Category: Featured Operas

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

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).

OpÈra comique in four acts.

Music composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalÈvy after Prosper MÈrimÈe’s novella, Carmen.

Der fliegende Holl‰nder. Romantic opera in 3 acts.

Music composed by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.

CosÏ fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (K. 588). Opera buffa in two acts.

Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

La Cenerentola, ossia La bont‡ in trionfo. Dramma giocoso in two acts.
Music composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868). Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Perrault.

Poliuto, Tragedia lirica in three acts.

Music composed by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after the tragedy Polyeucte (1640) by Pierre Corneille.

Alceste. Tragedia in three acts (Italian version).

Alceste. TragÈdie opÈra in three acts (French version).

Orfeo ed Euridice. Azione teatrale in three acts (Italian version).

OrphÈe et Eurydice. TragÈdie opÈra in three acts (French version).

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17), Drama in three acts.

Music composed by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759). Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani.