Music by Giacomo Puccini

Opera in four scenes
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

First performed at the Teatro Regio in Turin, on 1 February 1896

Music by Benjamin Britten

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Edward Morgan Forster and Eric Crozier
Based on the short novel by Herman Melville

First performed at the Royal Opera House, London, on 1 December 1951

Music by Giacomo Puccini

Melodramma in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
after the drama by Victorien Sardou

First performed at Teatro Costanzi in Rome, on 14 January 1900

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Music by Pietro Mascagni
Opera in one act
Text by Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
adapted from short story written by Giovanni Verga

First performed, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 1890

PAGLIACCI
Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Opera in two acts
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

First performed at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 21 May 1892

Music by Giuseppe Verdi

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
after La Dame aux Camélias by Alexadre Dumas Jr.

First performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853

Music by Vincenzo Bellini

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani

First performed at the Teatro Carcano in Milan on 6 March 1831

Music by Giuseppe Verdi

Tragic opera in four acts
Libretto by Andrea Maffei
based on Die Räuber  di Friedrich Schiller

First performed at Her Majesty’s Theatre on 22 July 1847

Music by Hector Berlioz

Dramatic legend in four parts
Libretto by Hector Berlioz and Almire Gandonnière
after Johann Wolfgang Goethe, French translation by Gérard de Nerval

First performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846

After Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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