
Hector Berlioz
LES TROYENS
As a ten-year-old Hector Berlioz was deeply gripped by Vergil’s Aenead, and for years
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Gaetano Donizetti
LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) wrote his first opera at the early age of 21, which over the
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
LO FRATE 'NNAMORATO
Pergolesi’s comic opera “Lo frate ’nnamorato” (The Brother in Love) from 1732 was
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Richard Wagner
LOHENGRIN
Wagner set the action of his “romantic opera” Lohengrin in the “first half of the
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Giuseppe Verdi
LUISA MILLER
Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” is an opera in three acts based on Schiller’s
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Alban Berg
LULU
When Lulu was premiered in Zurich in 1937, it immediately created a scandal. Even though
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Alban Berg
LULU
Alban Berg’s second opera “Lulu” was premiered in 1937 in Zurich, incomplete,
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
L’AFRICAINE
Plácido Domingo, as Vasco da Gama, and Shirley Verrett, as the African queen whom he has
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
L’OLIMPIADE
With “Olimpiade” the famous poet Metastasio created one of the most popular librettos
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Giuseppe Verdi
MACBETH
With this opera, Verdi composed a true music drama. For this great early opera, he
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Giuseppe Verdi
MACBETH
This epic opera inspired by Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece was written in 1847, but did
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Giuseppe Verdi
MACBETH
Macbeth signifies the beginning of Verdi"s life-long preoccupation with William
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MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Giacomo Puccini, the most significant Italian opera composer to follow in the footsteps of
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Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
In 2012, the Hamburg State Opera presented a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s
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Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – the composer’s selfproclaimed favourite work
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Giacomo Puccini
MANON LESCAUT
Manon Lescaut, Puccini‘s first major success, is a work of impassioned emotions based on
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Giacomo Puccini
MANON LESCAUT
Manon Lescaut is Giacomo Puccini’s Romeo and Juliet, his Bonnie and Clyde, his Tristan
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Gaetano Donizetti
MARIA STUARDA
Two queens on one island. A recipe for disaster. Especially as both have a legitimate
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Aribert Reimann
MEDEA
Aribert Reimann is one of the world’s most important living composers. His works are
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