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Opera

Essays

Introduction

  • Opera
  • Libretto
  • Aria
  • Florence
  • Mantua
  • Milan
  • Naples
  • Rome
  • Venice

Different forms of Opera

  • Opera buffa
  • Opéra comique
  • Opera seria
  • Singspiel
  • Tragédie en musique

Biographies

Composers

  • Bellini, Vincenzo
  • Berg, Alban
  • Bizet, Georges
  • Cavalli, Francesco
  • Donizetti, Gaetano
  • Glass, Philip
  • Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald
  • Handel, George Frideric
  • Hasse, Johann Adolf
  • Haydn, Joseph
  • Janáček, Leoš
  • Keiser, Reinhard
  • Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  • Meyerbeer, Giacomo
  • Monteverdi, Claudio
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Prokofiev, Sergey
  • Puccini, Giacomo
  • Rameau, Jean-Philippe
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
  • Rossini, Gioachino
  • Salieri, Antonio
  • Scarlatti, Alessandro
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il’yich
  • Tippett, Sir Michael
  • Verdi, Giuseppe
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Weill, Kurt

Librettists

  • Calzabigi, Ranieri de’
  • Da Ponte, Lorenzo
  • Goldoni, Carlo
  • Metastasio, Pietro
  • Quinault, Philippe
  • Romani, Felice

Famous Operas

  • Aida
  • Barbiere di Siviglia
  • Bohème, La
  • Carmen
  • Dido and Aeneas
  • Don Giovanni
  • Dreigroschenoper
  • Einstein on the Beach
  • Elektra
  • Jenůfa
  • Madama Butterfly
  • Nixon in China
  • Nozze di Figaro, Le
  • Orfeo
  • Otello
  • Parsifal
  • Pelléas et Mélisande
  • Ring des Nibelungen, Der
  • Rosenkavalier, Der
  • Salome
  • Tannhäuser
  • Traviata, La
  • Tristan und Isolde
  • Troyens, Les
  • Turandot
  • Wozzeck
  • Zauberflöte, Die
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