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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.
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Overture, a 2018 novel by Zlatko Topčić; Overture, a 2015 action-adventure game; Overture Center, a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin; Penumbra: Overture, a survival horror PC video game, the first installment of the Penumbra series by Frictional Games
The Strauss family was frequently joined in their home for music making, meals, and other activities by the orphaned composer and music theorist Ludwig Thuille who was viewed as an adopted member of the family. [1] Strauss's father taught his son the music of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. [1]
Candide was originally conceived by Lillian Hellman as a play with incidental music in the style of her previous work, The Lark.Bernstein, however, was so excited about this idea that he convinced Hellman to do it as a "comic operetta"; she then wrote the original libretto for the operetta.
Theatre poster, 1879. 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.It opened at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.
The opera also includes and parodies elements of melodrama, popular at the Adelphi Theatre. [8] There is a priggishly good-mannered poor-but-virtuous heroine, a villain who carries off the maiden, a hero in disguise and his faithful old retainer who dreams of their former glory days, the snake-in-the-grass sailor who claims to be following his heart, the wild, mad girl, the swagger of fire ...
Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887. Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri (/ aɪ. oʊ ˈ l æ n θ i /) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882.