Dictionary of Music - Birding America

opera 277SOME IMPORTANT OPERASTitle Composer Libretto by Sections DateTales of Hoffmann, The (seeCONTES D’HOFFMANN, LES)Taming of the Shrew, The Vittorio Giannini composer and Dorothea Fee 2 acts 1953Tannhäuser Richard Wagner composer 3 acts 1845Taverner Peter Maxwell Davies composer 2 acts 1972Telephone, The Gian Carlo Menotti composer 1 act 1947Tender Land, The Aaron Copland Horace Everett 3 acts 1954Teseo (“Theseus”) George Frideric Handel N. Haym 4 acts 1713Thaïs Jules Massenet Louis Gallet 3 acts 1894Tosca Giacomo Puccini Guiseppe Giacosa and 3 acts 1900Luigi IllicaTraviata, La (“The Erring One”) Giuseppe Verdi Francesco Maria Piave 3 acts 1853Trial of Lucullus, The Roger Sessions composer 1 act 1947Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner composer 3 acts 1865Trittico, II (“The Trilogy”) Giacomo Puccini 3 operas 1918Suor Angelica (“Sister Angelica”) Gioacchino Forzano 1 actGianni Schicchi Gioacchino Forzano 1 actIl Tabarro (“The Cloak”) Giuseppe Adami 1 actTrovatore, II (“The Troubadour”) Giuseppe Verdi Salvatore Cammarano 4 acts 1853Troyens, Les (“The Trojans”) Hector Berlioz composer 5 acts 1863Turandot Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Adami and 3 acts 1926(completed by F. Alfano) Renato SimoniTurn of the Screw, The Benjamin Britten Myfawny Piper 2 acts 1954Vanessa Samuel Barber Gian Carlo Menotti 4 acts 1958View from the Bridge, A William Bolcom Arthur Miller and A. 2 acts 1999WeinsteinVolo di notte (“Night Flight”) Luigi Dallapiccola composer 1 act 1940Walküre, Die (see RING DESNIBELUNGEN, DER)War and Peace Sergey Prokofiev composer 5 acts 1957Werther Jules Massenet Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet, 4 acts 1892and Georges HartmannWhere the Wild Things Are Oliver Knussen Maurice Sendak 3 acts 1983William Tell (see GUILLAUME TELL)Wozzeck Alban Berg composer 3 acts 1925Xerxes (Serse) George Frideric Handel unknown 3 acts 1738Yevgeny Onyegin (see EUGEN ONEGIN)Zar und Zimmermann (“Tsar Gustav Albert Lortzing composer 3 acts 1837and Carpenter”)Zauberflöte, Die (“The Magic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Emanuel Schikaneder 2 acts 1791Flute”)Also, both Handel and Bach’s son, Johann Christian,who had studied in Italy, wrote many operas in theItalian style for English audiences.By the mid-eighteenth century, Italian opera hadfallen into a rigid, totally predictable pattern, at leastin the opera seria (“serious opera”). Such operas,