in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Developed by Thomas Rowe and opened in 1928, it gained renown as the Gulf playground for America's pampered rich at the height of the Jazz Age. The hotel was designed by Henry H. Dup ...
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Norman Dello Joio Norman Dello Joio (January 24, 1913July 24, 2008) was an American composer active for over half a century. He won a 1957 Pulitzer Prize#Letters, Drama, Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Life Dello Joio was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to It ...
(1913–2008): '' The Triumph of St. Joan'' *
Edison Denisov Edison Vasilievich Denisov (russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. B ...
(1929–1996): '' Soldier Ivan'' (''Ivan-Soldat''), '' L'écume des jours'', '' Quatre filles'' *
Henri Desmarets Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works. Biogr ...
(1661–1741): '' Didon'', ''
Vénus et Adonis ''Vénus et Adonis'' is an opera (''tragédie en musique'') in a prologue and 5 acts composed by Henri Desmarets to a libretto by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Based on the story of Venus and Adonis in Book X of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', it was first ...
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Iphigénie en Tauride ''Iphigénie en Tauride'' (, ''Iphigenia in Tauris'') is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard. With ''Iphigénie,'' Gluck took ...
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Paul Dessau Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht and composed incidental music for his plays, and several operas based on them. Biography Dessau was born in Hamburg into a ...
(1894–1979): '' Die Verurteilung des Lukullus'', ''
Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
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André Cardinal Destouches André Cardinal Destouches (sometimes called des Touches) (baptised 6 April 1672  – 7 February 1749) was a French composer best known for the ''opéra-ballet'' ''Les élémens''. Biography Born in Paris, the son of Étienne Cardinal, a ...
(1672–1749): ''
Callirhoé ''Callirhoé'' is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. The libretto, by Pierre-Charles Roy, is based on a story from ''The Description of Greece'' ...
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Les élémens ''Les Élémens'' (''The Elements''), or ''Ballet des élémens'', is an opéra-ballet by the French composers André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande (or de Lalande). It has a prologue and four '' entrées'' (as well as, original ...
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Issé Issé (; br, Izeg) is a Communes of France, commune on the banks of the river Don (Vilaine), Don in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department in western France. It is situated 10 km southeast of Châteaubriant. Population Tr ...
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Anton Diabelli Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli (5 September 17818 April 1858) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote ...
(1781–1858): '' Adam in der Klemme'' *
Charles Dibdin Charles Dibdin (before 4 March 1745 – 25 July 1814) was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, ...
(1745–1814): '' The Ephesian Matron'', '' Lionel and Clarissa'', ''
The Padlock ''The Padlock'' is a two-act 'afterpiece' opera by Charles Dibdin. The text was by Isaac Bickerstaffe. It debuted in 1768 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London as a companion piece to '' The Earl of Warwick''. It partnered other plays before a run ...
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The Recruiting Serjeant ''The Recruiting Serjeant'' is a burletta by composer Charles Dibdin and playwright Isaac Bickerstaff. It premièred on 20 July 1770 at Ranelagh Gardens, London. Roles Synopsis A recruiting sergeant comes to a village seeking out new recr ...
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David DiChiera David DiChiera ( ; April 8, 1935 – September 18, 2018) was an American composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre. Career Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania as son of Italian immigrants, DiChiera was raised in Los Angeles ...
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Cyrano Cyrano may refer to: Astronomy * 3582 Cyrano, a small main belt asteroid * Cyrano (crater), a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon Stage and film * ''Cyrano'' (Damrosch), a 1913 opera by Walter Damrosch * ''Cyrano'', a 195 ...
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Violeta Dinescu Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953, in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982. Romania Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory ''Ciprian Porumbescu'' in Bucharest, c ...
(1953– ): '' Hunger und Durst'', '' Der 35 Mai'', '' Eréndira'', '' Schachnovelle'', '' Herzriss'' *
Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style dur ...
(1797–1848): ''
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L'ajo nell'imbarazzo ''L'ajo nell'imbarazzo'' (''The Tutor Embarrassed'' or ''The Tutor in a Jam'') is a ''melodramma giocoso'', or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, after the 1807 play by Giovanni Giraud ...
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Alahor in Granata ''Alahor in Granata'' is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an anonymous Italian libretto (indicated only with the initials "M.A.") after Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's text ''Gonzalve de Cordoue, ou Granade reconquise'' (1793). Howeve ...
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Alfredo il grande ''Alfredo il grande'' (''Alfred the Great'') is a ''melodramma'' serio or serious opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto, which may have been derived from Johann Simon Mayr's 1818 opera of the sa ...
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Alina, regina di Golconda ''Alina, regina di Golconda'' (''Alina, Queen of Golconda'') is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani after Michel-Jean Sedaine's French libretto for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's ballet-hero ...
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L'Ange de Nisida ''L'Ange de Nisida'' (''The Angel of Nisida'') is an '' opera semiseria'' in four acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, from a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz. Parts of the libretto are considered analogous with ...
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Anna Bolena ''Anna Bolena'' is a tragic opera (''tragedia lirica'') in two acts composed by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's ''Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena'' and Alessandro Pepoli's ''Anna Bolena'', both ...
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L'assedio di Calais ''L'assedio di Calais'' (''The siege of Calais'') is an 1836 ''melodramma lirico'', or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, his 49th opera. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto, which has been described as "...a remarkable libr ...
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Belisario ''Belisario'' (''Belisarius'') is a ''tragedia lirica'' (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, ''Belisarius'', first staged in Munich in 182 ...
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Betly ''Betly, ossia La capanna svizzera'' ("Betly, or The Swiss Chalet") is a ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts (originally one) by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Eugène Scribe and Mélésville's l ...
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Il campanello ''Il campanello'' or ''Il campanello di notte'' (''The Night Bell'') is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The composer wrote the Italian libretto after Mathieu-Barthélemy Troin Brunswick and Victor Lhérie's Frenc ...
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Il castello di Kenilworth (or, under its original name in 1829, ''Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth'')Ashbrook and Hibberd (2001), p. 229 is a ''melodramma serio'' or tragic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Andrea Leone Tottola wrote the Italian libretto aft ...
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Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali ''Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali'' (''Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage''), also known as ''Viva la mamma'' and ''Viva la Diva'', is a dramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was writte ...
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Il diluvio universale ''Il diluvio universale'' (''The great flood'') is an azione tragico-sacra, or opera, by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni after Lord Byron's '' Heaven and Earth'' and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy ''Il ...
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Le duc d'Albe ''Le duc d'Albe'' (its original French title) or ''Il duca d'Alba'' (its later Italian title) is an opera in three acts originally composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1839 to a France, French language libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrie ...
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Dom Sébastien ''Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal'' (''Don Sebastian, King of Portugal'') is a French grand opera in five acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe, based on Paul Foucher's play ''Don Sébastien de Portugal'' which pre ...
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Don Pasquale ''Don Pasquale'' () is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's ...
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L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (''The Elixir of Love'', ) is a ' (opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's ' (1831). The opera premiere ...
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Elvida ''Elvida'' is a ''melodramma'' or opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Schmidt wrote the Italian libretto. The opera was written as a ''pièce d'occasion'' for the birthday of María Isabella of Spain, Queen Maria of the Two Sicilies. ...
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L'esule di Roma ''L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto'' (''The Exile from Rome, or the Proscribed Man'') is a ''melodramma eroico'', or heroic opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Domenico Gilardoni wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's ''Il ...
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Fausta Flavia Maxima Fausta ''Augusta'' (289–326 AD) was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and second wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown reasons. Historians Zosimu ...
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La favorite ''La favorite'' (''The Favourite'', sometimes referred to by its Italian title: ''La favorita'') is a grand opera in four acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a French-language libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, based on the play ''Le comt ...
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La fille du régiment ' (''The Daughter of the Regiment'') is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra- ...
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Francesca di Foix ''Francesca di Foix'' is a ''melodramma giocoso'' (comic opera) in one act by Gaetano Donizetti with a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni based on one by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty for Henri Montan Berton's 3-act opéra-comique ...
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Gabriella di Vergy ''Gabriella di Vergy'' is an opera seria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti written in 1826 and revised in 1838, from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, which was based on the tragedy ''Gabrielle de Vergy'' (1777) by Dormont De Belloy. Prior to ...
'', ''Gemma di Vergy'', ''Gianni di Calais'', ''Gianni di Parigi'', ''Imelda de' Lambertazzi'', ''Linda di Chamounix'', ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''Lucrezia Borgia (opera), Lucrezia Borgia'', ''Maria di Rohan'', ''Maria de Rudenz'', ''Maria Padilla'', ''Maria Stuarda'', ''Marino Faliero (opera), Marino Faliero'', ''Olivo e Pasquale'', ''Otto mesi in due ore'', ''Il Pigmalione'', ''Parisina (opera), Parisina'', ''Pia de' Tolomei (opera), Pia de' Tolomei'', ''Pietro il grande'', ''Poliuto'', ''Rita (opera), Rita'', ''Roberto Devereux'', ''Rosmonda d'Inghilterra'', ''Torquato Tasso (opera), Torquato Tasso'', ''Ugo, conte di Parigi'', ''La zingara'', ''Zoraida di Granata'' *Nico Dostal (1895–1981): ', ', ', ''Die ungarische Hochzeit'' *Jonathan Dove (1959– ): ''The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera), The Adventures of Pinocchio'', ''Flight (opera), Flight'' *Sabin Drăgoi (1894–1968): ''Constantin Brâncoveanu (opera), Constantin Brâncoveanu'', ''
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'', ''Kir Ianulea'', ''The Misfortune'' (''Napasta'') *Deborah Drattell (1956– ): ''Lilith (opera), Lilith'', ''Nicholas and Alexandra (opera), Nicholas and Alexandra'' *Paul Dukas (1865–1935): ''Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue'' *Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946): ''Tantivy Towers'' *Egidio Duni, Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708–1775): ''L'école de la jeunesse'', ''La fée Urgèle'', ''Le peintre amoureux de son modèle'' *Pascal Dusapin (1955– ): ''Medeamaterial'', ''Perelà, uomo di fumo'' *Alphonse Duvernoy (1842–1907): ''Le Baron Frick'', ''Hellé'' *Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904): ''Alfred (Dvořák), Alfred'', ''Armida (Dvořák), Armida'', ''The Cunning Peasant'', ''The Devil and Kate'' (''Čert a Káča''), ''Dimitrij (opera), Dimitrij'', ''The Jacobin'' (''Jakobín''), ''King and Charcoal Burner'', ''Rusalka (opera), Rusalka'', ''The Stubborn Lovers'' (''Tvrdé palice''), ''Vanda (opera), Vanda''


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*John Eaton (composer), John Eaton (1935–2015 ): ''The Cry of Clytaemnestra'', ''Danton and Robespierre'', ''The Tempest (Eaton), The Tempest'' *John Eccles (composer), John Eccles (1668–1735): ''Semele (Eccles), Semele'', ''The Judgement of Paris (opera), The Judgement of Paris'' *Werner Egk (1901–1983): ''Peer Gynt (opera), Peer Gynt'', ''Die Verlobung in San Domingo'', ''Die Zaubergeige'' *Gottfried von Einem (1918–1996): ''Der Besuch der alten Dame'', ''Dantons Tod'', ''Kabale und Liebe (opera), Kabale und Liebe'', ''Der Prozess (opera), Der Prozess'' *George Enescu (1881–1955): ''Œdipe (opera), Œdipe'' *Péter Eötvös (1944– ): ''Tri sestry (opera), Tri sestry'', ''Love and Other Demons'', ''Der goldene Drache'' *Ferenc Erkel (1810–1893): ''Bánk bán'', ''Hunyadi László (opera), Hunyadi László'' *Camille Erlanger (1863–1919): ''Le Juif Polonais'' *Iván Erőd (1936–2019 ): ''La doncella, el marinero y el estudiante'', ''Die Seidenraupen'', ''Orpheus ex Machina'', ''Der Füssener Totentanz'', ''Die Liebesprobe'', ''Pünktchen und Anton'' *Edmund Eysler (1874–1949): ''Bruder Straubinger'', ''Die gold'ne Meisterin''


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*Franco Faccio (1840–1891): ''Amleto'' *Leo Fall (1873–1925): ', ''Die Dollarprinzessin'', ''The Merry Farmer (operetta), Der fidele Bauer'', ''Die geschiedene Frau'', ''Der liebe Augustin (operetta), Der liebe Augustin'' (English version: ''Princess Caprice''), ''Madame Pompadour (operetta), Madame Pompadour'' *Manuel de Falla (1876–1946): ''Los amores de la Inés'', ''El retablo de maese Pedro'', ''La vida breve (opera), La vida breve'' *Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924): ''Pénélope'', ''Prométhée'' *Giuseppe Farinelli (1769–1836): ''Calliroe (Farinelli), Calliroe'', ''Il Cid della Spagna'', ''I riti d'Efeso'' *Ivan Fedele (1953– ): ''Antigone (Fedele), Antigone'' *Morton Feldman (1926–1987): ''Neither (opera), Neither'' *Francesco Feo (1691–1761): ''Andromaca'' *Brian Ferneyhough (1943– ): ''Shadowtime (opera), Shadowtime'' *Lorenzo Ferrero (1951– ): ''Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil'', ''Marilyn (opera), Marilyn'', ''La figlia del mago'', ''Mare nostro (opera), Mare nostro'', ''Night (opera), Night'', ''Salvatore Giuliano (opera), Salvatore Giuliano'', ''Charlotte Corday (opera), Charlotte Corday'', ''Le Bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir'', ''La nascita di Orfeo'', ''La Conquista (opera), La Conquista'', ''Le piccole storie, Le piccole storie: Ai margini delle guerre'', ''Risorgimento! (opera), Risorgimento!'' *Henry Février (1875–1957): ''Monna Vanna (Février), Monna Vanna'' *Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900): ''Blaník (opera), Blaník'', ''The Bride of Messina (opera), The Bride of Messina'' (''Nevěsta messinská''), ''Bukovín'', ''The Fall of Arkun'' (''Pád Arkuna''), ''Hedy (opera), Hedy'', ''Šárka (Fibich), Šárka'', ''The Tempest (Fibich), The Tempest'' (''Bouře'') *Vivian Fine (1913–2000): ''The Women in the Garden'' *Gottfried Finger (c. 1660–1730): ''The Virgin Prophetess'' *Michael Finnissy (1946– ): ''Thérèse Raquin (Finnissy), Thérèse Raquin'' *Valentino Fioravanti (1764–1837): ''Le cantatrici villane'' *Elena Firsova (1950– ): ''A Feast in Time of Plague'' (''Pir vo vremya chumy''), ''The Nightingale and the Rose (opera), The Nightingale and the Rose'' *Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725–after c. 1810): , , *Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941): ''Rothschild's Violin'' *Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883): ''Alessandro Stradella (opera), Alessandro Stradella'', ''Martha (opera), Martha'' *Carlisle Floyd (1926– ): ''Cold Sassy Tree (opera), Cold Sassy Tree'', ''Flower and Hawk'', ''Of Mice and Men (opera), Of Mice and Men'', ''Slow Dusk'', ''Susannah'', ''Willie Stark'', ''Wuthering Heights (Floyd), Wuthering Heights'' *Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951): ''Debora (opera), Debora'', ''Eva (opera), Eva'', ''Jessika (opera), Jessika'', ''The Invincible Ones'' (:cs:Nepřemožení, ''Nepřemožení''), ''The Heart'' (:cs:Srdce (opera), ''Srdce''), ''The Fool'' a.k.a. ''The Simpleton'' (:cs:Bloud, ''Bloud'') *Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800): ''Postal Coachmen at the Relay Station'' (Yamshchiki na podstave) *Ernest Ford (1858–1919): ''Jane Annie'' *Jacopo Foroni (1825–1858): ''Cristina, regina di Svezia'' *Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987): ''Bluthochzeit'' *Lukas Foss (1922–2009): ''The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'', ''Griffelkin'', ''Introductions and Good-byes'' *Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942): ''Cristoforo Colombo (opera), Cristoforo Colombo'', ''Germania (opera), Germania'', ''Asrael'', ''La figlia di Iorio'' *César Franck (1822–1890): ''Hulda (opera), Hulda'', ''Ghiselle'' *François Francoeur (1698–1787) and François Rebel (1701–1775): ''Pirame et Thisbé'', ''Scanderberg'' *Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944): ''The Maid of the Mountains'' *Rudolf Friml (1879–1972): ''The Firefly (operetta), The Firefly'', ''Rose-Marie'', ''The Vagabond King''


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*Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643): ''Dafne (Gagliano), Dafne'' *Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785): ''Il filosofo di campagna'', ''L'inimico delle donne'' (''L'italiana in Oriente'') *Hans Gál (1890–1987): ''Der Arzt der Sobeide'', ''Die heilige Ente'', ''Das Lied der Nacht'', ''Die beiden Klaas'' *Louis Ganne (1862–1923): ''Les saltimbanques'' *Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727): ''Ambleto'', ''Tamerlano (Gasparini opera), Tamerlano'', ''Bajazet (Gasparini opera), Bajazet'' *Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774): ''L'amore artigiano'', ''La notte critica'' *Stanislao Gastaldon (1861–1939): ''Mala Pasqua!'' *Pierre Gaveaux (1761–1825): ''Le trompeur trompé'' *Joaquín Gaztambide (1822–1870): ''El estreno de una artista'', ''El juramento (zarzuela), El juramento'', ''Un pleito'', ''Una vieja'' *Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743–1818): ''Antigono'', ''Il barone di Trocchia'', ''Don Giovanni Tenorio'', ''La donna astuta'', ''Ezio (Gazzaniga), Ezio'', ''Il finto cieco'' *Pietro Generali (1773–1832): ''Adelina (opera), Adelina'' *Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970): ''The Duenna (Gerhard), The Duenna'' *Edward German (1862–1936): ''The Emerald Isle'' (with Arthur Sullivan), ''Fallen Fairies'', ''Merrie England (opera), Merrie England'', ''A Princess of Kensington'', ''The Rival Poets'', ''Tom Jones (Edward German), Tom Jones'' *Thomas German Reed (1817–1888): ''Eyes and No Eyes'', ''No Cards'', ''Our Island Home'', ''A Sensation Novel'' *George Gershwin (1898–1937): ''Blue Monday (opera), Blue Monday'', ''Porgy and Bess'' *Ottmar Gerster (1897–1969): ''Enoch Arden'', ''Die Hexe von Passau'' *Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740): ''Merope (Giacomelli), La Merope'' *Vittorio Giannini (1903–1966): ''Blennerhassett (opera), Blennerhassett'', ''The Taming of the Shrew (opera), The Taming of the Shrew'' *Jean Gilbert (1879–1942): ''Die keusche Susanne'' *Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983): ''Bomarzo (opera), Bomarzo'', ''Beatrix Cenci'', ''Don Rodrigo'' *Umberto Giordano (1867–1948): ''La cena delle beffe'', ''Andrea Chénier'', ''Fedora (opera), Fedora'', ''Madame Sans-Gêne (opera), Madame Sans-Gêne'', ''Mese mariano'', ''Il re'', ''Siberia (opera), Siberia'' *Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990): ''Nausicaa (opera), Nausicaa'', ''The Transposed Heads (opera), The Transposed Heads'' *Philip Glass (1937– ): ''1000 Airplanes on the Roof'', ''Akhnaten (opera), Akhnaten'', ''Appomattox (opera), Appomattox'', ''Beauty and the Beast (1946 film), La Belle et la bête'', ''The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down'', ''O Corvo Branco'', ''Einstein on the Beach'', ''The Fall of the House of Usher (Philip Glass opera), The Fall of the House of Usher'', ''Galileo Galilei (opera), Galileo Galilei'', ''Hydrogen Jukebox'', ''The Juniper Tree (opera), The Juniper Tree'', ''Kepler (opera), Kepler'', ''Monsters of Grace'', ''The Photographer'', ''Satyagraha (opera), Satyagraha'', ''The Voyage (opera), The Voyage'' *Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857): ''A Life for the Tsar'' (''Zhizn za tsarya''), ''Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera), Ruslan and Lyudmila'' *Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787): ''Alceste (Gluck), Alceste'', ''L'arbre enchanté'', ''Armide (Gluck), Armide'', ''Le cadi dupé'', ''Le cinesi'', ''La Cythère assiégée'', ''Le diable à quatre (opera), Le diable à quatre'', ''Echo et Narcisse'', ''La fausse esclave'', ''Le feste d'Apollo'', ''L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé, L'ile de Merlin'', ''Iphigénie en Aulide'', ''Iphigénie en Tauride'', ''L'ivrogne corrigé'', ''Orfeo ed Euridice'', ''Paride ed Elena'', ''La rencontre imprévue'', ''Telemaco (Gluck), Telemaco'' *Benjamin Godard (1849–1895): ''Jocelyn (opera), Jocelyn'' *Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957): ''Virineya'' (Виринея), ''At the Crossing'' (У перевоза), ''Jacquerie (opera)'' (Жакерия), ''Macbeth (Goedicke)'' (Макбет) *Alexander Goehr (1932– ): ''Arden Must Die'', ''Arianna (Goehr), Arianna'', ''Behold the Sun'', ''Triptych (opera), Triptych'' *Hermann Goetz (1840–1876): ''Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung'' *Walter Goetze (1883–1961): ''Der goldene Pierrot'', ''Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin (operetta), Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin'' *Karl Goldmark (1830–1915): ''Das Heimchen am Herd'', ''Die Königin von Saba'' *Osvaldo Golijov (1960– ): ''Ainadamar'' *Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896): ''Condor (opera), Condor'', ''Fosca (opera), Fosca'', ''Il Guarany'', ''Joana de Flandres (opera), Joana de Flandres'', ''Lo schiavo'', ''Maria Tudor'', ''A noite do castelo'', ''Salvator Rosa (opera), Salvator Rosa'' *Fernando González Casellas (1925–1998): ''Saverio el Cruel'' *Ricky Ian Gordon (1956– ): ''The Grapes of Wrath (opera), The Grapes of Wrath'' *François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829): ''Les pêcheurs'', ''Sabinus (opera), Sabinus'', ''Thésée (Gossec), Thésée'', ''Le tonnelier'', ''Le triomphe de la République'' *Jakov Gotovac (1895–1982): ''Ero s onoga svijeta'' (''Ero the Joker'') *Charles Gounod#Operas, Charles Gounod (1818–1893): ''Cinq-Mars (opera), Cinq-Mars'', ''La colombe'', ''Faust (opera), Faust'', ''Maître Pierre'', ''Le médecin malgré lui (opera), Le médecin malgré lui'', ''Mireille (opera), Mireille'', ''La nonne sanglante'', ''Philémon et Baucis'', ''Polyeucte (opera), Polyeucte'', ''La reine de Saba'', ''Roméo et Juliette'', ''Sapho (Gounod), Sapho'', ''Le tribut de Zamora'' *Orlando Gough (1953–): ''The Finnish Prisoner'' *Louis Grabu (floruit, fl. 1665–1690, died after 1693): ''Albion and Albanius'' *Paul Graener (1872–1944): ''Hanneles Himmelfahrt'' *Enrique Granados (1867–1916): ''Goyescas (opera), Goyescas'', ''María del Carmen (opera), María del Carmen'' *Bruno Granichstaedten (1879–1944): ''Der Orlow'' *Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759): ''Montezuma (Graun), Montezuma'' *Maurice Greene (composer), Maurice Greene (1696–1755): ''Florimel'', ''Phoebe (opera), Phoebe'' *André Grétry (1741–1813): ''L'amant jaloux'', ''Andromaque (opera), Andromaque'', ''Aucassin et Nicolette (opera), Aucassin et Nicolette'', ''La caravane du Caire'', ''Colinette à la cour'', ''L’épreuve villageoise'', ''Les deux avares'', ''Guillaume Tell (Grétry), Guillaume Tell'', ''Le Huron'', ''Le jugement de Midas'', ''Lucile (opera), Lucile'', ''Les mariages samnites'', ''Pierre le Grand'', ''Richard Coeur-de-lion (opera), Richard Coeur-de-lion'', ''Le tableau parlant'', ''Zémire et Azor'' *George Grossmith (1847–1912): ''Haste to the Wedding'', ''Cups and Saucers'' *Jacinto Guerrero (1895–1951): ''El huésped del sevillano, El huésped del Sevillano'' *Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804): ''Alceste (Guglielmi), Alceste'', ''La bella pescatrice'', ''La pastorella nobile'', ''Il ratto della sposa'', ''Lo spirito di contradizione'', ''La sposa fedele'' *Manfred Gurlitt (1890–1973): ''Wozzeck (Gurlitt), Wozzeck''


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*Pavel Haas (1899–1944): ''Šarlatán'' *Alois Hába (1893–1973): ''Mother (opera), The Mother'' *Henry Kimball Hadley (1871–1937): ''Azora, the Daughter of Montezuma'', ''Bianca (opera), Bianca'', ''Cleopatra's Night'', ''A Night in Old Paris'', ''Safié'' *Daron Hagen (1961– ): ''Amelia (opera), Amelia'', ''Shining Brow'', ''Bandanna (opera), Bandanna'', ''Vera of Las Vegas'', ''The Antient Concert'', New York Stories (opera), ''New York Stories'' *Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947): ''Ciboulette'' *Jakob Haibel (1762–1826): ''Der Tyroler Wastel'' *Fromental Halévy (1799–1862): ''L'artisan'', ''Charles VI (opera), Charles VI'', ''L'éclair'', ''Jaguarita l'Indienne'', ''Le Juif errant (opera), Le Juif errant'', ''La Juive'', ''Ludovic (opera), Ludovic'', ''Le nabab'', ''Noé (opera), Noé'', ''La reine de Chypre'', ''Le val d'Andorre'' *Iain Hamilton (composer), Iain Hamilton (1922–2000): ''Anna Karenina (Hamilton), Anna Karenina'', ''The Catiline Conspiracy'', ''The Royal Hunt of the Sun (opera), The Royal Hunt of the Sun'' *George Frideric Handel (1685–1759): ''Acis and Galatea (Handel), Acis and Galatea'', ''Admeto'', ''Agrippina (opera), Agrippina'', ''Alcina'', ''Alessandro (opera), Alessandro'', ''Alessandro Severo'', ''Almira'', ''Amadigi di Gaula'', ''Arianna in Creta'', ''Ariodante'', ''Arminio'', ''Atalanta (opera), Atalanta'', ''Berenice (opera), Berenice'', ''Deidamia (opera), Deidamia'', ''Ezio (Handel), Ezio'', ''Faramondo'', ''Flavio'', ''Floridante'', ''Florindo'', ''Giove in Argo'', ''Giulio Cesare'', ''Giustino (Handel), Giustino'', ''Hercules (Handel), Hercules'', ''Imeneo'', ''Lotario'', ''
Muzio Scevola ''Muzio Scevola'' (; "Mucius Scaevola", HWV 13) is an opera seria in three acts about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first act was ...
'', ''Oreste'', ''Orlando (opera), Orlando'', ''Ottone'', ''Parnasso in festa'', ''Partenope'', ''Il pastor fido'', ''Poro (opera), Poro'', ''Radamisto (Handel), Radamisto'', ''Riccardo Primo'', ''Rinaldo (opera), Rinaldo'', ''Rodelinda (opera), Rodelinda'', ''Rodrigo (opera), Rodrigo'', ''Samson (Handel), Samson'', ''Scipione'', ''Semele (Handel), Semele'', ''Serse'', ''Silla (opera), Silla'', ''Siroe'', ''Sosarme'', ''Tamerlano'', ''Teseo'', ''Theodora (Handel), Theodora'', ''Tolomeo'' *Howard Hanson (1896–1981): ''Merry Mount (opera), Merry Mount'' *Kazuko Hara (1935–2014): ''Crime and Punishment (opera), Crime and Punishment'', ''Yosakoi Bushi'' *John Harbison (1938– ): ''The Great Gatsby (opera), The Great Gatsby'' *Stephen Hartke (1952– ): ''The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif'' *Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783): ''Artaserse (Hasse), Artaserse'', ''Antonio e Cleopatra'', ''Cleofide'', ''Piramo e Tisbe'', ''Siroe (Hasse), Siroe'', ''Il Ruggiero'' *Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): ''L'anima del filosofo'', ''Armida (Haydn), Armida'', ''La canterina'', ''La fedeltà premiata'', ''L'infedeltà delusa'', ''L'isola disabitata'', ''Il mondo della luna'', ''Orlando paladino'', ''Lo speziale'', ''La vera costanza'', ''L'incontro improvviso'' *Jake Heggie (1961– ): ''Dead Man Walking (opera), Dead Man Walking'', ''The End of the Affair (opera), The End of the Affair'', ''Last Acts'' *Peter Arnold Heise (1830–1879): ''Drot og marsk'' *Moya Henderson (1941– ): ''Lindy (opera), Lindy'' *Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012): ''The Bassarids'', ''Boulevard Solitude'', ''Elegy for Young Lovers'', ''The English Cat'', ''Der junge Lord'', ''König Hirsch'', ''Phaedra (opera), Phaedra'', ''Der Prinz von Homburg (opera), Der Prinz von Homburg'', ''L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe'', ''Venus und Adonis'', ''Das verratene Meer'', ''We Come to the River'' *Victor Herbert (1859–1924): ''Babes in Toyland (operetta), Babes in Toyland'', ''Dream City'', ''The Dream Girl (operetta), The Dream Girl'', ''Eileen (musical), Eileen'', ''The Fortune Teller (operetta), The Fortune Teller'', ''The Magic Knight'', ''Mlle. Modiste'', ''Natoma (opera), Natoma'', ''Naughty Marietta (operetta), Naughty Marietta'', ''Prince Ananias'', ''The Princess Pat'', ''The Red Mill'', ''The Serenade'', ''Sweethearts (musical), Sweethearts'', ''The Wizard of the Nile'' *Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833): ''Le pré aux clercs'', ''Zampa'' *Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975): ''Wuthering Heights (Herrmann), Wuthering Heights'' *Philippe Hersant (1948– ): ''Le Château des Carpathes (opera), Le Château des Carpathes'', ''Le Moine noir'' *Hervé (composer), Hervé (1825–1892): ''Chilpéric (operetta), Chilpéric'', ''Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança'', ''Mam'zelle Nitouche'' *Richard Heuberger (1850–1914): ''Der Opernball'' *Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685): ''Celos aun del aire matan'', ''Los celos hacen estrellas'', ''La púrpura de la rosa (Hidalga), La púrpura de la rosa'' *Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804): ''Die Jagd'', ''Lisuart und Dariolette'', ''Lottchen am Hofe'', ''Die verwandelten Weiber'' *Paul Hindemith (1895–1963): ''Cardillac'', ''Die Harmonie der Welt'', ''Hin und zurück'', ''Lehrstück'', ''The Long Christmas Dinner (opera), The Long Christmas Dinner'', ''Mathis der Maler (opera), Mathis der Maler'', ''Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen'', ''Neues vom Tage'', ''Das Nusch-Nuschi'', ''Sancta Susanna'', ''Wir bauen eine Stadt'' *Emil Hlobil (1901–1987): ''Anna Karenina'', ''Měšťák šlechticem (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme)'', ''Král Václav IV (King Wenceslaus IV)'' *Lee Hoiby (1926–2011): ''The Scarf (opera), The Scarf'', ''Summer and Smoke (opera), Summer and Smoke'' *E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822): ''Undine (Hoffmann), Undine'' *Igo Hofstetter (1926–2002): ''Roulette der Herzen'', ''Alles spricht von Charpillon'', ''Schach dem Boss'' * York Höller (1944– ): ''Der Meister und Margarita'' *Heinz Holliger (1939– ): ''Schneewittchen (opera), Schneewittchen'' *Gustav Holst (1874–1934): ''The Revoke'', ''The Idea'', ''The Youth's Choice'', ''Sita (opera), Sita'', ''At the Boar's Head'', ''The Perfect Fool'', ''Savitri (opera), Savitri'', ''The Wandering Scholar'' *Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783): ''Günther von Schwarzburg (opera), Günther von Schwarzburg'' *Arthur Honegger (1892–1955): ''Judith (Honegger), Judith'', ''Antigone (Honegger), Antigone'', ''Les aventures du roi Pausole'', ''La belle de Moudon'', ''Les petites'', ''L'Aiglon, L'aiglon'' (with Jacques Ibert) *Toshio Hosokawa (1955– ): ''Vision of Lear'', ''Hanjo'' *Jenő Hubay (1858–1937): ''Alienor'', '':hu:A cremonai hegedűs, A cremonai hegedűs'' (The Violin Maker of Cremona), (The Village Vagabond), ''Moharózsa'' (Moss Rose), ''Lavotta szerelme'', ''Karenina Anna'' (Anna Karenina), ''Az álarc'' (The Mask), ''A milói Vénusz'' (The Venus de Milo), ''Az önző óriás'' (The Selfish Giant; based on The Happy Prince and Other Tales#"The Selfish Giant", the story by Oscar Wilde) *Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921): ''Hansel and Gretel (opera), Hänsel und Gretel'', ''Königskinder'' *Ilja Hurník (1922–2013): ''Dáma a lupiči'' (The Lady and the Robbers), (Wisemen and Fools), ''Rybáři v síti'' (Fishermen in Their Own Nets), ''Oldřich a Boženka'' (Oldřich and Boženka) *Jenő Huszka (1875–1960): ''Aranyvirág'', ''Prince Bob'' (''Bob herceg''), ''Gül Baba (operetta), Gül Baba'', ''Baroness Lili'' (''Lili bárónő''), ''Tilos a Bemenet'' (''No Entry'') *Ketil Hvoslef (1939– ): ''Barabbas (opera), Barabbas'' *Jason Kao Hwang (1957– ): ''The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown''


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*Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931): ''Le chant de la cloche'', ''L'étranger (opera), L'étranger'', ''Fervaal'', ''La légende de Saint-Christophe'', ''Le rêve de Cinyras'' *Nicolas Isouard (1775–1818): ''Cendrillon (Isouard), Cendrillon'', ''Joconde (opera), Joconde'', ''Les rendez-vous bourgeois''


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*Victor Jacobi (1883–1921): ''The Bravest Hussar'', ''The Haughty Princess'', ''The Marriage Market'', ''Szibill'' *Edward Jakobowski (1858–1927): ''Erminie'' *Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): ''The Beginning of a Romance'' (''Počátek Románu''), ''The Cunning Little Vixen'' (''Příhody lišky Bystroušky''), ''Destiny (Janáček), Destiny'' (''Osud''), ''The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century'' (''Výlet pana Broučka do XV století/Výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce''), ''From the House of the Dead'' (''Z mrtvého domu''), ''Jenůfa'' (''Její pastorkyňa''), ''Káťa Kabanová'', ''The Makropulos Affair (opera), The Makropulos Affair'' (''Věc Makropulos''), ''Šárka (Janáček), Šárka'' *Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729): ''Céphale et Procris (Jacquet de la Guerre), Céphale et Procris'' *Georg Jarno (1868–1920): ''Die Försterchristl'' *Leon Jessel (1871–1942): ''Schwarzwaldmädel'' *Alan John (1958– ): ''The Eighth Wonder'', ''Through the Looking Glass (opera), Through the Looking Glass'' *Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774): ''Armida abbandonata'', ''Demofoonte (Jommelli), Demofoonte'', ''Fetonte'', ''Iphigenia in Tauride'', ''L'Olimpiade (Jommelli), L'Olimpiade'', ''La schiava liberata'', ''L'uccelellatrice'', ''Vologeso'' *Scott Joplin (1868–1917): ''A Guest of Honor (opera), A Guest of Honor'', ''Treemonisha'' *Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997): ''Rebecca (opera), Rebecca''


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*Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953): ''Arizona Lady'', ''Die Bajadere (operetta), Die Bajadere'', ''Gräfin Mariza'', ''Die Csárdásfürstin'', ''Zsuzsi kisasszony'', ''Die Herzogin von Chicago'', ''Kaiserin Josephine'', ''Marinka (operetta), Marinka'', ''Az obsitos'' (''The Soldier on Leave''), ''The Gay Hussars, Tatárjárás'', ''Das Veilchen vom Montmartre'', ''Der Zigeunerprimas'' (''The Gipsy Virtuoso''), ''Die Zirkusprinzessin'' *Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962): ''Protomastoras'', ''The ring of the mother'', ''Anatoli (opera)'', , ''Konstantinos Palaiologos'' *Rudolf Kattnigg (1895–1955): ''Balkanliebe'' *Nigel Keay (1955– ): ''At the Hawk's Well (opera), At the Hawk's Well'' *Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739): ''Croesus (opera), Croesus'', ''Fredegunda (opera), Fredegunda'', ''Masagniello'', Octavia (opera), Octavia, ''Ulysses (opera), Ulysses'' *Jerome Kern (1885–1945): ''Show Boat'' *Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941): ''Der Evangelimann'', ''Der Kuhreigen'' *Leanna Kirchoff: ''The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret'' *Giselher Klebe (1925–2009): ''Alkmene (opera), Alkmene'', ''Chlestakows Wiederkehr'', ''Die Ermordung Cäsars'', ''Die Fastnachtsbeichte (opera), Die Fastnachtsbeichte'', ''Figaro läßt sich scheiden'', ''Gervaise Macquart'', ''Jacobowsky und der Oberst (opera), Jacobowsky und der Oberst'', ''Der Jüngste Tag'', ''Das Mädchen aus Domrémy'', ''Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie'', ''Die Räuber (opera), Die Räuber'', ''Das Rendezvous'', ''Die tödlichen Wünsche'', ''Ein wahrer Held'' *Alexander Knaifel (1943– ): ''The Canterville Ghost (opera), The Canterville Ghost'' (), ''Alice in Wonderland'' *Oliver Knussen (1952–2018): ''Higglety Pigglety Pop!'', ''Where the Wild Things Are (opera), Where the Wild Things Are'' *Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967): ''Háry János'' *Joonas Kokkonen (1921–1996): ''The Last Temptations'' *Walter Kollo (1878–1940): ''Drei alte Schachteln'', ''Filmzauber'', ''Die Frau ohne Kuss'', ' *Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001): ''MR (Marina and Rainer)'' *Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957): ''Die Kathrin'', ''Der Ring des Polykrates (opera), Der Ring des Polykrates'', ''Die tote Stadt'', ''Violanta'', ''Das Wunder der Heliane'' *Petr Kotik (1942– ) ''Many, Many Women'' *
Reginald De Koven Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas. Biography De Koven was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and moved to Europe in 1870, where he receive ...
(1859–1920): ''The Knickerbockers (operetta), The Knickerbockers'', ''Rip Van Winkle (de Koven), Rip Van Winkle'', ''Rob Roy (operetta), Rob Roy'', ''Robin Hood (De Koven opera), Robin Hood'' *Hans Krása (1899–1944): ''Brundibár'' *Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962): ''Sissy (operetta), Sissy'' *Ernst Krenek (1900–1991): ''The Bell Tower'', ''Cefalo e Procri'', ''Der Diktator'', ''Jonny spielt auf'', ''Karl V (opera), Karl V'', ''Leben des Orest'', ''Orpheus und Eurydike'', ''Schwergewicht'', ''Tarquin (opera), Tarquin'', ''What Price Confidence?'' *Conradin Kreutzer (1780–1849): ''Das Nachtlager in Granada'', ''Der Verschwender'' *Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831): ''La mort d'Abel'' *Eduard Künneke (1885–1953): ''The Cousin from Nowhere (operetta), The Cousin from Nowhere'' *F.L.Æ. Kunzen (1761–1817): ''Holger Danske (opera), Holger Danske''


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*Helmut Lachenmann (1935– ): ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'' *Franz Lachner (1803–1890): ''Caterina Cornaro (Lachner), Caterina Cornaro'' *Lori Laitman (1955– ): ''Come to Me In Dreams'', ''The Scarlet Letter (Laitman opera), The Scarlet Letter'', ''The Three Feathers'' *Édouard Lalo (1823–1892): ''Le roi d'Ys'', ''Fiesque'' *John La Montaine (1920–2013): ''Novellis, Novellis'', ''The Shephardes Playe'', ''Erode the Greate'', ''Be Glad Then, America'' *Stefano Landi (1587–1639): ''La morte d'Orfeo'', ''Il Sant'Alessio'' *Elena Langer (1974– ): ''Figaro Gets a Divorce'' *Rued Langgaard (1893–1952): ''Antikrist'' *Isidore de Lara (1858–1935): ''Messaline'' *Lars-Erik Larsson (1908–1986): ''Prinsessan av Cypern (Larsson), Prinsessan av Cypern'' *Felice Lattuada (1882–1962): ''Le preziose ridicule'', ''La tempesta (opera), La tempesta'' *Elodie Lauten (1950–2014): ''The Death of Don Juan'' *Armas Launis (1884–1959): ''Seven Brothers (Launis), Seven Brothers'', ''Kullervo (Launis), Kullervo'', ''Aslak Hetta (Launis), Aslak Hetta'', ''Jehudith (Launis), Jehudith'', among others *Henry Lawes (1595–1662), Henry Cooke (composer), Henry Cooke (1616–1672) et al.: ''The Siege of Rhodes'' *Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764): ''Scylla et Glaucus'' *Charles Lecocq (1832–1918): ''La fille de Madame Angot'', ''Giroflé-Girofla'', ''Le petit duc'' *Ton de Leeuw (1926–1996): ''Antigone (Leeuw), Antigone'' *Nicola LeFanu (1947– ): ''Blood Wedding (opera), Blood Wedding'', ''The Story of Mary O'Neill'', ''Light Passing'' *Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690): ''I due Cesari'', ''Eteocle e Polinice'', ''Il Giustino'', ''La divisione del mondo, ''Totila (opera), Totila'', ''Zenobia e Radamisto'' *Franz Lehár (1870–1948): ''Endlich allein'', ''Giuditta'', ''Der Göttergatte'', ''Der Graf von Luxemburg'', ''The Land of Smiles'' (''Das Land des Lächelns''), ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe''), ''Paganini (operetta), Paganini'', ''Der Zarewitsch'' *Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer), Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751–1796) ''Électre (opera), Électre'', ''Nephté'', ''Phèdre (opera), Phèdre'' *Nicholas Lens (1957– ): ''Slow Man (opera), Slow Man'', ''Shell Shock (opera), Shell Shock'' *Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919): ''Are You There?'', ''La bohème (Leoncavallo), La bohème'', ''Chatterton (opera), Chatterton'', ''Edipo re (opera), Edipo re'', ''Goffredo Mameli (opera), Goffredo Mameli'', ''La jeunesse de Figaro'', ''Maià'', ''I Medici'', ''Pagliacci'', ''Der Roland von Berlin'', ''Zazà'', ''Zingari (opera), Zingari'' *Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837): ''La caverne'', ''La mort d'Adam'', ''Ossian, ou Les bardes'' *György Ligeti (1923–2006): ''Le Grand Macabre'' *Liza Lim (1966– ): ''The Navigator (opera), The Navigator'' *Paul Lincke (1866–1946): ''Frau Luna'' *Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (1791–1856): ''Der Vampyr (Lindpaintner), Der Vampyr'' *Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795): ''The Duenna'' *Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854): ''Porin (opera), Porin'' *Franz Liszt (1811–1886): ''Don Sanche'' *Antonio de Literes (1673–1747): ''Los elementos, Acis y Galatea, Júpiter y Semele'' *Ricardo Llorca (1962– ): ''Las horas vacias'' *George Lloyd (composer), George Lloyd (1913–1998): ''John Socman'' *Matthew Locke (composer), Matthew Locke (1621–1677): ''The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru'', ''The History of Sir Francis Drake'' *Edward Loder (1813–1865): ''Raymond and Agnes'' * George Augustus Löhr, Richard Harvey Lohr: ''Kenilworth'' *Albert Lortzing (1801–1851): ''Die beiden Schützen'', ''Hans Sachs (opera), Hans Sachs'', ''Die Opernprobe'', ''Undine (Lortzing), Undine'', ''Der Waffenschmied'', ''Der Wildschütz'', ''Zar und Zimmermann'' * Charles Lucas (musician), Charles Lucas: ''The Regicide'' *Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687): ''Achille et Polyxène'', ''Acis et Galatée'', ''Alceste (Lully), Alceste'', ''Amadis (Lully), Amadis'', ''Armide (Lully), Armide'', ''Atys (Lully), Atys'', ''Bellérophon'', ''Cadmus et Hermione'', ''Les fêtes de l'amour et de Bacchus'', ''Isis (Lully), Isis'', ''Pastorale comique'', ''Persée'', ''Phaëton (Lully), Phaëton'', ''Proserpine (Lully), Proserpine'', ''Psyché (opera), Psyché'', ''Roland (Lully), Roland'', ''Thésée'' *Meyer Lutz (1829–1903): ''Faust and Marguerite (opera), Faust and Marguerite'' *Ralph Lyford (1882–1927): ''Castle Agrazant'' *Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912): ''Natalka Poltavka (opera), Natalka Poltavka'', ''Taras Bulba (opera), Taras Bulba'', ''May Night (Lysenko), May Night''


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*Lorin Maazel (1930–2014): ''1984 (opera), 1984'' *Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916): ''Jeanie Deans (opera), Jeanie Deans'' *George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887): ''Robin Hood'', ''She Stoops to Conquer'', ''Helvellyn (opera), Helvellyn'' *Alexander Mackenzie (composer), Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935): ''Colomba (opera), Colomba'', ''His Majesty (comic opera), His Majesty'' *James MacMillan (1959– ): ''Inés de Castro (MacMillan), Inés de Castro'', ''The Sacrifice (opera), The Sacrifice'', ''Clemency'' *Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994): ''The Departure (opera), The Departure'', ''The Sofa'', ''The Three Strangers'' *Bruno Maderna (1920–1973): ''Satyricon (opera), Satyricon'' *Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947): ''The Ostrobothnians'' (''Pohjalaisia''), ''Juha (Madetoja), Juha'' *Albéric Magnard (1865–1914): ''Bérénice (Magnard), Bérénice'', ''Guercœur'' *Ernst Mahle (1929– ): ''A Moreninha (opera), A Moreninha'', ''Marroquinhas Fru-Fru'', ''O Garatuja'' *Mesías Maiguashca (1938– ): ''Los enemigos'' *Aimé Maillart (1817–1871): ''Les dragons de Villars'' *Kiril Makedonski (1925–1984): ''Goce'' *Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973): ''Torneo notturno'' *Francesco Mancini (composer), Francesco Mancini (1672–1737): ''Hydaspes (Mancini), L’Idaspe fedele'' *Philippe Manoury (1952– ): ''60th Parallel'', ''K (opera), K'' *Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872): ''Don Crepuscolo'' *Marin Marais (1656–1728): ''Alcyone (opera), Alcyone'', ''Sémélé'' *Filippo Marchetti (1831–1902): ''Romeo e Giulietta (Marchetti), Romeo e Giulietta'', ''Ruy Blas (opera), Ruy Blas'' *Miguel Marqués (composer), Miguel Marqués (1843–1918): Perla (zarzuela), ''Perla'', ''El zortzico'', ''El reloj de Lucerna'' *Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861): ''Hans Heiling'', ''Der Templer und die Jüdin'', ''Der Vampyr'' *Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806): ''L'arbore di Diana'', ''Una cosa rara'', ''Il burbero di buon cuore'' *Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959): ''Alexandre bis'', ''Ariane (Martinů), Ariane'', ''Comedy on the Bridge'' (''Veselohra na mostě''), ''The Greek Passion (opera), The Greek Passion'' (''Řecké pašije''), ''Julietta'', ''The Marriage (opera), The Marriage'' (''Ženitba''), ''Mirandolina'', ''The Plays of Mary'' (''Hry o Marii''), ''Les trois souhaits'', ''The Voice of the Forest'' (''Hlas lesa''), ''What Men Live By (opera), What Men Live By'' (''Čím člověk žije'') *Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945): ''Amica (opera), Amica'', ''L'amico Fritz'', ''Cavalleria rusticana'', ''Guglielmo Ratcliff'', ''Iris (opera), Iris'', ''Isabeau'', ''Lodoletta'', ''Le maschere'', ''Nerone (Mascagni), Nerone'', ''Parisina (Mascagni), Parisina'', ''Il piccolo Marat'', ''I Rantzau'', ''Silvano (opera), Silvano'', ''Zanetto'' *Benedict Mason (1954– ): ''Playing Away (Mason), Playing Away'' *Victor Massé (1822–1884): ''Les noces de Jeannette'' *Jules Massenet (1842–1912): ''Amadis (Massenet), Amadis'', ''Ariane (Massenet), Ariane'', ''Bacchus (opera), Bacchus'', ''Cendrillon'', ''Chérubin'', ''Le Cid (opera), Le Cid'', ''Cléopâtre'', ''Don César de Bazan'', ''Don Quichotte'', ''Esclarmonde'', ''La grand'tante'', ''Grisélidis'', ''Hérodiade'', ''Le jongleur de Notre-Dame'', ''Le mage'', ''Manon'', ''La Navarraise'', ''Panurge (opera), Panurge'', ''Le portrait de Manon'', ''Le roi de Lahore'', ''Roma (opera), Roma'', ''Sapho (Massenet), Sapho'', ''Thaïs (opera), Thaïs'', ''Thérèse (opera), Thérèse'', ''Werther'' *Teizo Matsumura (1929–2007): ''Chinmoku (opera), Chinmoku'' (''Silence'') *Siegfried Matthus (1934–2021): ''Graf Mirabeau'', ''Judith (Matthus), Judith'', ''Der letzte Schuss'', ''Die unendliche Geschichte (opera), Die unendliche Geschichte'', ''Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke'' *Nicholas Maw (1935–2009): ''The Rising of the Moon (opera), The Rising of the Moon'', ''Sophie's Choice (opera), Sophie's Choice'' *Simon Mayr (1763–1845): ''L'amor coniugale'', ''Ginevra di Scozia'', ''La Lodoiska'', ''Medea in Corinto'', ''La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa'', ''Fedra (Mayr), Fedra'', ''Adelaide di Guesclino'' *Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997): ''Kinkakuji (opera), Kinkakuji'' (''The Golden Pavilion'') *Domenico Mazzocchi (1592–1665): ''La catena d'Adone'' *Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646) and Marco Marazzoli (c. 1602 to 1608–1662): ''Chi soffre, speri'' *Richard Meale (1932–2009): ''Voss (opera), Voss'' *Kirke Mechem (1925– ): ''Tartuffe (Mechem), Tartuffe'' *Étienne Méhul (1763–1817): ''Adrien (opera), Adrien'', ''Les amazones'', ''Ariodant'', ''Euphrosine'', ''Horatius Coclès'', ''L'irato'', ''Le jeune Henri'', ''Joseph (opera), Joseph'', ''Mélidore et Phrosine'', ''Stratonice (opera), Stratonice'', ''Uthal (opera), Uthal'' *Alessandro Melani (1639–1703): ''L'empio punito'' *Jacopo Melani (1623–1676): ''Girello'', ''Il potestà di Colognole'' *Erkki Melartin (1875–1937): ''Aino (opera), Aino'' *Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): ''Die beiden Neffen'', ''Die beiden Pädagogen'', ''Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde'', ''Die Hochzeit des Camacho'', ''Die Soldatenliebschaft'' *Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007): ''Amahl and the Night Visitors'', ''Amelia Goes to the Ball'', ''The Boy Who Grew Too Fast'', ''The Consul'', ''Help, Help, the Globolinks!'', ''The Last Savage'', ''Maria Golovin'', ''The Medium'', ''The Old Maid and the Thief'', ''The Saint of Bleecker Street'', ''The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois'' *Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870): ''Il bravo'', ''I briganti (Mercadante), I briganti'', ''Elena da Feltre'', ''Elisa e Claudio'', ''Il giuramento'', ''Orazi e Curiazi'', ''Il reggente'', ''La vestale (Mercadante), La vestale'', ''Virginia (Mercadante), Virginia'', ''The Most Important Man'' *Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958): ''Juha (Merikanto), Juha'' *Oskar Merikanto (1868–1927): ''The Maiden of the North'' (, 1898), ''The Death of Elina'' (, 1910), ''Regina von Emmeritz'' (1920) *André Messager (1853–1929): ''L'amour masqué'', ''La Basoche'', ''La Béarnaise'', ''Béatrice (opera), Béatrice'', ''Le bourgeois de Calais'', ''Coups de roulis'', ''La fauvette du temple'', ''Fortunio (opera), Fortunio'', ''François les bas-bleus'', ''Isoline (opera), Isoline'', ''Le mari de la reine'', ''Madame Chrysanthème (opera), Madame Chrysanthème'', ''Mirette (opera), Mirette'', ''Monsieur Beaucaire (operetta), Monsieur Beaucaire'', ''Passionément'', ''La petite fonctionnaire'', ''Les p'tites Michu'', ''Véronique (operetta), Véronique'' *Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992): ''Saint François d'Assise'' *Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864): ''L'Africaine'', ''Il crociato in Egitto'', ''Dinorah'', ''L'esule di Granata'', ''L'étoile du nord'', ''Ein Feldlager in Schlesien'', ''Les Huguenots'', ''Jephtas Gelübde'', ''Margherita d'Anjou'', ''Le prophète (opera), Le prophète'', ''Robert le diable'', ''Semiramide riconosciuta (Meyerbeer), Semiramide riconosciuta'' *Marcel Mihalovici (1898–1985): ''Krapp, ou, La dernière bande'' *Minoru Miki (1930–2011): ''Ada, An Actor's Revenge'', ''Ai-en'', ''Genji monogatari (opera), Genji monogatari'', ''The Happy Pagoda'', ''Jōruri (opera), Jōruri'', ''The Monkey Poet'', ''The River Sumida / Kusabira'', ''Shizuka and Yoshitsune'', ''Shunkinshō (opera), Shunkinshō'', ''Terute and Oguri'', ''Wakahime'', ''Yomigaeru'' *Darius Milhaud (1892–1974): ''L'abandon d'Ariane'', ''Bolivar (opera), Bolivar'', ''Christophe Colomb'', ''David (opera), David'', ''La mère coupable'', ''Le pauvre matelot'' *Carl Millöcker (1842–1899): ''Der arme Jonathan'', ''Der Bettelstudent'', ''Gräfin Dubarry'', ''Gasparone'', ''Das verwunschene Schloss'' *Richard Mills (composer), Richard Mills (1949– ): ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (opera), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll'', ''Batavia (opera), Batavia'', ''The Love of the Nightingale (opera), The Love of the Nightingale'' *Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772): ''Les fêtes de Paphos'', ''Titon et l'Aurore'' *Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872): ''Hrabina (opera), The Countess'' (''Hrabina''), ''Halka'', ''The Haunted Manor'' (''Straszny dwór''), ''Verbum nobile'' *Meredith Monk (1942– ): ''Atlas (opera), Atlas'' *Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729–1817): ''Aline, reine de Golconde'', ''Le déserteur'', ''On ne s'avise jamais de tout'', ''Le roi et le fermier'' *Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737): ''Les festes de l'été'', ''Jephté'' *Italo Montemezzi (1875–1952): ''L'amore dei tre re'', ''Giovanni Galurese'', ''Hellera'', ''L'incantesimo'', ''La nave'', ''La notte di Zoraima'' *José Ángel Montero (1832–1881): ''Virginia (Montero), Virginia'' *Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643): ''L'Arianna'', ''L'incoronazione di Poppea'', ''L'Orfeo'', ''Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria'' *Douglas Moore (1893–1969): ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'', ''The Devil and Daniel Webster (opera), The Devil and Daniel Webster'', ''Carry Nation (opera), Carry Nation'', ''Giants in the Earth (opera), Giants in the Earth'' *Robert Moran (1937– ): ''Desert of Roses'', ''The Dracula Diary'', ''From the Towers of the Moon'', ''The Juniper Tree (opera), The Juniper Tree'', ''The Night Passage'' *Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982): ''Luisa Fernanda (zarzuela), Luisa Fernanda'', ''La Chulapona'', ''La Virgen de Mayo'', ''El poeta'' *Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952): ''De Kinderen van Zee'' (''The Children of the Sea'') *Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738): ''Les amours de Ragonde'' *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): ''Apollo et Hyacinthus'', ''Ascanio in Alba'', ''Bastien und Bastienne'', ''La clemenza di Tito'', ''Così fan tutte'', ''Don Giovanni'', ''Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', ''La finta giardiniera'', ''La finta semplice'', ''Idomeneo'', ''Lucio Silla'', ''The Magic Flute'', ''The Marriage of Figaro'', ''Mitridate, re di Ponto'', ''L'oca del Cairo'', ''Il re pastore'', ''Der Schauspieldirektor'', ''Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots'', ''Il sogno di Scipione'', ''Lo sposo deluso'', ''Thamos, King of Egypt'', ''Zaide'' *Wenzel Müller (1767–1835): ''Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind'', ''Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel'', ''Die gefesselte Phantasie'', ''Kaspar der Faggotist'', ''Das Neusonntagskind'', ''Das Sonnenfest der Braminen'', ''Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberge'' *Vano Muradeli (1908–1970): ''The Great Friendship'', ''Moscow-Paris-Moscow'' *Thea Musgrave (1928– ): ''A Christmas Carol (opera), A Christmas Carol'', ''The Decision (opera), The Decision'', ''Harriet, the Woman called 'Moses''', ''Mary, Queen of Scots (opera), Mary, Queen of Scots'', ''An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (opera), An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'', ''The Voice of Ariadne'' *
Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
(1839–1881): ''Boris Godunov (opera), Boris Godunov'', ''The Fair at Sorochyntsi'' (''Sorochinskaya Yarmarka''), ''Khovanshchina'', ''Zhenitba'' (''The Marriage''), ''Salammbô (Mussorgsky), Salammbô'' *Emanuele Muzio (1821–1890): ''Giovanna la pazza (opera), Giovanna la pazza'', ''Claudia (opera), Claudia'', ''Le due regine'', ''La sorrentina'' *Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781): ''Adriano in Siria (Mysliveček)'', ''Antigona (Mysliveček), Antigona'', ''Antigono (Mysliveček), Antigono'', ''Armida (Mysliveček), Armida'', ''Artaserse (Mysliveček), Artaserse'', ''Atide (Mysliveček), Atide'', ''Il Bellerofonte'', ''La Calliroe'', ''La Circe (Mysliveček), La Circe'', ''La clemenza di Tito (Mysliveček), La clemenza di Tito'', ''Demetrio (1773), Demetrio'' [1st version], ''Demetrio (1779), Demetrio'' [2nd version], ''Demofoonte (Mysliveček, 1769), Demofoonte'' [1st version], ''Demofoonte (Mysliveček, 1775), Demofoonte'' [2nd version], ''Ezio (Mysliveček, 1775), Ezio'' [1st version], ''Ezio (Mysliveček, 1777), Ezio'' [2nd version], ''Farnace (Mysliveček), Farnace'', ''Tamerlano (Mysliveček), Tamerlano'', ''Ipermestra (Mysliveček)'', ''Medonte (Mysliveček)'', ''Motezuma (Mysliveček), Motezuma'', ''La Nitteti'', ''L'Olimpiade (Mysliveček), L'Olimpiade'', ''Romolo ed Ersilia'', ''Semiramide (Mysliveček), Semiramide'', ''Il trionfo di Clelia''


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*Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978): ''Love's Labour's Lost (opera), Love's Labour's Lost'' *Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916): ''Dubrovsky (opera), Dubrovsky'' *Isaac Nathan (1792–1864): ''Don John of Austria (opera), Don John of Austria'' *Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930): ''Polská krev'', ''Vinobraní'' *Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798): ''Adelheit von Veltheim'' *Viktor Nessler (1841–1890): ''Der Rattenfänger von Hameln'', ''Der Trompeter von Säkkingen'' *Otto Nicolai (1810–1849): ''The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera), The Merry Wives of Windsor'' *Edmund Nick (1891–1973): ''Das kleine Hofkonzert'' *Louis Niedermeyer (1802–1861): ''Marie Stuart (opera), Marie Stuart'', ''Stradella (opera), Stradella'' *Carl Nielsen (1865–1931): ''Maskarade'', ''Saul og David'' *Alessandro Nini (1805–1880): ''La marescialla d'Ancre'' *Luigi Nono (1924–1990): ''Al gran sole carico d'amore'', ''Intolleranza 1960'', ''Prometeo'' *Serge Noskov (1956– ): ''Kuratov'' *Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949): ''Lucerna (opera), Lucerna'' (''The Lantern'') *Ivor Novello (1893–1951): ''The Dancing Years'', ''Perchance to Dream (musical), Perchance to Dream'', ''King's Rhapsody'' *Michael Nyman (1944– ): ''Facing Goya'', ''Letters, Riddles and Writs'', ''Love Counts'', ''Man and Boy: Dada'', ''The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'', ''Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs'', ''Tristram Shandy (opera), Tristram Shandy''


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*Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880): ''Le 66'', ''Apothicaire et perruquier'', ''Bagatelle (opera), Bagatelle'', ''Barbe-bleue (opera), Barbe-bleue'', ''Barkouf'', ''Ba-ta-clan'', ''Les bavards'', ''La belle Hélène'', ''La bonne d'enfant'', ''Les brigands'', ''La chanson de Fortunio'', ''Le château à Toto'', ''La chatte métamorphosée en femme'', ''La créole'', ''Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins'', ''Daphnis et Chloé (Offenbach), Daphnis et Chloé'', ''Les deux aveugles'', ''Fantasio (opera), Fantasio'', ''La fille du tambour-major'', ''Le financier et le savetier'', ''Geneviève de Brabant'', ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'', ''L'île de Tulipatan'', ''La jolie parfumeuse'', ''Lischen et Fritzchen'', ''Madame Favart'', ''Madame l'archiduc'', ''Le mariage aux lanternes'', ''Mesdames de la Halle'', ''M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . ., M. Choufleuri restera chez lui '', ''Monsieur et Madame Denis'', ''Orpheus in the Underworld'', ''La Périchole'', ''La permission de dix heures'', ''Pierrette et Jacquot'', ''Le pont des soupirs'', ''Robinson Crusoé'', ''La rose de Saint-Flour'', ''The Tales of Hoffmann'', ''Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques'', ''Un mari à la porte'', ''Vert-Vert'', ''La Vie parisienne (operetta), La Vie parisienne'', ''Le violoneux'', ''Le voyage dans la lune (operetta), Le voyage dans la lune'' *Carl Orff (1895–1982): ''Antigonae'', ''De temporum fine comoedia'', ''Der Mond'', ''Die Kluge'', ''Prometheus (Orff), Prometheus'' *Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760): ''Berenice (Orlandini), Berenice''


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*Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867): ''Alessandro nelle Indie'', ''Amazilia (opera), Amazilia'', ''Bondelmonte'', ''Carlo di Borgogna'', ''Il corsaro (Pacini), Il corsaro'', ''Lorenzino de' Medici (opera), Lorenzino de' Medici'', ''Maria, regina d'Inghilterra'', ''Medea (Pacini), Medea'', ''Saffo (opera), Saffo'', ''L'ultimo giorno di Pompei'' *Fredrik Pacius (1809–1891): ''Kung Karls jakt'', ''Prinsessan av Cypern (Pacius), Prinsessan av Cypern'' *Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839): ''Achille (opera), Achille'', ''Agnese (opera)'', ''Camilla (opera), Camilla'', ''I fuorusciti di Firenze'', ''Leonora (opera), Leonora'', ''Le maître de chapelle'' *Giovanni Paisiello (1741–1816): ''Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello), Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''Le due contesse'', ''Elfrida (opera), Elfrida'', ''Fedra (opera), Fedra'', ''I filosofi immaginari'', ''La Frascatana'', ''I giuochi d'Agrigento'', ''La modesta raggiratrice'', ''La molinara'', ''Nina (opera), Nina'', ''Nitteti'', ''Pirro (opera), Pirro'', ''Proserpine (Paisiello), Proserpine'', ''Il re Teodoro in Venezia'', ''Sismano nel Mogol'' *Zakaria Paliashvili (1871–1933): ''Absalom and Eteri'', ''Daisi (opera), Daisi'', ''Latavra'' * Selim Palmgren (1878–1951): ''Daniel Hjort'' *Roxanna Panufnik (1968– ): ''The Music Programme'' *Jorma Panula (1930– ): ''Jaakko Ilkka (opera), Jaakko Ilkka'' *Gérard Pape (1955– ): ''Les Cenci (Pape), Les Cenci'', ''Ivan and Rena'', ''A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil'', ''Monologue (Pape), Monologue'' *Ian Parrott (1916–2012): ''The Black Ram'' *Thomas Pasatieri (1945– ): ''Before Breakfast (opera), Before Breakfast'', ''Black Widow (opera), Black Widow'', ''Calvary (opera), Calvary'', ''La Divina (opera), La Divina'', ''A Flea in her Ear (opera), A Flea in her Ear'', ''Flowers of Ice (opera), Flowers of Ice'', ''Frau Margot (opera), Frau Margot'', ''The Goose Girl (opera), The Goose Girl'', ''The Hotel Casablanca (opera), The Hotel Casablanca'', ''Inés de Castro (opera), Inés de Castro'', ''Maria Elena (opera), Maria Elena'', ''Padrevia (opera), Padrevia'', ''The Penitentes (opera), The Penitentes'', ''The Seagull (opera), The Seagull'', ''Signor Deluso (opera), Signor Deluso'', ''Three Sisters (opera), Three Sisters'', ''The Trial of Mary Lincoln'', ''The Trysting Place (opera), The Trysting Place'', ''Washington Square (opera), Washington Square'', ''The Women (opera), The Women'' *Jiří Pauer (1919–2007): ''Zuzana Vojiřová'' *Stephen Paulus (1947– ): ''The Postman Always Rings Twice (opera), The Postman Always Rings Twice'' *Carlo Pedrotti (1817–1893): ''Tutti in maschera'' *Jorge Peña Hen (1928–1973): ''La Cenicienta'' *Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020): ''The Devils of Loudun (opera), The Devils of Loudun'', ''Paradise Lost (Penderecki), Paradise Lost'', ''Die schwarze Maske'', ''Ubu Rex'' *Manuel Penella (1880–1939): ''El gato montés'' *Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752): ''Thomyris, Queen of Scythia'', ''The Beggar's Opera'' *Davide Perez (1711–1778): ''Solimano (Perez opera), Solimano'' *Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736): ''Adriano in Siria (Pergolesi), Adriano in Siria'', ''Lo frate 'nnamorato'', ''Livetta e Tracollo'', ''L'Olimpiade (Pergolesi), L'Olimpiade'', ''Il prigionier superbo'', ''La serva padrona'' *Jacopo Peri (1561–1633): ''Dafne'', ''Euridice (Peri), Euridice'' *Giuseppe Persiani (c. 1799/1805–1869): ''Ines de Castro (Persiani), Ines de Castro'' *Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756): ''L'incoronazione di Dario (Perti), L'incoronazione di Dario'' *Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942): ''Arnljot'', ''The Doomsday Prophets'' *Errico Petrella (1813–1877): ''Il carnevale di Venezia'', ''Jone (opera), Jone'', ''I promessi sposi (Petrella), I promessi sposi'' *Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949): ''Der arme Heinrich (opera), Der arme Heinrich'', ''Das Christ-Elflein'', ''Das Herz (opera), Das Herz'', ''Palestrina (opera), Palestrina'', ''Die Rose vom Liebesgarten'' *François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795): ''Blaise le savetier'', ''Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège'', ''Le maréchal ferrant'', ''Tom Jones (Philidor), Tom Jones'' *Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992): ''María de Buenos Aires'' *Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800): ''L'americano (Piccinni), L'americano'', ''Atys (Piccinni), Atys'', ''La buona figliuola'', ''La buona figliuola maritata'', ''Catone in Utica (Piccinni), Catone in Utica'', ''Didon (Piccinni), Didon'', ''Le donne vendicate'', ''Ercole al Termedonte'', ''Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni), Iphigénie en Tauride'', ''Roland (Piccinni), Roland'' *Tobias Picker (1954– ): ''An American Tragedy (opera), An American Tragedy'', ''Emmeline (opera), Emmeline'', ''Fantastic Mr. Fox (opera), Fantastic Mr. Fox'', ''Thérèse Raquin (opera), Thérèse Raquin'' *Willem Pijper (1894–1947): ''Helewijn'', ''Merlijn'' *Matthias Pintscher (1971– ): ''Thomas Chatterton (opera), Thomas Chatterton'' *Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968): ''Fedra (Pizzetti), Fedra'', ''Dèbora e Jaéle'', ''Fra Gherardo'', ''Lo straniero'', ''L'oro'', ''Ifigenia (Pizzetti), Ifigenia'', ''Assassinio nella cattedrale'', ''Clitennestra'' *Robert Planquette (1848–1903): ''Les cloches de Corneville'', ''Nell Gwynne (operetta), Nell Gwynne'', ''Rip Van Winkle (operetta), Rip Van Winkle'' *Ludvík Podéšť (1921–1968): ''Když se Anička vdávala'', ''Slepice a kostelník'', ''Bez cymbálu nejsou hody'', ''Tři apokryfy (Staré zlaté časy; Svatá noc; Romeo a Julie)'', ''Hrátky s čertem'', ''Emílek a dynamit'', ''Filmová hvězda'' *Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886): ''Il figliuol prodigo'', ''La Gioconda (opera), La Gioconda'', ''I Lituani'', ''Marion Delorme (opera), Marion Delorme'', ''I promessi sposi (opera), I promessi sposi'' *Nicola Porpora (1686–1768): ''Arianna in Nasso (Porpora), Arianna in Nasso'', ''Semiramide riconosciuta (Porpora), Semiramide riconosciuta'', ''Temistocle (Porpora), Temistocle'' *Giovanni Porta (1675–1755): ''Numitore'', ''Ifigenia in Aulide'' *Rachel Portman (1960– ): ''The Little Prince (opera), The Little Prince'' *Francis Poulenc (1899–1963): ''Dialogues of the Carmelites'', ''Les mamelles de Tirésias'', ''La voix humaine'' *Henri Pousseur (1929–2009): ''Votre Faust'', ''Die Erprobung des Petrus Hebraïcus'', ''Leçons d'Enfer'', ''Don Juan à Gnide ou les Séductions de la Chasteté'' *André Previn (1929–2019): ''A Streetcar Named Desire (opera), A Streetcar Named Desire'', ''Brief Encounter (opera), Brief Encounter'' *Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): ''Betrothal in a Monastery'' (''The Duenna'') (''Obrucheniye v monastyre''), ''The Fiery Angel (opera), The Fiery Angel'' (''Ognenniy angel''), ''The Gambler (Prokofiev), The Gambler'' (''Igrok''), ''The Love for Three Oranges'' (''Lyubov k tryom apelsinam''), ''Maddalena (opera), Maddalena'', ''Semyon Kotko'', ''The Story of a Real Man'' (''Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke''), ''War and Peace (Prokofiev), War and Peace'' (''Voyna i mir'') *Giacomo Puccini (1858–1923): ''La bohème'', ''Edgar (opera), Edgar'', ''La fanciulla del West'', ''Gianni Schicchi'', ''Madama Butterfly'', ''Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Manon Lescaut'', ''La rondine'', ''Suor Angelica'', ''Il tabarro'', ''Tosca'', ''Il trittico'', ''Turandot'', ''Le Villi'' *Henry Purcell (1659–1695): ''Dido and Aeneas'', ''Dioclesian'', ''The Fairy-Queen'', ''The Indian Queen (opera), The Indian Queen'', ''King Arthur (opera), King Arthur'' *Eduard Pütz (1911–2000): ''Riders to the Sea''


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*Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809): ''Colas et Colinette'', ''Lucas et Cécile''


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*Henri Rabaud (1873–1949): ''Mârouf, savetier du Caire'' *Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): ''Aleko (Rachmaninoff), Aleko'', ''Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff), Francesca da Rimini'', ''The Miserly Knight'' (''Skupoy rytsar''), ''Monna Vanna'' *Väinö Raitio (1891–1945): ''The Daughter of Jephtha'', ''Princess Cecilia'', ''The King of Lydia'', ''Väinämöinen's Proposal'', ''The Two Queens'' *Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764): ''Acante et Céphise'', ''Anacréon (1754)'', ''Anacréon (1757)'', ''Les Boréades'', ''Castor et Pollux'', ''Daphnis et Eglé'', ''Dardanus (opera), Dardanus'', ''Les fêtes d'Hébé'', ''Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour'', ''Les fêtes de Polymnie'', ''Les fêtes de Ramire'', ''La guirlande'', ''Hippolyte et Aricie'', ''Les Indes galantes'', ''Io (opera), Io'', ''Naïs'', ''La naissance d'Osiris'', ''Nélée et Myrthis'', ''Les Paladins'', ''Pigmalion (opera), Pigmalion'', ''Platée'', ''La princesse de Navarre'', ''Les sibarites'', ''Les surprises de l'Amour'', ''Le temple de la Gloire'', ''Zaïs'', ''Zéphire'', ''Zoroastre'' *Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928– ): ''Aleksis Kivi (opera), Aleksis Kivi'', ''Rasputin (opera), Rasputin'', ''Vincent (opera), Vincent'', among others *Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): ''L'enfant et les sortilèges'', ''L'heure espagnole'' *Fred Raymond (1900–1954): ''Geliebte Manuela'', ''Maske in Blau'', ''Saison in Salzburg'' *Emil Reesen (1887–1964): ''Farinelli (operetta), Farinelli'' *Steve Reich (1936– ): ''The Cave (opera), The Cave'', ''Three Tales (opera), Three Tales'' *Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814): ''Brenno (opera), Brenno'', ''Claudine von Villa Bella (Reichardt), Claudine von Villa Bella'', ''Erwin und Elmire (Reichardt), Erwin und Elmire'' *Aribert Reimann (1936– ): ''Melusine (opera), Melusine'', ''Lear (opera), Lear'', ''Die Gespenstersonate'', ''Troades (opera), Troades'', ''Das Schloß (opera), Das Schloß'', ''Medea (Reimann), Medea'' *Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936): ''Belfagor'', ''La bella dormente nel bosco'', ''La campana sommersa'', ''La fiamma'', ''Maria egiziaca'' *Hermann Reutter (1900–1985): ''Saul (opera), Saul'', ''Der verlorene Sohn (opera), Der verlorene Sohn'', ''Doktor Johannes Faust'', ''Odysseus (opera), Odysseus'', ''Der Weg nach Freudenstadt'', ''Don Juan und Faust (opera), Don Juan und Faust'', ''Der Tod des Empedokles (opera), Der Tod des Empedokles'', ''Die Brücke von San Luis Rey'', ''Die Witwe von Ephesus'', ''Hamlet (Reutter), Hamlet'' *Ernest Reyer (1823–1909): ''Salammbô (opera), Salammbô'', ''Sigurd (opera), Sigurd'' *Alfred Reynolds (composer), Alfred Reynolds (1884–1969): ''Derby Day (light opera), Derby Day'' *Emil von Reznicek (1860–1945): ''Donna Diana'' *William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826): ''Bombastes Furioso'' *Federico Ricci (1809–1877) & Luigi Ricci (composer), Luigi Ricci (1805–1859): ''Crispino e la comare'' *Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838): ''Die Räuberbraut (opera), Die Räuberbraut'' *Wolfgang Rihm (1952– ): ''Die Eroberung von Mexico'', ''Faust und Yorick'', ''Die Hamletmaschine (opera), Die Hamletmaschine'', ''Jakob Lenz (opera), Jakob Lenz'', ''Oedipus (opera), Oedipus'', ''Séraphin (opera), Séraphin'', ''Dionysos (opera), Dionysos'' *
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov . At the time, his name was spelled Николай Андреевичъ Римскій-Корсаковъ. la, Nicolaus Andreae filius Rimskij-Korsakov. The composer romanized his name as ''Nicolas Rimsk ...
(1844–1908): ''Christmas Eve (opera), Christmas Eve'', ''The Golden Cockerel'' (''Zolotoy petushok''), ''Kashchey the Deathless'' (''Kashchey bessmertnïy''), ''The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya'' (''Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii''), ''The Maid of Pskov'' (''Pskovityanka''), ''May Night'' (''Mayskaya noch), ''Mlada (Rimsky-Korsakov), Mlada'', ''Mozart and Salieri (opera), Mozart and Salieri'' (''Motsart i Sal'yeri''), ''The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga'' (''Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga''), ''Pan Voyevoda'', ''Sadko (opera), Sadko'', ''Servilia (opera), Servilia'' (''Serviliya''), ''The Snow Maiden'' (''Snegurochka''), ''The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov), The Tale of Tsar Saltan'' (''Skazka o Tsare Saltane''), ''The Tsar's Bride (opera), The Tsar's Bride'' (''Tsarskaya nevesta'') *Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753): ''Calandro'' *Arturo Rodas (1954– ) ''El árbol de los pájaros'' *Robert Xavier Rodriguez (1946– ): ''La Curandera'', ''Frida (opera), Frida'' *Gonzalo Roig (1890–1970): ''Cecilia Valdés'' *James Rolfe (composer), James Rolfe (1961– ): ''Beatrice Chancy'' *Sigmund Romberg (1887–1951): ''The Desert Song'', ''The New Moon'', ''The Student Prince'' *William Michael Rooke (1794–1847) ''Amilie, or the Love Test'', ''Henrique (opera), Henrique'' *Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918–2008): ''And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (opera), And the Walls Came Tumbling Down'' *Ned Rorem (1923–2022): ''Bertha (Rorem), Bertha'', ''Miss Julie (Rorem opera), Miss Julie'', ''Our Town (opera), Our Town'', ''Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters'' *Luigi Rossi (1597–1653): ''Orfeo (Rossi), Orfeo'', ''Il palazzo incantato'' *Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): ''Adelaide di Borgogna'', ''Adina (opera), Adina'', ''Armida (Rossini), Armida'', ''Aureliano in Palmira'', ''The Barber of Seville, Il barbiere di Siviglia'', ''Bianca e Falliero'', ''La cambiale di matrimonio'', ''La Cenerentola'', ''Ciro in Babilonia'', ''Le comte Ory'', ''Demetrio e Polibio'', ''La donna del lago'', ''Eduardo e Cristina'', ''Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra'', ''Ermione'', ''L'equivoco stravagante'', ''La gazza ladra'', ''La gazzetta'', ''L'inganno felice'', ''L'italiana in Algeri'', ''Maometto II'' (revised as ''Le siège de Corinthe''), ''Matilde di Shabran'', ''Mosè in Egitto'', ''L'occasione fa il ladro'', ''Otello (Rossini), Otello'', ''La pietra del paragone'', ''Ricciardo e Zoraide'', ''La scala di seta'', ''Semiramide'', ''Sigismondo'', ''Il signor Bruschino'', ''Tancredi'', ''Torvaldo e Dorliska'', ''Il turco in Italia'', ''Il viaggio a Reims'', ''William Tell (opera), William Tell'', ''Zelmira'' *Nino Rota (1911–1979): ''Il cappello di paglia di Firenze'', ''I due timidi'' *Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): ''Le devin du village'' *Albert Roussel (1869–1937): ''La naissance de la lyre'', ''Padmâvatî'', ''Le testament de la tante Caroline'' *Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c. 1705–1755): ''Zaïde, reine de Grenade'' *Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894): ''Christus (opera), Christus'', ''The Demon (opera), The Demon'', ''Dmitry Donskoy (opera), Dmitry Donskoy'', ''Feramors'', ''Fomka the Fool'', ''Die Kinder der Heide'', ''Die Maccabäer'', ''The Merchant Kalashnikov (opera), The Merchant Kalashnikov'', ''Moses (Rubinstein), Moses'', ''Néron (opera), Néron'', ''Der Thurm zu Babel'' *Poul Ruders (1949– ): ''The Handmaid's Tale (opera), The Handmaid's Tale'' *John Rutter (1945– ): ''Bang! (Rutter), Bang!''


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*Kaija Saariaho (1952– ): ''L'amour de loin'', ''Adriana Mater'', ''Émilie (opera), Émilie'' *Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786): ''Armida (Sacchini), Armida'', ''Arvire et Évélina'', ''Calliroe'', ''Chimène (opera), Chimène'', ''La contadina in corte'', ''Creso (Sacchini), Creso'', ''Dardanus (Sacchini), Dardanus'', ''Œdipe à Colone'', ''Renaud (opera), Renaud'' *Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650): ''La finta pazza'' *Shigeaki Saegusa (1942– ): ''Chushingura (opera), Chushingura'' *Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): ''Ascanio'', ''Déjanire'', ''Étienne Marcel (Saint-Saëns), Étienne Marcel'', ''Hélène (opera), Hélène'', ''Henry VIII (opera), Henry VIII'', ''Phryné'', ''La princesse jaune'', ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson et Dalila'', ''Le timbre d'argent'' *Theophrastos Sakellaridis (1883–1950): ''Hymenaios (opera)'', ''The pirate (opera)'', ''Perouzé'' *Luis H. Salgado (1903–1977): ''Cumandá (opera), Cumandá'', ''El tribuno'', ''El Centurión (opera), El Centurión'', ''Eunice (opera), Eunice'', ''Escenas del Corpus'' *Antonio Salieri (1750–1825): ''Armida (Salieri), Armida'', ''Axur, re d'Ormus'', ''La cifra'', ''Les Danaïdes'', ''Europa riconosciuta'', ''Falstaff (Salieri), Falstaff'', ''La fiera di Venezia'', ''La grotta di Trofonio'', ''Les Horaces'', ''Palmira, regina di Persia'', ''Prima la musica e poi le parole'', ''Der Rauchfangkehrer'', ''La scuola de' gelosi'', ''Tarare (opera), Tarare'' *Aulis Sallinen (1935– ): ''The Red Line'', ''The King Goes Forth to France'', ''The Horseman (opera), The Horseman'', ''Kullervo (Sallinen), Kullervo'', ''Palatsi (opera), The Palace'', ''Kuningas Lear, King Lear'' *Erkki Salmenhaara (1941–2002): ''Portugalin nainen'' *Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917): ''Flora mirabilis'', ''Medgé'', ''Lionella'', ''La martire'', ''La furia domata'', ''Storia d'amore o La biondinetta'', ''Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle'', ''Rhea (opera), Rhea'' *Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700/1701–1775): ''Memet'' *Sven-David Sandström (1942– ): ''Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy'' *Domenico Sarro (1679–1744): ''Achille in Sciro'', ''Didone abbandonata (Sarro), Didone abbandonata'', ''Partenope (Sarro), Partenope'' *Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802): ''Armida e Rinaldo (Sarti), Armida e Rinaldo'', ''Didone abbandonata (Sarti), Didone abbandonata'', ''Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode'', ''Le gelosie villane'', ''Giulio Sabino'', ''Medonte, re di Epiro'' *Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680): ''Adelaide (opera), Adelaide'', ''Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Sartorio), Giulio Cesare in Egitto'', ''Orfeo (Sartorio), Orfeo'' *Erik Satie (1866–1925): ''Geneviève de Brabant (Satie), Geneviève de Brabant'' *Henri Sauguet (1901–1989): ''Les caprices de Marianne'', ''La chartreuse de Parme (opera), La chartreuse de Parme'' *David Sawer (1961– ): ''From Morning to Midnight'' *Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907–1991): ''Özsoy'' *Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725): ''Griselda (A. Scarlatti), Griselda'', ''Mitridate Eupatore'', ''Tigrane (Scarlatti), Tigrane'', ''Il trionfo dell'onore'', ''Sedecia'', ''Telemaco (Scarlatti), Telemaco'', ''Pyrrhus and Demetrius, Il Pirro e Demetrio'' *Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757): ''Berenice, regina d'Egitto'' *Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723–17 Aug 1777): ''L'isola disabitata'' *Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (born 1971): ''Wut'', ''Der Sandmann (opera), Der Sandmann'', Edward II. (opera), Edward II. *Benedikt Schack (1758–1826): ''Der Stein der Weisen'' *Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995): ''Orphée 53'' *R. Murray Schafer (1933–2021): ''The Princess of the Stars'' *Peter Schat (1935–2003): ''Labyrint'', ''Houdini (opera), Houdini'', ''Symposion (opera), Symposion'' *Johann Baptist Schenk (1753–1836): ''Der Dorfbarbier'' *Friedrich Schenker (1942–2013): ''Bettina (opera), Bettina'' *Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach) (1935– ): ''The Abduction of Figaro'' *Max von Schillings (1868–1933): ''Mona Lisa (opera), Mona Lisa'' *Ludwig Schmidseder (1904–1971): ''Melodie der Nacht'', ''Die oder Keine'', ''Frauen im Metropol'', ''Abschiedswalzer'' *Franz Schmidt (composer), Franz Schmidt (1874–1939): ''Notre Dame (opera), Notre Dame'' *Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998): ''Life with an Idiot'', ''Historia von D. Johann Fausten (opera), Historia von D. Johann Fausten'', ''Gesualdo (opera), Gesualdo'' *Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957): ''Massimilla Doni'', ''Penthesilea (opera), Penthesilea'', ''Das Schloss Dürande'', ''Venus (opera), Venus'', ''Vom Fischer un syner Fru'' *Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951): ''Erwartung'', ''Die glückliche Hand'', ''Von heute auf morgen'', ''Moses und Aron'' *Franz Schreker (1878–1934): ''Christophorus (opera), Christophorus'', ''Der ferne Klang'', ''Die Gezeichneten'', ''Irrelohe'', ''Der Schatzgräber'', ''Der Schmied von Gent'', ''Der singende Teufel'', ''Das Spielwerk'' *Friedrich Schröder (1910–1972): ''Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies'' *Franz Schubert (1797–1828): ''Alfonso und Estrella'', ''Fierrabras (opera), Fierrabras'', ''Die Verschworenen'', ''Die Zwillingsbrüder'' *Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942): ''Flammen (Schulhoff), Flammen'' *Gunther Schuller (1925– ): ''The Visitation (opera), The Visitation'', ''The Fisherman and His Wife (opera), The Fisherman and His Wife'' *Andrew Schultz (1969– ): ''The Children's Bach (opera), The Children's Bach'' *Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800): ''Athalie (opera), Athalie'' *William Schuman (1910–1992): ''The Mighty Casey (opera), The Mighty Casey'', ''A Question of Taste'' *Robert Schumann (1810–1856): ''Genoveva'' *Walter Schumann (1913–1958): ''John Brown's Body (opera), John Brown's Body'' *Joseph Schuster (composer), Joseph Schuster (1748–1812): ''Der Alchymist, oder Der Liebesteufel'' *Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672): ''Dafne (Schütz), Dafne'' *Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787): ''Alceste (Schweitzer), Alceste'', ''Die Dorfgala'', ''Rosamunde (Schweitzer), Rosamunde'' *Laura Schwendinger (1962– ): ''Artemisia (Schwendinger), Artemisia'' *Kurt Schwertsik (1935– ): ''Die Welt der Mongolen'' *Salvatore Sciarrino (1947– ): ''Da gelo a gelo'', ''Infinito nero'', ''Lohengrin (Sciarrino), Lohengrin'', ''Luci mie traditrici'', ''Macbeth (Sciarrino), Macbeth'', ''Perseo ed Andromeda'' *Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922): ''Matelda'' *Cyril Scott (1879–1970): ''The Alchemist (opera), The Alchemist'' *Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014): ''Rites of Passage (Sculthorpe), Rites of Passage'', ''Quiros'' *Humphrey Searle (1915–1982): ''The Diary of a Madman (opera), The Diary of a Madman'' *Seedo (c. 1700–c. 1754): ''The Devil to Pay (opera), The Devil to Pay'' *Alexander Serov (1820–1871): ''Judith (Serov), Judith'', ''Rogneda (opera), Rogneda'', ''The Power of the Fiend'' *José Serrano (composer), José Serrano (1873–1941): ''La dolorosa'', ''La canción del olvido'' *Paolo Serrao (1830–1907): ''L'impostore'', ''Leonora dei Bardi'', ''Pergolesi (opera), Pergolesi'', ''La Duchessa di Guisa'', ''Il Figliuol Prodigo'' *Roger Sessions (1896–1985): ''The Trial of Lucullus (opera), The Trial of Lucullus'', ''Montezuma (Sessions opera), Montezuma'' *John Laurence Seymour (1893–1986): ''In the Pasha's Garden'' *Rodion Shchedrin (1932– ): ''Dead Souls (opera), Dead Souls'', ''The Left-Hander (opera), Levsha'', ''Lolita (opera), Lolita'' *Bright Sheng (1955– ): ''Madame Mao (opera), Madame Mao'', ''The Silver River'' *William Shield (1748–1829): ''The Flitch of Bacon'', ''Rosina (opera), Rosina'' *Alice Shields (1943– ): ''Apocalypse (opera), Apocalypse'' *Howard Shore (1946– ): ''The Fly (opera), The Fly'' *Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975): ''The Gamblers (opera), The Gamblers'' (''Igroki''), ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk'' (''Ledy Macbeth Mtsenskovo uyezda''), ''Moscow, Cheryomushki'', ''The Nose (opera), The Nose'' (''Nos'') *Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): ''Jungfrun i tornet, The Maiden in the Tower'' (''Jungfrun i tornet''), ''Veneen luominen, The Building of the Boat'' (''Veneen luominen'') *Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991): ''The Plough and the Stars (opera), The Plough and the Stars'' *Roberto Sierra (1953– ): ''El mensajero de plata'' *Sheila Silver (1946– ): ''The Thief of Love'' *Christian Sinding (1856–1941): ''Der Heilige Berg (opera), Der Heilige Berg'' *Larry Sitsky (1934– ): ''De Profundis'', ''The Fall of the House of Usher (Sitsky), The Fall of the House of Usher'', ''Fiery Tales'', ''The Golem'', ''Lenz (opera), Lenz'', ''Voices in Limbo'' *František Škroup (1801–1862): ''Fidlovačka (opera), Fidlovačka'' ''Dráteník'' (''The Tinker'') *Antonio Smareglia (1854–1929): ''Nozze istriane'', ''La falena'', ''Oceàna (opera), Oceàna'' *Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): ''The Bartered Bride'' (''Prodaná nevěsta''), ''The Brandenburgers in Bohemia'' (''Braniboři v Čechách''), ''Dalibor (opera), Dalibor'', ''The Devil's Wall'' (''Čertova stěna''), ''The Kiss (opera), The Kiss'' (''Hubička''), ''Libuše (opera), Libuše'', ''The Secret (opera), The Secret'' (''Tajemství''), ''The Two Widows'' (''Dvě vdovy''), ''Viola (opera), Viola'' *Dmitri Smirnov (composer), Dmitri Smirnov (1948– ): ''Tiriel (opera), Tiriel'', ''Thel (opera), Thel'' *John Christopher Smith (1712–1795): ''The Fairies (opera), The Fairies'', ''The Tempest (Smith), The Tempest'' *Julia Smith (composer), Julia Smith (1911–1989): ''Cynthia Parker (opera), Cynthia Parker'' *Martin Smolka (1959– ): ''Nagano (opera), Nagano'', ''Das schlaue Gretchen'' *Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): ''The Boatswain's Mate'', ''Der Wald'', ''The Wreckers (opera), The Wreckers'' *Ragnar Søderlind (1945– ): ''Olav Tryggvason (opera), Olav Tryggvason'' *Mikhail Sokolovsky (composer), Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795): ''The Miller-Wizard, Cheat and Matchmaker'' *Juan María Solare (1966– ): ''Veinticinco de agosto, 1983'' *Temistocle Solera (1815–1878): ''Il contadino d'Agleiate'' (rev. as ''La fanciulla di Castelguelfo''), ''Genio e sventura'', ''La hermana de palayo'', ''Ildegonda'' *Carlo Evasio Soliva (1791–1853): ''La testa di bronzo o sia La capanna solitaria'' *Edward Solomon (1855–1895): ''Billee Taylor'', ''The Nautch Girl'', ''Quite an Adventure'', ''The Red Hussar'', ''The Vicar of Bray (opera), The Vicar of Bray'' *Harry Somers (1925–1999): ''Louis Riel (opera), Louis Riel'' *S. P. Somtow (Somtow Sucharitkul) (1952– ): ''Madana (opera), Madana'', ''Ayodhya (opera), Ayodhya'', ''Mae Naak (opera), Mae Naak'', ''Dan No Ura'' *Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021): ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' *Fernando Sor (1778–1839): ''Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso'' *Pablo Sorozábal (1897–1988): ''La del manojo de rosas'', ''La tabernera del puerto'' *John Philip Sousa (1854–1932): ''Désirée (operetta), Désirée'', ''El Capitan (operetta), El Capitan'' *Alexander Spendiaryan (1871–1928): ''Almast'' *Niccola Spinelli (1865–1909): ''A basso porto'' *Louis Spohr (1784–1859): ''Faust (Spohr), Faust'', ''Jessonda'', ''Zemire und Azor'' *Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851): ''Agnes von Hohenstaufen'', ''Alcidor'', ''Fernand Cortez'', ''Milton (opera), Milton'', ''Nurmahal (opera), Nurmahal'', ''Olimpie'', ''La vestale'' *Lewis Spratlan (1940– ): ''Life is a Dream (opera), Life Is a Dream'' *Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607–1665): ''Seelewig'' *Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): ''The Canterbury Pilgrims (Stanford), The Canterbury Pilgrims'', ''Much Ado About Nothing (opera), Much Ado About Nothing'' *John Stanley (composer), John Stanley (1712–1786): ''Teraminta'' *Robert Starer (1924–2001): ''Apollonia (opera), Apollonia'' *Roman Statkowski (1859–1925): ''Maria (opera), Maria'', ''Philaenis (opera), Philaenis'' *Agostino Steffani (1653–1728): ''Henrico Leone'' *Walter Steffens (composer), Walter Steffens (born 1934): ''Eli (opera), Eli'', ''Under Milk Wood/Unter dem Milchwald'' *Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823): ''Roméo et Juliette (Steibelt), Roméo et Juliette'' *Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927): ''Tirfing (opera), Tirfing'' *Rudi Stephan (1887–1915): ''Die ersten Menschen'' *George Stephănescu (1843–1925): ''Sânziana şi Pepelea'' *Roger Steptoe (1953– ): ''King of Macedon (opera)'' *William Grant Still (1895–1978): ''Blue Steel (Still), Blue Steel'', ''Troubled Island'', ''A Bayou Legend'' *Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007): ''Atmen gibt das Leben'', ''Licht'' (''Donnerstag aus Licht, Donnerstag'', ''Freitag aus Licht, Freitag'', ''Samstag aus Licht, Samstag'', ''Sonntag aus Licht, Sonntag'', ''Montag aus Licht, Montag'', ''Dienstag aus Licht, Dienstag'', ''Mittwoch aus Licht, Mittwoch'') *Petar Stojanović (composer), Petar Stojanović (1877–1957): ''Devojka na Mansardi'', ''Die Herzog von Reichstadt'', ''Der Tiger'' *Robert Stolz (1880–1975): ''Der Tanz ins Glück'', ''Der verlorene Walzer'' *Stephen Storace (1763–1796): ''Dido, Queen of Carthage (opera), Dido, Queen of Carthage'', ''Gli equivoci'', ''The Haunted Tower'', ''The Iron Chest'', ''Lodoiska (Storace), Lodoiska'', ''No song, no supper'', ''The Pirates (opera), The Pirates'', ''The Siege of Belgrade'', ''Gli sposi malcontenti'' *Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682): ''Il Trespolo tutore'' *Robert Strassburg (1915–2003): ''Chelm (opera), Chelm'' *Oscar Straus (composer), Oscar Straus (1870–1954): ''Bozena (operetta), Bozena'', ''The Chocolate Soldier'' (''Der tapfere Soldat''), ''Drei Walzer'', ''Ein Walzertraum'', ''Der letzte Walzer'' *Johann Strauss II (1825–1899): ''Blindekuh (operetta), Blindekuh'', ''Cagliostro in Wien'', ''Die Fledermaus'', ''Eine Nacht in Venedig'', ''Indigo und die vierzig Räuber'', ''Der Karneval in Rom'', ''Der lustige Krieg'', ''Prinz Methusalem'', ''Ritter Pázmán'', ''Simplicius (operetta), Simplicius'', ''Das Spitzentuch der Königin'', ''Waldmeister'', ''Wiener Blut (operetta), Wiener Blut'', ''The Gypsy Baron, Der Zigeunerbaron'' *Richard Strauss (1864–1949): ''Die ägyptische Helena'', ''Arabella'', ''Ariadne auf Naxos'', ''Capriccio (opera), Capriccio'', ''Daphne (opera), Daphne'', ''Elektra (opera), Elektra'', ''Feuersnot'', ''Die Frau ohne Schatten'', ''Friedenstag'', ''Guntram (opera), Guntram'', ''Intermezzo (opera), Intermezzo'', ''Die Liebe der Danae'', ''Der Rosenkavalier'', ''Salome (opera), Salome'', ''Die schweigsame Frau'' *Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): ''The Flood (Stravinsky), The Flood'', ''Histoire du soldat'' (''Istoria Soldata''), ''Mavra'', ''The Nightingale (opera), The Nightingale'' (''Solovei''), ''Oedipus rex (opera), Oedipus rex'', ''Perséphone (Stravinsky), Perséphone'', ''The Rake's Progress'', ''Renard (Stravinsky), Renard'' (''Bayka pro Lisu, Petukha, Kota da Barana'') *Heinrich Strecker (1893–1981): ''Ännchen von Tharau'' *Eugen Suchoň (1908–1993): ''Krútňava'', ''Svätopluk (opera), Svätopluk'' *Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900): With W. S. Gilbert: ''The Gondoliers'', ''The Grand Duke'', ''H.M.S. Pinafore'', ''Iolanthe'', ''The Mikado'', ''Patience (opera), Patience'', ''The Pirates of Penzance'', ''Princess Ida'', ''Ruddigore'', ''The Sorcerer'', ''Thespis (opera), Thespis'', ''Trial by Jury'', ''Utopia, Limited'', ''The Yeomen of the Guard''; With others: ''The Beauty Stone'', ''The Chieftain'', ''The Contrabandista'', ''Cox and Box'', ''The Emerald Isle'' (with Edward German), ''Haddon Hall (opera), Haddon Hall'', ''Ivanhoe (opera), Ivanhoe'', ''The Rose of Persia'', ''The Zoo'', (with Henry Fothergill Chorley), ''The Sapphire Necklace'' *Franz von Suppé (1819–1895): ''Banditenstreiche'', ''Boccaccio (operetta), Boccaccio'', ''Fatinitza'', ''Leichte Kavallerie'', ''Die schöne Galathee'' *Conrad Susa (1935–2013): ''The Dangerous Liaisons'', ''Transformations (opera), Transformations'' *Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803): ''Der Spiegel von Arkadien'' *Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995): ''Romeo und Julia'', ''Die schwarze Spinne (opera), Die schwarze Spinne'' *Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984): ''The Young Kabbarli'' *Donald Swann (1923–1994): ''Perelandra (opera), Perelandra'' *Giles Swayne (1946– ): ''Le nozze di Cherubino'' *Piet Swerts (1960– ): ''Ajas, Les Liaisons dangereuses'' *Albert Szirmai (1880–1967): ''Mágnás Miska (operetta), Mágnás Miska'', ''Mézeskalács'', ''Princess Charming (operetta), Princess Charming'', ''Táncos Huszárok'' *Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937): ''Hagith (opera), Hagith'', ''King Roger'' (''Król Roger'')


T

*Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983): ''Du style galant au style méchant'', ''Il était un petit navire'' *Otar Taktakishvili (1924–1989): ''Mindia'' *Joby Talbot (1971– ): ''Everest (opera), Everest'' *Josef Tal (1910–2008): ''Saul at Ein Dor'', ''Amnon and Tamar'', ''Ashmedai (opera), Ashmedai'', ''Massada 967'', ''The Temptation (Die Versuchung)'', ''The Tower (Der Turm)'', ''The Garden (Der Garten)'', ''Josef'' *Louise Talma (1906–1996): ''The Alcestiad'' *Eino Tamberg (1930–2010): ''Cyrano de Bergerac (Tamberg), Cyrano de Bergerac'' *David Tamkin (1906–1975): ''The Dybbuk (opera), The Dybbuk'' *Tan Dun (1957– ): ''The First Emperor'', ''Marco Polo (opera), Marco Polo'', ''Peony Pavilion (opera), Peony Pavilion'', ''Tea: A Mirror of Soul'' *Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915): ''Oresteia (opera), Oresteia'' *Angelo Tarchi (composer), Angelo Tarchi (1760–1814): ''L'archetiello'', ''Ademira'', ''Ariarate'', ''Il conte de Saldagna'' *Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996): ''Graf Cagliostro'' *Vladimir Tarnopolsky (1955– ): ''The Three Graces (opera), The Three Graces'' *Phyllis Tate (1911–1987): ''The Lodger (opera), The Lodger'' *John Tavener (1944–2013): ''Mary of Egypt (opera), Mary of Egypt'' *Deems Taylor (1885–1966): ''The King's Henchman'', ''Peter Ibbetson (opera), Peter Ibbetson'' *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): ''Cherevichki'', ''The Enchantress (opera), The Enchantress'', ''Eugene Onegin (opera), Eugene Onegin'', ''Iolanta'', ''The Maid of Orleans (opera), The Maid of Orleans'' (''Orleanskaya deva''), ''Mazeppa (opera), Mazeppa'', ''The Oprichnik (opera), The Oprichnik'', ''The Queen of Spades (opera), The Queen of Spades'' (''Pique Dame'', ''Pikovaya dama''), ''Undina (Tchaikovsky), Undina'', ''Vakula the Smith'', ''The Voyevoda (opera), The Voyevoda'' *Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): ''Orpheus (Telemann), Orpheus'', ''Pimpinone'' *Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (c. 1855–1946): ''Leo, the Royal Cadet'' *Domènec Terradellas (1713–1751): ''Merope (opera), Merope'' *Claude Terrasse (1867–1923): ''Les travaux d'Hercule'', ''Le sire de Vergy'' *Flavio Testi (1923–2014): ''Saül (opera), Saül'', ''Riccardo III'' *Johann Theile (1646–1724): ''Adam und Eva (opera), Adam und Eva'' *Mikis Theodorakis (1925–2021): ''Kostas Karyotakis (opera)'', ''Medea (Theodorakis), Medea'', ''Antigone (Theodorakis), Antigone'', ''Electra (Theodorakis), Electra'' *Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896): ''La cour de Célimène'', ''Hamlet (opera), Hamlet'', ''Mignon'' *Arthur Goring Thomas (1850–1892): ''Esmeralda (opera), Esmeralda'' *Randall Thompson (1899–1984): ''Solomon and Balkis'' *Virgil Thomson (1896–1989): ''Four Saints in Three Acts'', ''Lord Byron (Thomson), Lord Byron'', ''The Mother of Us All'' *Francis Thorne (1922–2017): ''Mario and the Magician (opera), Mario and the Magician'' *John Thow (1949–2007): ''Serpentina (opera), Serpentina'' *Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907): ''Lobetanz'' *Ivo Tijardović (1895–1976): ''Little Floramye, Mala Floramye'', ''Splitski Akvarel'' *Michael Tippett (1905–1998): ''The Ice Break'', ''King Priam'', ''The Knot Garden'', ''The Midsummer Marriage'', ''New Year (opera), New Year'', ''Robin Hood (Tippett opera), Robin Hood'' *Camillo Togni (1922–1993): ''Blaubart (opera), Blaubart'' *Henri Tomasi (1901–1971): ''Don Juan de Mañara'' *Michael Torke (1961– ): ''Strawberry Fields (opera), Strawberry Fields'' *Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644–1728): ''La púrpura de la rosa'' *Charles Tournemire (1870–1939): ''Nittetis'', ''Chryséis (Les dieux sont morts)'', ''Trilogie Faust – Don Quichotte – Saint François d’Assise'', ''La légende de Tristan'', ''Il poverello di Assisi'' *Geoffrey Toye (1889–1942): ''The Red Pen'' *Antonio Tozzi (1736–1812): ''La morte di Dimone'' *Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779): ''Antigona (Traetta), Antigona'', ''Armida (Traetta), Armida'', ''Ifigenia in Tauride (Traetta), Ifigenia in Tauride'', ''Ippolito ed Aricia'', ''Le serve rivali'', ''Sofonisba'', ''I Tindaridi'' *Cornel Trăilescu (1926–2019): ''Bãlcescu'' *Eduard Tubin (1905–1982): ''The Parson of Reigi'' *Joaquín Turina (1882–1949): ''Margot (opera), Margot'', ''Jardín de oriente'' *Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960– ): ''Anna Nicole'', ''Greek (opera), Greek'', ''The Silver Tassie (opera), The Silver Tassie'', ''Twice Through the Heart'' *Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959– ): ''Wallenberg (opera), Wallenberg'' *Geirr Tveitt (1908–1981): ''Dragaredokko''


U

*Marco Uccellini (1603–1680): ''Li Eventi di Filandro Et Edessa'' *Martin Andreas Udbye (1820–1889): ''Fredkulla'' *Alfred Uhl (1909–1992): ''Der mysteriöse Herr X'' *Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944): ''Der Kaiser von Atlantis'' *José María Usandizaga (1887–1915): ''Las golondrinas'', ''La llama (opera), La llama'', ''Mendi Mendiyan'' *Francesco Uttini (1723–1795): ''Birger Jahl och Mechtilde'', ''Thetis och Pélée''


V

*Nicola Vaccai (1790–1848): ''Giulietta e Romeo (Vaccai), Giulietta e Romeo'' *Fabio Vacchi (1949– ): ''La station thermale'' *Vincenzo Valente (1855–1921): ''I granatieri'' *Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753): ''La finta rapita'' *Jean Vallerand (1915–1944): ''Le Magicien (opera), Le Magicien'' *Louis Varney (1844–1908): ''L'Amour mouillé'', ''Les mousquetaires au couvent'', ''Les petites brebis'' *Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958): ''Hugh the Drover'', ''Sir John in Love'', ''The Pilgrim's Progress (opera), The Pilgrim's Progress'', ''The Poisoned Kiss'', ''Riders to the Sea (opera), Riders to the Sea'' *Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605): ''L'Amfiparnaso'' *Alexander Veprik (1899–1958): ''Toktogul (Токтогул) (1940)'', ''Toktogul (Токтогул) (1949)'' *Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901): ''Aida'', ''Alzira (opera), Alzira'', ''Aroldo'', ''Attila (opera), Attila'', ''Un ballo in maschera'', ''La battaglia di Legnano'', ''Il corsaro'', ''Don Carlos'', ''I due Foscari'', ''Ernani'', ''Falstaff (opera), Falstaff'', ''La forza del destino'', ''Un giorno di regno'', ''Giovanna d'Arco'', ''Jérusalem'', ''I Lombardi alla prima crociata'', ''I masnadieri'', ''Luisa Miller'', ''Macbeth (opera), Macbeth'', ''Nabucco'', ''Oberto (opera), Oberto'', ''Otello'', ''Rigoletto'', ''Simon Boccanegra'', ''Stiffelio'', ''La traviata'', ''Il trovatore'', ''Les vêpres siciliennes'' *Alexey Verstovsky (1799–1862): ''Askold's Grave (opera), Askold's Grave'' (''Askol'dova mogila'') *Pauline Viardot (1821–1910): ''Cendrillon (Viardot), Cendrillon'' *Gerard Victory (1921–1995): ''The Music hath Mischief'', ''Chatterton (Victory), Chatterton'' *Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959): ''Izaht'', ''Yerma (opera), Yerma'' *Leonardo Vinci (c. 1696–1730): ''Artaserse (Vinci), Artaserse'', ''Didone abbandonata (Vinci), Didone abbandonata'', ''Li zite 'ngalera'' *Franco Vittadini (1884–1948): ''Anima Allegra'', ''Caracciolo (opera), Caracciolo'', ''Fiammetta e l'avaro'', ''La Sagredo'', ''Nazareth (opera), Nazareth'' *Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): ''Ottone in villa'', ''Orlando finto pazzo'', ''Nerone fatto Cesare'', ''Arsilda, regina di Ponto'', ''La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii, La costanza trionfante'', ''L'incoronazione di Dario'', ''L'Olimpiade (Vivaldi), L'Olimpiade'', ''Tieteberga'', ''Armida al campo d'Egitto'', ''Scanderbeg (opera), Scanderbeg'', ''Teuzzone'', ''Tito Manlio'', ''La verità in cimento'', ''Ercole su'l Termodonte'', ''Farnace'', ''Orlando furioso (Vivaldi), Orlando furioso'', ''Argippo'', ''Motezuma'', ''Bajazet (opera), Bajazet'', ''Griselda (Vivaldi), Griselda'', ''Dorilla in Tempe'', ''La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii'' *Amadeo Vives (1871–1932): ''Doña Francisquita'' *Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638–1693): ''Astiage'' *Claude Vivier (1948–1983): ''Kopernikus (opera), Kopernikus'' *Roman Vlad (1919–2013): ''Il dottore di vetro'' *Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814): '' Castore e Polluce'', ''Der Kaufmann von Smyrna'', ''Lampedo (opera), Lampedo'' *Hans Vogt (composer), Hans Vogt (1911–1992): ''Die Stadt hinter dem Strom (opera), Die Stadt hinter dem Strom'' *Andy Vores (1956– ): ''Freshwater (opera), Freshwater'', ''No Exit (opera), No Exit'' *Alexander Vustin (1943– ): ''The Devil in Love (opera), The Devil in Love''


W

*Ignatz Waghalter (1881–1949): ''Der Teufelsweg'', ''Mandragola (opera), Mandragola'', ''Jugend (opera), Jugend'', ''Sataniel (opera), Sataniel'', ''Ahasaverus and Esther'' *Richard Wagner (1813–1883): ''Die Feen'', ''Der fliegende Holländer'', ''Die Hochzeit'', ''Das Liebesverbot'', ''Lohengrin (opera), Lohengrin'', ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', ''Parsifal'', ''Rienzi'', ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''Das Rheingold'', ''Die Walküre'', ''Siegfried (opera), Siegfried'', ''Götterdämmerung''), ''Tannhäuser (opera), Tannhäuser'', ''Tristan und Isolde'' *Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930): ''Der Bärenhäuter (opera), Der Bärenhäuter'' *Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903–1969): ''Das Bergwerk zu Falun'', ''Die Bürger von Calais'', ''Der Günstling'', ''Prometheus (opera), Prometheus'' *Julian Wagstaff (1970– ): ''The Turing Test (opera)'', ''Breathe Freely (opera)'' *Rufus Wainwright (1973– ): ''Prima Donna (opera), Prima Donna'', ''Hadrian (opera), Hadrian'' *Igor Wakhévitch (1948– ): ''Être Dieu'' *Stewart Wallace (1960– ): ''The Bonesetter's Daughter (opera), The Bonesetter's Daughter'' *William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865): ''The Amber Witch (opera), The Amber Witch'', ''Lurline (opera), Lurline'', ''Maritana'', ''The Desert Flower'' *Joelle Wallach (1946– ): ''The King's Twelve Moons'' *Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen (1882–1954): ''Else Klapperzehen'', ''Oberst Chabert'', ''Richardis'', ''Die Rauhensteiner Hochzeit,'' ''Die Gräfin von Tolosa'' *William Walton (1902–1983): ''The Bear (opera), The Bear'', ''Troilus and Cressida (opera), Troilus and Cressida'' *Robert Ward (composer), Robert Ward (1917–2013): ''The Crucible (opera), The Crucible'' *Roger Waters (1943– ): ''Ça Ira (opera)'' *Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826): ''Abu Hassan'', ''Die drei Pintos'', ''Der Freischütz'', ''Euryanthe'', ''Oberon (Weber), Oberon'', ''Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn'', ''Silvana (opera), Silvana'' *Joseph Weigl (1766–1846): ''Die Schweizer Familie'' *Kurt Weill (1900–1950): ''Die Bürgschaft (opera), Die Bürgschaft'', ''Down in the Valley (opera), Down in the Valley'', ''The Eternal Road (opera), The Eternal Road'' (''Der Weg der Verheissung''), ''The Firebrand of Florence'', ''Happy End (musical), Happy End'', ''Der Jasager'', ''Johnny Johnson (musical), Johnny Johnson'', ''Knickerbocker Holiday'', ''Der Kuhhandel'' (''A Kingdom for a Cow, or Arms and the Cow''), ''Lady in the Dark'', ''Lost in the Stars'', ''Love Life (musical), Love Life'', ''One Touch of Venus'', ''Der Protagonist'', ''Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'' (''Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny''), ''Royal Palace (Weill), Royal Palace'', ''The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté), The Seven Deadly Sins'' (''Die sieben Todesünden''), ''Der Silbersee'', ''Street Scene (opera), Street Scene'', ''The Threepenny Opera'' (''Die Dreigroschenoper''), ''Der Zar lässt sich photographieren'', ''The Flight across the Ocean'' *Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996): ''The Portrait (opera), The Portrait'' *Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967): ''Schwanda the Bagpiper'', ''Milovaný hlas'' (The Beloved Voice), ''Lidé z Pokerflatu'' (The Outcasts of Poker Flat), Jarní bouře (Spring Storms), ''Na růžích ustláno'' (A Bed of Roses), ''Apropó, co dělá Andula?'' (By the Way, What Is Andula Doing?), ''Císař pán na třešních'' (The Emperor Lord of Cherries), Wallenstein (Weinberger), ''Valdštejn'' (Wallenstein) *Felix Weingartner (1863–1942): ''Genesius (opera), Genesius'', ''Meister Andrea'', ''Sakuntala (opera), Sakuntala'' *Judith Weir (1954– ): ''Blond Eckbert'', ''Heaven Ablaze in His Breast'', ''King Harald's Saga'', ''A Night at the Chinese Opera'', ''The Vanishing Bridegroom'', ''Armida (Weir), Armida'' *Hugo Weisgall (1912–1997): ''Esther (Weisgall opera), Esther'', ''Nine Rivers from Jordan'', ''Six Characters in Search of an Author (opera), Six Characters in Search of an Author'', ''The Stronger (opera), The Stronger'', ''The Tenor'', ''Will You Marry Me? (opera), Will You Marry Me?'' *Dan Welcher (1948– ): ''Della's Gift'' *John Weldon (musician), John Weldon (1676–1736): ''The Judgement of Paris (opera), The Judgement of Paris'' *Egon Wellesz (1885–1974): ''Die Prinzessin Girnara'', ''Die Bakchantinnen'' *Felix Werder (1922–2012): ''Agamemnon (opera), Agamemnon'' *Peter Westergaard (1931–2019): ''The Tempest (Westergaard), The Tempest'', ''Alice in Wonderland (Westergaard), Alice in Wonderland'' *Gillian Whitehead (1941– ): ''Outrageous Fortune (opera), Outrageous Fortune'' *Jörg Widmann (1973– ): ''Das Gesicht im Spiegel'', ''Babylon (opera), Babylon'' *Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937): ''Maître Ambros'' *Alec Wilder (1907–1980): ''The Lowland Sea'', ''Sunday Excursion'', ''The Opening (opera), The Opening'' *Healey Willan (1880–1968): ''Deirdre (opera), Deirdre'' *Grace Williams (1906–1977): ''The Parlour'' *Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003): ''English Eccentrics (opera), English Eccentrics'', ''The Happy Prince (opera), The Happy Prince'', ''Julius Caesar Jones'', ''Lucky Peter's Journey'', ''Our Man in Havana (opera), Our Man in Havana'', ''The Valley and the Hill'', ''The Violins of Saint-Jacques'' *Charles Wilson (composer), Charles Wilson (1931–2019): ''Héloise and Abelard (opera), Héloise and Abelard'', ''Psycho Red'' *James Wilson (composer), James Wilson (1922–2005): ''Letters to Theo'', ''Grinning at the Devil'' *Thomas Wilson (composer), Thomas Wilson (1927–2001): ''The Charcoal Burner (opera), The Charcoal Burner'', ''Confessions of a Justified Sinner (opera), Confessions of a Justified Sinner'' *Herbert Windt (1894–1965): ''Andromache (opera), Andromache'' *Peter Winter (1754–1825): ''Babylons Pyramiden'', ''Der Bettelstudent (Winter), Der Bettelstudent'', ''Das Labyrinth'', ''Leonardo und Blandine'', ''Das unterbrochene Opferfest'' *Peter Wishart (composer), Peter Wishart (1921–1984): ''Two in the Bush'', ''The Captive (opera), The Captive'' *Erling Wold (1958– ): ''A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil'' *Hugo Wolf (1860–1903): ''Der Corregidor'' *Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948): ''Il campiello'', ''Le donne curiose'', ''I gioielli della Madonna'', ''I quatro rusteghi'', ''Il segreto di Susanna'', ''Sly (opera), Sly'' *Albert Wolff (conductor), Albert Wolff (1884–1970): ''L'oiseau bleu (opera), L'oiseau bleu'' *Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972): ''Zeus und Elida'', ''Schöne Geschichten'' *Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808): ''Oberon, König der Elfen'' *Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020): ''Brokeback Mountain (opera), Brokeback Mountain'', ''Haroun and the Sea of Stories (opera), Haroun and the Sea of Stories''


X

*Spyridon Xyndas (1812/1814–1896): ''Il Conte Giuliano'', ''O ypopsifios vouleftis'' (The parliamentary candidate), ''O neogambros'', ''I due pretendenti''


Y

*Kosaku Yamada (1886–1965): ''Kurofune (opera), Kurofune (The Black Ships) *Christopher Yavelow (1950– ): ''The Passion of Vincent van Gogh'', ''Countdown (opera), Countdown'' *Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931): ''Pier li Houyeû'' *Sergei Yuferov (1865–?): ''Myrrha (opera), Myrrha'' (Мирра), ''Yolande (opera), Yolande'' (Иоланда), ''Antoine et Cléopatre'' (Антоний и Клеопатра) *Isang Yun (1917–1995): ''Sim Tjong''


Z

*Ivan Zajc (1832–1914): ''Nikola Šubić Zrinski (opera), Nikola Šubić Zrinjski'' *Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944): ''I cavalieri di Ekebù'', ''Conchita (opera), Conchita'', ''Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai), Francesca da Rimini'', ''Giulietta e Romeo (Zandonai), Giulietta e Romeo'', ''La farsa amorosa'' *Carl Zeller (1842–1898): ''The Mine Foreman (operetta), Der Obersteiger'', ''Der Vogelhändler'' *Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942): ''Es war einmal'', ''Eine florentinische Tragödie'', ''Der König Kandaules'', ''Der Kreidekreis (opera), Der Kreidekreis'', ''Sarema (opera), Sarema'', ''Der Traumgörge'', ''Der Zwerg'' *Hans Zender (1936– ): ''Stephen Climax'', ''Don Quijote de la Mancha (opera), Don Quijote de la Mancha'' *Otakar Zich (1879–1934): ''Preciézky'' *Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843–1922): ''Der Fremdenführer'', ''König Jérôme'', ''Die Landstreicher'' *Winfried Zillig (1905–1963): ''Die Windsbraut'' *Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970): ''Die Soldaten'' *Udo Zimmermann (1943–2021): ''Levin's Mühle'', ''Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin'', ''Weiße Rose (opera), Weiße Rose'', ''Die wundersame Schusterfrau'' *Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752–1837): ''Giulietta e Romeo'', ''Ines de Castro (opera), Ines de Castro'', ''Pirro, re d'Epiro'' *Heinrich Zöllner (1854–1941): ''Die versunkene Glocke (opera), Die versunkene Glocke'' (''The Sunken Bell'') *Manuel de Zumaya (1678–1755): ''Partenope (Zumaya), Partenope'' *Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760–1802): ''Das Pfauenfest''


See also

*List of important operas *List of operas by title {{Portal bar, Opera Lists of operas by composer, Operas, Composer