Sellars directed and wrote the libretto for Adams's Doctor Atomic, about Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, for the San Francisco Opera ( 2005 ), De Nederlandse Opera, and the Chicago Lyric Opera ( 2008 ).

* The Doctor and the Apothecary ( libretto by James Cobb, afterpiece, 1788, London )

Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.

* El sabio Doctor Mambú, Ballet for children ( 1962 ); libretto by the composer

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.

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

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.

The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Again a classic of Renaissance literature was the basis of the libretto by Boccherini, in this case a comic mock-epic by Tassoni, in which a war between Modena and Bologna ensues over a stolen bucket.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

However the failure of this work was more than made up for with his next Parisian opera Tarare with a libretto by Beaumarchais.

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny () is a political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht.

The libretto was mainly written in early 1927 and the music was finished in the spring of 1929, although both text and music were partly revised by the authors later.

The libretto was performed in an original translation by Michael Feingold ; the production was directed by Alvin Epstein.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

* Falstaff ( 1893 ), Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito.

* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky ( 1995 ): A stage piece with libretto by June Jordan and staging by Peter Sellars.

* Reconstructie ( 1969 ) ( with Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg, Peter Schat, Jan van Vlijmen, libretto by Hugo Claus, Harry Mulisch ) Morality opera for soloists, 3 mixed choruses ( 4 voices each ), orchestra ( 11 winds, 7 brass, 2 guitars, 11 keyboards, 10 strings ), live electronics

* Rosa-A Horse Drama: The Death of a Composer ( 1993 – 94 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 sopranos, tenor, 2 baritones, female speaker, 8 mixed voices, orchestra.

* 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 )

The Mask of Orpheus is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff.

( In a further incarnation, the music was later used by Meyerbeer for a revamped libretto by Scribe featuring Peter the Great, and produced as an opéra comique in Paris ( L ' étoile du nord, 1854 )).

The concept for the opera was suggested by director Peter Sellars and it featured a libretto by Alice Goodman.

For the 1999 revival, Peter Stone revised the libretto, eliminating what were considered insensitive references to American Indians, including the songs " Colonel Buffalo Bill " and " I'm An Indian Too ".

Linley ( sometimes called Lidley or Liddel ) himself could have written this original English libretto, but scholarship by Edward Olleson, A. Peter Brown ( who prepared a particularly fine " authentic " score ) and H. C. Robbins Landon, tells us that the original writer remains anonymous.

* Rosa – A Horse Drama, a 1993-94 opera by Louis Andriessen on a libretto by Peter Greenaway

She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders ( based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures ) and other works.

Here, while also working on his libretto for Peter Grimes, he composed most of the Serenade.

Simon Wills wrote the music and libretto and Peter Kajlinger sang the main character, Mr. Verloc

Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough.

64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

* Spiel oder Ernst ?, opera in 1 act on a libretto by Peter Knudsen ( composed 1930 )

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

* Das Opfer, opera in 1 act on a libretto by Peter Knudsen ( composed 1932 )

He set to work on an opera titled Peter and Paul, with a libretto by L. Frank Baum, though the whereabouts of libretto or score are unknown.

* Under Himlen, libretto by Peter Asmussen (?

The work he completed in Theresienstadt was mostly preserved and comprises, in addition to choral works, song cycles and a quantity of stage music, such significant works as the last three piano sonatas, the Third String Quartet, the melodrama based on Rilke's Cornet poem, and the chamber opera The Emperor of Atlantis, or The Refusal of Death, with a libretto by Peter Kien.

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.