Drama

Drama

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

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Alceste (Lully)

Drama; Opera

Alceste, ou Le triomphe d’Alcide is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The French-language libretto is by Philippe Quinault, after ...

Alcina

Drama; Opera

Alcina (HWV 34) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, an opera that was set in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he ...

Alessandro

Drama; Opera

Alessandro (Alexander the Great, HWV 21) is an opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726. Paolo Rolli was the librettist and ...

Alessandro nelle Indie

Drama; Opera

Alessandro nelle Indie (En. Alexander in India) is an opera seria in two acts by Giovanni Pacini, with libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on Alessandro nell'Indie by Pietro ...

Alexandre bis

Drama; Opera

Alexandre bis ( 'Alexander Twice' in English translation, 'Dvakrát Alexandr' in Czech translation) is a surrealist comic opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů, (H. 255), composed ...

Alzira

Drama; Opera

Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. The first ...

Amadis (Lully)

Drama; Opera

Amadis or Amadis de Gaule (Amadis of Gaul) is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Nicolas Herberay ...