Edwin F. Kalmus Sheet Music

La serva padrona (The Maid as Mistress) was composed in 1733 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) as a two-part intermezzo intended to be performed between the acts of his serious opera Il prigi...

La Serva Padrona (The Maid as Mistress) was composed in 1733 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) as a two-part intermezzo intended to be performed between the acts of his serious opera Il prigi...

La serva padrona (The Maid as Mistress) was composed in 1733 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) as a two-part intermezzo intended to be performed between the acts of his serious opera Il prigi...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) CARMEN became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

Italian for rustic chivalry, this opera in one act with music by Pietro Mascagni and a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, is adapted from a short story and play by Giovanni Verg...

Italian for 'rustic chivalry,' this opera in one act with music by Pietro Mascagni and a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, is adapted from a short story and play by Giovanni Ve...

After the completion of his studies at the Milan Conservatory, Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) decided to compose his own operatic version of Goethe's Faust. Perceiving what he saw to be artistic shortcoming...

After the completion of his studies at the Milan Conservatory, Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) decided to compose his own operatic version of Goethe's Faust. Perceiving what he saw to be artistic shortcoming...

The tragic two-act opera, Anna Bolena, recounts the life of King Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, and is one of four Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) operas depicting the Tudor period in English hi...

Gianni Schicchi is a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The final and most popular opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a deat...

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) began composing Guglielmo Ratcliff (William Ratcliff) while a student at the Milan Conservatory in 1882, inspired by Heinrich Heine's tragic drama Wilhelm Ratcliff, but did...

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) began composing Guglielmo Ratcliff (William Ratcliff) while a student at the Milan Conservatory in 1882, inspired by Heinrich Heine's tragic drama Wilhelm Ratcliff, but did...

The history of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) only opera, Fidelio, Op. 72, is rife with twists and turns, among them that the opera was originally to be called Leonore. Beethoven cycled through tw...

The history of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) only opera, Fidelio, Op. 72, is rife with twists and turns, among them that the opera was originally to be called Leonore. Beethoven cycled through tw...

Ariane et Barbe-bleue: Act III, Introduction forms part of Paul Dukas' (1865-1935) only completed opera, composed between 1899 and 1906, and premiered on May 10, 1907, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. D...

Written in 1795, Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770-1827) Soll ein Schuh nicht drücken! for soprano and ensemble is a setting of the libretto from Austrian composer Ignaz Umlauf’s 1778 singspeil Die schöne...

Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 / TrV 234 (The Woman Without a Shadow) was composed between 1914 and 1917 by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, forming one of the most...

Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65 / TrV 234 (The Woman Without a Shadow) was composed between 1914 and 1917 by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, forming one of the most...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, Macbeth was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about c...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, Macbeth was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about c...

Written for the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and premiering on March 14 1847, Macbeth was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) tenth opera and the first genuine masterpiece of his career. Adamant about c...

Martha oder Der Markt zu Richmond was composed in 1847 by Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883) as a lyric-comic opera that became one of the most popular German stage works of the mid-19th century. Set in...

Martha oder Der Markt zu Richmond was composed in 1847 by Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883) as a lyric-comic opera that became one of the most popular German stage works of the mid-19th century. Set in...

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Camille Saint-Saëns' (1835-1921) opera SAMSON ET DALILA, Op. 47 tells the biblical story of Delilah's betrayal of Samson. Originally conceived as an oratorio due to Saint-Saëns' admiration of such wor...