Which play has more acts, La sonnambula or Maskarade?
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La sonnambula La sonnambula ("The Sleepwalker") is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the "bel canto" tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a "ballet-pantomime" written by Eugène Scribe and choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer called "La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur". The ballet had premiered in Paris in September 1827 at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism.
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Maskarade Maskarade ("Masquerade") is an opera in three acts by Carl Nielsen to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg. It was first performed on 11 November 1906 at Det Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen. "Maskarade" has enjoyed enduring popularity in Denmark where it is considered to be the country's national opera.
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Antigona Antigona ("Antigone") is an opera in three acts in Italian by the composer Tommaso Traetta. The libretto, by Marco Coltellini, is based on the tragedy "Antigone" by Sophocles. But there is also an opera "Antigona" by Josef Mysliveček.
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Loreley (opera) Loreley is an opera ("azione romantica") in three acts composed by Alfredo Catalani to a libretto by Angelo Zanardini, Carlo D'Ormeville and others. It premiered on 16 February 1890 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. Based on the German legend of the Lorelei, the opera is an extensive reworking of Catalani's four-act opera "Elda" which had premiered in Turin ten years earlier.
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La naissance de la lyre La naissance de la lyre ("The Birth of the Lyre") is an opera (styled a "conte lyrique") in one act by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Théodore Reinach, is based on the satyr play "Ichneutae" by Sophocles. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 1 July 1925 with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.
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La poupée de Nuremberg La poupée de Nuremberg (English: "The Nuremberg Doll") is a one-act opéra comique by Adolphe Adam to a libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Arthur de Beauplan. The story is based on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story "Der Sandmann". The work predates other stage adaptations of Hoffmann's tale, "Coppélia" and "The Tales of Hoffmann".
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Oedipus (Voltaire play) Oedipus (French: "Œdipe" ) is a tragedy by the French dramatist and philosopher Voltaire that was first performed in 1718. It was his first play and the first literary work for which he used the pen-name Voltaire (his real name was François-Marie Arouet). In adapting Sophocles' Athenian tragedy "Oedipus Rex", Voltaire attempted to rationalise the plot and motivation of its characters. In a letter of 1719 he indicated that he found it improbable that the murder of Laius had not been investigated earlier and that Oedipus should take so long to understand the oracle's clear pronouncement. Voltaire adds a subplot concerning the love of Philoctète for Jocaste. He also reduces the prominence of the theme of incest.
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La Cage aux Folles (play) La Cage aux Folles (] ) is a 1973 French farce by Jean Poiret centering on confusion that ensues when Laurent, the son of a Saint Tropez night club owner, and his gay lover bring his fiancée's ultraconservative parents for dinner. The original French production premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 1 February 1973 and ran for almost 1,800 performances. The principal roles were played by Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault. A French-Italian film of the play was made in 1978 (with two sequels "La Cage aux Folles II" (1980), directed by Édouard Molinaro and "" (1985), directed by Georges Lautner.) In 1983, Poiret's play was adapted in the United States as a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and later remade as the American film "The Birdcage".
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La journée aux aventures La journée aux aventures ("The Day of Adventures") is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of an "opéra comique" in three acts. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 16 November 1816. The libretto is by Pierre-David-Augustin Chapelle and Louis Mezières-Miot. This was the last of the composer's works to be premiered in his lifetime and was a great success; it enjoyed 66 performances before the end of 1817 and helped remedy the financial problems of the Opéra-Comique. It was revived to acclaim in a German translation in Berlin in December 1839.
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The Two Orphans (play) The Two Orphans (French:Les Deux orphelines) is a historical play by the French writers Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon. It premiered on 20 January 1874 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris. A melodrama set during the French Revolution, it takes place in five acts.
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Manman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse Manman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse (Water Mother Versus the Carabossa Fairy) is a French-language play in two acts, written by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau. As an example of a work of the Créolité movement, it focuses on indigenous and black Caribbean characters and uses many Creole words and phrases.
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Mrs. Jarramie's Genie Mrs. Jarramie's Genie is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier and François Cellier. The piece was first presented at the Savoy Theatre on 14 February 1888, as a curtain raiser to the revival of "H.M.S. Pinafore" (November 1887 – March 1888). It was subsequently presented as a curtain raiser to revivals of "The Pirates of Penzance" (March – June 1888) and "The Mikado" (June – September 1888), and then with "The Yeomen of the Guard" (October 1888 – November 1889).
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Don Quichotte Don Quichotte ("Don Quixote") is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
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Le roi de Lahore Le roi de Lahore ("The king of Lahore") is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet. It was first performed at the Palais Garnier in Paris on 27 April 1877 in costumes designed by Eugène Lacoste and settings designed by Jean Émile Daran (Act I, scene 1), Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Act I, scene 2; Act V), Louis Chéret (Act II), Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act III), Antoine Lavastre and Eugène Louis Carpezat (Act IV).
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Carine ou la jeune fille folle de son âme Carine ou la jeune fille folle de son âme is a Belgian play by Fernand Crommelynck. It was first published in 1929.
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Phèdre Phèdre (originally "Phèdre et Hippolyte") is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
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El retablo de maese Pedro El retablo de maese Pedro ("Master Peter's Puppet Show") is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, composed by Manuel de Falla to a Spanish libretto based on an episode from "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. The libretto is an abbreviation of chapter 26 of the second part of "Don Quixote", with some lines added from other parts of the work. Falla composed this opera "in devoted homage to the glory of Miguel de Cervantes" and dedicated it to the Princess de Polignac, who commissioned the work. Because of its brief length by operatic standards (about 27 minutes), its very challenging part for a boy opera performer (who has by far the most lines), and its use of puppets, it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire.
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The Boy and the Blind Man The Boy and the Blind Man (French: "Le Garçon et l'aveugle" ) is the name of a 13th-century French play; considered the oldest surviving French farce. It is an anonymous work.
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Orlando furioso (Vivaldi, 1714) Orlando furioso RV 819 (] , Teatro San Angelo, Venice 1714) is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript in Antonio Vivaldi's personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. It is a recomposition of an "Orlando furioso" written by Giovanni Alberto Ristori which had been very successfully staged by Vivaldi and his father's "impresa" in 1713, and whose music survives in a few fragments retained in the score of RV 819. Therefore, Vivaldi's first cataloguer Peter Ryom did not assign the opera a RV number, but catalogued it as RV Anh. 84. The libretto was by Grazio Braccioli.
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MARA: A Chamber Opera on Good and Evil MĀRA: A Chamber Opera on Good and Evil is an American chamber opera in two acts, with a libretto by Stephen Batchelor and music by Sherry Woods. The opera humanizes the story of Siddhattha Gotama (the Buddha) and his encounters with Māra, Taṇhā (Māra's daughter), and the demonic figures that appear to him as he seeks a way to live an awakened life in the world. "MĀRA" received its premiere performance in the Black Box Theatre of Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center (Florence, South Carolina) on October 28, 2016. Benjamin Woods was the Music Director, and Ronn Smith was the Producer/Stage Director.
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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (曾根崎心中 , Sonezaki Shinjū ) is a love-suicide Bunraku play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. While not his first one (which was probably the puppet play "The Soga Successors" in 1683) nor his most popular (which would be "The Battles of Coxinga"), it is probably the most popular of his "domestic tragedies" or "domestic plays" ("sewamono") as Donald Keene characterizes the non-historical plays.
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Daphnis et Alcimadure Daphnis et Alcimadure (in Occitan classical norm, Dafnís e Alcimadura, or according to the original libretto spelling, Daphnis e Alcimaduro) is an opera by the Baroque violinist, conductor and composer Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville to a libretto in the Occitan language, written by the composer himself and loosely inspired by La Fontaine's fable bearing the same title. It takes the form of a pastorale in three acts and was later endowed with a prologue in French entitled "Les jeux floraux", to a libretto by Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon.