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His opera Artaxerxes (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s. His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village (1762), was equally novel and began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century. Arne was one of the few English composers of ...
Agnes Sorel (opera) Alban (opera) Albert Herring; Albion and Albanius; Alfred (Arne opera) Alice in Wonderland (opera) Alice's Adventures Under Ground (opera) Amahl and the Night Visitors; The Amber Witch (opera) Amelia (opera) Amelia Goes to the Ball; An American Soldier (opera) An American Tragedy (opera) Amilie, or the Love Test; Angel's ...
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
Donizetti's "comic masterpiece" is one of the last great opera buffas. [82] 1843 I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Verdi). Verdi's follow-up to Nabucco was the first of his operas to be performed in America. [83] 1843 The Bohemian Girl (Michael Balfe). One of the few notable 19th-century English-language operas apart from the works of Gilbert and ...
For example, Mozart's later operas feature a series of memorable, strongly drawn female characters, in particular the so-called "Viennese soubrettes" who, in opera writer Charles Osborne's phrase, "contrive to combine charm with managerial instinct". [6]
English: The Mines of Falun: Oper 3 Acts 1842: Unperformed – Sketch of opera, based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann [17] [27] [35] 70: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (aka Tannhäuser) English: Tannhäuser and the Song Contest at Wartburg Score (Dresden and Paris versions) [37] Große romantische Oper 3 Acts 1843–45: 19 ...
MacMurray, Jessica M. and Allison Brewster Franzetti: The Book of 101 Opera Librettos: Complete Original Language Texts with English Translations, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1996. ISBN 978-1-884822-79-7; Howard Mayer Brown, "Opera", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2001. Oxford University Press; Rous, Samuel Holland (1919).
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63; List of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music productions; List of performances of French grand operas at the Paris Opéra; Salzburg Festival: history and repertoire, 1922–1926; Salzburg Festival: history and repertoire, 1935–1937; List of operas performed at the Santa Fe Opera