Scores for Orchestra

Bohuslav Martinu composed his last stage work of the pre-war period, "Alexandre bis", in 1937 for the World Exhibition in Paris of the same year. The libretto for this chamber opera buffa for five peo...

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/7 Besetzung: Sopran solo (4), Mezzosopran solo (2), Bass solo, Flöte (2), Oboe (2), Fagott, Trompete, Violine (2), Viola, Cello, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott, Erz...

Besetzung: Sopran solo, Alt solo (3), Tenor solo, Bass solo, Blockflöte (2), Flöte, Oboe (2), Horn (2), Trompete, Violine (3), Viola, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott, Erzlaute, Cembalo) Band / Reihe:...

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie II, Band 29 Sopran solo, Alt solo, Mezzosopran solo (3), Bass solo (2), Flöte, Oboe (2), Fagott, Horn (2), Violine (2), Viola, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott, Erzlaut...

'Charming Berenice' - the Earl of Shaftesbury attended a rehearsal of the opera on 12 May 1737 and went into raptures about this 'inexpressible delight'. 'Berenice' was premiered at Covent Garden Thea...

In the fourth volume of his “General History of Music”, Charles Burney's verdict on Handel's “Giustino” was as enthusiastic as it was prophetic: “Upon the whole, this opera, so seldom acted and so lit...

When the librettist Paolo Rolli and George Frideric Handel composed an Italian opera about Scipio's conquest of the Iberian port city of Carthago Nova in 1726, these events from 209 BC were already al...

From the House of the Dead (1928) is Janácek's last operatic work. The libretto was written by the composer himself after F. M. Dostoevsky's "Notes from the House of the Dead". The critical edition pu...

Handel’s “Semele”, which premiered in February 1744, is based on an adapted version of William Congreve’s opera libretto titled “The Story of Semele”, originally published in 1706. However, neither Ha...

Orchester, Soli - Partitur; Gesamtausgabe; Urtextausgabe

Orchester, Soli - Partitur; Gesamtausgabe; Urtextausgabe

Orchester, Soli - Partitur; Gesamtausgabe; Urtextausgabe

> Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/28 > Ersetzt BA4027 > Leinen

Leoš Janácek began composing his seventh opera, 'The Cunning Little Vixen', based on the popular feuilletons of Rudolf Tesnohlídek, in January 1922. The first copy of the score, since lost, was comple...

This collection of all instrumental numbers from "Castor et Pollux" (tragédie in a prologue and five acts) brings together the movements and dances of all versions based on the volumes of the “Opera O...

The verismo opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo is the first work in Bärenreiter's new series 'Masterpieces of Italian Opera' (MIO). Pagliacci, which was Leoncavallo's most successful work, has rem...

The premiere of Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" in May 1890 is a milestone in the history of opera. It was a huge success, considered the beginning of verismo in opera and was praised for rev...

Zweifellos ist 'Samson et Dalila' heute die bekannteste der dreizehn Opern von Camille Saint-Saëns, die wie wenige Stücke des französischen 19. Jahrhunderts im Repertoire der internationalen Bühnen pr...

Charles Gounod's 'Faust' secured its international recognition in the version as an entirely sung opera, which from thenceforth has largely obscured the fact that the work was originally composed with...

Agostino Steffani's “Henrico Leone” is a work that stands out in the history of opera at the end of the 17th century due to the confluence of very different factors. The world premiere marked the inau...

Of the four overtures that Beethoven composed for his only opera, the 'Leonore Overture' No. 3 is the most popular. The first reviewer found fault with it for its 'incessant dissonances and overblown...

Originally conceived as a prologue for the ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", the one-act opera "La Naissance d'Osiris" was performed only twice, together with revivals of "Pigmalion" and "Les Incas...