Giselle, originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis is a romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 28 ...

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The exoticism of the 18th century, which takes pleasure in reducing distant worlds to porcelain trinkets as naive as they are charming, and which considers the foreigner with the ironic gaze of Montesquieu is strongly shaken b...

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The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexande...

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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...

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Gloriana, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, Lon...

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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...

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SEVEN STONES is an innovative Cappella opera written by young Czech composer Ondřej Adámek for 4 solo singers and a 12 solo voices choir Libretto by SJÓN Commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival World! Invitation to travel throug...

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La donna del lago (English: The Lady of the Lake) is an opera composed by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the French translation of The Lady of the Lake, a narrative poem written in 1810 by Sir Walt...

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Street Scene is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, Street Scene is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play of the sa...

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Les Contes d'Hoffmann, is a fantastic opera in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue by Jacques Offenbach, inspired by the storyteller E.T. A. Hoffmann. The libretto is an adaptation that Jules Barbier took from the play he w...

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Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumou...

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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...

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Aida is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871,...