* Oberon ( opera ), by Carl Maria von Weber

Topelius initially thought of writing a trivial entertainment, but having heard extracts from the opera project at a concert in 1851, he realized that Pacius was writing a grand opera on the theme of salvation, following the early Romantic style of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz ( 1821 ) and Oberon ( 1826 ).

Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany.

Der Freischütz came to be regarded as the first German " nationalist " opera, Euryanthe developed the Leitmotif technique to a hitherto-unprecedented degree, while Oberon anticipated Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest in the music of non-Western cultures.

Homage has been paid to Weber by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler ( who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon ) and Hindemith ( composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ).

In 1960, Deller sang the role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.

After extensive performances at the coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt in 1791, it was much performed in Europe until replaced by Weber's opera Oberon.

* Oberon and Titania are main characters in the 1789 Danish opera Holger Danske, with music by F. L. Æ.

* In 1826, Carl Maria von Weber's opera, Oberon, ( written after a poem by Christoph Martin Wieland ) debuted at Covent Garden in London, England.

Despite the dip in public support when he broke with Storace, Braham ’ s reputation remained strong until at least the mid-1820s, when he created in London the role of Huon in Weber ’ s opera, Oberon and sang in Mozart ’ s Requiem at Weber ’ s funeral service not long afterwards ( June 1826 ).

Between the fourth ( 1955 ) and fifth ( 1962 ) he also composed a Vokalsimfonie ( 1955 ) derived from his opera König Hirsch.

** König Karls Jagd, opera ( 1852 )

Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the play Attila, König der Hunnen ( Attila, King of the Huns ) by Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner.

In 1809 he composed his comic opera, Adam in der Klemme.

Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke ( Piano Pieces ), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic / musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyklus, Kontakte, the cantata Momente, the live-electronic Mikrophonie I, Hymnen, Stimmung for six vocalists, Aus den sieben Tagen, Mantra for two pianos and electronics, Tierkreis, Inori for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle Licht.

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

* 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

The opera was the culmination of a period of increasing involvement by Mozart with Schikaneder's theatrical troupe, which since 1789 had been the resident company at the Theater auf der Wieden.

Mozart's participation increased with his contributions to the 1790 collaborative opera Der Stein der Weisen ( The Philosopher's Stone ), including the duet (" Nun liebes Weibchen ", K. 625 / 592a ) and perhaps other passages.

Like The Magic Flute, Der Stein der Weisen was a fairy-tale opera and can be considered a kind of precursor ; it employed much the same cast in similar roles.

The opera was premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791 at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden.

The Belgian premiere of the opera was given at La Monnaie on 22 March 1870 with Étienne Troy as Friedrich of Telramund and Feliciano Pons as Heinrich der Vogler.

The opera was first produced in a three-act version at Vienna's Theater an der Wien, on 20 November 1805, with additional performances the following two nights.

Other compositions of that period, among them a mass, and his first opera, Die Macht der Liebe und des Weins ( The Power of Love and Wine ), are lost ; but a set of Variations for the Pianoforte was later lithographed by Weber himself, under the guidance of Alois Senefelder, the inventor of the process.

* The Dreyfus Trilogy by George Whyte ( in collaboration with Luciano Berio, Jost Meier and Alfred Schnittke ) comprising the opera Dreyfus-Die Affäre ( Deutsche Oper Berlin, 8 May 1994 ; Theater Basle, 16 October 1004 ; The Dreyfus Affair New York City Opera, April 1996 ); the dance drama Dreyfus-J ' accuse ( Oper der Stadt Bonn, 4 September 1994 ) and the musical satire Rage et Outrage ( Arte, April 1994 ; Zorn und Schande, Arte 1994 ; Rage and Outrage Channel 4, May 1994.

Tradition has it that Terneuzen was once the home of the legendary Flying Dutchman, Van der Decken, a captain who cursed God and was condemned to sail the seas forever, as described in the Frederick Marryat novel The Phantom Ship and the Richard Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman.

In 1933-35, Hindemith wrote his opera Mathis der Maler, based on the life of the painter Matthias Grünewald.

Hindemith turned some of the music from this opera into a purely instrumental symphony ( also called Mathis der Maler ), which is one of his most frequently performed works.

Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by Karl Kraus, but did not begin work on his opera until 1929, after he had completed his other opera,

Robert Schumann's late piano suite Gesänge der Frühe was inspired by Hölderlin, as was Luigi Nono's string quartet Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima and parts of his opera Prometeo.

50 ; Kleine Ouvertüre zu der Fächer ( Little Overture to the ( opera the ) Fan ), Op.

His more important works include his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ( 1990 – 96, after Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin ), the orchestral pieces Schwankungen am Rand ( 1974 – 75, for eight brass, two electric guitars, two pianos, four thunder sheets, and 34 strings ), Accanto ( 1975 – 76, for clarinet, large orchestra and tape ) and NUN ( 1997 – 99, for flute, trombone, male chorus, and large orchestra ), the ensemble works Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung ) ( 1982 – 84, for three ad hoc players and 14 players ) and "... zwei Gefühle ...", Musik mit Leonardo ( 1992, ( later incorporated in opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ), after Leonardo da Vinci, for two speakers and 22 players ) and three string quartets ( Gran Torso, 1971, revised 1976, 1988 ; Reigen seliger Geister, 1989 ; Grido, 2001 ), as well as other orchestral, ensemble and chamber works and six piano pieces.

In 1902 he became conductor at the historic Vienna Theater an der Wien, where his first opera Wiener Frauen was performed in November of that year.

Spohr later worked as conductor at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna ( 1813 – 1815 ), where he continued to be on friendly terms with Beethoven ; subsequently he was opera director at Frankfurt ( 1817 – 1819 ) where he was able to stage his own operas — the first of which, Faust, had been rejected in Vienna.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

After all, the opera has juicy music to sing and the goodies are well distributed, with no less than six leading parts.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.

Rossini introduced the " Ranz des Vaches " into his masterpiece William Tell, along with many other delightful melodies scattered throughout the opera in vocal and instrumental parts that are well-suited to the alphorn.

Handel's 1709 opera, Agrippina with a libretto by Vincenzo Grimani.

While living in Venice Salieri continued his musical studies with the organist and opera composer Giovanni Battista Pescetti, then following Pescetti's sudden death he studied with the opera singer Ferdinando Pacini or Pasini.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

The work clearly followed in Gluck's footsteps and embraced his reform of serious opera begun with Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste.

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

During the next three years Salieri was primarily concerned with rehearsing and conducting the Italian opera company in Vienna and teaching.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

Salieri's Italian tour of 1778 – 80 began with the production of Europa riconosciuta ( Europa Recognized ) for La Scala ( which was revived in 2004 for the same opera house's re-opening following extensive renovations ).

During this tour he wrote three new comic operas and he also collaborated with Giacomo Rust on one opera, Il Talismano ( The Talismand ).

In 1783 the Italian opera company was revived with singers partly chosen and vetted by Salieri during his Italian tour, the new season would open with a slightly re-worked version of Salieri's recent success La scuola de ' gelosi.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.