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17 Jun 2020
Ariadne auf Naxos, Oper with a prologue and one act.
Music composed by Richard Strauss. Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. »
17 Jun 2020
La Vestale, a tragédie lyrique in three acts. »
14 Jun 2020
Boris Godunov, an opera in four acts with prologue
Modest Mussorgsky, composer. Libretto by the composer, based on Alexander Pushkin's drama Boris Godunov and Nikolai Karamazin's History of the Russian Empire
First performance: 8 February 1874 at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg »
08 Apr 2020
Il Trovatore, dramma in four parts. »
03 Apr 2020
Only a few months following the premiere of Der Rosenkavalier, Hugo von Hofmannsthal proposed a new opera to Richard Strauss based on Molière’s comedy-ballet, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (in German, Der Bürger als Edelmann). »
03 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
03 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
02 Apr 2020
Arabella: Lyrische Komödie in three acts »
02 Apr 2020
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in 3 Acts.Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger, based on an earlier libretto by
Christoph Friedrich Bretzner. »
02 Apr 2020
La Gioconda, dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo's Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835). »
02 Apr 2020
Don Carlo, an opera in four acts. Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller’s dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien. Revised version in four acts (French text revised by Du Locle, Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini). »
02 Apr 2020
Un ballo in maschera, a melodramma in three acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Antonio Somma, based upon the work of Eugène Scribe Gustave III ou Le bal masqué (1833) »
04 Nov 2019
Medea: Melodramma tragico in three acts. »
16 Sep 2019
Die Tote Stadt, an opera in three acts.Music composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957). Libretto by Paul Schott (Julius and E. W. Korngold) after the novel Bruges la morte by Georges Rodenbach. »
09 Sep 2019
Some Details concerning the Revolution inaugurated by Rossini »
06 Sep 2019
Manon Lescaut, dramma lirico in quattro atti »
03 Sep 2019
Elektra: Tragedy in one act. »
24 Jun 2019
Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced both schedules and cast-lists for is Spring 2020 performances of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Given the series of individual productions already staged by the company since Fall 2016, that pave the way for the complete cycle, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s complete production should affirm the artistic might of the great composer. »
27 Apr 2019
“Diacono himself does not know what musical talent he possesses” – Mascagni »
10 Apr 2019
From the womb of Night and Death was spawned a race that dwells in Nibelheim (Nebelheim), i.e. in gloomy subterranean clefts and caverns: Nibelungen are they called; with restless nimbleness they burrow through the bowels of the earth, like worms in a dead body; they smelt and smith hard metals. »
28 Mar 2019
Una cosa rara, ossia Bellezza ed onestà. Dramma giocoso in two acts.Music composed by Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte from the comedy La luna de la Sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara. »
16 Jul 2018
This is the one where a very personable devil tells God that mankind is so far gone it isn’t worth his time to bother corrupting it further. »
05 Jun 2018
What a treat the London Music Conservatoires serve up for opera-goers each season. After the Royal Academy’s Bizet double-bill of Le docteur Miracle and La tragédie de Carmen, and in advance of the Royal College’s forthcoming pairing of Huw Watkins’ new opera, In the Locked Room, based on a short story by Thomas Hardy, and The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama have delivered a culinary coupling of Paul Hindemith’s The Long Christmas Dinner and Sir Lennox Berkeley’s The Dinner Engagement which the Conservatoire last presented for our delectation in November 2006. »
22 Oct 2015
Hamlet: Opéra in five acts. Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier after The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. »
28 Aug 2015
Advertised in the program as the first opera written in the New World,
La Púrpura de la Rosa (PR) was premiered in 1701 in Lima
(Peru), but more than the historical feat, true or not, accounts for the
piece’s interest. »
20 Oct 2013
Das Liebesverbot: Grosse komische Oper in two acts. »
16 May 2013
Opera in three acts. Words and music by Richard Wagner. »
16 May 2013
Parsifal. Bühnenweihfestspiel (“stage dedication play”) in three acts. »
09 Apr 2013
“German poet, dramatist and novelist. One of the most important literary and cultural figures of his age, he was recognized during his lifetime for his accomplishments of almost universal breadth. However, it is his literary works that have most consistently sustained his reputation, and that also serve to demonstrate most clearly his many-faceted relationship to music. . . . »
09 Sep 2011
Here are operas based on French literature from Balzac, Hugo and beyond: »
09 Sep 2011
Le Cid, Opéra in 4 acts »
02 Sep 2011
I puritani, opera seria in three acts »
30 Aug 2011
Zaira, Tragedia lirica in two acts. »
22 Jul 2011
Athalia: Oratorio (sacred drama) in 3 acts »
12 Nov 2010
Lucrezia Borgia: Melodramma in a prologue and two acts. »
01 Sep 2010
La Esmeralda: Opéra in four acts. »
12 Aug 2010
Ernani: Dramma lirico in four parts. »
14 Jul 2010
Oberst Chabert (Colonel Chabert): Tragic opera in 3 acts. »
23 Jun 2010
Otello: Dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare. »
21 May 2010
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a comedy in five acts with incidental music. »
24 Apr 2010
Le Marchand de Venise (“The Merchant of Venice”): Opéra in three acts. »
17 Mar 2010
Gli Equivoci (The Comedy of Errors): Opera in two acts. »
07 Feb 2010
Der Sturm: Opera in three acts »
30 Jan 2010
The Fairy-Queen: Semi-opera in five acts. »
18 Jan 2010
Macbeth: Melodramma in quattro parti. »
03 Jan 2010
Das Liebesverbot: Grosse komische Oper in two acts. »
13 Dec 2009
Falstaff: Commedia lirica in three acts. »
30 Nov 2009
Hamlet: Opéra in five acts.Music composed by Ambroise Thomas. Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier after The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare. »
15 Nov 2009
Otello, ossia Il moro di Venezia (‘Othello, or The Moor of Venice’): Dramma in three acts. »
18 Oct 2009
Béatrice et Bénédict: Opéra comique in two acts »
11 Oct 2009
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor), a comical-fantastical opera in three acts with dance. »
11 Oct 2009
In the autumn, Oxford is especially beautiful. The ancient colleges are swathed in scarlet vines, and the mellow evening light creates great atmosphere. For those who love art song, though, the best reason for visiting Oxford at this time of year is the Oxford Lieder Festival, which starts October 16th 2009. »
29 Sep 2009
Otello: Dramma lirico in four acts.Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice by William Shakespeare. »
06 Sep 2009
Werther: Drame lyrique en 4 actes et 5 tableauxMusic composed by Jules Massenet. Libretto by Edouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe »
23 Aug 2009
Mignon: Opéra comique in three acts. »
03 Aug 2009
Scenen aus Goethes Faust (op. WoO 3 ) [also known as Szenen aus Goethes „Faust“], oratorio in three parts with seven scenes. »
26 Jul 2009
Faust, Opéra en cinq actes. »
12 Jul 2009
Faust, Opéra en cinq actes. »
15 Jun 2009
Turandot, dramma lirico in three acts. »
10 Jun 2009
I masnadieri [The bandits]: Melodramma in four parts
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17 May 2009
The Maid of Orléans: [Orleanskaya deva]: Opera in four acts »
11 May 2009
Guglielmo Tell: Melodramma tragico in four acts »
03 May 2009
Maria Stuarda: Tragedia lirica in two or three acts. »
26 Apr 2009
Don Carlo: Opera in four acts. »
19 Apr 2009
Luisa Miller: Melodramma tragico in three acts. »
12 Apr 2009
Götterdämmerung: Third day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in a prologue and three acts. »
06 Apr 2009
Siegfried: Second day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts. »
29 Mar 2009
Die Walküre: First day of Der Ring des Nibelungen in three acts.
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22 Mar 2009
Vorabend (preliminary evening) of Der Ring des Nibelungen, in four scenes. »
15 Mar 2009
Il Barbiere di Siviglia [Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (‘Almaviva, or The Useless Precaution’)]: Commedia in two acts. »
08 Mar 2009
Medea (Médée): Opéra comique in three acts. »
01 Mar 2009
La sonnambula, Melodramma in due atti »
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