Partitions opéra

The zarzuela "El barberillo de Lavapiés" (1874) is the comic masterpiece of Spanish composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. It's a miracle of raw popular spirit, musical subtlety, ironic wit and political...

Quando me'n vo", also known as Musetta's Waltz, is a soprano aria sung in the second act of Puccini's opera La Bohème" by Musetta in presence of her bohemian friends, and is directed toward Marcello i...

The opera buffa Così fan tutte (Thus do they all )is one of the three Mozart operas for which Da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two Da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were Le nozze di Figaro and Don...

Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) was a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music. He first coupled a career as a music critic with more conventionally serious composition, before,...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, "Le Barbier de Séville" ravit le public avec ses personnages finement...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini est l'un des plus grands opéras comiques. Basé sur une excellente pièce de Beaumarchais, "Le Barbier de Séville" ravit le public avec ses personnages finement...

Tenor and Symphonic Band The score of 'La Gioconda' is best known for its ballet divertimento 'The Dance of the Hours'. The tangled story of passion, intrigue, violence and eventual tragedy is set aga...

The score of "La Gioconda" is best known for its ballet divertimento "The Dance of the Hours". The tangled story of passion, intrigue, violence and eventual tragedy is set against the grim splendour o...

L'opéra "La Wally" d'Alfredo Catalani est surtout connu pour son air "Ebben ? Ne andro lontana'. Il avait composé cet air indépendamment sous le nom de "Chanson GroÙnlandaise" en 1878 et l'a ensuite i...

Alfredo Catalani's Opera "La Wally" is best known for its aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana". He had composed that aria independently as "Chanson Groënlandaise" in 1878 and later incorporated it into his...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'Anneau du Nibelung) est un cycle de quatre opéras épiques du compositeur allemand Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Les œuvres s'inspirent librement des personnages des sagas nord...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera "Les contes d'Hoffman", but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

Carmen est probablement l'opéra le plus célèbre de tout le répertoire lyrique, bien que sa création en 1875 ait été une grande déception. Le chœur "Vivat ! Vivat le Torero !" est chanté dans le deuxiè...

Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The chorus "Vivat! Vivat le Toréro!" is sung in the second act of the...

Soprano, Mezzo Soprano and Symphonic Band From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera 'Hänsel und Gretel' was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera 'Hänsel und Gretel' was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based pon the Grim...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera "Hänsel und Gretel" was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based on the Grimm...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'Anneau du Nibelung) est un cycle de quatre opéras épiques du compositeur allemand Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Les œuvres s'inspirent librement des personnages des sagas nord...

La Bohème was first performed in 1886 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak wit...

Le Nozze di Figaro est l'un des trois opéras que Mozart a composés sur des livrets de Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), le célèbre directeur de théâtre et poète de cour viennois. L'aria "Dove sono i bei m...

L'opéra "Cavalleria Rusticana" de Pietro Mascagni est un drame tempétueux d'adultère et de vengeance qui se déroule le dimanche de Pâques dans un village italien isolé. Ses passions terreuses, ses scè...