Partituras para orquesta

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) completed the five-act opera Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) in 1867. With a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carré, the opera tells the tragic story of Shakespear...

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) terminó la ópera en cinco actos ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (ROMEO Y JULIETA) en 1867. Con un libreto de Jules Barbier y Michael Carré, la ópera cuenta la trágica historia de la obra...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) singspiel Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, was written in 1791 and premiered on September 30th of that same year at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden,...

La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1791 after he had almost finished Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). Commissioned to celebrate...

TANNHÄUSER, an 1845 opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1813-1883), combines two German legends: the mythologized medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. Li...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Basado en las leyendas heroicas nórdicas, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) tardó más de veinticinco años en completar el extenso drama operístico DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN. A través de una vasta red de leitmo...

En 1890, Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) compuso un surtido de canciones para una obra de teatro escrita por Adelheid Wette, su hermana, como regalo para sus hijos. Espoleado por su amigo Richard St...

Norma is a two-act lyric tragedy by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). A leading example of the bel canto genre, the opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on December 26th, 1831. The story tells of a love t...

MADAMA BUTTERFLY, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO (EL MATRIMONIO SECRETO) de Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) es su única obra que se sigue representando con regularidad en la actualidad y posiblemente una de las mejores óperas buf...

Compuesta por Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) en 1830, la ópera en dos actos I CAPULETTI E I MONTECCHI (LOS CAPULETES Y LOS MONTECCHI) es una de las dos únicas adaptaciones operísticas de Romeo y Julieta...

Composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) in 1830, the two-act opera I Capuletti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Mantagues) stands as one of only two successful opera adaptations of Shakespeare's R...

Gioacchino Rossini's (1792-1868) last comic opera LE COMTE ORY, set in rural France at the time of the Crusades, tells the story of Count Ory, who attempts to seduce a Countess Adèle as she awaits the...

Con la esperanza de repetir el éxito de su primera ópera LE VILLI, el editor Ricordi encargó a Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) EDGAR, SC 62, basada en un libreto de Ferdinando Fontana sobre la obra de Alf...

MANON, written by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was composed in 1883 and premiered the following year on January 19 at the Opéra-Comique. Telling the story of a young woman who, despite being a good pers...

MADAMA BUTTERFLY, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

La cuarta y última ópera del DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (EL ANILLO DEL NIBELUNGO o EL CICLO DEL ANILLO) de Richard Wagner (1813-1883), el drama en tres actos GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (EL OSCURO DE LOS DIOSES) se...

La ópera buffa en tres actos MASKARADE (MASQUERADA) de Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) fue escrita entre 1904 y 1906, aunque Nielsen había empezado a considerar una ópera basada en la obra homónima de Ludvig...

In 1907, Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) began to compose his one-act theatrical piece, L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE (The Spanish Hour), after his opera-loving father suffered a stroke. It has been suggested that this...

At the close of the Allegro of the Overture, a climax of pleasurable activity, appears a stony figure of heroic mold - the Commendatore. Here, according to the opera-score, the trombones speak for the...

LA RONDINE (LA golondrina) es una ópera cómica compuesta por Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), con libreto italiano de Giuseppe Adami, traducido y adaptado de un libreto alemán de Alfred M. Willner y Heinz...

MADAMA BUTTERFLY, una de las óperas más populares de Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), es la historia de las expectativas contrapuestas del teniente Pinkerton, un oficial de la marina estadounidense, y Mad...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1950 in Weimar, Germany, Richard Wagner's (1813-1883) LOHENGRIN tells a story of a tragic medieval German romance in the Knight of the Swan tradition. Elsa, a princes...

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) originally wrote the 2-act opera La Vida Breve (Life is Short or The Brief Life) between 1904 and 1905 for a composition competition which offered a large monetary prize an...