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, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

* Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana ( in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884 )

Based on a play by Victor Hugo ( Le roi s ' amuse ), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville ( 1775 ), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music.

Balzac's first project was a libretto for a comic opera called Le Corsaire, based on Lord Byron's The Corsair.

A jury of French composers and playwrights including Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod and Eugène Scribe considered 78 entries ; the five short-listed entrants were all asked to set a libretto, Le docteur miracle, written by Ludovic Halévy and Léon Battu.

There are two operas, one composed in 1986 by Marjorie S. Merryman and the other " The Burial at Thebes " in 2007 / 2008 with music by Dominique Le Gendre and libretto by Seamus Heaney, based on his translation for the normal spoken theatre.

The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s ' amuse by Victor Hugo.

The challenge was to set the one-act libretto of Le docteur Miracle by Léon Battu and Ludovic Halévy.

: 1921: H 37 Le roi David ( King David ) libretto by René Morax, version for orchestra in 1923

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

* The " Couplets du facteur rural " ( verses of the country postman ) in Act 3 of Le château à Toto, French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ( music by Jacques Offenbach, 1869 ) touch on the merits of the " vélocipède ".

At first he attempted Véron to accept the opéra-comique Le portefaix to a libretto by Scribe, which he had been contracted to compose in early 1831 ; but Véron insisted on a full five act piece.

Following this he began on two new projects, an opera by Scribe based on the biblical story of Judith, and an opéra comique, Le pardon de Ploërmel, ( also known as Dinorah, the title given to the Italian version performed at London ) to a libretto by Jules Barbier.

Canteloube composed his first opera, Le mas (" farmstead " in Occitan language ), to his own libretto from 1910 to 1913.

Le Roi nu ( The Naked King ), a 1935 ballet with music by Jean Françaix, libretto and choreography by Serge Lifar

Rousseau's Le Devin du village draws on pastoral roots, and Metastasio's libretto Il re pastore was set over 30 times, most famously by Mozart.

* Le avventure di Cleomede ( 1771 ) – libretto by Gaetano Martinelli

Piccinni's first opera, Le donne dispettose, was produced in 1755, and in 1760 he composed, at Rome, the chef d ' œuvre of his early life, La Cecchina, ossia la buona Figliuola, an opera buffa with a libretto by Goldoni, which " enjoyed a two-year run in Rome and was played in all the important European capitals.

In 1851 he attempted an opera, Le Valet de Ferme, with a libretto of " abysmal literary quality " and a hastily sketched score.

* Dialogues des carmélites ( Dialogues of the Carmelites ) 1949 — screenplay and later libretto adaptation of Gertrud von Le Fort's Song at the Scaffold

* Le cinq mai ( Arrangement by Berlioz to a libretto by Berenger-Petrucci Music Library )

Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre ( 1831 ).

* Les deux petits Savoyards ( 1789 ), libretto by Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières, first performance by Les Comédiens ordinaires du Roi, 14 January 1789.

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.

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.

Da Ponte would write his first opera libretto for Salieri, Il ricco d ' un giorno ( A Rich Man for a Day ) in 1784, it was not a success.

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.

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.

Around this time, he composed individual numbers to a libretto by Vincenza Mombelli called Demetrio e Polibio, which was handed to the boy in pieces.

The libretto for Tancredi was an arrangement by Gaetano Rossi of Voltaire's tragedy Tancrède.

The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.

The libretto was by Étienne Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, but their version was revised by Armand Marrast.

Edgar failed: it was a bad story and Fontana's libretto was poor.

Puccini completed the score of La rondine, to a libretto by Giuseppe Adami in 1916 after two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.