Weber based the opera, which he intended as a comic counterpart to his Faustian opera "Der Freischütz," on a novella called "The Battle for the Bride".
He based this opera on a 17th-century Spanish play by Pedro Calderon, "La Vida Es Sueno".
(Giuseppe Verdi based his opera La Traviata, first performed in 1853, on this play).
(Giuseppe Verdi based his opera La Traviata, first performed in 1853, on this play). Although Dumas père had written colourful historical plays and novels, Dumas fils specialized in drama set in the present.
The field maps in the fiducial volume show satisfactory agreement with the design fields based on OPERA 3D/TOSCA calculations.
Yet after he turned to creating ballets based on opera and literature, he could surprise.
This orchestral song cycle, completed in 1943, is based on an esteemed set of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, on which Siegfried Matthus also based an opera in 1985.
Another Aldeburgh resident, Benjamin Britten, based his opera Peter Grimes (1945) on one of Crabbe's grim verse tales in The Borough.
Charles Gounod based his opera Faust on Part I of the Goethe work, to a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Since Scottish ghost stories were then in fashion, Mascagni based his opera on such a Scottish tale.
If Sarah Bernhardt's definitive performance in Victorien Sardou's 1887 play "La Tosca" had been available through Netflix, would Puccini ever have based an opera on it?
