La Cenerentola is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the fairy tale Cendrillon by Charles Perrault. The opera was first performed in Rome's Teatro Valle on 25 January 1817. Read More
Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. However, Somma's libretto was itself based on the five act libretto which playwright Eugène Scribe had written for Daniel Auber's 1833 opera, Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué. Read More
Puccini claimed that he had poured his heart and soul into his creation of the opera Madame Butterfly. All his life he was referring to it as his best and most modern piece of work. The destiny of Japanese woman, who, failing to fulfil her desire of love stabs herself to death, had by all means deeply touched the composer, since his depiction of the famous story presents an outstanding fusion of his creative composing force and the main character's lyrical and heartbreaking psychological drama. Read More
One of the most popular operas of the entire opera repertoire was inspired by the novel Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger and remade for the libretto by the Italians Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Read More
Uprizoritev opere Pod svobodnim soncem je zasnovana v estetsko stiliziranih okvirih, ki omogočajo, da se ideje tega zgodovinskega romana prestavijo na univerzalno in simbolno raven ter gledalca dosežejo na neposreden način. Read More
Evergreen actually tries to catch through the music the lost moments in time, the intimate feelings/sounds of those final seconds, the horror, the oblivion, the generosity, the courage, the fear, the faith, the mysterious power of music ... and to bestow the sound with the power of immortality. Read More
Marij Kogoj
BLACK MASKS
An Opera in Two Acts, Five Scenes, Premiere: 15 January 2012, Slovenian National Theatre Maribor, Premiere: 2 March 2012, Cankarjev dom Gallus Hall Read More
Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. Read More
The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro, which was first performed in 1784. Read More
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