One-act operas

opera by Pietro Mascagni

1869 opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Richard Strauss

comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Giacomo Puccini

Comic opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Béla Bartók

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Giacomo Puccini

operas by Giacomo Puccini

Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play '' (King René's Daughter'') by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 i

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Maurice Ravel

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov

opera by Maurice Ravel

forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958, based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau

Opera by Gioachino Rossini

Djamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset.

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Friedenstag (Peace Day) is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, his Opus 81 and TrV 271, to a German libretto by Joseph Gregor. The opera was premiered at the National Theatre Munich on 24 July 1938 and dedicated to the leading singer Viorica Ursuleac and her husband, conductor Clemens Krauss. Strauss had intended Friedenstag as part of a double-bill, to be conducted by Karl Böhm in Dresden, that would include as the second part his next collaboration with Gregor, Daphne. The opera thematically expresses anti-war sentiments, which William Mann has described as "a determined counter to the m

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

one-act comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Carl Orff

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Richard Strauss

Elvida is a melodramma or opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Schmidt wrote the Italian libretto. The opera was written as a ''pièce d'occasion'' for the birthday of Queen Maria of the Two Sicilies. The choice of subject matter was no doubt intended as an elegant acknowledgement of the Queen's Spanish ancestry. Donizetti received little financial reward for the work and, as a result, put the minimum of effort into its composition.

opera by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

Ba-ta-clan is a "chinoiserie musicale" (or operetta) in one act with music by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 29 December 1855. The operetta uses set numbers and spoken dialogue and runs for under an hour.

Mavra () is a one-act comic opera composed by Igor Stravinsky, and one of the earliest works of Stravinsky's neo-classical period. The libretto, by Boris Kochno, is based on Alexander Pushkin's The Little House in Kolomna. Mavra is about 25 minutes long, and features two arias, a duet, and a quartet performed by its cast of four characters. The opera has been characterised as both an homage to Russian writers, and a satire of bourgeois manners and the Romeo and Juliet subgenre of romance. Philip Truman has also described the music as satirising 19th-century comic opera. The dedication on the s

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

'''''''' (Need for (or lack of) fire), Op. 50, is a Singgedicht'' (sung poem) or opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The German libretto was written by Ernst von Wolzogen, based on J. Ketel's report "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde". It was Strauss' second opera.

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Viktor Ullmann

opera by Antonio Salieri

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

'''''''' (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

one act puppet-opera by Manuel de Falla

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Luigi Dallapiccola

opera by Adolphe Adam

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Enrique Granados

opera by Stravinsky

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

1964 opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Gaetano Donizetti