List of opera librettists
This is an incomplete list of authors who have written libretti for operas. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each opera is also given.
List of operas by librettist's last name
A
Giuseppe Adami- for Giacomo Puccini: La rondine, Il tabarro, Turandot
- for Riccardo Zandonai: La via della finestra
- for Franco Vittadini: Anima allegra, Nazareth
- with Henri Caïn
- * for Umberto Giordano: Marcella
- with Charles Grandvallet
- * for Jules Massenet: La grand'tante
- with
- * for Jacques Offenbach: Un postillon en gage
- with J Rostaing
- * for Ernest Guiraud: Sylvie
- with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
- * for Georges Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
- with A Silvestre and L Bonnemère
- * for Henry Charles Litolff: Les templiers
- for his own music: Sakùntala
- alone
- *for Egidio Duni: L'école de la jeunesse, La fée Urgèle, Le peintre amoureux de son modèle
- *for Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé, L'ivrogne corrigé
- *for André Grétry: Le tableau parlant
- with Thomas Hales
- *for André Grétry: Le jugement de Midas
- with Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville:
- *for Christoph Willibald Gluck: La fausse esclave
- *for Jean Louis Laruette: La fausse aventurière
- *for Pierre van Maldere: Le Médecin de l'amour
- for his own music: Transatlantic
- used by Francis Poulenc: Les mamelles de Tirésias
- alone:
- *for Benjamin Britten: Paul Bunyan
- with Chester Kallman
- *for Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids, Elegy for Young Lovers
- *for Nicolas Nabokov: Love's Labour's Lost
- *for Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
B
- for Hans Werner Henze: Der junge Lord, Der Prinz von Homburg
- for Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
- for Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims, Le siège de Corinthe, Moïse et Pharaon
- for Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
- alone:
- *for Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
- *for Camille Saint-Saëns: Le timbre d'argent
- with Michel Carré:
- *for Charles Gounod: La colombe, Faust, Le médecin malgré lui, Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba, Roméo et Juliette
- *for Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploermel
- *for Ambroise Thomas: Mignon, Hamlet, Françoise de Rimini
- used by Antonio Salieri: Tarare
- for Umberto Giordano: La cena delle beffe
- for Italo Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re, L'incantesimo
- for his own music: Les Troyens, Béatrice et Bénédict
- for Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
- for Giuseppe Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni Tenorio
- for Henry Purcell: Dioclesian, The Fairy-Queen
- for Harrison Birtwistle: The Last Supper
- alone:
- *for Édouard Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
- with Georges Hartmann and Paul Milliet:
- *for Jules Massenet: Werther
- with Adolphe d'Ennery and Louis Gallet:
- *for Jules Massenet:Le Cid
- for Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Falstaff
- for Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
- for his own music: Mefistofele, Nerone
- for Franco Faccio: Amleto
- for Luigi Cherubini: Les deux journées
- for André Grétry: Pierre le Grand
- for Étienne Méhul: Le jeune Henri, Une folie, Héléna, Valentine de Milan,
- for Paul Dessau: Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
- for Kurt Weill:
- *alone: Der Jasager, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,
- *with Elisabeth Hauptmann: Happy End, The Threepenny Opera
- used by Alban Berg: Wozzeck
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Chieftain, The Contrabandista, Cox and Box
- for Edward Solomon: Domestic Economy, Pickwick, The Tiger
- for Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
- for Francesco Cavalli: Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne, La Didone, La prosperita di Giulio Cesare dittatore , Statira principessa de Persia
- for his own music: Arlecchino, Die Brautwahl, Doktor Faust, Turandot
C
- for Luigi Nono: Prometeo
- for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon, Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre
- alone:
- *for Jules Massenet: Cendrillon, La Navarraise, Don Quichotte, Roma, Sapho
- *for Franco Alfano: Cyrano di Bergerac
- with de Croisset – see Francis de Croisset
- for Luciano Berio: La vera storia, Un re in ascolto
- for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste, Orfeo ed Euridice, Paride ed Elena
- for Gaetano Donizetti: L'assedio di Calais, Belisario, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria de Rudenz, Maria di Rohan, Pia de' Tolomei, Poliuto, Roberto Devereux
- for Giuseppe Verdi: Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller, Il trovatore
- for Giuseppe Persiani: Ines de Castro
- for Saverio Mercadante: Elena da Feltre, La vestale, Orazi e Curiazi, Virginia, Il reggente
- for Giovanni Pacini: Saffo
- for Mason Bates: The evolution of Steve Jobs
- for Iain Bell: Stonewall
- for William Bolcom: Lucrezia, Dinner At Eight
- for Julian Grant: The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
- for Laura Kaminsky: As One, Some Light Emerges, Today It Rains
- for Paul Moravec: The Shining
- for John Musto: Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello, The Inspector
- for Rene Orth: Empty the House
- for Roberto Scarcella Perino: A Sweet Silence in Cremona
- for Paola Prestini: Edward Tulane
- for Kevin Puts: Silent Night, The Manchurian Candidate, Elizabeth Cree
- for Stewart Wallace: Supermax
- alone:
- *for Charles Gounod: Mireille
- *for Jacques Offenbach: La rose de Saint-Flour
- with Eugène Cormon:
- *for Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
- with Barbier – see Jules Barbier
- for Nicholas Lens: Shell Shock
- for his own music: Le roi Arthus
- for Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Sapphire Necklace
- for William Vincent Wallace: The Amber Witch
- for Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West
- for Arthur Honegger: Antigone
- for Darius Milhaud: Le pauvre matelot
- for Francis Poulenc: La voix humaine
- for Igor Stravinsky: Oedipus rex
- for Nicholas Lens: Slow Man
- for Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges
- for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Telemaco
- for Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe
- for Joseph Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa
- for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice
- for Antonio Salieri: Armida
- for Tommaso Traetta: Ifigenia in Aulide, Antigona
- with Ivan Bootham: The Death of Venus
- used by John Eccles: Semele
- used by George Frideric Handel: Semele
- used by John Eccles, Daniel Purcell, Gottfried Finger and John Weldon: The Judgement of Paris
- with Michel Carré
- *for Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
- with Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Robinson Crusoé
- with Lockroy
- *for Aimé Maillart: Les dragons de Villars
- for Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée
- for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon
- with E About
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Le financier et le savetier
- with Ernest Blum
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Bagatelle, La jolie parfumeuse
- with Eugène Cormon
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Robinson Crusoé
- with Philippe Gille
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Les bergers
- with Ludovic Halévy
- *for Léo Delibes: Les eaux d’Ems
- *for Jacques Offenbach: La chanson de Fortunio, Jacqueline, Orphée aux enfers, Le pont des soupirs, Le roman comique
- with Ludovic Halévy, M de Saint-Rémy and Ernest Lépine
- *for Jacques Offenbach: M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le...
- with Adolphe Jaime
- *for Hervé: Le petit Faust
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Une demoiselle en loterie
- with Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant
- with Albert de Saint-Albin
- *for Jacques Offenbach: La foire Saint-Laurent
- for Terence Blanchard: Champion
- alone:
- *for Reynaldo Hahn: Ciboulette
- with Henri Caïn
- *for Jules Massenet: Chérubin
- for Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Billy Budd, The Little Sweep
- for his own music: The Captain's Daughter, A Feast in Time of Plague, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Saracen
D
- for Pietro Mascagni: Parisina
- for Alberto Franchetti: La figlia di Iorio
- for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte
- for Vicente Martín y Soler: L'arbore di Diana, Il burbero di buon cuore, Una cosa rara
- for Antonio Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus
- for Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke and others: The Siege of Rhodes
- for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla ; Italian adaptation of The Magic Flute
- for Giuseppe Sarti: Medonte, re di Epiro
- for Josef Mysliveček: Il Medonte
- for Antonio Salieri: Palmira, regina di Persia
- for Philip Glass: Satyagraha
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Frederick Delius
- for his own music: Fennimore and Gerda, Irmelin, A Village Romeo and Juliet
- for Jean-Joseph Mouret: Les amours de Ragonde
- for Heinrich Marschner: Hans Heiling
- for his own music: Betly, Il campanello di notte, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Don Pasquale
- for Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen, King Arthur
- for Louis Grabu: Albion and Albanius
E
- for his own music: Dantons Tod
- alone:
- *for Charles Gounod: Le tribut de Zamora
- with Édouard Blau and Louis Gallet:
- *for Jules Massenet: Le Cid
- with Jules Brésil
- *for Adolphe Adam: Si j'étais roi
- with Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir and Jules Chantepie:
- *for Jules Massenet: Don César de Bazan
- for Alfred Schnittke: Life with an Idiot
- for Eugen d'Albert: Die toten Augen
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- for himself: Sumeida's Song
- for Irmin Schmidt composer Gormenghast
- for himself: Marilyn, Night, La nascita di Orfeo, La Conquista
- for Gaetano Donizetti: L'ajo nell'imbarazzo, Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo, Olivo e Pasquale, Torquato Tasso, Zoraide di Grenata
- for Saverio Mercadante: Gli amici di Siracusa, Scipione in Cartagine
- for Giovanni Pacini: Cesare in Egitto
- for Luigi Ricci: L'orfanella di Ginevra
- for Lauro Rossi: La figlia di Figaro
- for Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Matilde di Shabran
- for Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli: Baldovino
- for Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi, Edgar
- for Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
- for Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi
- for Carl Heinrich Graun: Montezuma
- for Krzysztof Penderecki: Paradise Lost
G
- for Don Davis: Río de Sangre
- for Georges Bizet: Djamileh
- for Alfred Bruneau: L'attaque du moulin
- for Charles Gounod: Cinq-Mars, Maître Pierre
- for Jules Massenet: Thaïs, Le Cid, Le roi de Lahore
- for Camille Saint-Saëns: Ascanio, La princesse jaune, Déjanire
- for music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera
- with Camillo Walzel
- *for Carl Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent
- *for Johann Strauss II: Cagliostro in Wien, Der lustige Krieg, Eine Nacht in Venedig
- with DuBose Heyward:
- *for George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
- for Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, La forza del destino
- for Amilcare Ponchielli: I Lituani
- for Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Tosca
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia, Limited, The Yeomen of the Guard
- for Thomas German Reed: Eyes and No Eyes, No Cards, Our Island Home, A Sensation Novel
- for Frederic Clay: Ages Ago, Happy Arcadia, Princess Toto, The Gentleman in Black
- for Alfred Cellier: The Mountebanks, Topsyturveydom
- for George Grossmith: Haste to the Wedding
- for Frank Osmond Carr: His Excellency
- for Edward German: Fallen Fairies
- for Alberto Randegger: Creatures of Impulse
- with Edmond Gondinet:
- *for Léo Delibes: Lakmé
- with Henri Meilhac:
- *for Jules Massenet: Manon
- for Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma
- used by Modest Mussorgsky: Zhenitba
- used by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice
- used by Niccolò Piccinni: La buona figliuola
- used by Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna, Lo speziale, Le pescatrici
- used by Baldassare Galuppi: Il filosofo di campagna
- used by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il campiello, Le donne curiose, I quatro rusteghi, Gli amanti sposi, La vedova scaltra
- alone
- *for Léo Delibes: Le roi l'a dit
- with Ernest Blum and Albert de Saint-Albin
- *for Hervé: Mam’zelle Gavroche
- with Georges Duval:
- *for Robert Planquette: Les Voltigeurs de la 32ème
- with Philippe Gille:
- *for Léo Delibes: Jean de Nivelle , Lakmé
- for John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China
- for George Frideric Handel: Agrippina
- for Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall
- for Edward Solomon: Pocahontas, The Vicar of Bray
- for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
- for Antonio Salieri: Les Horaces
- for Antonio Sacchini: Chimène, Œdipe à Colone, Arvire et Évélina''
H
- for his own music: Just for the Night, from New York Stories
- for André Grétry: L'amant jaloux, Le jugement de Midas
- for Jacques Offenbach: Ba-ta-clan
- also see Meilhac and Crémieux
- for Philip Glass: Appomattox, Waiting for the Barbarians
- for Harrison Birtwistle: Gawain
- for Jules Massenet: Hérodiade, Werther
- for André Messager: Madame Chrysanthème
- for Reynaldo Hahn: L'île du rêve
- for Giovanni Bononcini: Calfurnia and Astianatte
- for George Frideric Handel: Admeto, Amadigi di Gaula, Flavio, Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Radamisto, Rodelinda, Siroe, Tamerlano Teseo
- for Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face
- with Ira Gershwin:
- *for George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
- for Stella Sung: The Red Silk Thread, an Epic Tale of Marco Polo, The Book Collector
- for Daniel Felsenfeld: Summer and All it Brings, The Last of Manhattan
- for his own music: Die Harmonie der Welt, Mathis der Maler
- for Harrison Birtwistle: The Second Mrs Kong
- for Richard Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier
- for Luigi Cherubini: Médée
- for Nicolas Isouard: Les rendez-vous bourgeois
- for Rodolphe Kreutzer: La mort d'Abel
- for Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne: Nephté, Phèdre
- for Étienne Méhul: Adrien, Ariodant, Euphrosine, Le jeune sage et le vieux fou, Stratonice
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Emerald Isle, The Rose of Persia
- for Arthur Bruhns : Ib and Little Christina
- for Cecil Cook: The Willow Pattern
- for Edward German: Merrie England, A Princess of Kensington
- for Louise Bertin: La Esmeralda
- for Philip Glass: The Voyage, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
- for Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar
- for Howard Shore: The Fly
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- for Alfredo Catalani: La Wally
- for Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier, Siberia
- for Pietro Mascagni: Iris, Isabeau, Le maschere
- for Karol Szymanowski: King Roger
J
- for his own music: The Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead, Jenůfa, The Makropulos Affair, Destiny
- for his own music: Treemonisha
- for Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages
- for Étienne Méhul: Les amazones
- for Gioachino Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon, Guillaume Tell
- for Gaspare Spontini: Milton, La vestale, Fernand Cortez
K
- for Kurt Weill: Der Protagonist, Der Silbersee, Der Zar lässt sich photographieren
Johann Friedrich Kind
- for Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
- for Conradin Kreutzer: Das Nachtlager in Granada
- for Ned Rorem: Bertha
- for Bedřich Smetana: The Devil's Wall, The Kiss, The Secret, Viola
- for Richard Strauss: Capriccio
L
- for André Campra: L'Europe galante
- for André Cardinal Destouches: Issé
- for Marin Marais: Alcyone
- for Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
- for Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones
- for his own music: Chatterton, I Medici, La bohème, Pagliacci, Zazà
- for Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut
- for Philip Glass: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
M
- for Kaija Saariaho: L'amour de loin
- for Rufus Wainwright: Hadrian
- used by Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
- used by Paul Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-bleue
- for Verdi: I masnadieri
- for his own music: Bérénice, Guercœur
- for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Acante et Céphise, La guirlande, Les sibarites
- for André Grétry: Le Huron, Lucile, Zémire et Azor
- for Niccolò Piccinni: Atys, Didon, Pénélope, Roland
- with Philippe Gille
- *for Jules Massenet: Manon
- with Ludovic Halévy
- *for Georges Bizet: Carmen
- *for Jacques Offenbach: Barbe-bleue, La belle Hélène, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Périchole, La Vie parisienne
- for Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa
- with Pierre Carmouche
- *for Jacques Offenbach: La permission de dix heures
- with Eugène Scribe
- *for Jacques Offenbach: La chatte métamorphosée en femme
- with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti:
- *for Umberto Giordano: Regina Diaz
- *for Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, I Rantzau, Zanetto
- for Emmanuel Chabrier: Gwendoline
- for Claude Debussy: Rodrigue et Chimène
- with Ephraïm Mikaël:
- *for Emmanuel Chabrier: Briséïs
- for Jules Massenet: Ariane, Bacchus
- for André Messager: Isoline
- for his own music: Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Boy Who Grew Too Fast, The Consul, The Island God, The Last Savage, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleecker Street, The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois
- for Samuel Barber: A Hand of Bridge, Vanessa
- for Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
- for his own music: Saint François d'Assise
- used by J. C. Bach, Riccardo Broschi, Johann Adolph Hasse, Josef Mysliveček, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, among others: Adriano in Siria
- used by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hasse, Mysliveček, and Tommaso Traetta, among others: Antigono
- used by J. C. Bach, Gluck, Hasse, Mysliveček, and Leonardo Vinci, among others: Artaserse
- used by Hasse, Vinci, J. C. Bach, and Antonio Vivaldi, among others: Catone in Utica
- used by Gluck, Hasse, and Mysliveček, among others: Demetrio
- used by Gluck, Hasse, Niccolò Jommelli, Mysliveček, Traetta, and Vinci, among others: Demofoonte
- used by Hasse, Nicola Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Didone abbandonata
- used by Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others: Il re pastore
- used by Gluck, Hasse, Jommelli, and Mysliveček, among others: Il trionfo di Clelia
- used by Gluck, Hasse, and Porpora, among others: '
- used by Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Mysliveček, and Porpora, among others: Ezio
- used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Alessandro nelle Indie, also known as Poro, re dell'Indie
- used by Gluck, Hasse, and Mysliveček, among others: Ipermestra
- used by Mozart and Mysliveček, among others: La clemenza di Tito
- used by Hasse, Mysliveček, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Traetta, and Vivaldi, among others: L'Olimpiade
- used by Hasse, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Mysliveček, Porpora, Antonio Salieri, and Vinci, among others: Semiramide riconosciuta
- used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Vinci, and Vivaldi, among others: Siroe rè di Persia
- for Darius Milhaud: Médée, Bolivar, La mère coupable
- used by Francesco Cavalli: Orimonte
- used by Francesco Cavalli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giacomo Antonio Perti: Pompeo Magno
- used by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Xerse
- used by Antonio Draghi: Leonida in Tegea, La tirannide abbatuta dalla virtù
- used by Antonio Draghi and Marc'Antonio Ziani: Chilonida
- used by Antonio Draghi and Georg Reutter/Antonio Caldara: La patienza di Socrate con due mogli
- used by Antonio Sartorio, Antonio Draghi and Tomaso Albinoni: La prosperità di Elio Sejano
- for Daron Hagen: Shining Brow, Vera of Las Vegas, Bandanna, The Antient Concert
- for his own music:
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Émile de Najac- with Paul Burani
- *for Emmanuel Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui
- with Paul Ferrier
- *for Lecocq: La vie mondaine
- for Jacques Offenbach: Les bavards, Les fées du Rhin
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- for Thomas Adès: The Tempest
- for Eef van Breen: ʼuʼ
- for Heinrich Schütz: Dafne
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- for Luigi Ricci and Federico Ricci: Crispino e la comare
- for Verdi: Aroldo, Il corsaro, I due Foscari, Ernani, La forza del destino, Macbeth, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, La traviata
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Beauty Stone
- for Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, Owen Wingrave, The Turn of the Screw
- for Weber: Oberon
- for Benjamin Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace, Curlew River, Gloriana, The Prodigal Son.
- for Peter Maxwell Davies: The Doctor of Myddfai, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
- for Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district, The Nose
- for his own music:
- *alone: The Fiery Angel, The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, Maddalena
- *with Mira Mendelson: Betrothal in a Monastery, The Story of a Real Man, War and Peace
- *with Valentin Katayev: Semyon Kotko
- used by Alexander Dargomyzhsky: The Stone Guest
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- for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Acis et Galatée, Amadis, Armide, Atys, Cadmus et Hermione, Isis, Persée, Phaëton, Proserpine, Roland, Thésée
- used by Gluck: Armide
- used by Piccinni: Roland
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- for César Cui: Le flibustier
- for Jules Massenet: Le mage
- for his own music: Christmas Eve, Kashchey the Deathless, The Maid of Pskov, May Night, The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga, Sadko, Servilia, The Snow Maiden
- for Caccini: Euridice
- for Gagliano: Dafne
- for Monteverdi: L'Arianna
- for Peri: Dafne, Euridice
- for James MacMillan: The Sacrifice
- for Bellini: Adelson e Salvini, Beatrice di Tenda, Bianca e Fernando, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, Il pirata, I puritani, La sonnambula, La straniera, Zaira
- for Donizetti: Alina, regina di Golconda, Anna Bolena, L'elisir d'amore, Gianni di Parigi, Lucrezia Borgia, Parisina, Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Ugo, conte di Parigi
- for Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'esule di Granata, Margherita d'Anjou
- for Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Bianca e Falliero, Il turco in Italia
- for Verdi: Un giorno di regno
- for Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio
- for Marco Marazzoli and Virgilio Mazzocchi: Chi soffre, speri
- for Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato
- for Michelangelo Rossi: Erminia sul Giordano
- with Giacomo Rospigliosi
- *for Antonio Maria Abbatini and Marco Marazzoli: Dal male il bene
- for Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio, Tancredi, Semiramide
- for Simon Mayr: L'amor coniugale
- for Saverio Mercadante: Il giuramento
- for Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
- for Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna
- for Donizetti: Maria Padilla, Linda di Chamounix
- for his own music: Le devin du village
- for André Cardinal Destouches: Callirhoé
- for André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande: Les élémens
- with Gustave Vaëz
- * for Donizetti: La favorite, L'ange de Nisida
- * for Rossini and Niedermeyer: Robert Bruce
- * for Verdi: Jérusalem''
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- alone
- *for Franz Lachner: Caterina Cornaro
- *for Fromental Halévy: La reine de Chypre
- with Jules Adenis
- *for Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
- with Jean-François Bayard:
- *for Donizetti: La fille du régiment
- with François-Antoine de Planard:
- *for Fromental Halévy: L'éclair
- with Eugène Scribe:
- *for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne
- for Mozart: The Magic Flute
- for Franz Xaver Süssmayr: Der Spiegel von Arkadien
- for Peter Winter: The Magic Flute's Second Part
- for his own music: Die glückliche Hand, Moses und Aron
- alone
- *for Auber: Le cheval de bronze, Le domino noir, L'enfant prodigue, Fra Diavolo, Gustave III, Haydée, Manon Lescaut, La muette de Portici, La part du diable
- *for Boieldieu: La dame blanche
- *for Donizetti: Dom Sébastien
- *for Halévy: Guido et Ginevra, La Juive
- *for Meyerbeer: L'Africaine, Les Huguenots, Le prophète, Robert le diable, L'étoile du nord
- with Germain Delavigne
- *for Gounod: La nonne sanglante
- with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
- *for Rossini: Le comte Ory
- with Charles Duveyrier
- *for Donizetti: Le duc d'Albe
- *for Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
- with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
- *for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne
- for William Bolcom's From The Diary of Sally Hemings
- for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le diable à quatre
- for André Grétry: Aucassin et Nicolette, Guillaume Tell, Richard Coeur-de-lion
- for Monsigny: Le déserteur
- for John Adams: Doctor Atomic
- for The World in the Moon and The Virgin Prophetess, or The Fate of Troy
- for Matthew Locke: Psyche
- used by Benjamin Britten, heavily cut by Britten and Peter Pears: A Midsummer Night's Dream
- for Thomas Linley the younger and Thomas Linley the elder: The Duenna
- for Puccini: Turandot
- for Francesco Cilea: Il ritorno dell'amore
- for Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
- for Verdi: Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Nabucco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Giovanna d'Arco, Attila
- for Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
- for Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All
- for Arthur Sullivan: The Zoo
- for Frederic Clay: The Bold Recruit, Out of Sight, The Pirates Isle
- for Alfred Cellier: Charity Begins at Home, Doris, Dorothy, The Masque of Pandora
- for Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville, Torvaldo e Dorliska
- for his own music: Guntram, Intermezzo, Salome
- for his own music: Renard, 'Le rossignol
- for Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
- used by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea
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- for Adriano Biagi: La sposa di Nino
- for Umberto Giordano: Regina Diaz
- for Pietro Mascagni: Amica, Cavalleria rusticana, Nerone, Pinotta, I Rantzau, Silvano, Zanetto
- for Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
- for Eduard Nápravník: Dubrovsky
- for Sergei Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini
- for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Iolanta, The Queen of Spades
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- *for Luigi Cherubini: Blanche de Provence
- *for Ferdinando Paer: Blanche de Provence
- *for Franz Liszt: Don Sanche
- for his own music: The Ice Break, King Priam, The Knot Garden, The Midsummer Marriage, New Year
- for Bellini: Adelson e Salvini
- for Donizetti: Alfredo il grande, Il castello di Kenilworth, Gabriella di Vergy, Imelda de' Lambertazzi, La zingara
- for Giovanni Pacini: Alessandro nelle Indie
- for Rossini: La donna del lago, Ermione, Mosè in Egitto, Zelmira
- with Adolphe Jaime and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
- *for Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant
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Albert Vanloo- for Edmond Audran
- for Emmanuel Chabrier
- for Alexandre Charles Lecocq
- for André Messager
- for Offenbach
- for Mozart: Idomeneo, L'oca del Cairo
- for his own music: The Pilgrim's Progress, Sir John in Love
- for Du Yun: Angel's Bone
- for Ricky Ian Gordon: 27
- for David T. Little: JFK, Dog Days, Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera
- for Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves
- for Gregory Spears: O Columbia
- for Emmanuel Chabrier: Fisch-Ton-Kan
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- for Rameau: La princesse de Navarre, Le temple de la gloire, Les fêtes de Ramire, Samson
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- for his own music: Die Feen, The Flying Dutchman, Götterdämmerung, Die Hochzeit, Das Liebesverbot, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Rienzi, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre
- with Richard Genée
- for Carl Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent
- for Johann Strauss II: Cagliostro in Wien, Der lustige Krieg, Eine Nacht in Venedig
- for Paul Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner
- for Arthur Honegger: Les aventures du roi Pausole
- for Henri Christiné: Phi-Phi
- for André Messager: Coups de roulis
- for Maurice Yvain: Ta bouche, Là-Haut, Yes !
- for Richard Strauss: Feuersnot
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Arthur Yorinks- for Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Juniper Tree
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- for Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West
- for Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra
- for his own music: Der König Kandaules
- used by Handel: Faramondo
- used by Hasse: Antioco
- used by Hasse and Holzbauer: Lucio Papirio
- used by Holzbauer: Il Don Chisciotte, Sesostri, re d'Egitto, Vologeso
- used by Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi: Griselda
- for Leoš Janáček: Šárka
- for his own music: Die Soldaten
- for Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
- for Alfred Bruneau: Messidor, L'ouragan
- for Richard Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau
General sources
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie
- The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West, 782 pages,