German-language operas

'''''''' (Expectation''), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by . Composed in 1909, it was not premiered until 6 June 1924 in Prague conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as the soprano. The opera takes the unusual form of a monologue for solo soprano accompanied by a large orchestra. In performance, it lasts for about half an hour. It is sometimes paired with Béla Bartók's opera ''Bluebeard's Castle (1911), as the two works were roughly contemporary and share similar psychological themes. Schoenberg described Erwartung'', say

Der beglückte Florindo (The Delighted Florindo), HWV 3, is an opera composed by Handel at the request of Reinhard Keiser, the manager of the Hamburg Opera. It was first performed (after Handel had left for Italy) at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in January 1708. It was probably directed from the harpsichord by Christoph Graupner and took place most likely after Handel's completion of his first Italian opera, Rodrigo.

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Carl Orff

opera by Ernst Křenek

opera by Franz Schreker

opera by Aribert Reimann

opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht

opera by Karl Goldmark

Romantic opera by Franz Schubert

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opéra comique

opera by Alexander Zemlinsky

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

opera by Franz Schreker

opera by Hans Werner Henze

opera by Albert Lortzing

opera composed by Johann Strauss II, libretto by Ludwig Dóczi

Pimpinone, TWV 21:15, is a comic opera by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann with a libretto by Johann Philipp Praetorius. Its full title is Die Ungleiche Heirat zwischen Vespetta und Pimpinone oder Das herrsch-süchtige Camer Mägden (The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone or The Domineering Chambermaid). The work is described as a Lustiges Zwischenspiel ("comic intermezzo") in three parts. It was first performed at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg on 27 September 1725 as light relief between the acts of Telemann's adaptation of Handel's opera seria Tamerlano. Pimpinone wa

opera by Hugo Wolf

opera by the German composer Louis Spohr

opera by Alexander Zemlinsky

opera by Eugen d'Albert

Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig based on the novel A Hut Behind the Village (1854) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Violanta, Op. 8, is a one-act opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The libretto is by the Austrian playwright Hans Müller-Einigen. It is Korngold's second opera, written when he was seventeen years old.

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Ferruccio Busoni

opera by Paul Hindemith

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Ferruccio Busoni

opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

opera by Ernst Krenek

Ferruccio Busoni opera

opera in five acts by Paul Hindemith

opera by Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Antigonae (Antigone), written by Carl Orff, was first presented on 9 August 1949 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay in the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria, as part of the Salzburg Festival. Antigonae is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophocles. However, it functions as an opera.

opera by Conradin Kreutzer

opera by Karl Goldmark

opera by Kurt Atterberg

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

ballet by George Balanchine

opera by Paul Hindemith

opera by by Albert Lortzing

unfinished opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

heroic opera by Antonín Dvořák

opera by Krzysztof Penderecki

opera by Franz Schubert

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

opera by Ernst Krenek

lyric drama in seven tableaux by Hans Werner Henze

'''''''' (German for King's Children or “Royal Children”) is a stage work by Engelbert Humperdinck that exists in two versions: as a melodrama and as an opera or more precisely a Märchenoper''. The libretto was written by Ernst Rosmer (pen name of Else Bernstein-Porges), adapted from her play of the same name.

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Wilhelm Kienzl

opera by Walter Braunfels

opera by Franz Schmidt

opera by Erwin Schulhoff

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky