Opera Sheet Music Downloads

The famous violin aria of Nicklausse from Act III of "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" ("The Tales of Hoffmann") by Jacques Offenbach is now available in a single edition. It includes the piano score for voice...

La Belle Hélène is one of the best known of Offenbach's more than one hundred stage works "La Belle Hélène" is one of the best known of Offenbach's more than one hundred stage works and a key work for...

The libretto of Handel's probably shortest opera - the most important setting of the material alongside Mozart's "Lucio Silla" - is based on Plutarch's description of the life of the cruel Roman consu...

Handel's three-act opera "Sosarme, Re di Media" (HWV 30) was first performed in 1732 with the star castrato Senesino in the title role. The plot centers on a family conflict over the succession to the...

The fact that the "opéra comique", rooted in the folk art of French vaudeville, was brought to one of its high points in Vienna by Gluck, an Italian composer from the Upper Palatinate, clearly shows t...

Drame lyrique in three acts and a prologue (1779) Libretto: Louis-Théodore Baron de Tschudi (after "Narcissos ed Eco" from Ovid's Metamorfosi) (French) Premiere: September 24, 1779, Paris, Opéra (Pala...

Opéra comique in two acts (1760) Libretto: Louis Anseaume (for Jean-Louis Laruette's opéra comique "L'ivrogne corrigé ou Le mariage du diable" of 1759; adapted by Charles Simon Favart) (French) Premie...

Comic opera in three acts H. 346 (1954)/Libretto: Bohuslav Martinú (after Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La locandiera" from 1752)(Italian) Premiere: 17. May 1959, Prague, Národní divadlo (National Theater)/...

Soprano solo (2), Mezzo-soprano solo, Alto solo, Bass (choral part)/ Soprano solo, Trumpet, Alto recorder In f,g (2), Oboe (2), Strings, Basso continuo - Piano reduction; Urtext edition; Complete edit...

Opera in tre atti. Soprano solo (4), Tenor solo, Alto solo, Orchestra - Piano reduction; Complete edition; Urtext edition V o k A l m u s i c - Stage works - Opera.

Like many of Pietro Metastasio's libretti, "Ezio" has been set to music time and again - in addition to Handel, also by Nicola Porpora in 1728 and Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1750. As the historical...

Antonio Salvi's 'Arminio' is one of the most popular opera libretti of the Baroque period. Set against the historical backdrop of the so-called 'Battle of the Teutoburg Forest' in 9 AD, in which the C...

Italian opera was the focus of Handel's work for over 35 years, with the solo aria being one of the most important elements within Baroque opera. They are used to characterize the dramatic roles in th...

Ezio is based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which was first set to music by Nicola Porpora (1728), then - among many others - by Georg Friedrich Händel (1732) and in 1750 by Christoph Willibald...

In 1768, Gluck was asked by Empress Maria Theresa to compose a festive opera in Parma on the occasion of the wedding of her daughter Maria Amalia to Ferdinand of Spain. The composer accepted the commi...

The episode of Armida from Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century and has inspired numerous composers, includi...

Christoph Willibald Gluck's four-act opera about the curse of the Tantalids is based on a tragedy by the classical Greek playwright Euripides. The mythological subject of the siblings Iphigenia and Or...

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was one of the most successful composers of the 19th century thanks to his ingenuity, dramaturgical flair and ability to adapt to the tastes of the audience. As a native...

Experience Pietro Mascagni’s world-famous masterpiece “Cavalleria rusticana” in a first-class digital edition from the renowned Bärenreiter Verlag. This gripping melodrama in one act is considered a m...

Saint-Saëns' setting of the biblical story of Samson, a hero equipped with superhuman powers, and his seduction by the Philistine Dalila is considered his magnum opus for the musical stage. It stands...

Of the two main versions of Rameau's stage works such as "Dardanus" (1739, 1744), "Platée" (1745, 1749) and "Zoroastre" (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long as "Castor et Pollux". First p...

Richer than ever - Rameau's "Zoroastre" in the 1756 version Rameau's revised version of his opera "Zoroastre", which was performed and heard at the Académie royale de musique between January 20, 1756...