Music Franz Lehár
Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Victor Léon e Leo Stein
First performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, on 30 December 1905
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni
First performed
Teatro dell’Opera del Cairo, on 21 December 1871
Music Gioachino Rossini
Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
after Barber of Seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
First performed
Teatro Argentina in Rome, 20 February 1816
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Opera in Three Acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexadre Dumas Jr.
OPERA IN CONCERT FORM
Music Igor’ Stravinskij
A Lyric Fable in Three Acts
Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
First performed, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, September 11, 1951
Music Georges Bizet
Opera in four Acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on Prosper Merimée’s novel
First performed, Opéra-Comique in Paris, March 3, 1875
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Melodramma tragico in Three Acts
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano after the bourgeois tragedy Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller
First performed, Teatro di San Carlo in Neaples, December 8 1849
Music Leoš Janáček
Opera in Three Acts
Libretto by Leoš Janácek in the Czech translation by Vincenc Červinka based on The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky
First performed, Brno National Theatre, November 23, 1921
Firs performance at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 18 January 2022
Music Giacomo Puccini
Lyric Drama in Three Acts and Five Scenes
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni
First performed, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, April 25, 1926
Music Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij
Lyric Scenes in Three Acts
Libretto by the composer and K.S. Shilovsky, after Aleksandr Pushkin’s verse novel
First performed, Malïy Theatre, Students of the Moscow Conservatory, March 29, 1879
