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Arizona Lady is an operetta in two acts by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán. The libretto was written by Alfred Grünwald and Gustav Beer. It premiered, as a broadcast in Munich on 1 January 1954, ...

L'arlesiana

Drama; Opera

L'arlesiana is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro ...

Armide (Gluck)

Drama; Opera

Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault. Gluck's fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works, it was first ...

Armide (Lully)

Drama; Opera

Armide is an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The libretto was written by Philippe Quinault, based on Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered). Critics in the 18th century regarded ...

Aroldo

Drama; Opera

Aroldo is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio. The first performance was ...

Artamene

Drama; Opera

Artamene was an opera in three acts by Tomaso Albinoni set to a libretto by Bartolomeo Vitturi. Composed in 1740, it premiered in Venice at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in the 1741 carnival season. It was ...

Les arts florissants

Drama; Opera

Les arts florissants (H. 487) is a short chamber opera (also described by the composer as idylle en musique) in five scenes by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. It was written in 1685 for the group of ...