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| works = [[List of operas by Alessandro Scarlatti|List of operas]] Nicknamed by his contemporaries "the Italian Orpheus", he divided his career between Naples and Rome; a significant part of his ...

...ptation]] of [[The Who]]'s album [[Tommy (The Who album)|''Tommy'']]; rock operas may be produced by recording artists, in which case they may be released as Unlike classical [[opera]], rock operas are typically not scripted for theatrical production, similar to a classica ...

...Handel|Handel]] also uses the French overture form in some of his Italian operas, such as ''[[Giulio Cesare]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Burrows|2012|loc={{Page needed ...rical.<ref name="auto2"/> Italian overtures were often detached from their operas and played as independent concert pieces. In this context, they became impo ...

...to why each composer has been considered major. Also included is a section about major women opera composers, compiled from the same lists. For an introduct ...e in patria]]'' and ''[[L'incoronazione di Poppea]]'', one of the earliest operas in the present-day operatic repertoire. ...

...ausoleum]] in his memory in 1962, decorated with scenes from the myth of [[Orpheus]]. '''Operas''' ...

{{About|the male classical voice type|this voice type in other music genres|List of <!-- {{Self-contradictory|section|about=the range of tenors in choral music, where the contradiction is between the ...

...and T. Wilson, 'Richard Leveridge, 1670–1758. 1: Purcell and the Dramatic Operas', ''Musical Times'' Vol. 111, No. 1528 (June 1970), pp. 592–594.</ref> His Leveridge continued to sing Purcell's operas and masques in the revivals, at Drury Lane in 1703–08, of ''[[The Fairy-Que ...

'''''Orpheus in the Underworld'''''<ref name=grove/> and '''''Orpheus in Hell'''''<ref name=g276/> are English names for '''{{lang|fr|Orphée aux ...she is abducted by the god of the underworld, [[Pluto (mythology)|Pluto]]. Orpheus has to be bullied by Public Opinion into trying to rescue Eurydice. The rep ...

...work halfway between a novel and a comic book, which reworks the myth of [[Orpheus and Eurydice]] in a pop style; ''Le notti difficili'' (1971), a collection ...numerous books of short stories, and poetry. His libretti include four for operas by [[Luciano Chailly]], as well as one for ''La giacca dannata'' by [[Giuli ...

{{About|the 17th-century composer|the New York judge|Henry Purcell (judge)}} ...White (engraver)|R. White]] after [[John Closterman|Closterman]], from ''[[Orpheus Britannicus]]'']] ...

{{About|the male voice type}} ...n modern parlance). Examples of this are to be found, for instance, in the operas and oratorios of [[George Frideric Handel]]. The greatest and most enduring ...

In about 1505 [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] planned a great hospital for "pouer ...oy Theatre specifically for the production of the [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operas that he was producing.<ref>Ainger, p. 193</ref> The new theatre was built s ...

...ote numerous prominent operas. The early 18th century was dominated by the operas of [[George Frideric Handel]], while other important works include [[Johann ...performed today, from seventeenth-century works to late twentieth-century operas. The brief accompanying notes offer an explanation as to why each opera has ...

...} (1867) and {{lang|fr|[[La Périchole]]}} (1868). The risqué humour (often about sexual intrigue) and mostly gentle satiric barbs in these pieces, together ...ith Offenbach's irony, which exposed the "false, overblown quality" of the operas they favoured – "the great art at which one was not allowed to smile".<ref> ...

Also in this decade Appleton composed two full-length [[operas]] for a choir of 1500 children and professional orchestra. The works, ''HOP * "Homage To Orpheus" (1969) ...

...esent their joint works (which came to be known as the [[Savoy opera|Savoy Operas]]) and founded the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]], which performed and prom Gilbert, who wrote the witty, satiric [[libretti]] for these operas, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds where each absurdity is taken to its ...

...odic nature than either of these other two parts. With the introduction in about 1450 of four-part writing by composers such as [[Johannes Ockeghem|Ockeghem ...2003" /> [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] also had castrati roles in his operas, including Aminta in {{lang|it|[[Il re pastore]]}}, Cecilio in {{lang|it|[[ ...

{{About|the composer/musician Michael Nyman|his eponymous album|Michael Nyman (1981 ...lbum]] to [[Jane Campion]]'s ''[[The Piano]]''. He has written a number of operas, including ''[[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)|The Man Who M ...

...ctor, and organist of the [[Romantic music|Romantic era]]. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' (185 ...e composed prolifically, writing church music, songs, orchestral music and operas. ...

...Society for Contemporary Music | date=21 June 2020 | url=https://iscm.org/about-us/honorary-members/ | access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> He held the Richard ...]] [[Peter Greenaway]] on the film ''M is for Man, Music, Mozart'' and the operas ''[[Rosa – A Horse Drama|Rosa: A Horse Drama]]'' (1994) and ''[[Writing to ...