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- 11:56, 20 February 2024 Dead Man Walking (hist) [986 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Dead Man Walking'' is an opera composed by American Jake Heggie, with a libretto by playwright Terrence McNally. ==The original text== Based on the book of the same na...")
- 11:52, 20 February 2024 La Scala di Seta (hist) [924 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''La Scala di Seta'' or ''La scala di Seta'' is an operatic ''farsa comica'' in one act by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. ==The original te...")
- 11:45, 20 February 2024 L'incoronazione di Poppea (hist) [1,026 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''L'incoronazione di Poppea'' is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. ==The original text== The opera explores how Pop...")
- 11:34, 20 February 2024 Poet and Prophetess (hist) [2,404 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Poet and Prophetess'' is an opera with music by Mats Larsson Gothe and libretto by Michael Williams (1962-) Adapted as a one-act opera (Act 3 of the original opera)...")
- 11:00, 20 February 2024 Werther (hist) [1,104 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Werther'' is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann. ==The original text== It is loosely base...")
- 16:44, 19 February 2024 Manon (hist) [947 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Manon'' is is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille. ==The original text== Based on the 1731 no...")
- 16:38, 19 February 2024 La Rondine (hist) [966 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''La Rondine'' ("The Swallow") is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami. ==The original text== Based on a libretto by Alfred...")
- 16:08, 19 February 2024 The Orphans of Qumbu (hist) [1,491 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''The Orphans of Qumbu'' is an opera by composer Alan Stephenson and librettist Michael Williams. ==The original text== Published in ''The orphans of Qumbu and...")
- 15:54, 19 February 2024 Treemonisha (hist) [1,218 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Treemonisha'' is an opera by American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. It is sometimes referred to as a "ragtime opera". ==The original text== Written in 1911, the opera...")
- 15:49, 19 February 2024 Rusalka (hist) [884 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Rusalka'' is a 1901 opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil. ==The original text== Based on the fairy tales of Karel Ja...")
- 15:40, 19 February 2024 Masque (hist) [1,090 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Masque'' is an African opera by Hans Huyssen on a libretto by Ilija Trojanow. ==The original text== Commissioned by the National Arts Council and Pro He...")
- 15:18, 19 February 2024 Andrea Chénier (hist) [1,523 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Andrea Chénier'' is Andrea Chénier is a ''verismo opera'' in four acts by Umberto Giordano (1867-1948), set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. ==The original tex...")
- 15:14, 19 February 2024 Alcina (hist) [938 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Alcina'' is Alcina is a 1735 ''opera seria'' by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). ==The original text== Handel used the libretto of ''L'isola di Alcina'', an opera...")
- 22:53, 18 February 2024 The Pardoner’s Tale (hist) [166 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to The Canterbury Tales) Tag: New redirect
- 18:05, 18 February 2024 The Bartered Bride (hist) [2,462 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''The Bartered Bride'' is a comic opera in 3 acts by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana with text by Kazel Sabina. ==The original text== Set in a country village and with r...")
- 17:34, 18 February 2024 Earthdiving (hist) [1,411 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Earthdiving'' or ''earthdiving'' is a techno-opera composed by Péter Louis van Dijk with Martin Phipps and Mokale Koapeng. ==The original text== ==Tra...")
- 17:06, 18 February 2024 Les Pêcheurs de Perles (hist) [1,095 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Les Pêcheurs de Perles'' or ''Les pêcheurs de perles'' (The Pearl Fishers) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Georges Bizet (1838-1875), to a librett...")
- 16:54, 18 February 2024 Idomeneo (hist) [1,685 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Idomeneo'' is or ''Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante'' is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). ==The original text== T...")
- 16:39, 18 February 2024 Dido and Aeneas (hist) [1,551 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Dido and Aeneas'' is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695) with a libretto by Nahum Tate. ==The origi...")
- 16:31, 18 February 2024 Un Ballo in Maschera (hist) [1,264 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Un Ballo in Maschera'' or ''Un ballo in Maschera'' is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. ==The original text== The text, by Antonio Somma, was based o...")
- 11:57, 18 February 2024 Love and Green Onions (hist) [1,079 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Love & Green Onions'' is a jazz opera composed by Denzil Weale with a libretto by Michael Williams. ==The original text== Based on Zakes Mda’s novel ''Wa...")
- 18:14, 17 February 2024 Amarantha (hist) [1,437 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Amarantha'' is an opera in seven scenes by composer Thomas Rajna (1928-2021) with a libretto by the composer based on a short story by D W Steele. ==The original text==...")
- 16:54, 17 February 2024 Norma (hist) [1,526 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Norma'' is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani. ==The original text== Based on the play ''Norma, ou L'infanticide'' by Alexandre So...")
- 16:49, 17 February 2024 Don Pasquale (hist) [2,971 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Don Pasquale'' is Don Pasquale is an ''opera buffa'', or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini a...")
- 16:31, 17 February 2024 Sacred Bones (hist) [1,418 bytes] Darryl (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Sacred Bones'' is a one-act opera composed by Roelof Temmingh (1946–2012) with a libretto by Michael Williams. ==The original text== Set in the African bus...")
- 08:09, 17 February 2024 Discreet (hist) [886 bytes] Satj (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Discreet'' is a play by Joshua Rous. ==The original text== ==Translations and adaptations== == Performance history in South Africa == 2006: Performed at the ...")