Urtext Edition

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

> Urtext edition based on the 'Halle Handel Edition' > With a singable translation in German > Adapted in keeping with the revised score > Comprehensive bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic piano...

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...

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...

Richer than ever - Rameau’s 'Zoroastre' in the version of 1756 Rameau’s revised version of his opera 'Zoroastre', which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académi...

Rameau's "Io" has only survived posthumously, namely in the form of a copy of the score and the orchestral parts, both of which were produced in Rameau's successor generation from the now lost autogra...

The Acte de ballet "Zéphire" was never performed during the lifetime of its authors, although the autograph manuscript shows traces that Rameau worked on it several times between 1748 and 1759 – possi...

This collection of the instrumental numbers from Zoroastre, a "Tragédie in five acts" includes the movements and dances of all the original versions, i.e. those of January and February 1756 (found in...

'Dardanus' is Rameau's third 'Tragédie lyrique' composed for Paris after 'Hippolyte et Aricie' and 'Castor et Pollux'. With its multi-facetted music it represents quite a high point of this genre. Its...

'One Opera I saw represented about 16 severall times; and so farr was I from being weary of it, I would ride hundreds of miles to see the same over again (…).' These words are from the travel diary of...