Category
page 2Plays adapted into operas
Natalka Poltavka
play by Ivan Kotliarevskyi
Le roi s'amuse
play written by Victor Hugo
The Playboy of the Western World
play by J. M. Synge
The Maids
1946 play written by Jean Genet
The Stone Guest
play by Alexander Pushkin
Danton's Death
drama by Georg Büchner
She Stoops to Conquer
comedy by Oliver Goldsmith
A Month in the Country
play by Ivan Turgenev
The Bride of Messina
1803 play written by Friedrich Schiller
Merry-Go-Round
play by Arthur Schnitzler
The Guilty Mother
play by Beaumarchais
The Mistress of the Inn
play by Carlo Goldoni
Balladyna
play written by Juliusz Słowacki
The Fire Raisers
play by Max Frisch
Polyeucte
thumb|300px|right|Painting depicting the martyrdom of Polyeuctus, from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000 AD)
Dido, Queen of Carthage
play by Marlowe
The Gamblers
play by Nikolai Gogol
Zemsta
1838 play written by Aleksander Fredro
4.48 Psychosis
play by Sarah Kane
The Duchess of Padua
play written by Oscar Wilde
Turandot
play by Carlo Gozzi
Death and the Maiden
play by Ariel Dorfman
The Prince of Homburg
1809–1810 play by Heinrich von Kleist, first performed in 1821
The Undivine Comedy
1835 play by Polish Romantic poet Zygmunt Krasiński
Lucrèce Borgia
play by Victor Hugo
The Ghost Sonata
play by August Strindberg
Leonce and Lena
1836 play written by Georg Büchner
Tales from the Vienna Woods
play
Marie Tudor
play by Victor Hugo
M. Butterfly
play written by David Henry Hwang
The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden
play written by Federico García Lorca
Das Käthchen von Heilbronn
1810 play by Heinrich von Kleist
An Optimistic Tragedy
play written by Vsevolod Vishnevskiy in the Soviet Union in 1932
Hamletmachine
Hamletmachine () is a postmodernist drama by German playwright and theatre director Heiner Müller, loosely based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It was written in 1977, and is related to a translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet that Müller undertook. Some critics claim the play problematizes the role of intellectuals during the era of Communism in East Germany; others argue that the play should be understood in relation to wider post-modern concepts. Hamletmachine is not centered on a conventional plot, but is partially unified through sequences of monologues in which the protagonist leaves his
Gismonda
Gismonda is a Greek-set melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered on October 31, 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. In 1918, the play was adapted for the now lost film ''Love's Conquest. In 1918/1919, it was adapted into the opera Gismonda'' by Henry Février.
Angelo, Tyrant of Padua
play by Victor Hugo
Doubt: A Parable
2004 play written by John Patrick Shanley
Penthesilea
tragedy by Heinrich von Kleist
The Cenci
1819 play by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Earth Spirit
tragedy by Frank Wedekind
The Snow Maiden
play by Alexander Ostrovsky
The Little Foxes
Play by Lillian Hellman
Thunderstorm
play written by Cao Yu
Pictures from the Insects' Life
Theatre play by Karel and Josef Čapek
Orpheus Descending
play written by Tennessee Williams
Il pastor fido
play by Giovanni Battista Guarini
La Tosca
play by Victorien Sardou
Terra baixa
play by Ángel Guimerá
Riders to the Sea
play written by John Millington Synge
Věc Makropulos
play written by Karel Čapek
La dama boba
play by Lope de Vega
Old Heidelberg
play written by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster
Dinner at Eight
1932 Broadway play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
Summer and Smoke
play by Tennessee Williams
The Green Cockatoo
one-act play written by Arthur Schnitzler
Rustic Chivalry
short story by Giovanni Verga
The Letter
1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham
The Jester's Supper
play written by Sem Benelli
Macedonian Blood Wedding
1900 Bulgarian play written by Voydan Popgeorgiev – Chernodrinski