Partitions opéra

Otto Nicolai's last opera 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor' is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in German opera houses. The lib...

Otto Nicolai's last opera 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor' is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in German opera houses. The lib...

L'opéra bouffe Così fan tutte est l'un des trois opéras de Mozart dont Da Ponte a écrit le livret. Les deux autres collaborations Da Ponte-Mozart sont "Le nozze di Figaro" et "Don Giovanni". L'ouvertu...

L'opéra bouffe Così fan tutte est l'un des trois opéras de Mozart dont Da Ponte a écrit le livret. Les deux autres collaborations Da Ponte-Mozart sont "Le nozze di Figaro" et "Don Giovanni". L'ouvertu...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("L'enlèvement au sérail") est un "singspiel" en trois actes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Le livret allemand est de Gottlieb Stephanie, d'après "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("L'enlèvement au sérail") est un "singspiel" en trois actes de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Le livret allemand est de Gottlieb Stephanie, d'après "Belmont und Constanze, ode...

The opera buffa ‘Don Giovanni’ 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 ‘Così fan tutte’. ‘Do...

The opera buffa ‘Don Giovanni’ 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 ‘Così fan tutte’. ‘Do...

Madama Butterfly est un opéra en trois actes de Giacomo Puccini, sur un livret italien de Luigi Illica et Giuseppe Giacosa. Il est basé sur la nouvelle "Madame Butterfly" (1898) de John Luther Long. L...

Madama Butterfly est un opéra en trois actes de Giacomo Puccini, sur un livret italien de Luigi Illica et Giuseppe Giacosa. Il est basé sur la nouvelle "Madame Butterfly" (1898) de John Luther Long. L...

El bateo est une zarzuela en un acte (genre chico) et quatre scènes, avec une musique de Federico Chueca et un livret d'Antonio Domínguez et Antonio Paso. L'œuvre est l'un des représentants des derniè...

El bateo est une zarzuela en un acte (genre chico) et quatre scènes, avec une musique de Federico Chueca et un livret d'Antonio Domínguez et Antonio Paso. L'œuvre est l'un des représentants des derniè...

Guerre et Paix de Prokofiev est un opéra épique en 13 scènes, plus une ouverture et une épigraphe, basé sur le roman de Léon Tolstoï. Il oppose la "paix" de la haute société russe à la "guerre" de l'i...

Guerre et Paix de Prokofiev est un opéra épique en 13 scènes, plus une ouverture et une épigraphe, basé sur le roman de Léon Tolstoï. Il oppose la "paix" de la haute société russe à la "guerre" de l'i...

Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Il Pirata (The Pirate) was Bellini's third opera. "Il Pirata" is an opera in two acts to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play "Bertram", or "The Castle of...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

As a contribution to the opera "Armer Columbus" by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic "Entr"acte" in c minor (Al...

French composer Adolphe Adam composed his opera "Si j'étais roi" (if I Were King) in 1852. Though less popular than "Le postillon de Lonjumeau", it is often regarded as Adam's finest work. The well-de...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of t...

Since its premiere in 1892, "Werther" has ranked among Jules Massenet's most admired and beloved scores; it has also proved the most enduring. He was inspired to compose the opera about the doomed poe...

The romantic, picturesque and dramatic appeal of medieval Christianity furnished Richard Wagner, after "Tannhäuser", with "Lohengrin". It's a romantic opera in three acts first performed in 1850 un We...