MOZART: Requiem

Requiem in D Minor (K. 626)

Music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Text based on the Mass for the Dead (Requiem Mass).

HAYDN: Die Schˆpfung

Die Schˆpfung, Oratorium in drei Teilen

Music composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten based on selections from the Book of Genesis and Paradise Lost by John Milton.

GOUNOD: Faust

Faust, OpÈra en cinq actes

Music composed by Charles Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel CarrÈ after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust

La damnation de Faust, LÈgende dramatique en quatre parties

Music composed by Hector Berlioz. Libretto by Hector Berlioz, Almire GandonaniËre and GÈrard de Nerval after Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BOITO: Mefistofele

Mefistofele, Opera in un prologo, quattro atti e un epilogo

Music and libretto by Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), based on Faust: Eine Tragödie by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

VERDI: La Forza del Destino

La Forza del Destino, a melodramma in quattro atti

Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama Don Alvaro o La fuerza del sino by Angel Perez de Saavedra

FLOTOW: Martha — Berlin 1944

Martha, an opera in four acts.

Music composed by Friedrich von Flotow. Libretto by Wilhelm Friedrich.

First performance: 25 November 1847 at Theater an der Wien, Vienna.

PERGOLESI: La serva padrona

La serva padrona, intermezzo in two parts

Music composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Libretto by Gennar’antonio Frederico.

First performance: 28 August 1733, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples.

BEETHOVEN: Fidelio — Munich 1978

Fidelio, an opera in two acts

VERDI: Macbeth

VERDI: Macbeth, melodramma in quattro parti.

Music composed by Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by William Shakespeare.