Stage works sung throughout or mostly sung, from the first operas of the early Baroque to the music dramas of the nineteenth century. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it an opera, music drama or Singspiel. It excludes oratorios, which are sung without staging, and orchestral works. The group follows the form named in the cited article. The group includes the earliest surviving opera, a German fairy tale opera, a music drama that changed harmony, and two operas that remain at the center of the repertory. It excludes oratorios, which are sung without staging, and orchestral and instrumental works.
Operas and Music Dramas
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L'Orfeo (Wikipedia)
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L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
The Magic Flute (Wikipedia)
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The Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [diː ˈtsaʊbɐˌfløːtə] ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
Tristan und Isolde (Wikipedia)
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Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on Gottfried von Strassburg's medieval 12th-century romance Tristan and
Madama Butterfly (Wikipedia)
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Madama Butterfly (Italian pronunciation: [maˈdaːma ˈbatterflai]; Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Carmen (Wikipedia)
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Carmen (French: [kaʁmɛn] ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet.
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