Language: French
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Manon is an Opéra Comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. It was firs...

Language: Italian
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In 1649, Francesco Cavalli, who was then the most important composer of operas in Venice, transformed the Greek myth of Jason and Medea into an opera for the libertine and hedonistic city of Venice, and the truffle of comic scenes, he...

Language: English
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Figaro Gets a Divorce is conceived as a sequel to Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) based on the 1778 play Le Mariage de Figaro, by Pierre Beaumarchais. This had been created by Beaumarchais as a sequel t...

Language: Italian
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The opera is the first of three resulting from the collaboration between Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, the other two being Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. It was Mozart who initially chose Beaumarchais' play, The Marriage of Figaro, a...

Language: Italian
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The Barber of Seville is Gioachino Rossini's best-known opera, set to a libretto by Cesare Sterbini, premiered in 1816 and considered by many to be the masterpiece of Italian opera-bouffe. The story was taken from the comedy The Barbe...

Language: German
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Kein Licht is based on a text by Nobel Prize‐winning author Elfriede Jelinek.
March 11, 2011. An earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastate the eastern coast of Japan. The cooling systems of the Fukushima nuclear power pla...

Language: Italian
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The Barber of Seville is Gioachino Rossini's best-known opera, set to a libretto by Cesare Sterbini, premiered in 1816 and considered by many to be the masterpiece of Italian opera-bouffe. The story was taken from the comedy The Barbe...

Language: German
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The opera's unusual combination of elements of low commedia dell'arte with those of high opera seria points up one of the w...

Language: French
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Medea ("Médée") is a French language Opéra-Comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. It is set in ...

Language: Italian
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"Così fan tutte", or "La scuola degli amanti", is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo da Ponte, premiered on January 26, 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. It marks the third and l...

Language: French

The Pilgrim Woman ("La Pellegrina") is a 1579 play written by Girolamo Bargagli of Siena that had been performed for the first time on 2 May 1589 in Florence, after the author's death in 1586, on the occasion of the marriage of Ferdinand I de' Medici, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, with...

Language: French
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Mam'zelle Nitouche is a vaudeville-opérette in three acts by Hervé. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud. This story of a respectable musician, transforming himself into a songwriter at night, is partly inspired...

Language: French
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A parody is above all a hilarious spectacle. The prodigious success of Atys parodies in the 18th century is based on the phenomenon of degradation; one of them, Atys travesti de Carolet (parody for puppets created at the Foire...

[Language: French]

Le Devin du village is the first success of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) in the field of opera. “Musical interlude in one act”, the work is composed over three weeks in the spring of 1752, on a libretto by Rousseau himself, then premiered at the court of Fontainebleau on ...

[Language: French]

This 1955 radio work, composed by Germaine Tailleferre to a libretto by Denise Centore, brings together four minute operas: "La Fille d'opéra", "Le Bel Ambitious", "La Pauvre Eugénie" and "Monsieur Petitpois bous un château". Each one was written "in the manner of": Rameau, Ro...

[Language: German with Burnt-in French Subtitles]

La Ronde (also known by its original German title, Reigen) is a play in which ten people form an unwitting interpersonal circle with their secret sexual relationships. It was written by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 and was controversial at that time...

[Language: Italian with Burnt-in French Subtitles]

Medea ("Médée") is a French language Opéra-Comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides' tragedy of Medea and Pierre Corneille's play Médée. It is set in the ancient city of...

[Language: French]

The Triumph of Love (French: Le Triomphe de l'amour) is a three-act French comic play by Pierre de Marivaux.
This play, based, like many others by Marivaux, on transvestite and seduction, was not a success at its initial performance. "They were shocked to see a princess of Spa...