Operas

1000 Airplanes on the Roof is an opera by Philip Glass which featured lyrics by David Henry Hwang and projections by Jerome Sirlin. It is a "science fiction music drama." ...more on Wikipedia about "1000 Airplanes on the Roof"

1984 is an opera composed by Lorin Maazel, with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan. Maazel's first opera, it premiered on 3 May 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a production directed by Robert Lepage. ...more on Wikipedia about "1984 (opera)"

A Hand of Bridge, a nine minute opera composed by Samuel Barber in 1959 with libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti, is one of the shortest operas that is regularly performed. It consists of two couples playing a hand of bridge. During the opera each character has a short arietta in which he or she sings a monologue. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Hand of Bridge"

A Life for the Tsar (Жизнь за царя in Cyrillic, Žizn’ za carja in transliteration) is a patriotic-heroic tragic opera in five acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Yegor Fyodorovich Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It was first performed on 29 November ( Old Style) 1836 in Saint Petersburg at the old Bolshoi Theater (now the site of the St. Petersburg Conservatory building). The opera was immediately hailed as a great success, and became the obligatory season-opener in the Imperial Russian opera theaters. It was one of the first Russian operas to be known outside Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Life for the Tsar"

Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream is an opera based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare. While preserving most features of the original play, it was, out of necessity, condensed to fit the format of an opera by the composer and Peter Pears. It received its premiere on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh Festival. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)"

A Quiet Place is an opera by Leonard Bernstein to an English libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. It is a sequel to Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. It was first performed on 17 June 1983 by the Houston Grand Opera. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Quiet Place"

A rátartós királykisasszony is an operetta by the Hungarian composer Victor Jacobi. As his first operetta it was premiered on December 17, 1904 in Budapest. The libretto is by Jenő Heltai, who rewrote a folk of Holger Drachmann. ...more on Wikipedia about "A rátartós királykisasszony"

A Wedding is an opera composed by William Bolcom to a libretto by Robert Altman and Arnold Weinstein. It was based off of Altman's 1979 film A Wedding. It was first performed on December 11, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which had commissioned the work. The premiere had stage direction by Altman and was conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Wedding (opera)"

Abu Hassan is an opera in one act by Carl Maria von Weber to a German libretto by Franz Hiemer, based on a story in A Thousand and One Nights. It was first performed at the Residentztheater in Munich on June 4, 1811. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abu Hassan"

Acis and Galatea is a "pastoral opera" composed by George Frideric Handel while he was living in Cannons, probably between 1718 and 1720, with words by John Gay. Perhaps the best-known part of this piece is a bass solo: "I rage, I melt, I burn." ...more on Wikipedia about "Acis and Galatea"

Adelson e Salvini (Adelson and Salvini) is a three act opera composed by Vincenzo Bellini and first performed at the Teatro del Conservatorio di S. Sebastiano in Naples on February 1825. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adelson e Salvini"

Admeto is an Italian opera composed by George Frideric Handel and first performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1727. ...more on Wikipedia about "Admeto re di Tessaglia"

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Gabriel Legouvé. It was first performed on 6 November 1902 in Milan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adriana Lecouvreur"

Agrippina is an opera by George Frideric Handel. The libretto is by Vincenzo Grimani. The premiere was in January 1710 in Venice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Agrippina (opera)"

Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a story by Auguste Mariette. It was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on December 24, 1871. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aida"

Akhnaten is an opera based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the foremost exponent of minimalist music, Philip Glass, and first performed in 1984 by the Stuttgart Opera. ...more on Wikipedia about "Akhnaten (opera)"

Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten. Written as a companion piece for his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia, the libretto, by Eric Crozier, is taken from Guy de Maupassant's story Le Rosier de Madame Husson. It was premiered on 20 June 1947 in Glyndebourne. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Herring"

Albion and Albanius was one of the first English operas ( The Siege of Rhodes being considered the first). The words for Albion and Albanius were written in 1680 by John Dryden, initially intended as a prologue to a play "of the nature of 'The Tempest'", which was apparently Shakespeare's masque-like play, in the drastically cut and "corrected" form in which it was presented to Restoration audiences: for Dryden's strictures on Shakespeare's play, see The Tempest. "But some intervening accidents having hitherto deferred the performance of the main design, I proposed to the actors to turn the intended prologue into an entertainment by itself, as you now see it, by adding two acts more to what I had already written." (Dryden's Preface). ...more on Wikipedia about "Albion and Albanius"

Alceste is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The libretto was written by Ranieri de Calzabigi. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alceste (Gluck)"

Alcina is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel for his first season at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. It premiered on April 16, 1735. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alcina"

Alessandro (Alexander the Great) is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 and performed in London. It is based on Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro. The story is based around Alexander the Great's journey to India where he meets Poro re d'Indie, the subject of another Handel opera of that name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alessandro (opera)"

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Alexander Twice (Dvakrát Alexandr in Czech) is an opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinu to an original Czech libretto by Andre Wurmser. First performance: Opera house, Mannheim, 1964. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Twice"

“Der in Krohnen erlangte Glückswechsel”, or “Almira, Königin von Castilien” (HWV 1), is George Frideric Handel's first opera. ...more on Wikipedia about "Almira"

Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. First performance: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alzira (opera)"

Amadigi di Gaula is an opera based on the story of Amadis and Dardanus. It was composed by Handel in 1715. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amadigi di Gaula"

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