Opera Sheet Music for Orchestra

Diane et Endymion is a tragédie lyrique in three acts about the mythological love story of the goddess Diana for the shepherd Endymion. The libretto written by the almost unknown Jean-François Espic c...

By the time Le trouvère premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1857, Giuseppe Verdi had first-hand knowledge of the unique demands of French theater. He had adapted his earlier work I Lombardi alla prima cro...

Maurice Ravel's “Daphnis et Chloé” is undoubtedly one of the most dazzling masterworks of the 20th century. With Suite No. 2 (Fragments Symphoniques), the French master created an orchestral tour de f...

Text by Franc-Nohain Place and time: The plot takes place in Toledo, in the 18th century Characters: Concepción, Torquemada's wife (Soprano) - Gonzalve, bachelier (Tenor) - Torquemada, clockmaker (Tri...

The prelude to the opera "Lohengrin", which premiered in Weimar in 1850 and marks the transition from Wagner's romantic opera to through-composed music drama, represents a special developmental step a...

When Carl Maria von Weber composed the overtura to "Der Freischütz" in May 1820, it was the final musical building block for his opera. In this respect, Weber was able to perfectly trace and condense...

The Hindemith Complete Edition publishes the score of the opera in four acts Cardillac (new version) in two volumes: in the present volume I,5-Part A the First and Second Acts together with an introdu...

The Hindemith Complete Edition publishes the score of the opera in four acts Cardillac (new version) in two volumes: in volume I,5-Part A the First and Second Acts together with an introduction, the r...

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but...

Hindemith's humorous opera with its contemporary criticism of the power of the media is more relevant than ever today and should feature in every theatre. Following the publication early in 2003 of vo...

Commissioned by the American Opera Project and premiered in 2014, Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom is a two act opera detailing the life and development of the famed Underground Rai...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to mak...

Experience one of the most groundbreaking masterpieces in 20th-century music history: Alban Berg's opera »Wozzeck«, Op. 7. This gripping three-act drama captivates both performers and audiences with i...

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Carl Maria von Weber‘s fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz‘. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...