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The Opera was then performed in 2008 for the first time since the first half of the 18th century. Vivaldi's setting of the Argippo libretto partially survives in a pasticcio, RV Anh. 137, which, in the 21st century, was the basis for a reconstruction of the Prague version of Vivaldi's opera.
The opera libretto from its inception (c. 1600) was written in verse, and this continued well into the 19th century, although genres of musical theatre with spoken dialogue have typically alternated verse in the musical numbers with spoken prose. Since the late 19th century some opera composers have written music to prose or free verse libretti.
This section was last updated and/or checked for broken links on 22:25, 17 Jan 2024 (UTC) Teatro la Fenice in Venice publishes many of their programmi di sala online. The pdf files (in Italian) contain full librettos, extensive essays on the operas, many illustrations with original playbills and posters, role creators' portraits, original set and costume designs, score extracts, etc.
The Magic Flute is a celebrated opera composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart employed a libretto written by his close colleague Emanuel Schikaneder, the director of the Theater auf der Wieden at which the opera premiered in the same year. (He also played the role of Papageno). Grout and Williams describe the libretto thus:
English: The Saracen Woman: Oper 5 Acts 1841–42: Unperformed – Libretto based on the character "Manfred" from Lord Byron's drama, not set to music [35] [36] 68: Die Bergwerke zu Falun English: The Mines of Falun: Oper 3 Acts 1842: Unperformed – Sketch of opera, based on a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann [17] [27] [35] 70
for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon (first Rameau opera by that name), Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre; Henri Caïn (1859–1937) alone: for Jules Massenet: Cendrillon, La Navarraise, Don Quichotte, Roma, Sapho; for Franco Alfano: Cyrano di Bergerac
Mark Campbell is a New York-based librettist and lyricist whose operas have received both a Pulitzer Prize in Music [1] and a GRAMMY Award. [2] Mark began writing for the stage as a musical theatre lyricist, but turned to libretto-writing after he premiered Volpone, his first full-length opera in 2004 at Wolf Trap Opera Company.