Hamilton the Musical Hamilton is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It is inspired by Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Hamilton opened off Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on February 17, 2015 and closed May 03, 2015 to open on Broadway August 06, 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. […]
Category: Opera
Red Eye to Havre de Grace
Red Eye to Havre de Grace Created by Thaddeus Phillips, Jeremy Wilhelm, David Wilhelm, Geoff Sobelle and Sophie Bortolussi with Ean Sheehy New York Theatre Workshop - Usual Suspect Thaddeus Phillips El Conquistadorteams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create a visually striking and sonically complex action-opera about Edgar Allan Poe’s […]
The Rape of Lucretia
Memorabilia Available The Rape of Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based his English libretto on André Obey’s play Le Viol de Lucrèce. Performance History The opera was first performed at […]
Turandot
Memorabilia Available Turandot By Giacomo Puccini Turandot is an opera in three acts, by Giacomo Puccini completed by Franco Alfano set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini’s first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller’s adaptation of the play, his work is most […]
Tosca
Memorabilia Available Tosca Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in […]
Albert Herring
Memorabilia Available Albert Herring By Benjamin Britten Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia. The libretto, by Eric Crozier, was based on […]
Candide
Memorabilia Available Candide By Leonard Bernstein Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the novella of the same name by Voltaire.[1] The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with a book by Hugh Wheeler[2][3] which […]
The Merry Widow
Memorabilia Available The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen’s attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the […]
The Student Prince
Memorabilia Available The Student Prince by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster’s play Old Heidelberg. The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks […]
The Gondoliers
Memorabilia Available The Gondoliers by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 […]
