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Dèbora e Jaéle (Deborah and Jael) is an opera in three acts composed by Ildebrando Pizzetti who also wrote the libretto. The libretto is based on the story of Deborah and Jael from the Book of Judges in the Bible. However, it differs in several ways from the traditional Biblical account, primarily in the motivations of its characters and the ...
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David et Jonathas (David and Jonathan), H.490, is an opera in five acts and a prologue by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, first performed at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, on 28 February 1688. The libretto, by Father François Bretonneau, is based on the Old Testament story of the friendship between David and Jonathan.
The opera uses a Hebrew language libretto by Armand Lunel which is based on the Books of Samuel. [1] The work was commissioned with funds provided by conductor Serge Koussevitzky who died prior to the opera's premiere, and was composed in celebration of the 3,000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Jerusalem by King David ; the man who ...
Alexander the Great who appears as a character in over seventy operas, including two by George Frideric Handel. This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in opera or operetta. Historical accuracy in such works has often been subject to the imperatives of dramatic presentation. Consequently, in many cases:
Noé was the last opera of the composer Fromental Halévy. The opera's libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, who had written the book for the composer's first opera to reach performance, L'artisan (1827). Noé is based on the biblical story of Noah.
The play is based on the characters from the biblical Genesis creation narrative. [2] When it was premiered in Munich in 1912, it caused a scandal and was banned in the Kingdom of Bavaria. [1] [3] Rudi Stephan set the text to music as an opera in two acts. [3] He began in 1909 and completed it in 1914, shortly before World War I.
Operas based on the Bible (40 P) E. Operas set in ancient Egypt (1 C, 19 P) G. Operas set in ancient Greece (19 P) L. Operas set in the Levant (1 C, 14 P) M.