Wagner originally wrote the work to be performed without intermission – an example of his efforts to break with tradition – and, while today's opera houses sometimes still follow this directive, it is also performed in a three-act version.

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.

* On October 11, 2007 the English National Ballet premiered a three-act version of The Snow Queen choreographed by Michael Corder to a score drawn from the music of Prokofiev.

There was insufficient time to have the score of this three-act version ready for the first production of the work at the Metropolitan Opera in April 1977 ( in a production by John Dexter ),, so the incomplete version had to be used.

The same translator was responsible for a version of Esope à la ville ( Esopo in città, Venice, 1748 ); then in 1798 there was an anonymous Venetian three-act adaptation, Le Favole di Esopa, ossia Esopo in città.

The end of the war saw his first major three-act ballet for a British company, his version of Sergei Prokofiev's Cinderella ( 1948 ), which was followed by Sylvia ( 1952 ), and Ondine ( 1958 ), with choreography created especially to display Margot Fonteyn's unique talents and music by Hans Werner Henze.

Barber revised the opera in 1964, reducing the four acts to the three-act version most commonly performed today.

Some scenes were cut, and Trouble in Tahiti was incorporated into the opera as a flashback, becoming ( most of ) the second act of the new three-act version.

The three-act version was first performed on 11 December 1958 in New York City at the ANTA Playhouse in a production directed by Elia Kazan with a cast including Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Nan Martin, Ivor Francis, Pat Hingle, Clifton James, Judith Lowry, Candy Moore, James Olson, Ford Rainey, and Andreas Voutsinas.

In the autumn of 1891, Puccini revised the work again, cutting the last act and producing a three-act version which would again be revised in 1905.

As Charles Surface, his best part for many years, and in a breezy three-act farce, Pink Dominoes, by James Albery, and in Brighton, an anglicized version of Saratoga by Bronson Howard ( 1842 – 1908 ), who married his sister, he added greatly to his popularity both at home and abroad.

Cellier composed a three-act grand opera, Pandora, a version of Longfellow's The Masque of Pandora ( with a libretto by B. C. Stephenson ) that was presented in Boston in 1881.

A Doll's House (; also translated as A Doll House ) is a three-act play in prose by the playwright Henrik Ibsen.

A three-act stage play based on the pilot was written by David Rogers in 1968.

His story L ' Arlésienne ( 1872 ) was made into a three-act play with music by Bizet.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder.

However, in April Bizet received an offer, which originated from Count Walewski, to write a three-act opera, Les pêcheurs de perles, using a libretto by Michel Carré and Eugène Cormon.

* The Bolt ( Shosktakovich ), a three-act ballet by Dmitri Shostakovich

In 2011 a three-act " Dr Sun Yat-sen opera " was announced by the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

The Makropulos Affair ( or The Makropoulos Case, or The Makropulos Secret or, literally, The Makropulos Thing ; ( Czech Věc Makropulos ) is a three-act opera by Czech composer Leoš Janáček.

The three-part structure of the work approximates to that of Handel's three-act operas, with the " parts " subdivided by Jennens into " scenes ".

Lawrence's novel was successfully dramatised for the stage in a three-act play by a young British playwright named John Harte.

John Cranko choreographed a three-act ballet using Tchaikovsky's music in an arrangement by Kurt-Heinz Stolze.

He also composed the music for a three-act comic opera with a libretto by Gilbert, Haste to the Wedding ( 1892 ).

The work received a positive review in The New York Times ; the Times reviewer wrote: " It ’ s quite likely that this is the first all-new, entirely American three-act ballet: it is based on an American literary classic, has an original score by an American composer and was given its premiere by an American choreographer and company ....

This was followed by the work Blitzstein intended to be his magnum opus, a three-act opera commissioned by the Ford Foundation and optioned by the Metropolitan Opera entitled Sacco and Vanzetti.

Maskarade ( 1906 ), a three-act opera based on the play by Ludvig Holberg, is regarded as the Danish national opera.

Voisenon made his début as a dramatist with L ' Heureuse resemblance in 1728, followed in 1739 by a three-act comedy L ' Ecole du monde at the Théâtre Français.

) Their loosely structured show with the musicians sitting in a semicircle, a tambourine player on one end and a bones player on the other, set the precedent for what would soon become the first act of a standard three-act minstrel show.

The film is a three-act story about self-identified " hipster " Willie ( John Lurie ), who lives in New York City, and his interactions with the two other main characters, Eva ( Eszter Balint ) and Eddie ( Richard Edson ).

Although Gilbert's libretto contains many funny lines, the iambic pentameter and three-act structure tend to make Ida more difficult to stage effectively than some of the other Savoy Operas.

In 1935 in the Soviet Union, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold combined The Proposal with Chekhov's other short plays The Bear and The Anniversary to form a three-act play called 33 Swoons that demonstrated the weakness of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia.

The film is a three-act " chamber film ", in which four family members act as mirrors for each other.

Berg completed the orchestration of only the first two acts of his later three-act opera Lulu, before he died.

The Guild's production of One Mad Night in 1940 was the first three-act play performed on television, when it was broadcast on WPTZ, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Born Giovanni Rota Rinaldi, into a musical family in Milan, Rota was a renowned child prodigy — his first oratorio, L ' infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923 ; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 and published in 1926.

Shortly after making his first hit in London in Oh, Hush, Rice starred in a more prestigious production, a three-act play at the Adelphi Theatre there.

He isn't the first and certainly not the only one to pry cinema from the grip of classical narrative, to take a pickax to the usual three-act architecture ( or at least shake the foundation ), while also dispatching with the art-deadening requirements ( redemption, closure, ad nauseam ) that have turned much of Big Hollywood into a creative dead zone.

* Arlequin roi de Serendib, a three-act farce by Alain-René Lesage first performed in 1713

Although the musical numbers were still linked by dialogue, the first act had been divided in two, to create a three-act opera.

This was the first of many of Dickens's early works adapted for the stage of the Adelphi, including The Pickwick Papers as William Leman Rede's The Peregrinations of Pickwick ; or, Boz-i-a-na, a three-act burletta first performed on 3 April 1837, Frederick Henry Yates's production of Nicholas Nickleby ; or, Doings at Do-The-Boys Hall in November and December 1838, and Edward Stirling's two-act burletta The Old Curiosity Shop ; or, One Hour from Humphrey's Clock ( November and December 1840, January 1841 ).

Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ), ( He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time ), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang, by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy first performed at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 10 March 1842.

Piccolino, his three-act opéra comique first performed in 1876, represents the peak of his career.

Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot's Le père de famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success.

The Brandenburgers in Bohemia () is a three-act opera, the first by Bedřich Smetana.

The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907.