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It was 'H. M. S. Pinafore', or 'The Lass that Loved a Sailor' that established Gilbert and Sullivan as a creative force to be reckoned with in British comic theatre. Gilbert's libretto has everything...

After creating eight works for the stage, Gilbert and Sullivan outdid themselves with a macabre farce set in the Far East. It is the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and arguably the most popu...

Trial by Jury' opened at the Royalty Theatre on March 25, 1875, and was exceptionally well received. Gilbert's absurd plot concerns Angelina, who sues Edwin because he broke their betrothal and fell f...

Iolanthe' premiered on November 25, 1882 simultaneously at the Savoy Theater in London and the Standard Theater, New York. The wit of Gilbert's dialogue and sparkle of his lyrics is matched only by th...

Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride, is a satirical spoof on Aesthetic poets and their followers. It revolves around two rival poets, Reginald Bunthorne and Archibald Grosvenor. Bunthorne lives in a castle...

This vocal score is a new and revised edition of the well-known opera that made television history on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride dates from the happiest, most musically fulfilling period in the composer's life, and draws inspiration from Czech folk music. The action takes place to the backdr...

Norma' was Vincenzo Bellini's eighth opera and the one that secured his fame and fortune as a composer. The conflict in the opera is between the native Druids of Britain and the Roman soldiers who are...

Otto Nicolai became one of the few 'one-hit wonders' among classical composers. Although some of his operas had success during his lifetime, it is really only his final opera, The Merry Wives of Winds...

Opera in Three Acts. Paperback Vocal Score of the Revised Edition.

A Soap Opera in 1 Act. English Only.

Gluck's 'Orfeo et Euridice' was one of three operas composed by Gluck in an attempt to reform the Italian opera seria. The libretto is noble and grand and this must have inspired Gluck, for his approa...

A short Opera-Comedy with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti.

He's handsome, cunning and utterly merciless. Don Giovanni's lustful desires have left a trail of heartbreak and shattered dreams; but in the wake of a life lived to excess and devoid of honour, his d...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci was his first opera to be performed. The text, by the composer, is based on one of the cases encountered by Leoncavallo's father, a police magistrate in Naples. The...

Libretto by Angelo Anelli. Comic Opera in Two Acts. English Version by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

The libretto for this work, by playwright Henri Meilhac and journalist Philippe Gille, is based on L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. Retaining the novel's eightee...

Anthony And Cleopatra was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1966. Barber's opera is based on Shakespeare's play of th...

Mozart's Bastien and Bastienna is a superb opera, and available here is the Vocal score, in English only, as translated by Hamilton Benz.

Opera in Two Acts. Ostensibly a biography of Susan B. Anthony and the suffragette movement, Stein's libretto slyly fractures history and expands the argument beyond votes for women to the essence of e...

A song-cycle for Soprano voice and Piano, based on six poems by Emily Dickinson. Leon Kirchner's music is highly original, very chromatic, usually in a linear fashion, and frequently features irregula...

For Soprano and Piano. Text from Le Occasioni by Eugenio Montale.

Enrique Granados's epic opera in three tableaux based on stories painted by the famous Spanish painter Goya. This edition contains both Fernando Periquet's original text and James Weldon Johnson's Eng...

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