Richard Strauss’ 15 Operas (List + 1-Sentence Summaries)
All 15 Operas by Richard Strauss at a glance. Including time of composition, premiere dates, short summaries and beginner-friendliness.
All 15 Operas by Richard Strauss at a glance. Including time of composition, premiere dates, short summaries and beginner-friendliness.
All 39 Rossini operas at a glance. Including time of composition, premiere dates, short summaries and beginner-friendliness.
All 12 Puccini Operas at a glance. Including time of composition, premiere dates, short summaries and beginner-friendliness.
How can you bring classical music to children? Three very famous composers had an idea. They simply did what they did best: Compose.
Albert Lortzing (1801–1851) is one of the lesser-known composers today, although he played a decisive role in shaping the genre of German Spieloper. His work "Zar und Zimmermann", for example, is still popular today. In this list you will find all Lortzing operas with the corresponding work number.
In this list you will find all operas by Benjamin Britten with the year of the premiere.
Georges Bizet is best known for Carmen – one of the most performed operas to date. But Bizet created other operas that are less well known. Many were not even performed during the composer's lifetime. In this list you will find all the operas by Georges Bizet, including the year and place of the premiere.
In this list you will find all of Engelbert Humperdinck's operas, including year and place of premiere.
He is still one of the most important opera composers today, although he only lived to the age of 33: Vincenzo Bellini. His most famous operas are probably Norma and I Puritani. In this list you will find all the operas by Vincenzo Bellini, including the year and place of the premiere.
Wagner was known as a slow worker. That is why it is interesting to take a look at the following table of all Wagner operas and the periods in which they were written: Wagner worked on the "Götterdämmerung" (with numerous interruptions) for 26 years!