Kalmus Opera Library

NABUCCO es la ópera en lengua italiana en cuatro actos de Giuseppe Verdi que estableció definitivamente la reputación de Verdi como compositor. La ópera, tomada de la Biblia, narra la difícil situació...

NABUCCO es la ópera en lengua italiana en cuatro actos de Giuseppe Verdi que estableció definitivamente la reputación de Verdi como compositor. La ópera, tomada de la Biblia, narra la difícil situació...

VESTAS FEUER (LA LLAMA VESTAL) para cuarteto vocal y orquesta es el único fragmento conservado de una ópera proyectada por Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), con libreto del dramaturgo y empresario Ema...

ALCINA, HWV 34, es una ópera seria en tres actos, compuesta por George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) en 1735. Con un libreto tomado de la ópera italiana L'isola di Alcina de Riccardo Broschi, la obra se...

Gianni Schicchi es una ópera cómica en un acto de Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Última ópera de un trío conocido como Il trittico (El tríptico), cada una de las cuales trata de la ocultación de una mue...

Gianni Schicchi es una ópera cómica en un acto de Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). Última ópera de un trío conocido como Il trittico (El tríptico), cada una de las cuales trata de la ocultación de una mue...

LA BOHÈME (The Bohemian), one of the most beloved and commercially-successful operas, is based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger. With a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe G...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935) composed the three-act opera Wozzeck between 1914 and 1922 after seeing a production of German playwright Georg Büchner's incomplete drama Woyzeck. Beginning t...

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) Pelléas et Mélisande adapted Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name in which Prince Golaud marries a mysterious young woman, Mélisande, but becomes jealous of his hal...

Lucia di Lammermoor es un drama trágico en tres actos de Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano escribió el libreto en italiano basándose libremente en la novela histórica de Sir Walter Scott de 1819,...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the music to COSI FAN TUTTE (So do they all), his third collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, only after his contemporaty Antonio Salieri rejected t...

Tosca es una ópera melodramática en tres actos ambientada en Roma en junio de 1800, con el control de Roma por el Reino de Nápoles amenazado por la invasión napoleónica de Italia. Contiene escenas de...

Tosca es una ópera melodramática en tres actos ambientada en Roma en junio de 1800, con el control de Roma por el Reino de Nápoles amenazado por la invasión napoleónica de Italia. Contiene escenas de...

La Traviata (The Fallen Woman) is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the main character. Piave...

Un ballo in maschera (Un baile de máscaras) es una ópera en tres actos de 1859 de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) con libreto de Antonio Somma. Basada inicialmente en el libreto de Eugène Scribe para la óp...

Finished in 1848 and premiered in 1850 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...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (THE FLYING DUTCHMAN), WWV 63, had two sources of inspiration for Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The first was a short story by Heinrich Heine, based on the folk legend of a sea-c...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) Carmen became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) composed his popular two-act opera buffa L'elisir d'amore hastily over six weeks in 1832 for a premiere that took place on May 12 of that year at the Teatro della Canobbi...

Don Pasquale, regarded as one of the crowning gems of comic opera, had its first performance on January 3, 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) co...