Music Leonard Bernstein
A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers
Text by Bernstein and additional text and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
First performed, John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts, Washington D.C., September 8 1971
Music Giovanni Sollima
Libretto by Giancarlo De Cataldo
Music Christoph Willibald Gluck
Tragédie Opéra in three acts
Libretto by Marius-François-Louis Gand Lebland, Bailli du Roullet
after Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (Paris version 1776)
Based on Euripide Alcesti
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Dramma lirico in four acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after the drama by Victor Hugo
Length: 3 hours and 15′
first part 50′ – first intermission 30′ – second part 35′ –
second intermission 30′ – third and fourth part 50′
Music Vincenzo Bellini
Opera seria in three acts
Libretto by Carlo Pepoli
Based on the historical play Têtes rondes et Cavaliers by Jacques-François Ancelot e Joseph Xavier Boniface
Music Giacomo Puccini
Melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the drama by Victorien Sardou
Music Giorgio Battistelli
Tragedy in music
Libretto by Ian Burton
after William Shakespeare
Work commissioned by Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
World Premiere
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Dramma lirico in four acts
Libretto by Temistocle Solera
First performed
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 15 February 1845
First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 15 May 1972
Music Giacomo Puccini
Opera in four scenes
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
after Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger and Théodore Barrière
First performed
Turin, Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896
Music Giacomo Puccini
Japanese Tragedy in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
after John Luther Long and David Belasco
First performed
Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904
