H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
Nixon in China is an opera in three acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman.
With music by Richard Auldon Clark and a libretto by the writer himself, the opera premieres on September 16 during Indiana's bicentennial celebrations.
"Abstract Opera No. 1", with music by Boris Blacher and a libretto based on an idea (by composer Werner Egk), "Hin und Zuruck" ("There and Back"), a sketch by Hindemith.
This performance, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, uses a new libretto by Susan Kander.
With a compact scenario by Richard Plant and an effective libretto by Kenward Elmslie, the opera holds the stage as a sure-paced, gripping and subtle musical drama.
First up is the opera "Dog Days," a postapocalyptic saga composed by David T. Little with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
This is Macbeth, composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and premièred in Florence in 1847.
In 1941 Britten produced his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta, to a libretto by Auden.
"Brundibar" is a children's opera, written in 1938 by the Czech composer Hans Krása, with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, a Czech writer and critic.
