Dictionary of Music - Birding America

274 operaSOME IMPORTANT OPERAS (continued)Title Composer Libretto by Sections DateIce Break, The Michael Tippett composer 3 acts 1977Incoronazione di Poppea, L’ Claudio Monteverdi Giovanni Francesco 3 acts 1642(“The Coronation of Poppea”)BusenelloIntermezzo Richard Strauss composer 2 acts 1924Intolleranza 1960 (“Intolerance, Luigi Nono composer 2 acts; rev. 1961;1960”); rev. Intolleranza 1970 1 act rev. 1970Italiana in Algeri, L’ (“The Italian Gioacchino Rossini Angelo Anelli 2 acts 1813Woman of Algiers”)Jenůfa Leoš Janáček composer 3 acts 1904Jonny spielt auf (“Jonny Performs”) Ernst Křenek composer 2 parts 1927Juive, La (“The Jewess”) Jacques Fromental Halévy Eugène Scribe 5 acts 1835Junge Lord, Der (“The Young Lord”) Hans Werner Henze I. Bachmann 2 acts 1965Juniper Tree, The Philip Glass and Robert Arthur Yorinks 6 scenes 1985MoranKluge, Die (“The Clever Girl”) Carl Orff composer 1 act 1943Knot Garden, The Michael Tippett composer 3 acts 1970König Hirsch, Der (“The Stag King”) Hans Werner Henze H. von Cramer 3 acts 1956Königskinder, Die (“The King’s Engelbert Humperdinck Ernst Rosmer 3 acts 1910Children”)Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Dmitri Shostakovitch composer and Y. Preis 4 acts 1934Lakmé Léo Delibes Edmond Gondinet and 3 acts 1883Philippe GilleLife for the Czar, A Mikhail Glinka Georgy Rosen 5 acts 1836Little Women Mark Adamo composer 2 acts 2000Lizzie Borden Jack Beeson K. Elmslie 3 acts 1967Lohengrin Richard Wagner composer 3 acts 1850Louise Gustave Charpentier composer 4 acts 1900Love of Three Oranges, The Sergey Prokofiev composer 4 acts 1921Lucia di Lammermoor Gaetano Donizetti Salvatore Cammarano 3 acts 1835Lulu Alban Berg composer 3 acts 1937(incomplete)Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave 4 acts 1847;rev. 1865Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Giacosa and 3 acts 1904Luigi IllicaMagic Flute, The (seeZAUBERFLÖTE, DIE)Mamelles de Tirésias, Les Francis Poulenc Guillaume Apollinaire 2 acts and 1947(“The Breasts of Tiresias”)prologueManon Jules Massenet Henri Meilhac and 5 acts 1884Philippe GilleManon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini Marco Praga, Domenico 4 acts 1893Oliva, and Luigi IllicaMarriage of Figaro, The (seeNOZZE DI FIGARO, LE)