Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Singspiel unfinished
Words by Johann Andreas Schachtner
New Text by Italo Calvino
First performed, Oper Frankfurt, January 27, 1866
Die lustige Witwe
Music Franz Lehár
Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein
OPERA IN CONCERT FORM
Music Gioachino Rossini
Opera buffa in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
after Barber of Seville by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
OPERA IN CONCERT FORM
Music Giuseppe Verdi
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
after Victor Hugo’s drama Le Roi s’amuse
First performed
Teatro La Fenice in Venice, on 11 March 1851
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
