Category: Featured Operas

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.

I puritani, opera seria in three acts
Music composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Libretto by Carlo Pepoli from TÍtes rondes et Cavaliers (1833) by Jacques Ancelot and Xavier Saintine.

Norma: Tragedia lirica in due atti

La sonnambula, Melodramma in due atti

Music composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835). Libretto by Felice Romani, based on La Sonnambule ou L’arrivÈe d’un nouveau Seigneur (1827) by EugËne Scribe.

Die verkaufte Braut (The Bartered Bride; Prodan· nev?sta)

Comic opera in three acts.

Music composed by Bed?ich Smetana. Libretto by Karel Sabina

Don Pasquale, Dramma buffo in three acts.

Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and the
composer after Angelo Anelliís libretto for Stefano Pavesiís Ser
Marcantonio (1810), which was derived from Epicúne or The
Silent Woman by Ben Jonson (1609).

RomÈo et Juliette, OpÈra en cinq actes

Music composed by Charles FranÁois Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel CarrÈ, based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Il Matrimonio Segreto, Melodramma giocoso in two acts.

Music composed by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801). Libretto by Giovanni Bertati after The Clandestine Marriage (1766) by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick.

Oberon, Romantic opera in three acts

Music by Carl Maria von Weber. Libretto by James Robinson PlanchÈ after Oberon by Christoph Martin Wieland and the 13th-century French romance Huon de Bordeaux