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Pages in category "Operas based on the Bible" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
During Lent it was the custom for Italian opera houses either to close or to stage works on themes from the Bible. Ciro in Babilonia is one of two Lenten operas by Rossini (along with Mosè in Egitto) and is based on the Biblical story of the overthrow of the Babylonian king Belshazzar by the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.
Samson and Delilah (French: Samson et Dalila), Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire.It was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches (Grand Ducal) Theater (now the Staatskapelle Weimar) on 2 December 1877 in a German translation.
Esther is an American opera in 3 acts composed by Hugo Weisgall, with a libretto by Charles Kondek. Esther was premiered by the New York City Opera in October 1993. The opera is about Esther's struggle as she becomes the queen of Persia, and her heroic triumph over the evil Prime Minister Haman and his plot of exterminating the Jews.
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 ...
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.
La mort d'Abel (The Death of Abel) is an opera by the French composer Rodolphe Kreutzer. The libretto , by François-Benoît Hoffman , deals with the Biblical story of Cain and Abel . It was first performed in a three-act version at the Salle Montansier by the Académie Impériale de Musique (the Paris Opéra ) on 23 March 1810 under the title ...