| THE ITALIANS |
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Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
The Barber of Seville
Cinderella
Semiramide
The Italian Girl in Algiers
William Tell |
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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
The Elixir of Love
The Daughter of the Regiment
Don Pasquale
Lucia di Lammermoor |
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Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) – a bel canto composer
La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker)
I Puritani (The Puritans)
Norma |
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) – wrote for the “regular” people
Nabucco
Rigoletto
La Traviata (The Fallen Woman)
Aida
Otello |
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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
La Boheme (The Bohemian)
Tosca
Madame Butterfly
Turandot |
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Cavalleria Rusticana
I, Pagliacci (The Clowns) |
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| THE FRENCH |
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (“MY-er-bear”) 1791-1864
The Huguenots
The Prophet
Robert the Devil |
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Hector Berlioz (“EK-tor BARE-lee-o’s) 1803-1869
Les Troyens (The Trojans) |
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Charles Gounod (“goo-NOE”) 1818-1893
Polyeucte
Faust
Romeo and Juliet |
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Jules Massenet (“mahss-NAY”) 1842-1912
Manon
Werther |
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Georges Bizet (“bee-ZAY”) 1838-1875
Carmen |
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Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880
Orpheus in the Underworld
The Beautiful Helene
The Parisian Life
The Tales of Hoffmann |
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| THE ENGLISH |
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Henry Purcell (“PER-sull) 1659-1695
Dido and Aeneas |
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George Frideric Handel (“HEN-dle”)
Messiah |
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William Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Gilbert & Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Pirates of Pensance
The Mikado
Patience
Iolanthe
The Gondoliers |
 Pictured: William Gilbert |
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Peter Grimes
Billy Budd
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Noye’s Fludde
Death in Venice |
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| THE GERMANS |
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (“glook”) 1714-1787
Orfeo ed Euridice
Iphigenie en Tauride |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (‘MOAT-sart) 1756-1791
Bastien and Bastienne
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni (Don Juan)
Cosi fan tutte
The Magic Flute |
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fidelio |
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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Der Freischutz |
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Richard Wagner (“REEKKH-art VOGG-ner”) 1813-1883
The Fairies
The Ban on Love
Rienzi
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhauser
Lohengrin
Tristan and Isolde
The Master-Singers of Nuremberg
The Ring of the Nibelungs |
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Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
Die Feldermaus (The Bat)
The Gypsy Baron |
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Richard Strauss (“REEKH-art”) 1864-1949
Salome
Elektra
Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose)
Ariadne auf Naxos |
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Alban Berg (“BEARg”) 1885-1935
Wozzeck
Lulu |
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| THE RUSSIANS |
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Mikhail Glinka (“GLEENG-ka”) 1804-1857
A Life for the Tsar
Ruslan and Ludmila |
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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
The Golden Cockerel
Sadko
May Night
The Snow Maiden |
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Peter Tchaikovsky (“chy-KOFF-skee”) 1840-1893
Eugene Onegin
Queen of Spades |
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| THE AMERICANS |
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George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Porgy and Bess |
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Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland
Vanessa
Antony and Cleopatra
The Tender Land |
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Carlisle Floyd
Susannah |
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Douglas Moore
The Ballad of Baby Doe |
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John Adams
Nixon in China |
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Philip Glass
Einstein on the Beach
Satyagraha
Akhnaten
The Voyage |
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William Bolcom
McTeague |
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John Corigliano
The Ghosts of Versailles |
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Anton Coppola
Sacco & Vanzetti |
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