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 Georges Bizet
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée
First performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875
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
