Singspiele

1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

thumb|Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (center) attending a performance of his Singspiel, [[Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in Berlin in 1789]] A Singspiel (; plural: ; ) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like. Singspiel plots are generally comic or romantic in nature, and frequently include elements of magic, fantastical creatures, and comically exaggerated characterizations of good and evil. __TOC__

Comic opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Zaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished German-language opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition required of the composer to join this company was that he should write a comic opera. At Salzburg in 1779 Mozart began work on a new opera (now known as Zaide although Mozart did not give it such a title). It contains spoken dialogue, which also classifies it as a Singspiel (literally, "singing play"). Only the arias and ensembles fro

opera by Otto Nicolai

oratorio

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

opera by Zoltán Kodály

thumb|Carl Millöcker (1883) Gasparone is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by and . An amusing feature of the work is that the title character never appears and acts as a scapegoat upon which all the misdeeds in Syracuse, Sicily, can be blamed.

opera by the German composer Louis Spohr

opera by Franz Schubert

opera by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

opera by Johann Baptist Henneberg et al

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Franz Schubert

opera by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

unfinished Singspiel by Richard Wagner