Dictionary of Music - Birding America

opera 275SOME IMPORTANT OPERASTitle Composer Libretto by Sections DateMartha Friedrich von Flotow Friedrich Wilhelm Riese 4 acts 1847Mathis der Maler Paul Hindemith composer 7 scenes 1938Matrimonio segreto, II (“The Domenico Cimarosa Giovanni Bertati 2 acts 1792Secret Marriage”)Medium, The Gian Carlo Menotti composer 2 acts 1946Mefistofele Arrigo Boito composer 4 acts 1868Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Die Richard Wagner composer 3 acts 1868(“The Mastersingers of Nuremberg”)Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Benjamin Britten composer and Peter Pears 3 acts 1960Mignon Ambroise Thomas Jules Barbier and Michel 3 acts 1866CarréMoses und Aron Arnold Schoenberg composer 3 acts 1957Mother of Us All, The Virgil Thomson composer and Gertrude 2 acts 1947SteinNightingale, The (Le Rossignol) Igor Stravinsky composer and Stepan 3 acts 1914MitusovNixon in China John Adams Alice Goodman 2 acts 1987Norma Vincenzo Bellini Felice Romani 4 acts 1831Nozze di Figaro, Le (“The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lorenzo da Ponte 4 acts 1786Marriage of Figaro”)Oberon Carl Maria von Weber J. R. Planché 3 acts 1826Old Maid and the Thief, The Gian Carlo Menotti composer 1 act 1939 (radio)1941 (stage)Opera Luciano Berio composer 4 acts; rev. 1970;rev. 3 acts 1977Orfeo ed Euridice (“Orpheus Christoph Willibald Gluck Ranieri di Calzabigi 3 acts 1762;and Eurydice”) rev. 1774Otello Giuseppe Verdi Arrigo Boito 4 acts 1887Pagliacci, I (“The Clowns”) Ruggiero Leoncavallo composer 2 acts 1892Parsifal Richard Wagner composer 3 acts 1882Pêcheurs de perles, Les Georges Bizet Eugène Cormon and 3 acts 1863(“The Pearl Fishers”)Michel CarréPelléas et Mélisande Claude Debussy Maurice Maeterlinck 5 acts 1902Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten Montagu Slater 3 acts 1945Picture of Dorian Gray, The Lowell Liebermann composer 12 scenes 1996Pique Dame (see QUEEN OFSPADES, THE)Porgy and Bess George Gershwin DuBose Heyward and 3 acts 1935Ira GershwinPrigioniero, II (“The Prisoner”) Luigi Dallapiccola composer prologue and 19491 actPrince Igor Alexander Borodin composer 4 acts 1890Prodana Nevesta (see BARTEREDBRIDE, THE)(Continues)