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Drama

The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works via any artistic medium.

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Aida

Drama; Opera

Aida (Italian: ), sometimes spelled Aïda, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario often attributed to French ...

Ainadamar

Drama; Opera

Ainadamar means "Fountain of Tears" in Arabic, and is the first opera by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov. The Spanish-language libretto is by American playwright David Henry ...

Akhnaten

Drama; Opera

Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in ...

Alahor in Granata

Drama; Opera

Alahor in Granata is an opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an anonymous Italian libretto (indicated only with the initials "M.A.") after Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's ...

Albert Herring

Drama; Opera

Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his ...

Alceste (Gluck)

Drama; Opera

Alceste, Wq. 37 (the later French version is Wq. 44), is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767. The libretto (in Italian) was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi and based ...

Alceste (Handel)

Drama; Opera

Alceste (Alcides; HWV 45, HG: 46b, HHA: I/30) is a masque or semi-opera by George Frideric Handel. It was written as incidental music to a lost play by Tobias Smollett, which was ...