1896 operas

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera composed by Umberto Giordano

Zanetto is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci. It received its first performance on 2 March 1896 at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro. Only 40 minutes long and with cast of two singers, Zanetto was originally described by its composer as a scena lirica (lyric scene) rather than an opera. It is set in the countryside near Florence during the Renaissance and tells the story of an encounter between a beautiful courtesan, Silvia, and a young wandering minstrel, Zanetto. The libretto was adapted from an Italian translatio

opera by Hugo Wolf

one act opera by Jean Sibelius (1896)

opera by Isaac Albéniz

opera by Arthur Sullivan

operetta by John Philip Sousa