Music Vincenzo Bellini

Opera in two acts

Libretto by Felice Romani

World Premiere: Teatro Carcano, Milan, March 6, 1831

First performance at Teatro Costanzi: May 14, 1881

Music Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in four acts

Libretto by Arrigo Boito based on the William Shakespeare’s play Othello

World premiere Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 5 February 1887

First Performed at Teatro Costanzi 16 April 1887

Music Benjamin Britten

Opera in one prologue and three acts

Libretto by Montagu Slater after the George Crabbe’s poem, The Borough

World Premiere Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 7 June 1945

First performed at Teatro Costanzi 2 May 1961

Music Richard Strauss

Opera in one act
After the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde

World Premiere: Hofoper, Dresda, December 9, 1905
First performed at Teatro Costanzi: March 9, 1908

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Singspiel in two acts

Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

World premiere: Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna, September 30, 1791

First performance at the Teatro Costanzi: March 16, 1937

Music by Giacomo Puccini

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou

World premiere: Teatro Costanzi, Rome 14 January 1900

Music Arrigo Boito

Opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue

Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Goethe’s Faust

World Premiere Teatro alla Scala di Milano, 5 March 1868

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 29 October 1887

Music Georg Friedrich Händel

Opera in three act
Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym after Giacomo Francesco Bussani

World Première King’s Theatre, Londra, 20 february 1724

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 26 December 1955