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Giuseppe Verdi. The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.
John Leighton Brecknock (29 November 1937 – 30 May 2017) was an English operatic tenor. He was born at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, joined the chorus of Sadler's Wells Opera in 1967 and graduated to small solo roles. [1] He made his Covent Garden debut in 1974 as Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff with Tito Gobbi.
This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the "Lists Consulted" section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri , who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams , one of the leading figures in the ...
This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of opera from light music to ...
The "Operadis" discography lists more than seventy other recordings, made at live performances. They include those conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at the Metropolitan Opera in 1944 with Leonard Warren in the title role; [4] Fritz Reiner with Warren at the Met (1948); [5] Victor de Sabata with Mariano Stabile at La Scala (1951); [6] Karajan and Gobbi at the Salzburg Festival (1957); [7] Tullio ...
A romantic comedy with music drawing on the opera buffa style of Rossini. [214] 1946 The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti). Considered by many to be Menotti's finest work. [215] 1946 The Rape of Lucretia (Britten). Britten's first chamber opera. [216] 1947 Albert Herring (Britten). Britten's comic opera is heavily based upon use of the ensemble. [216]
Falstaff (Italian pronunciation:) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare.