Opera Sheet Music

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. The Cavatina 'Largo al factotum' is sung by Figaro, the barber of Sevilla, in the first act of the opera: he tells...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

'Le Nozze di Figaro' is one of the three opera's which Mozart composed on libretto's of Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) the famous Viennese theaterdirector and courtpoet. The 'Canzonetta sull'aria' is su...

'Guglielmo Ratcliff' is a tragic opera in four acts by Italian composer Pietro Mascagni. The libretto was translated from the German play 'Wilhelm Ratcliff' (1822) by Heinrich Heine. Mascagni often wr...

'Guglielmo Ratcliff' is a tragic opera in four acts by Italian composer Pietro Mascagni. The libretto was translated from the German play 'Wilhelm Ratcliff' (1822) by Heinrich Heine. Mascagni often wr...

Vincenzo Bellini is one of the great composers of the bel canto era. The role of Norma was one of the favourites of the legendary soprano Maria Callas. (2 Sopranos and Concert Band)

The Cavatina 'Quel guarda il cavaliere' is sung in the first act of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale by the young Norina .She comments on a novel she is reading, but also dwells on her skills as a charm...

Richard Heuberger (1850 – 1914) was an Austrian composer, music critic, and teacher. He wrote several operas, ballets, choral works, and songs and was a prominent figure in the Viennese musical scene....

Richard Heuberger (1850 – 1914) was an Austrian composer, music critic, and teacher. He wrote several operas, ballets, choral works, and songs and was a prominent figure in the Viennese musical scene....

In Puccini's La Boheme Rodolfo`s sings in the first act the aria Che gelida manina. It is one of the purest most fragrant ideas that ever came into Puccini`s head with its tenderness recalling the exq...

'Le Cid' is an opera in four acts and ten tableaux by Jules Massenet based on the play of the same name by Pierre Corneille. It was first performed by a star-studded cast at the Paris Opéra on 30 Nove...

'Le Cid' is an opera in four acts and ten tableaux by Jules Massenet based on the play of the same name by Pierre Corneille. It was first performed by a star-studded cast at the Paris Opéra on 30 Nove...

'El Barbero de Sevilla' is a one-act zarzuela, divided into three scenes, with a libretto by Guillermo Perrín y Vico and Miguel de Palacios and music by Jéronimo Giménez. It premiered at the 'Teatro d...

The Barcarole is sung at the beginning of the second act of Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman tells the story of his affair with the Venetian courtesan Giulietta. The place of acting is...

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

L'Amico Fritz is an opera in three acts by Italian composer Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is probably Mascagni's most famous work after 'Caval...

L'Amico Fritz is an opera in three acts by Italian composer Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1891. While the opera enjoyed some success in its day and is probably Mascagni's most famous work after 'Caval...

Giacomo Puccini's 'Suor Angelica' (Sister Angelica) is one of the three one-act opera's which belong to the triptych 'Il Trittico' which is an example of the verismo-opera, a naturalistic movement in...

Giacomo Puccini's 'Suor Angelica' (Sister Angelica) is one of the three one-act opera's which belong to the triptych 'Il Trittico' which is an example of the verismo-opera, a naturalistic movement in...

Jocelyn is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard and is best remembered for Godard's most enduring composition, the tender berceuse (lullaby) for tenor 'Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore' commonly known in En...

Jocelyn is a four-act opera by Benjamin Godard and is best remembered for Godard's most enduring composition, the tender berceuse (lullaby) for tenor 'Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore' commonly known in En...

Otto Nicolai's last opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The libr...

Mefistofele' is an opera in a prologue and five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue. It's the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito. The opera, w...