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| x Francesco Maria Piave |
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La traviata |
Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian librettist who was Verdi's life-long friend and collaborator. Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetsky's Austrian...
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| Ernani | |||
| Rigoletto | |||
| Simon Boccanegra | |||
| La forza del destino | |||
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| x Richard Wagner |
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Götterdämmerung |
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈrɪxərd ˈvɑːɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany – 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his...
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| Der Ring des Nibelungen | |||
| Der fliegende Holländer | |||
| Tristan und Isolde | |||
| Das Rheingold | |||
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| x Ruggero Leoncavallo |
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Pagliacci |
Ruggero (Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 1857- 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most...
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| Manon Lescaut | |||
| Zazà | |||
| I Medici | |||
| La bohème | |||
| x Emanuel Schikaneder |
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The Magic Flute |
Emanuel Schikaneder (Straubing, September 1, 1751 – September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, and singer. He was the librettist of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and the builder of the...
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| x Arrigo Boito |
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Falstaff |
Arrigo Boito (24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele.
Born in Padua...
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| Otello | |||
| Mefistofele | |||
| Nerone | |||
| La Gioconda | |||
| x Christopher Fry | Paradise Lost | ||
| x Nahum Tate |
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Dido and Aeneas |
Nahum Tate (1652–July 30, 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist, and lyricist, who became England's poet laureate in 1692.
Nahum Tate was born in Dublin in 1652, the son of Faithful Teate, an Irish clergyman, who had written a poem on the Trinity...
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| x Luigi Illica |
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La bohème |
Luigi Illica (9 May 1857, Castell'Arquato, near Piacenza, Italy - 16 December 1919, Colombarone) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano and other important Italian...
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| Madama Butterfly | |||
| Andrea Chénier | |||
| Manon Lescaut | |||
| La Wally | |||
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| x Giuseppe Giacosa |
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La bohème |
Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October 1847 – 1 September 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist.
He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin and...
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| Madama Butterfly | |||
| Manon Lescaut | |||
| Tosca | |||
| x Hector Berlioz |
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Les Troyens |
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with...
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| The Damnation of Faust | |||
| Béatrice et Bénédict | |||
| x Nicholas Wright | The Little Prince | ||
| x Alice Goodman |
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Nixon in China |
Alice Goodman (born 1958), American poet, was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams, Nixon in China and The Death of...
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| The Death of Klinghoffer | |||
| x Claude Debussy |
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Pelléas et Mélisande |
Achille-Claude Debussy (French pronunciation: [aʃil klod dəbysi]) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music,...
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| Le diable dans le beffroi | |||
| La chute de la maison Usher | |||
| x DuBose Heyward | Porgy and Bess |
DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1924 novel Porgy. With his wife Dorothy, whom he met at the MacDowell Colony in 1922, he was co-author of the non-musical play adapted from the novel. His...
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| x Béla Balázs | Bluebeard's Castle |
Béla Balázs (4 August 1884, Szeged – 17 May 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet.
He was the son of German-born parents, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his...
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| x Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
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Elektra |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 – July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother and an Austrian-Italian bank manager....
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| Die Frau ohne Schatten | |||
| Die ägyptische Helena | |||
| Arabella | |||
| Ariadne auf Naxos | |||
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| x Othmar Schoeck | Penthesilea |
Othmar Schoeck ( 1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss composer and conductor.
He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas (mosty notably his one-act Penthesilea,...
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| x Alexander Preis | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District |
Alexander Preis (Russian: Александр Прейс, b. 1905, d. 1942) was a Russian writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for Shostakovich's operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district.
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| x Jack Larson | Lord Byron |
Jack Edward Larson (born February 8, 1928) is an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Jimmy Olsen in the TV series Adventures of Superman.
He has at times claimed 1933 as his birth year. He was born...
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| x Michel Carré | Faust |
Michel Carré (20 October 1821 - 27 June 1872) was a prolific French librettist.
He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti. He wrote the text for...
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| Hamlet | |||
| Mignon | |||
| Les pêcheurs de perles | |||
| Polyeucte | |||
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| x Georg Büchner |
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Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed...
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| x Peter Pears | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (pronounced /pɪərz/ "peers";Farnham, 22 June 1910 – Aldeburgh, 3 April 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.
He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at...
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| x Benjamin Britten |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
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| x Noel Coward |
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Bitter Sweet |
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 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 chic, pose...
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| x Arnold Weinstein | A Wedding |
Arnold Weinstein (1927-2005) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas McTeague, A View From the Bridge (with Arthur Miller) and A Wedding (with Robert Altman)....
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| x Robert Altman |
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A Wedding |
Robert Bernard Altman (20 February 1925 – 20 November 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his...
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| x Jean-François Marmontel |
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Le Huron |
Jean-François Marmontel (July 11, 1723 – December 31, 1799) was a French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement.
He was born of poor parents at Bort-les-Orgues, in Corrèze. After studying with the Jesuits at Mauriac, Cantal,...
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| Didon | |||
| Atys | |||
| La Guirlande | |||
| Acante et Céphise | |||
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| x Pietro Metastasio |
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Il sogno di Scipione |
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, (January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
Metastasio was born in Rome, where...
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| Didone abbandonata | |||
| Ezio | |||
| Demofonte | |||
| Poro | |||
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| x W. S. Gilbert |
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HMS Pinafore |
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most...
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| Haste to the Wedding | |||
| The Gondoliers | |||
| The Grand Duke | |||
| The Mikado | |||
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| x Jean Galbert de Campistron | Acis et Galatée |
Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656 - May 11, 1723) was a French dramatist
Campistron was born in Toulouse, France to a noble family.
At the age of seventeen he was wounded in a duel and sent to Paris. Here he became an ardent disciple of Racine. If he...
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| x Felice Romani |
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Anna Bolena |
Felice Romani (January 31, 1788 — January 28, 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between...
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| Lucrezia Borgia | |||
| Un giorno di regno | |||
| I Capuleti e i Montecchi | |||
| Zaira | |||
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| x Voltaire |
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Les fêtes de Ramire |
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defence of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and...
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| La princesse de Navarre | |||
| Le temple de la Gloire | |||
| Samson, lost opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau | |||
| x Henry Pottinger Stephens | Billee Taylor |
Henry Pottinger Stephens, also known as Henry Beauchamp (1851 – February 11, 1903) was an English dramatist and journalist.
"Pot" Stephens was born in Barrow-on-Soar Leicestershire. He started his career as a journalist, working for The Daily...
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| x Samuel Beckett |
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Neither |
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist. As a student, assistant,...
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| x Ottavio Rinuccini | Dafne |
Ottavio Rinuccini (January 20, 1562 – March 28, 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. In collaborating with Jacopo Peri to produce the first opera, Dafne, in 1597,...
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| Euridice | |||
| Dafne | |||
| x Giuseppe Bonecchi | Il Bellerofonte |
Giuseppe Bonecchi - was an Italian poet and opera librettist.
He was brought to Russia in 1740 by Francesco Araja, an Italian composer working in Russia.
His opera Il Bellerofonte, which was written for the coronation of Elizabeth of Russia, praised...
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| x Peter Zinovieff | The Mask of Orpheus |
Peter Zinovieff is a British inventor of Russian ethnicity, most notable for his EMS company, which made the famous VCS3 synthesiser in the late '60s. The synthesiser was used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and White Noise,...
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| x Edmond Fleg | Oedipe | ||
| Macbeth | |||
| x Gustav Holst |
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Savitri |
Gustav Theodore Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer and was a music teacher for nearly 20 years. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets. Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, his early...
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| The Perfect Fool | |||
| At the Boar's Head | |||
| x Eugène Scribe |
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Les vêpres siciliennes |
Augustin Eugène Scribe (24 December 1791 – 20 February 1861), was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" (pièce bien faite). This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater...
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| Le duc d'Albe | |||
| Gustave III | |||
| Les Huguenots | |||
| Le prophète | |||
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| x Charles Duveyrier | Les vêpres siciliennes | ||
| Le duc d'Albe | |||
| x Salvatore Cammarano |
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Il trovatore |
Salvatore Cammarano (born Naples, 19 March 1801 - died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti.
For Donizetti he also...
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| Luisa Miller | |||
| Alzira | |||
| La vestale | |||
| Orazi e Curiazi | |||
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| x Jean Cocteau |
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Le pauvre matelot |
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for...
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| La voix humaine | |||
| Oedipus rex | |||
| x Nicolò Minato | Xerse |
Count Nicolò Minato (b. Bergamo, ca. 1627; d. Vienna, 28 February 1698) was an Italian poet, librettist and impresario. His career can be divided into two parts: the years he spent at Venice, from 1650 to 1669, and the years at Vienna, from 1669...
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| Scipione affricano | |||
| Der geduldige Socrates | |||
| Orimonte | |||
| Artemisia | |||
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| x Giuseppe Adami |
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Turandot |
Giuseppe Adami (November 4, 1878 in Verona – October 12, 1946 in Milan) was an Italian librettist, known for his collaboration works with Puccini for La rondine (1917), Il tabarro (1918) and Turandot (1926).
Adami also wrote several plays such as I...
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| Il tabarro | |||
| La rondine | |||
| La rondine by Giacomo Puccini - Third version completed by Lorenzo Ferrero | |||
| x Aleksandr Pushkin |
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Mozart and Salieri |
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr sʲɪˈrɡʲejevʲɪtɕ ˈpuʃkʲɪn] ( listen)) (June 6 [O.S. May 26] 1799–February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is...
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| x Ferdinando Fontana |
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Edgar |
Ferdinando Fontana (30 January 1850, Milan – 10 May 1919. Lugano) was an Italian journalist, dramatist, and poet. He is best known today for having written the libretti of the first two operas by Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi and Edgar.
Born into a...
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| Le villi | |||
| x Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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Francesca da Rimini |
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Модест Ильич Чайковский, May 13 [OS May 1] 1850, Alapaevsk – January 15 [OS January 2] 1916, Moscow) was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.
Modest Ilyich was the younger brother of the composer...
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| Iolanta | |||
| The Queen of Spades | |||
| Dubrovsky | |||
| x Peter Kien | Der Kaiser von Atlantis |
Peter Kien (born Varnsdorf, Czech Republic, 1 January 1919, died Auschwitz, October 1944) was a Jewish artist and poet active at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. He died at the age of twenty-five.
The name of Franz Peter Kien, a prominent...
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| x Temistocle Solera |
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Nabucco |
Temistocle Solera (December 25, 1815 – April 21, 1878) was an opera composer and librettist. It may be noticed that he was born on Christmas Day, and died on Easter Sunday.
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| I Lombardi alla prima crociata | |||
| Attila | |||
| Oberto | |||
| Giovanna d'Arco | |||
| x Julius Korngold | Die tote Stadt |
Julius Korngold (December 24, 1860 – September 25, 1945) was a noted music critic. He was regarded as the top critic in Vienna in the early twentieth century, when that city was viewed as the centre of classical music. He is most notable for...
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| x Peter Sellars |
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Doctor Atomic |
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, renowned for his contemporary stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at U.C.L.A. where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art...
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| A Flowering Tree | |||
| x Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti |
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Cavalleria rusticana |
For the italian medician and entomologist (1712-1783), see Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti.
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (Livorno, March 17, 1863 - May 30, 1934) was an italian librettist, best known for his friendship and collaboration with the composer...
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| Nerone | |||
| Il piccolo Marat | |||
| I Rantzau | |||
| Silvano | |||
| x Andrea Leone Tottola | La donna del lago |
Andrea Leone Tottola (died 15 September 1831) was a prolific Italian librettist, best-known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.
It is not known when or where he was born. He became the official poet to the royal theatres in...
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| Zelmira | |||
| Mosè in Egitto | |||
| Ermione | |||
| La Gazzetta | |||
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| x Carl Orff |
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Antigone |
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895(1895-07-10) – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for his composition Carmina Burana (1937). He has also become very influential in the field of music education for his pedagogic methods, which...
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| Der Mond | |||
| Die Kluge | |||
| Trionfo di Afrodite | |||
| De Temporum Fine Comoedia | |||
| x Aleksey Plescheev | William Ratcliff |
Aleksey Plescheev (1825 – 1893) (Russian: Алексей Николаевич Плещеев) was a radical Russian poet of the 19th century.
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| x Jacopo Ferretti | Matilde di Shabran |
Jacopo Ferretti (16 July 1784 – 7 March 1852) was an Italian writer, poet and opera librettist.
He is most famous for having supplied the libretti for two operas by Rossini and for five operas by Donizetti.
Another version of his name is Giacomo...
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| La Cenerentola | |||
| Olivo e Pasquale | |||
| L'ajo nell'imbarazzo | |||
| x Gaetano Rossi | Semiramide |
Gaetano Rossi (May 18, 1774 – January 25, 1855) was an Italian writer who wrote opera libretti for several composers including Rossini, Donizetti, and Meyerbeer.
Born in Verona, Rossi was writing religious verse by the time that he was 13 years old....
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| Tancredi | |||
| La cambiale di matrimonio | |||
| Maria Padilla | |||
| Linda di Chamounix | |||
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| x Carlo Francesco Badini | L'anima del filosofo | ||
| x Giovanni Battista Bononcini |
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Serse |
Giovanni Battista Bononcini (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) was an Italian Baroque composer and cellist, one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642-78), was a violinist and a composer.
Bononcini was...
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