* Richard Wagner begins writing the libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ).

The Flying Dutchman ( Der fliegende Holländer ) is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner.

In 1874, Hermann Goetz created Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung, a comic opera first performed at the National Theatre Mannheim in Germany ; the libretto was by Joseph Widmann and Goetz.

Wolf had scornfully rejected the libretto to Der Corregidor when it was first presented to him in 1890, but his determination to compose an opera blinded him to its faults upon second glance.

* Richard Wagner begins writing libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ).

The libretto is based on a story by the German author Johann Karl August Musäus, " Der geraubte Schleier " ( The Stolen Veil ), though this story provides only the general outline of the plot of Swan Lake.

The play was adapted as an opera libretto by the author and set to music by composer Gottfried von Einem, entitled Der Besuch der alten Dame and translated as The Visit of the Old Lady, and was first performed in 1971.

Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ), K. 486, is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian Schauspieldirektor.

In 1992, she provided the story for The Vampyr: A Soap Opera, the BBC's adaptation of Heinrich August Marschner's opera Der Vampyr, which featured a new libretto by Charles Hart.

Der Besuch der alten Dame ( The Visit of the Old Lady ) is an opera in three acts by Gottfried von Einem to a German libretto by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, based on his play of the same name.

* Der mysteriöse Herr X, Opera in a prelude and 3 acts ( 1962 – 1965 ); libretto by Theo Lingen

Nuitter's libretto and mise-en-scène was based upon two stories by ETA Hoffmann: Der Sandmann ( The Sandman ), and Die Puppe ( The Doll ).

* Der jüngste Tag, 1937 ( Giselher Klebe composed his 1980 opera of the same name based on this work ; Lore Klebe wrote the libretto ) ( Judgement Day in volume Four Plays, PAJ Publications, 1986, ISBN 1-55554-002-3 )

The second, German version, Der gute Kamerad, with a libretto revised by Viktor Leon, premiered at the Bürgertheater, Vienna on 10 October 1911.

* Der Gondoliere des Dogen, opera in 1 act on a libretto by Peter Knudsen ( composed 1931 ) Doge's Gondolier

The original libretto was written in German, as Der grosse Makaber, but for the first production was translated into Swedish by Meschke under its current title ( Griffiths and Searby 2003 ).

* Der Fall ist noch weit seltner ( opera libretto, Vienna 1790 ; music by Benedikt Schack )

* Der Tiroler Wastel ( opera libretto )

* Pohádka o Honzovi ( The Tale of Honza ; Tale of Simple Johnny ; Jean le paresseux ; Der faule Hans ), Ballet-Pantomime in 5 scenes ( 1901 – 1902 ); libretto by František Karel Hejda ; premiere performance 24 January 1902, National Theatre, Prague

It was written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939 for the musical Der Schwarze Hecht ( The Black Pike ), reproduced in 1950 as Feuerwerk ( Fireworks ) to a libretto by Erik Charell, Jürg Amstein, and Robert Gilbert.

Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond ( Martha, or The Market at Richmond ) is a ' romantic comic ' opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow, set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.

Der Barbier von Bagdad ( The Barber of Baghdad ) is a comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius to a German libretto by the composer, based on The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber ’ s Stories of his Six Brothers in A Thousand and One Nights.

There are also two operas, Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung ( based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew ) and, much less successful, the three-act opera Francesca da Rimini, to a libretto by the composer and Joseph Victor Wildmann, based on Dante's Inferno ( premiered at Mannheim, September 30, 1877 ).

Der Bettelstudent ( The Beggar Student ) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel ( under the pseudonym of F. Zell ) and Richard Genée, based on Les noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

He panned Huber's libretto, saying, in a 1824 letter to the Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde, " Let us leave out of consideration the value of poems of this sort.

His comedy in 5 acts Zopf und Schwert ( 1844 ) received two adaptations ; in 1926 Aafa Film AG made the movie Zopf und Schwert-Eine tolle Prinzessin, and Edmund Nick used it for his operetta Über alles siegt die Liebe ( Love Conquers Everything ) ( 1940, libretto by Bruno Hardt-Warden ).

Indigo und die vierzig Räuber ( Indigo and the Forty Thieves ) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II, with a German libretto by Maximilian Steiner based on the tale " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves " from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.

* Writing to Vermeer ( 1997 – 99 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 children's voices, 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, female chorus, orchestra ( 7 winds, 2 horns, 2 trumpets + bass trumpet, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, cimbalom, 2 pianos, on-stage harpsichord, 2 percussion, minimum 22 strings ), CD ( music by Michel van der Aa )

Made in the Pre-Code era, it was written by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda, from the operetta Ein Walzertraum by Oscar Straus ( libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann ), which in turn was based on the novel Nur der Prinzgemahl ( Only the Prince Consort ) by Hans Müller-Einigen.

Die schweigsame Frau ( 1934 ), was composed with Stefan Zweig as librettist ; Friedenstag ( 1935 – 6 ) and Daphne ( 1937 ) both had a libretto by Joseph Gregor and Stefan Zweig ; and Die Liebe der Danae ( 1940 ) was with Joseph Gregor.

The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit, 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box, 1904 ).

* The opera Oberon, König der Elfen with music by Paul Wranitzky and libretto by Karl Ludwig Giesecke debuted in Vienna in 1789.

* Wieland der Schmied ( libretto )

Mendelssohn originally composed the work to a German text by his friend Karl Klingemann, who earlier had provided him with the libretto for his comic operetta Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde.

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( WWV 49 ) ( Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes ) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name ( 1835 ).

Goehr will return time and again to the idea of carrying out a synthesis of fragments or unfinished projects left by other artists, albeit in a metaphorical way: the cantata The Death of Moses resonates with Schoenberg's unfinished Moses und Aron ; the opera Arianna ( 1995 ) is the setting of the libretto of a lost opera by Monteverdi ; and the posthumously published prose fragments by Franz Kafka lurk behind Das Gesetz der Quadrille ( 1979 ), Sur terre en l ’ air ( 1997 ) and Schlussgesang ( 1990 ).

Vladigerov composed in a variety of genres including an opera ( Tsar Kaloyan, to a libretto by Nikolai Liliev and Fani Popova-Mutafova ), ballet, symphonic music, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, chamber music including string quartet, trio ( violin, cello and piano ), works and transcriptions for violin and piano and numerous opuses for solo piano, 38 transcriptions of instrumental pieces for instrument and piano, 13 late transcriptions of his earlier works for two pianos, fifty folksong concert arrangements for voice and piano / orchestra, 20 songs for voice and piano, ten choral songs with piano / orchestra, incidental music for the performances of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, and the National Theatre in Sofia.

* Vinobraní ( The Vineyard Bride ; Die Winzerbraut ), Operetta in 3 acts ( 1916 ); libretto by Leo Stein and J. Wilhelm ; premiere performance 11 February 1916, Theater an der Wien, Vienna

* La morte di Didone ( revised as Tod der Dido ) ( singspiel, based on a libretto by Metastasio, 1779, Mannheim )

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.

* Únos Evelynion ( The Abduction of Evelyne ; Die Entführung der Evelyne ), Pantomime in 1 act ( 1915 ); libretto by František Langer

Ein Walzertraum ( A Waltz Dream ) is an operetta by Oscar Straus with a German libretto by Leopold Jacobson and Felix Dörmann, based on the novella Nur der Prinzgemahl ( Only the Prince Consort ) by Hans Müller-Einigen from his 1905 book Buch der Abenteuer ( Book of Adventures ).