Synopses
Music by Raskatov Libretto by Mazzonis after Bulgakov
Act I...A Masked Ball (Un ballo in maschera) synopsis
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Antonio Somma after Eugène Scribe’s...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Synopsis
Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears,...
Music by George Frideric Handel Libretto by Vincenzo Grimani First...
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni after a scenario by...
Music by Iain Hamilton Libretto by the composer after Tolstoy First...
Beatrice and Benedict synopsis
Music by Hector Berlioz Libretto by the composer after Shakespeare First...
Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier after...
Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal First performed:...
Music by John Adams Libretto by Peter Sellars adapted from original sources...
Music by Ferruccio Busoni Libretto by the composer First performed:...
Doctor Ox’s Experiment synopsis
Music by Gavin Bryars Libretto by Blake Morrison after Jules Verne First...
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte First...
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle synopsis
Music by Béla Bartók Libretto by Béla Balázs after the story by Charles...
Elegy for Young Lovers Synopsis
Music by Hans Werner Henze Libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester...
Music by Gaetano Donnizetti. Libretto by Felico Romani after Eugene...
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Piave after Victor Hugo's...
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Arrigo Boito after William Shakespeare...
Music by Charles-François Gounod Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel...
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg...
From Morning to Midnight synopsis
Music by David Sawer Libretto by the composer after the play Von morgens...
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Giambattista Varesco from a...
Il Capuleti e i Montecchi synopsis
Music by Vincenzo Bellini Libretto by Felice Romani after Shakespeare First...
Il trittico (The Triptych) synopsis
Music by Puccini
The Cloak, Libretto by Giuseppe AdamiParis, an...
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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L’amour de loin (Love form afar) synopsis
L’amour de loin (Love form afar) synopsisMusic by Kaija...
Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica...
Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica after Prévost’s novel...
Music by Jules Massenet Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille after...
Mary Stuart (Maria Stuarda) synopsis
Music by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari after Schiller...
Mephistopheles (Mefistofele) synopsis
Music by Arrigo Boito Libretto by the composer after Goethe First...
Music by Leonard Bernstein Libretto by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based...
Music by Claudio Monteverdi Libretto by Alessandro Striggio after Ovid...
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck Libretto by Ranieri de’Calzabigi First...
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare First...
Music by Ruggero Leoncavallo Libretto by the composer First performed:...
Music by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer First performed: 1882
...Music by George Frideric Handel Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia First...
Pelléas and Mélisande synopsis
Music by Claude Debussy Libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck First performance:...
Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto by Montagu Slater after Crabbe First...
Music by Harrison Birtwistle Libretto by Stephen Pruslin First performed:...
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Libretto by the composer after John...
Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Hugo First...
Music by George Frideric Handel Libretto by William Congreve after Ovid...
Music by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer First performed: 1876
...Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Libretto by the composer after...
Music by Jules Massenet Libretto by Louis Galet after Anatole France First...
Music by John Buller
I am Dionysus: Dionysus announces his...Music by Bedřich Smetana Libretto by Karel Sabina First performed: 1870...
The Carmelites (Dialogues des Carmélites) synopsis
Music by Francis Poulenc Libretto by Ernest Lavery after Georges Bernanos...
The Coronation of Poppea synopsis
Music by Monteverdi Libretto by G. F. Busenello after Tacitus First...
The Cunning Little Vixen synopsis
Music by Leoš Janáček Libretto by the composer after Rudolf...
Music by Torsten Rasch Libretto by Ian Burton, from John Webster’s play...
Music by Poul Ruders Libretto by Paul Bentley, based upon the novel The...
The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) synopsis
Music by Wolfgand Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte First...
Music by Harrison Birtwistle Libretto by Peter Zinovieff First performed:...
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) synopsis
Music by Franz Lehár Libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein adapted from a...
Music by Georges Bizet Libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré First...
The Pirates of Penzance synopsis
Music by Arthur Sullivan Libretto by W. S. Gilbert First performed:...
Music by David Blake Libretto by John Birtwistle First performed: 1989
...Music by Igor Stravinsky Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman after...
Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto by Ronald Duncan after André Obey...
Music by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer First performed: 1862
...Music by Mark-Anthony Turnage Libretto by Amanda Holden after Sean...
Music by Alexander Dargomizhsky Libretto by Alexander Pushkin First...
The Turk in Italy synopsis (ENO’s 2002 production)
Music by Gioachino Rossini Libretto by Felice Romani First performed:...
The Turn of the Screw synopsis
Music by Benjamin Britten Libretto by Myfanwy Piper after Henry James First...
The Valkyrie (Die Walküre) synopsis
Music by Richard Wagner Libretto by the composer First performed:...
Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica...
Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after...
On a mountain top The Three Norns, daughters of Erda, are weaving the rope...
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Der Rosenkavalier
David McVicar's classic 2008 staging of Strauss's charming
Viennese comedy returns to the Coliseum.
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