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Stage adaptation of the Who concept album Tommy. A rock opera is a collection of rock music songs with lyrics that relate to a common story. Rock operas are typically released as concept albums and are not scripted for acting, which distinguishes them from operas, although several have been adapted as rock musicals.
Mami (rock opera) Mark of the Mole; Masterpiece Theatre (Marianas Trench album) Mechanical Animals; Metal Folclore: The Zoeira Never Ends... The Metal Opera; The Metal Opera Part II; Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog; Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem; Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory; Missa Mercuria; The Most Lamentable Tragedy
One of the most famous verismo operas, usually paired with Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana. [149] 1892 Werther (Massenet). Along with Manon, this is Massenet's most popular opera. [150] 1893 Falstaff (Verdi). Verdi's final opera was set to another of Boito's libretti. [78] 1893 Hänsel und Gretel (Engelbert Humperdinck). The well-known fairy ...
2000 Bare: A Pop Opera, book by Jon Hartmere Jr. and Damon Intrabartolo, lyrics by Hartmere and music by Intrabartolo; 2000 Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice, based on Giuseppe Verdi's classical opera Aida [2] 2000 Machina/The Machines of God and Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music by The Smashing Pumpkins; 2001 tick, tick...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner ...
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) The only true successor to Giuseppe Verdi in Italian opera, [50] Puccini's Tosca, La bohème and Madama Butterfly are among the most popular and well-recognised in the repertoire today. Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) French composer famous for a single opera, Louise, set in a working class district of Paris. [51]
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