List of librettists

This list of librettists includes well-known international representatives of their profession with their works. A librettist is the author of a libretto . He can develop his own course of action for this or start from existing materials and texts. The independent dramaturgical and literary quality of librettistic work has only recently been appreciated by theater , literature and musicology ; the corresponding interdisciplinary research area is called " librettology ".

Librettists and their works

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A.

• Claudio Achillini (1574-1640)
  • Gli Argonauti . Mascherata. Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1628
  • Teti e Flora (prologue) / Ascanio Pio de Savoia (5 intermedia to Aminta by Torquato Tasso ). Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1628
  • Mercurio e Marte . Torneo regale ("Royal Tournament"). Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1628
• Giuseppe Adami (1878-1946)
  • La rondine . Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1917
  • Il tabarro . Opera (1st part of Il Wollenico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1918
  • Anima allegra . Opera. Music (1918/19): Franco Vittadini (1884–1948). Premiere 1921
  • La via della finestra . Commedia giocosa (opera) in 3 acts. Music (1914–1916): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere 1919 Pesaro. New version (in 2 acts): WP 1923 Pesaro
  • Nazareth . Opera. Music: Franco Vittadini. Premiere 1925
  • Turandot . Opera (together with Renato Simoni [1875–1952]). Music: Giacomo Puccini (fragment, completed by Franco Alfano ). Premiere 1926
• Edouard Adenis
  • Marcella . Idillio moderno (opera) in 3 acts (together with Henri Cain and Olindo Guerrini ). Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere November 9, 1907 Milan (Teatro Lirico)
  • Alcyone . Cantata in 5 scenes (together with Eugène Adenis ). Music (1902): Maurice Ravel
• Eugène Adenis (1838–1901)
  • Alcyone . Cantata in 5 scenes (together with Édouard Adenis). Music (1902): Maurice Ravel
• Jules Adenis (Jules-Adenis Colombeau) (1823-1900)
  • Un postillon en gage . Operetta in one act (together with Edouard Plouvier ). Music: Jacques Offenbach . Premiere February 9, 1856 Paris ( Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens , Salle Choiseul)
  • Sylvie . Opéra-comique in one act (together with Jules Rostaing). Music: Ernest Guiraud . Premiere May 11, 1864 Paris (Opéra-Comique)
  • La grand'tante . Opéra-comique in one act (with Charles Granvallet). Music: Jules Massenet . Premiere April 3, 1867 Paris ( Opéra-Comique )
  • La jolie fille de Perth ( The beautiful girl from Perth ). Opera in 4 acts (together with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges). Music: Georges Bizet . Premiere December 26, 1867 Paris ( Théâtre-Lyrique )
  • Les templiers . Grand opéra in 5 acts (together with Paul-Armand Silvestre and Lionel Bonnemère). Music: Henry Litolff . Premiere January 25, 1886 Brussels ( La Monnaie )
• Hans Adler (1880–1957)
  • The dancer Fanny Elßler . Operetta. Music: Johann Strauss (son) . Premiere 1934
  • Manina . Operetta (together with Alexander Lix [1899–?]). Music: Nico Dostal . Premiere 1942
  • The donkey's shadow . Comedy (Singspiel; fragment, supplemented by Stephan Schaller). Music (1947/48): Richard Strauss (fragment; supplemented by Karl Haussner). Premiere 1964
  • The third wish . Magic piece with music (operetta). Music: Nico Dostal. Premiere 1954
• Scipione Agnelli
  • Le nozze di Tetide . Favola marittima. Music (1616/17; fragment, lost): Claudio Monteverdi
• Herbert Alberti
  • Mareike von Nymwegen . Legend play (opera). Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1923
• Franco Alfano (1875-1954)
  • La leggenda di Sakùntala . Music: Franco Alfano. Premiere 1921. - New version: Sakùntala . Premiere 1952
• Charles Amberg (1894-1946)
  • Clivia . Operetta in 3 acts. Music: Nico Dostal . Premiere December 23, 1933 Berlin ( Theater am Nollendorfplatz )
• Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
  • Knickerbocker Holiday . Musical. Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere 1938
  • Ulysses Africanus . Musical (1939). Music: Kurt Weill (fragment)
  • Lost in the Stars . Musical. Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1949
  • River Chanty . Musical (1950). Music: Kurt Weill (fragment)
• Angelo Anelli (1761-1820)
  • Libretti for Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Niccolò Piccinni , Domenico Cimarosa , Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , Johann Simon Mayr , Franz Benedikt Dussek [1766 – after 1816], Gioachino Rossini a . a.
• Louis Angely (1787-1835)
• Louis Anseaume (1721–1784)
  • Cendrillon (1759). Music: Jean-Louis Laruette
  • Les deux chasseurs et laitière (1763). Music: Egidio Duni
  • La clochette (1766). Music: Egidio Duni
  • Le tableau parlant (1769). Music: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
  • Le peintre amoureux de son modèle (1757). Music: Egidio Duni
  • L'école de la jeunesse . Music: Egidio Duni
  • La fée Urgèle . Music: Egidio Duni
  • Le jugement de Midas (with Thomas Hales). Music: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
  • La fausse aventurière (together with Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville). Music: Jean-Louis Laruette
  • Le Médecin de l'amour (together with Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville). Music: Pieter van Maldere
• Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1633–1714)
• Hans Carl Artmann (1921-2000)
  • The boy with the brocade . Chamber opera (~ 1954–63). Music: Gerhard Lampersberg
  • The Lord North Wind . Children's opera. Music: HK Gruber . WP 2005
• Verna Arvey (1910-1987)
  • Troubled Island . Opera (with Langston Hughes ). Music: William Grant Still . Premiere 1949
• Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973)
  • Our Hunting Fathers . Symphonic Cycle (orchestral song cycle). Music (1936): Benjamin Britten . Premiere September 25, 1936 Norwich (Saint Andrew's Hall)
  • Paul Bunyan . Operetta. Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere 1941
  • The Rake's Progress . Opera (with Chester Kallman [1921–1975]). Music (1948–1951): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1951
  • Delia, or A masque of Night (1953). Opera (with Chester Kallman; not set to music)
  • Elegy for Young Lovers ( Elegy for Young Lovers ). Opera (with Chester Kallman). Music: Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1961
  • The Bassarids ( The Bassarids ). Opera in one act with interlude (with Chester Kallman). Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere August 6, 1966 Salzburg ( Large Festival Hall )
  • Love's Labor's Lost . Opera (with Chester Kallman). Music: Nicolas Nabokov . Premiere 1973
• Leopold von Auenbrugger (1722–1809)
  • The chimney sweep . Musical comedy (Singspiel). Music: Antonio Salieri . WP April 30, 1781 Vienna ( Burgtheater )
• Raoul Auernheimer (1876–1948)
  • The silent serenade . Musical comedy (operetta; together with Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Rudolf Lothar , William Okie, Bert Reisfeld [1906–1991]). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. WP (concert) 1951, (scenic) 1954
• Émile Augier (1820-1889)
  • Sapho ( Sappho ). Opera. Music: Charles Gounod . WP 1851. New versions: WP 1858, 1884
• Aurelio Aureli (~ 1630 [?] - after 1708)
  • Alessandro Magno in Sidone (1679). Music: Marc'Antonio Ziani
  • Alcibiade (1680). Music: Marc 'Antonio Ziani
  • Hierone tiranno di Siracusa (1688). Dramma per musica (opera) in 3 acts. Music: Bernardo Sabadini. UA:?. - Music: Alessandro Scarlatti . Premiere December 21, 1692 Naples (Real Palazzo)
  • Diomede punito da Alcide (1691). Music: Bernardo Sabadini. UA:?. - Music: Tomaso Albinoni . WP 1700 Venice ( Teatro Sant'Angelo )

B.

• Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973)
  • Monologue of Prince Myshkin (on the ballet pantomime Der Idiot , 1953). Music: Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1960
  • The Prince of Homburg . Opera (1958/59). Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 1960
  • The young lord . Comic Opera (1964). Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 1965
• Giacomo Badoaro (1602–1654)
  • Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ( The homecoming of Odysseus ). Dramma per musica (opera). Music: Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1640
• Christian Baier (* 1963)
• Béla Balázs (1884-1949)
  • Bluebeard's Castle . Opera (1911). Music: Béla Bartók . Premiere 1918
  • The wood-carved prince . Ballet (1914-1917). Music: Béla Bartók. Premiere 1917
• Luigi Balocchi (1766-1832)
  • Il viaggio a Reims ( The trip to Reims ). Weird opera. Music (1825): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1825
  • Le siège de Corinthe ( The Siege of Corinth ). Opera (with Alexandre Soumet). Music (1826): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1826
  • Moïse et Pharaon ( Moses and Pharaoh ). Opera (together with Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy ). Music (1827): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1827
• Henri-Auguste Barbier (1805-1882)
  • Benvenuto Cellini . Opera in 3 acts (together with Léon de Wailly ). Music (1834–1838): Hector Berlioz . Premiere September 10, 1838 Paris ( Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique )
• Jules Barbier (1825-1901)
  • Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel . Opéra-comique (together with Michel Carré ). Music (1854-1859): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1859. - New version: Dinorah . Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1859
  • Faust ( Marguérite ; Margarete ). Opera (with Michel Carré ). Music: Charles Gounod . 1st version (with spoken dialogues; 1856–1859). Premiere 1859. 2nd version (with ballet; 1860/61). Premiere 1869
  • Le Médecin malgré lui ( The unwilling doctor ). Opéra-comique (together with Michel Carré). Music: Charles Gounod. Premiere 1858
  • Philémon et Baucis . Opera (with Michel Carré). Music (1859/60): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1860. - New version: Opéra-Comique. Premiere 1876
  • La Colombe ( The Dove ). Opéra-comique (together with Michel Carré). Music: Charles Gounod. Premiere 1860
  • La Reine de Saba ( The Queen of Sheba ). Opera (with Michel Carré). Music (1861): Charles Gounod. WP 1862. - New version (1862). Premiere 1862
  • Roméo and Juliette . Opera (with Michel Carré). Music (1865–1867): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1867. - New version (1872). Premiere 1873. - New version (with ballet). Premiere 1888
  • Le timbre d'argent . Drame lyrique (opera; together with Michel Carré ). Music (1864/65, 1875–1877): Camille Saint-Saëns . Premiere February 23, 1877 Paris ( Théâtre-Lyrique )
  • Polyeucte . Opera (with Michel Carré). Music (1869–1878): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1878
  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann ( Hoffmann's Tales ). Opéra fantastique. Music (1877–1880): Jacques Offenbach (fragment, supplemented by Ernest Guiraud ). Premiere February 10, 1881 Paris ( Opéra-Comique )
• Richard Bars (1890-1987)
• Richard Batka (1868-1922)
  • That was me! Village idyll (opera). Music: Leo Blech . WP 1902
  • Alpine king and misanthropist . Opera. Music: Leo Blech. Premiere 1903. - New version: Rappelkopf . Opera. Music: Leo Blech. Premiere 1917
  • Cinderella . Fairy tale (opera). Music: Leo Blech. WP 1905
  • Sealed . Opera (together with Alexander Siegmund Pordes ). Music: Leo Blech. WP 1908
  • Rural love oracle . Opera. Music (1910/11): Theodor Veidl . Premiere 1913
  • Olivera's bull . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1918
• Giorgio Battistelli (* 1953)
  • Teorema . Premiere May 27, 1992 Florence (Teatro Comunale)
• Alexander Baumann (1814-1857)
• Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799)
  • Tarare . Opera. Music (1786–1787): Antonio Salieri . WP 1787
• Joachim Beccau (1690–1754)
  • Libretti for Reinhard Keizer , Georg Philipp Telemann , Georg Friedrich Händel a . a.
• Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
  • Neither (1976). Music: Morton Feldman . Premiere 1977
• Václav Beneš-Šumavský (1850–1934)
  • Vanda ( Wanda ). Tragic opera (together with František Zákrejs ). Music (1875): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1876
  • Bajaja . Ballet. Music (1889/97): Jindřich Káan
• Gottfried Benn (1886–1956)
  • The incessant . Oratorio. Music: Paul Hindemith . Premiere 1931
• Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benua (1870–1960)
  • Petrushka . Burlesque scenes (ballet). Music (1910/11): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1911
• Nicolò Beregan (1627–1713)
• Luisa Bergalli (1703–1779)
• Joseph Carl Bernard (1780-1850)
  • Fist . Romantic opera in 2 acts. Music (1813): Louis Spohr . Premiere September 1, 1816 Prague ( Estates Theater )
  • Libussa . Romantic opera in 3 acts. Music (1822): Conradin Kreutzer . Premiere December 4, 1822 Vienna ( Kärntnertortheater )
• Pierre-Joseph Bernard (1708–1775)
• Marcello Bernardini (~ 1730 – after 1799)
• Rudolf Bernauer (1880–1953)
  • Great raisins . Big farce with song and dance (together with Rudolf Schanzer ). Music: Leon Jessel u. a. Premiere 1911 Berlin
• Arthur Bernède (1871-1937)
• Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989)
  • Heads . Chamber Opera (1957). Music: Gerhard Lampersberg . Premiere 1959
  • The roses of the wasteland . Ballet with Voices (1958). Music: Gerhard Lampersberg. WP 1995
• Elsa Bernstein (1866–1949; pseudonym Ernst Rosmer )
  • Royal children . Melodrama. Music (1895–1897): Engelbert Humperdinck . Premiere 1897. - New version: fairy tale opera (1908–1910). Premiere 1910
• Albert Bernstein-Sawersky
  • Who laughs last . Posse (together with Arthur Lipschitz). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1913 Berlin
• Thomas Betterton (~ 1635–1710)
  • The Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian . Semi-opera. Music: Henry Purcell . WP 1690 London ( Dorset Garden Theater )
• Franz Adam Beyerlein (1871–1949)
• Günter Bialas (1907-1995)
  • From the mattress tomb . Liederspiel by and with Heinrich Heine , in 4 parts. Music (1990/91): Günter Bialas. Premiere 1992 Kiel (Opera House)
• Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865–1910)
  • The fond princess . Opera. Music (1904): Oskar von Chelius (1859–1923). Premiere January 15, 1905 Schwerin and Wiesbaden
• Gian Bistolfi (1886-19 ??)
  • La bella addormentata nel bosco ( Sleeping Beauty ). Fiaba musicale (opera). Music (1916–1921): Ottorino Respighi . Premiere 1922. - New version: La bella dormente nel bosco (1933)
• René Bizet
  • Cris du monde ( cries of the world ). Oratorio. Music (1930/31): Arthur Honegger
• Boris Blacher (1903-1975)
• Franz Blei (1871–1942)
  • The deep contemplation . Opera. Music (~ 1914): Friedrich Hollaender
  • Once upon a time there were two siblings . Fairy tale game. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1915 Berlin
• Richard Bletschacher (* 1936)
  • The ant . Opera. Music: Peter Ronnefeld . Premiere 1961
  • The silkworms . Opera. Music: Iván Eröd . Premiere 1968
  • The long way to the great wall . Opera. Music: Kurt Schwertsik . Premiere 1975
  • Gomorrah . Opera; Music: HK Gruber . WP 1976. New version: WP 1993
  • Night edition . Opera. Music: Peter Ronnefeld. WP 1987
  • The Landsknecht from Carinthia . Opera. Music: Franz Thürauer (* 1953). WP 1992
  • Füssen dance of death . Opera. Music: Ivan Eröd. WP 1992
  • Ulrich legend . Opera. Music: Kurt Schwertsik. WP 1992
  • Gesualdo . Opera. Music: Alfred Schnittke . WP 1995
  • Johannes Stein or The Emperor's Rock . Opera. Music: Erich Urbanner . WP 1996
  • Wine and water . Opera. Music: Franz Thürauer. WP 1998
  • As white as snow, as red as blood . Children's opera. Music: Ernst Ludwig Leitner (* 1943). WP 1999
• Carl Blum (1786–1844)
• Robert Blum (1807-1848)
  • The Ynka Treasury . Great romantic opera. Music (1836): Albert Lortzing (not listed; lost)
• Giovanni Gastone Boccherini (1742 – after 1798)
  • L'amore innocente ( The innocent love ). Pastorale per musica (opera) in 2 acts. Music: Antonio Salieri . WP Carnival 1770 Vienna ( Burgtheater )
  • Il ritorno di Tobia ( The return of Tobias ). Oratorio in 2 acts. Music: Joseph Haydn . WP April 2, 1775 Vienna
• Hans Bodenstedt (1887-1958)
  • Chaste Benjamin . Schwank operetta (together with Max Steiner-Kaiser ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1923 Hamburg
• August Bohse (1661–1742)
• Gabriel Boissy (1879-1949)
  • Le Cantique des Cantiques (ballet oratorio). Music (1936/37): Arthur Honegger
• Arrigo Boito (1842–1918; pseudonym Tobia Gorrio )
  • Il quattro giugno ( June 4th ). Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito and Franco Faccio . Premiere 1860
  • Le sorelle d'Italia . Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito and Franco Faccio. Premiere 1861
  • Inno delle nazioni ( Hymn of the Nations ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere May 24th 1862 London ( Royal Opera House )
  • Amleto ( Hamlet ). Opera. Music: Franco Faccio. Premiere 1865
  • Mefistofele . Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito. WP 1868. New version: WP 1875
  • Ero e Leandro ( Hero and Leander ). Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito (1871; not listed). - Music: Giovanni Bottesini . Premiere 1879. - Music: Luigi Mancinelli . Premiere 1896
  • Iràm . Opera. Music: Cesare Dominiceti (1873; not listed)
  • Un tramonto ( a sunset ). Opera. Music: Gaetano Coronaro . Premiere 1873
  • La falce ( the sickle ). Music: Alfredo Catalani . Premiere 1875
  • Semira . Opera. Music: Luigi San Germano (1876; not listed)
  • La Gioconda . Opera. Music: Amilcare Ponchielli . Premiere 1876
  • Pier Luigi Farnese . Opera. Music: Costantino Palumbo (1877; not listed)
  • Basi e messenger . Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito (~ 1881; not listed). - Music (1919/20): Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli . Premiere 1927
  • Simon Boccanegra . (Revised opera by Francesco Maria Piave ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1881
  • Otello . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1887
  • Falstaff . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1893
  • Nerone . Opera. Music: Arrigo Boito (fragment, 1877–1915; supplemented by Vincenzo Tommassini , Antonio Smareglia , Arturo Toscanini ). Premiere 1924
• Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers (1871–1938)
  • Mrs. Luna . Operetta. Music Paul Lincke . Premiere 1899 Berlin
  • In the realm of Indra . Operetta (together with Hans Brennecke). Music Paul Lincke . Premiere 1899 Berlin
• Edward Bond (* 1934)
  • We Come to the River ( We reach the river ). Actions for Music. Music (1974–1976): Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1976
  • The English Cat ( The English Cat ). A Story for Singers and Instrumentalists. Music (1980–1983; revised 1990): Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 1983
• Giuseppe Bonecchi
  • Il Bellerofonte . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Josef Mysliveček . WP January 20, 1767 Naples (Teatro San Carlo)
• Georgette Boner (1903-1998)
  • The black spider . Opera (with Robert Faesi ). Music: Willy Burkhard . Premiere May 28, 1949 Zurich
• Lionel Bonnemère
  • Les templiers . Grand opéra in 5 acts (together with Jules Adenis and Paul-Armand Silvestre ). Music: Henry Litolff . Premiere January 25, 1886 Brussels ( La Monnaie )
• Hans-Jürgen from Bose
  • Dream Palace . Music: Hans-Jürgen von Bose. Premiere May 6, 1990 Munich (2nd  Munich Biennale )
• Julius Brammer (1877-1943)
  • The rose of Stambul . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald ). Music: Leo Fall . Premiere 1916
  • The last waltz . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald). Music: Oscar Straus . WP 1920
  • Countess Mariza . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald). Music: Emmerich Kálmán . Premiere 1924
  • The circus princess . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald). Music: Emmerich Kálmán. Premiere 1926
  • The golden master . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald). Music: Edmund Eysler . Premiere 1927
  • Bozena . Operetta (together with Alfred Gründwald). Music: Oscar Straus. Premiere 1952
• Johann Christian Brandes (1735–1799)
• Ignaz Brantner (1886–1960)
  • Linz cake . Operetta (together with Aldo von Pinelli ). Music: Ludwig Schmidseder . Premiere 1944 Linz ( Landestheater ).
  • Stories from the Salzkammergut . Operetta. Music: August Pepöck . Premiere 1951 Linz ( Landestheater ).
• Thomas Brasch (1945-2001)
  • The jump - description of an opera . Music: Georg Hajdu . WP 1999
• Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal (1802–1866)
• Mattias Braun (* 1933)
  • Elisabeth Tudor . Music: Wolfgang Fortner , premiere 1972
• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
  • Prairie (1919). Opera. - Music: Wolfgang Florey (* 1945). WP 1993. New version: WP 1996
  • The Threepenny Opera (play with music; together with Elisabeth Hauptmann ). Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere 1928
  • Happy ending . Musical (together with Elisabeth Hauptmann). Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1929
  • The Lindberghflug . Musical audio image. Music: Paul Hindemith , Kurt Weill. Premiere 1929. - New version: cantata. Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1929. - New version of the text (1930/50): The ocean flight
  • The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere March 9, 1930 in Leipzig
  • The yes-man . School opera. Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1930
  • The measure . Lesson. Music: Hanns Eisler . Premiere 1930
  • The mother . Piece with music. Music: Hanns Eisler. Premiere 1932
  • The seven deadly sins . Ballet with singing (together with Boris Kochno ). Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1933
  • The Horatians and the Curiatians . Lehrstück (1935). Music (1955/56): Kurt Schwaen . Premiere April 26, 1958 in Halle
  • The round heads and the pointed heads . Piece with music (1932–1936). Music: Hanns Eisler. Premiere 1936
  • Goliath . Opera. Music: Hanns Eisler (1937–1944; fragment)
  • The travels of the god of luck . Opera. Music: Paul Dessau (1945; fragment)
  • Life of Galileo . Piece with music. Music: Hanns Eisler. Premiere 1947
  • The condemnation of Lucullus . Opera. Music: Paul Dessau (1951; two versions)
  • Schweyk in World War II . Piece with music. Music: Hanns Eisler. Premiere 1957
• Howard Brenton (born 1942)
  • Playing away . Music: Benedict Mason . Premiere May 19, 1994 Munich (4th  Munich Biennale )
• Jules Brésil
  • Le Tribut de Zamora . Opera (together with Adolphe d'Ennery ). Music: Charles Gounod (1878–1881). Premiere 1881
• Friedrich Christian Bressand (~ 1670–1699)
  • Libretti for Johann Sigismund Kusser , Georg Caspar Schürmann , Reinhard Keizer a . a.
• Stephan von Breuning (1774–1827)
  • Libretto for Fidelio by Lv Beethoven 1806
• Heinrich Bulthaupt (1849–1905)
  • Achilles . Oratorio. Music (1885): Max Bruch
  • Cupid and Psyche . Oratorio. Music (1888): Georg Schumann
  • The cross of fire . Dramatic Fantasy (Cantata). Music (1889): Max Bruch
  • Cain . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere February 17, 1900 Berlin ( Hofoper )
  • The little girl from Heilbronn . Romantic opera. Music: Carl Martin Reinthaler . Premiere December 8, 1881 Frankfurt am Main ( Opera )
• Rudolf Bunge (1836–1907)
  • The trumpeter from Säckingen . Opera in a prelude and 3 acts. Music: Victor Ernst Nessler . Premiere 1884 Leipzig
  • Otto the contactor . Opera in 4 acts. Music: Victor Ernst Nessler. Premiere 1886 Leipzig
• Paul Burkhard (1911–1977)
  • Hopsa . Operetta. Music: Paul Burkhard. Premiere November 30, 1935 Zurich
  • A star rises from Jacob . Christmas opera. Music: Paul Burkhard. Premiere 1970 Hamburg
• Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598-1659)
  • Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne . Rappresentati in musica. Music: Francesco Cavalli . WP 1640. - New version: La Dafne . WP 1647
  • L'incoronazione di Poppea ( La coronatione di Poppea ; Il Nerone ; The Coronation of Poppea ). Opera reggia (dramma musicale). Music: Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1642. - New version: WP 1651
• Dino Buzzati (1906–1972)

C.

• Massimo Cacciari (* 1944)
  • Breathing Clarity (1980/81). Music: Luigi Nono
  • Prometeo (1981-1984). Tragedia dell'ascolto (audio piece). Music: Luigi Nono. WP 1984
• Olivier Cadiot (* 1956)
  • Roméo and Juliette . Opera. Music: Pascal Dusapin . WP 1989
• Louis de Cahusac (1706-1759)
• Henri Cain (1857-1937)
  • Marcella . Idillio moderno (opera) in 3 acts (together with Édouard Adenis and Olindo Guerrini ). Premiere November 9, 1907 Milan (Teatro Lirico)
  • L'Aiglon ( The Eagle ). Drame musical (opera). Music (1936/37): Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert . Premiere 1937
• Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
  • La vera storia . Music: Luciano Berio . WP 1982
  • Un re in ascolto . Music: Luciano Berio. WP 1984
• Ranieri de 'Calzabigi (1714–1795)
  • Orfeo ed Euridice . Azione teatrale per musica (opera). Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck . Premiere 1762 Vienna. - New version: WP 1774 Paris
  • Don Juan . Ballet. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck. WP 1764
  • Alceste . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck. Premiere December 26, 1767 Vienna
  • Paride ed Elena . Opera. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck. WP 1770
• Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852)
  • La sposa . Opera. Music: Egisto Vignozzi. Premiere 1834
  • Ines de Castro . Opera (together with Giovanni Emanuele Bidera [1784–1858]). Music: Giuseppe Persiani. Premiere 1835. - Music: Fubio Marchetti. Premiere 1840
  • Un matrimonio per ragione . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Staffa (181? –187?). Premiere 1835
  • Lucia di Lammermoor . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti . Premiere 1835
  • Belisario . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere 1836
  • L'assedio di Calais . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere 1836
  • Eufemio di Messina . New version of the opera by Felice Romani . Music: Giuseppe Persiani (1799–1869). Premiere 1836
  • Pia de 'Tolomei . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere 1837
  • Roberto Devereux . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere 1837
  • Maria de Rudenz . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. 1838
  • Poliuto . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti (1838). Premiere 1848
  • Elena da Feltre . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante . Premiere 1838
  • I ciarlatani . Opera. Music: Luigi Cammarano (180? –1854). Premiere 1839
  • Il Conte di Chalais . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Lillo (1814–1863). Premiere 1839
  • Cristina di Svezia . Opera. Music: Alessandro Nini (1805–1880). Premiere 1840
  • Saffo . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini . Premiere 1840
  • La vestale . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1840
  • Luigi Rolla . Opera. Music: Federico Ricci . Premiere 1841
  • Il proscritto . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1842
  • La fidanzata corsa . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1842
  • Maria di Rohan . Opera. Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere 1843
  • Il reggent . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1843
  • Ester d'Engaddi . Opera. Music: Achille Peri (1812–1880). Premiere 1843
  • Il ravvedimento . Opera. Music: Luigi Cammarano. Premiere 1843
  • Bondelmonte . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1845
  • Alzira . Tragedia lirica (opera) in a prologue and 2 acts. Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere February 12, 1845 Naples ( Teatro San Carlo )
  • Il vascello de Gama . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1845
  • Stella di Napoli . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1845
  • Orazi e Curiazi . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1846
  • Merope . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1847
  • Eleonora Dori . Opera. Music: Vincenzo Battista (1823–1873). Premiere 1847
  • La battaglia di Legnano ( The Battle of Legnano ). Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1849
  • Luisa Miller . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1849
  • Virginia . Opera. Music (1850): Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1866
  • Non v'è fumo senza fuoco . Opera. Music: Luigi Cammarano. Premiere 1850
  • Malvina di Scozia . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1851
  • Folco d'Arles . Opera. Music: Nicola De Giosa (1819–1885). Premiere 1851
  • Medea . New version of the opera by Felice Romani. Music: Saverio Mercadante. Premiere 1851
  • Il trovatore . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1853
• Jean-Galbert de Campistron (1656-1723)
  • Acis et Galatée . Pastorale heroïque (pastoral opera) in a prologue and 3 acts. Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully . Premiere September 6, 1686 Anet Castle
• Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652-1728)
  • La Resurrezione . Oratorio. Music (1708): Georg Friedrich Handel . WP 1708 Rome
  • Telemaco . Melodramma (opera). Music (1718): Alessandro Scarlatti . Premiere 1718 Rome
• Victor Capoul (1839-1924)

• • Le clown . Nouvelle Musicale. Music (1906): Isaac de Camondo . Premiere 1906 Paris
• Michel Carré (1821–1872)
  • Dinorah ou Le pardon de Ploërmel . Opéra-comique (together with Jules Barbier ). Music (1854-1859): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1859. - New version: Dinorah . Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1859
  • Faust ( Marguérite ; Margarete ). Opera (together with Jules Barbier ). Music: Charles Gounod . 1st version (with spoken dialogues; 1856–1859). Premiere 1859. - 2nd version (with ballet; 1860/61). Premiere 1869
  • Le Médecin malgré lui ( The unwilling doctor ). Opéra-comique (together with Jules Barbier). Music: Charles Gounod. Premiere 1858
  • Philémon et Baucis . Opera (together with Jules Barbier). Music (1859/60): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1860. - New version: Opéra-Comique. Premiere 1876
  • La Colombe ( The Dove ). Opéra-comique (together with Jules Barbier). Music: Charles Gounod. Premiere 1860
  • La Reine de Saba ( The Queen of Sheba ). Opera (together with Jules Barbier). Music (1861): Charles Gounod. WP 1862. - New version (1862). Premiere 1862
  • Mireille . Opera. Music (1863/64): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1864. - New version (with recitatives). WP 1864. - New version (with spoken dialogues). Premiere 1864
  • Roméo and Juliette . Opera (together with Jules Barbier). Music (1865–1867): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1867. - New version (1872). Premiere 1873. - New version (with ballet). Premiere 1888
  • Le timbre d'argent . Drame lyrique (opera; together with Jules Barbier ). Music (1864/65, 1875–1877): Camille Saint-Saëns . Premiere February 23, 1877 Paris ( Théâtre-Lyrique )
  • Polyeucte . Opera (together with Jules Barbier). Music (1869–1878): Charles Gounod. Premiere 1878
• Leo di Castelnuovo (= Leopoldo Pullè; 1835-1917)
  • Fior d'Alpe . Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere 1894
• Giambattista Casti (1724-1803)
  • Lo sposo burlato . Intermezzo (Dramma giocoso, Opera buffa) in 2 acts. Music: Niccolò Piccinni . 5th January 1769 Rome ( Teatro Valle ). - Music: Giovanni Paisiello . WP 13./24. July 1778 Saint Petersburg (Court Theater)
  • La finta amante . Opera comica. Music Giovanni Paisiello. Premiere 1780
  • Il re Teodoro in Venezia . Dramma eroicomico (opera). Music: Giovanni Paisiello. WP 1784
  • La grotta di Trofonio (The Cave of Trofonio) . Dramma giocoso (Opera comica) in 2 acts. Music: Antonio Salieri . WP October 12, 1785 Vienna ( Burgtheater )
  • Prima la musica, poi le parole (First the music, then the words) . Divertimento teatrale (Operetta a quattro voci) in one act. Music: Antonio Salieri. Premiere February 7, 1786 Schönbrunn Palace (orangery). - Music: Giovanni Paisiello (?)
  • Il re Teodoro in Corsica . Dramma (opera). Music (1786/87):?
  • Cublai, gran kan de 'Tartari . Dramma eroicomico (opera). Music (1788): Antonio Salieri. WP (German version by Cornelia Boese) June 1998 Würzburg ( Mainfrankentheater )
  • Venere e Adone . Cantata. Music: Joseph Weigl . WP 1791
  • Catiline . Dramma tragicomico (opera). Music: Antonio Salieri. WP 1792
  • Li dormienti . Dramma. Music (before 1796):?
  • Orlando furioso . Dramma eroicomico. Music (before 1796):?
• Vincenzo Cassani (1677 [?] - 1732)
• Alessandro Cerè
  • Semirâma ( Semiramis ). Poema tragico (opera). Music (1908–1910): Ottorino Respighi . Premiere 1910
• Marie Červinková-Riegrová (1854–1895)
  • Dimitrij ( Demetrius ). Great opera. Music (1881/82): Antonín Dvořák . WP 1882. - New version (1894): WP 1894
  • Jakobín ( The Jacobin ). Opera. Music (1887/88): Antonín Dvořák. WP 1889. - New version (1897): WP 1898
• Erik Charell (1894–1974)
  • The fireworks (revision of the musical comedy The Black Pike by Georg Schmidt ; together with Robert Gilbert ). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere May 16, 1950 Munich ( Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz )
• Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
  • Louise . Roman musical (opera). Music (1888–1897): Gustave Charpentier. Premiere 1900
  • Julien ou La vie du poète . Poème lyrique (opera). Music: Gustave Charpentier. Premiere 1913
  • L'Amour au faubourg . Drame lyrique (opera). Music: Gustave Charpentier (1910–1913; fragment). - Later working title: Duthoit . Epopée popular
  • Orphée . Légende lyrique (opera). Music (fragment): Gustave Charpentier
  • Eros (opera fragment)
  • Julie (opera fragment)
• Giovanni Chelodi (1882-1922)
  • L'uccellino d'oro Fiaba musicale (opera) in 3 acts. Music (1906/07): Riccardo Zandonai . WP 1907 Sacco
• Helmina von Chézy (1783-1856)
  • Euryanthe . Great romantic opera. Music (1822/23): Carl Maria von Weber . Premiere 1823
• Gabriello Chiabrera (1552-1638)
  • Ha cento lustri con etereo giro (prologue to L'idropica by Giovanni Battista Guarini ). Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1608
• Gustavo Chiesa (1858–1927)
  • La coppa del re . Leggenda melodrammatica (opera) in one act. Music (1902/03): Riccardo Zandonai
• Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi (~ 1730 – after 1795)
• Guelfo Civinini (1873-1954)
  • La fanciulla del West . Opera (together with Carlo Zangarini [1874–1943]). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1910
• Louis François Clairville (1811–1879)
• Paul Claudel (1868–1955)
  • L'Orestie d'Eschyle . Trilogy. Music: Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1963
    • Agamemnon . Piece with music (1913). Premiere (concert) 1927, (scenic) 1963
    • Les Choéphores . Piece with music (1915/16). WP (concert) 1919, (scenic) 1935
    • Les Euménides . Opera (1917-1922). Premiere (concert) 1949, (scenic) 1963
  • Christoph Colomb ( Christopher Columbus ). Opera. Music (1928): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1930. - New version (1954–1956). Premiere (concert) 1956, (scenic) 1968
  • Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher ( Joan at the stake ). Dramatic oratorio. Music (1935): Arthur Honegger . WP (concert version) 1938, (staged) 1942. - New version (with prologue) 1944
  • La danse des morts . Sacred cantata. Music (1938): Arthur Honegger
  • Ite angeli veloces . Cantata. Music (1953–1955): Paul Hindemith
  • Saint-Louis roi de France . Opéra-oratorio (with Henri Doublier ). Music (1970): Darius Milhaud. Premiere (concert) 1972, (scenic) 1972
• Hugo Claus (1929-2008)
• Catherine Clément (* 1939)
  • Tristes tropiques . Opera in 3 acts (based on the book of the same name [1955] by Claude Lévi-Strauss ). Music (1990–1995): Georges Aperghis
• Julia Cloot (* 1968)
  • Railway attendant Thiel . Opera (together with Enjott Schneider ). Music: Enjott Schneider. Premiere February 28, 2004 Görlitz (theater)
• Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
  • Le pauvre matelot ( The Poor Sailor ) Complainte (Opera) in 3 pictures. Music (1926): Darius Milhaud . Premiere December 12, 1927 Paris ( Opéra-Comique ). - New version: Chamber opera. Premiere 1934
  • Antigone . Tragédie musicale (opera). Music (1924–1927): Arthur Honegger . Premiere 1927
  • Oedipus Rex . Opera oratorio (with Jean Daniélou ). Music (1926/27): Igor Stravinsky . WP (concert) 1927, (scenic) 1928
  • Libretti for Erik Satie a . a.
• George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
• Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954)
  • L'enfant et les sortilèges . Opera. Music: Maurice Ravel . Premiere 1925
• Peter Cornelius (1824–1874)
  • The Barber of Baghdad (1856-1858). Comic opera in 2 acts. Music: Peter Cornelius. Premiere December 15, 1858 Weimar (Court Theater)
  • The Cid (1860–1862). Lyrical drama (opera). Music: Peter Cornelius. Premiere 1865
  • Gunlöd (1869-1874). Opera. Music: Peter Cornelius (fragment; supplemented by Waldemar von Baußnern ; arranged by Karl Hoffbauer and E. Lassen)
• Giulio Cesare Corradi (~ 1650 [?] - 1702)
• Robert Craft (1923-2015)
  • The Flood . A musical game. Music (1961/62): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1962. Stage version: 1963
• Heinz von Cramer (1924-2009)
  • The tide . Opera. Music: Boris Blacher . Premiere 1947 Dresden
  • Prussian fairy tale . Ballet opera. Music: Boris Blacher. Premiere September 23, 1952 Berlin ( Städtische Oper )
  • The trial (together with Boris Blacher). Music: Gottfried von One . Premiere 1953
  • King deer . Music: Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1959
  • Emergency landing incidents . Report for electronics, instruments and singers. Premiere in Hamburg in 1966
• Beverley Cross (1931-1998)
• Eric Crozier (1914-1994)
  • Albert Herring . Comical opera (chamber opera) in 3 acts (5 images). Music: Benjamin Britten . Premiere June 20, 1947 Glyndebourne (Opera House)
  • Saint Nicholas . Cantata. Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere 1948
  • Let's Make an Opera ( The little sweep [ The Little Sweep ]). Children's opera. Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere June 14, 1949 (Jubilee Hall)
  • Billy Budd . Opera in 2 acts (together with Edward Morgan Forster ). Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere December 1, 1951 London ( Royal Opera House )
• József Czanyuga (1816-1894)
  • Erzsébet . Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (together with Franz Doppler and Karl Doppler ). Premiere 1857
  • Sarolta . Weird opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1861/62). Premiere 1862

D.

• Jean Daniélou (1905–1974)
  • Oedipus Rex . Opera oratorio (with Jean Cocteau ). Music (1926/27): Igor Stravinsky . WP (concert) 1927, (scenic) 1928
• Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938)
  • La figlia di Iorio . Tragedia pastorale (opera). Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere 1906. - Music: Ildebrando Pizzetti . Premiere 1954
  • La città morta ( La ville morte , The Dead City ). Opera. Music (1911): Raoul Pugno , Nadia Boulanger
  • Le Martyre de Saint Sébastian Mystère (Staged Oratorio). Music: Claude Debussy . Premiere 1911
  • Parisina . Tragedia lirica (opera). Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere 1913
  • Sogno d'un tramonto d'autunno . Poema tragico (opera; 1913/14). Music: Gian Francesco Malipiero . Premiere (concert) 1963, (scenic) 1988
  • La Fiaccola Sotto il Moggio . Opera. Music: Ildebrando Pizzetti (1914; fragment)
  • Fedra . Tragedia (opera). Music: Ildebrando Pizzetti. Premiere 1915
• Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838)
  • La scuola de 'gelosi (?). Dramma giocoso (opera; new version of the work by Caterino Mazzolà ). Music: Antonio Salieri . WP April 22, 1783 Vienna ( Burgtheater )
  • Il ricco d'un giorno ( rich for a day ). Dramma giocoso in 3 acts. Music: Antonio Salieri. WP December 6, 1784 Vienna (Burgtheater)
  • The burbero di buon cuore . Music: Vicente Martín y Soler . WP 1786
  • Il demogorgone ovvero Il filosofo confuso . Music: Vincenzo Righini . WP 1786
  • Il finto cieco . Music: Giuseppe Gazzaniga . WP 1786
  • Le nozze di Figaro . Dramma giocoso (opera) in 4 acts. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere May 1, 1786 Vienna (Burgtheater)
  • Una cosa rara ossia Bellezza ed onestà . Music: Vincente Martín y Soler. WP 1786
  • Gli equivoci . Music: Stephen Storace. WP 1786
  • L'arbore di Diana . Music: Vincente Martín y Soler. WP 1787
  • Il dissoluto punito o sia Il Don Giovanni . Dramma giocoso (opera). Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. WP 1787
  • Axur, re d'Ormus ( Axur, King of Hormus ; 1787/88). Dramma tragicomico (opera) in 5 acts (adaptation of the opera Tarare by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ). Music: Antonio Salieri. Premiere January 8, 1788 Vienna (Burgtheater)
  • Il Bertoldo . Music: Antonio Brunetti. WP 1788
  • L'ape musicale (1789; pasticcio)
  • Il pastor fido ( The Faithful Shepherd ). Dramma tragicomico (opera) in 4 acts. Music: Antonio Salieri. WP February 11, 1789 Vienna (Burgtheater)
  • La cifra . Music: Antonio Salieri. WP 1789
  • Così fan tutte (1789/90). Dramma giocoso (opera). Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Premiere January 26, 1790 Vienna (Burgtheater)
  • La caffettiera bizzarra . Music: Joseph Weigl . Premiere 1790
  • La capricciosa corretta . Music: Vincente Martín y Soler. WP 1795
  • L'isola del piacere . Music: Vincente Martín y Soler. WP 1795
  • Antigona . Music: Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi. WP 1796
  • Il consiglio imprudente . Music: Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi. WP 1796
  • Merope . Music: Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi. WP 1797
  • Cinna . Music: Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi. WP 1798
  • Armida . Music: Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi. Premiere 1802
  • Il trionfo dell'amor fraterno . Music: Peter von Winter. Premiere 1804
  • Il ratto di Proserpina . Music: Peter von Winter. Premiere 1804
• Ernst Décsey (1870–1941)
  • The Kathrin . Opera. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Premiere 1939
• Germain Delavigne (1790–1868)
  • Robert le diable ( Robert the Devil ). Opera (with Eugène Scribe ). Music (1826–1831): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1831
  • La nunne sanglante ( The Bloody Nun ). Opera. Music: Charles Gounod (1852-1854). Premiere 1854
  • Libretti for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
• Dario Del Corno
  • Nascita di Afrodite . Scena lirica (chamber opera). Music (1993): Filippo Del Corno (* 1970). Premiere September 23, 1993 Turin (Teatro Piccolo Regio)
  • Outis . Musical action (opera). Music: Luciano Berio . WP 5th October 1996 Milan ( Scala )
  • Sulla corda più alta . Musical theater piece. Music (1999): Filippo Del Corno. Premiere July 30, 1999 Acquaviva (Teatro dei Concordi)
• Friedrich Christian Delius (* 1943)
  • Prospero . Opera. Music: Luca Lombardi . WP 2006
• Axel Delmar (1867-1929)
  • Hashish . Opera. Music: Oskar von Chelius (1859–1923). Premiere 1896 (97?) Dresden ( Court Opera )
• Fritz Demuth (1892–1944?)
  • The fortress . Scenic cantata (together with Franz Werfel ). Music (1922): Ernst Krenek . Premiere 1924 Berlin
• Émile Deschamps (1791–1871)
  • Les Huguenots ( The Huguenots ). Opera (together with Eugène Scribe and Gaetano Rossi ). Music (1832–1836): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1836 Paris
  • Le Prophète ( The Prophet ). Opera (with Eugène Scribe ). Music (1835–1849): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1849
• Eduard Devrient (1801–1877)
• Joe DiPietro (* 1961?)
• Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
  • The water . Cantata. Music: Ernst Toch . Premiere June 18, 1930 Berlin
• Felix Dörmann (1870–1928)
  • Hagith . Opera. Music (1912/13): Karol Szymanowski . Premiere 1922
  • Libretti for Oscar Straus , Edmund Eysler a . a.
• Doris Dörrie (* 1955)
  • The ugly duckling . Fairy tale opera in 6 scenes. Music: Vivienne Olive . WP March 6, 2010 Nuremberg ( Theater Mummpitz )
• Alberto Donini
  • Rè Enzo ( King Enzo ). Weird opera. Music (1905): Ottorino Respighi . WP 1905
  • Al mulino ( at the mill ). Opera. Music: Ottorino Respighi (1908; fragment, not listed)
• Tankred Dorst (1925-2017)
  • La Buffonata . Ballet Chanté. Music: Wilhelm Killmayer . Premiere 1960
  • Yolimba or The Limits of Magic . Musical farce. Music: Wilhelm Killmayer. Premiere 1964
  • The story of Aucassin and Nicolette . Opera. Music: Günter Bialas . Premiere 1969
  • Puss in Boots or How to Play the Game . Weird opera. Music: Günter Bialas. WP 1975. New version: WP 1987
  • The legend of poor Heinrich . Opera. Music: Ernst August Klötzke (* 1964). WP 2001
• Henri Doublier (1926-2004)
  • Saint-Louis roi de France . Opéra-oratorio (with Paul Claudel ). Music (1970): Darius Milhaud . Premiere (concert) 1972, (scenic) 1972
• Beatrice Dovsky (1866-1923)
  • Mona Lisa . Opera. Music (1913–1915): Max von Schillings . Premiere 1915
• Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)
  • King Sigurd . Great opera in a prelude and 3 acts. Music (1856–1858): Felix Draeseke. Premiere (partial performance?) 1867 Meiningen
  • Dietrich von Bern . Great opera in 3 sections. Music (1877): Felix Draeseke. Premiere 1879?
    • Revised version : Herrat . Great opera in 3 acts. Music (1885): Felix Draeseke. Premiere 1892 Dresden
  • The forest treasure house . Folk piece with music (opera). Music (1882): Felix Draeseke
  • Gudrun . Great opera in 3 acts. Music (1884): Felix Draeseke. Premiere 1884 Hanover
  • Bertran de Born . Great opera in 3 acts. Music (1894): Felix Draeseke. WP (overture) 1901 Dresden
  • Fisherman and caliph . Opéra-comique with dance in one act. Music (1895): Felix Draeseke. Premiere 1905 Prague
  • Merlin . Opera in three acts. Music (1905): Felix Draeseke. Premiere 1913 Gotha and Coburg
• John Dryden (1631-1700)
  • King Arthur or The British Worthy . Semi-opera. Music: Henry Purcell . Premiere 1691 London (Dorset Garden)
  • The Indian Queen . Semi-opera (with Robert Howard ). Music: Henry Purcell and Daniel Purcell . Premiere June (?) And / or November / December 1695 London (Dorset Garden)
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
  • Frank the Fifth . Opera from a private bank (play with music). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1959 Zurich
  • The old lady's visit . Opera. Music (1968/69): Gottfried von Eine . UA 1971 Vienna
  • An angel comes to Babylon . Opera. Music (1975/76): Rudolf Kelterborn . Premiere 1977 Zurich
• Albert Dulk (1819-1884)
• François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (1716–1786)
  • Iphigénie en Aulide . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck . Premiere April 19, 1774 Paris ( Académie Royale )
  • Alceste . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck. Premiere April 23, 1776 Paris (Académie Royale)
  • Les Danaïdes . Tragédie lyrique (opera) in 5 acts (together with Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi). Music: Antonio Salieri . Premiere April 26, 1784 Paris ( Opéra )

E.

• Elisabeth Ebeling (1828–1905)
  • Sleeping Beauty . Fairy tale opera (together with Bertha Filhés [1819 – after 1887]). Music (1902): Engelbert Humperdinck . WP 1902
• Werner Egk (1901–1983)
  • Abstract Opera No. 1 . Music: Boris Blacher . WP (in concert) June 28, 1953 Frankfurt am Main (Hessischer Rundfunk); (scenic) October 10, 1953 Mannheim ( National Theater ). New version 1957
• Béni Egressy (1814-1851)
  • Bátori Mária . Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel . Premiere 1840
  • Hunyadi László . Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1841–1843). Premiere 1844
  • Bánk-Bán . Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1851–1860). Premiere 1861
• Hanns Eisler (1898–1962)
  • Johann Faustus (1952). Opera. - Music (2001): Friedrich Schenker . Premiere 2004 Kassel
• Heinrich Elmenhorst (1632–1704)
  • Libretti for Johann Wolfgang Franck , Johann Theile , Johann Philipp Förtsch , Georg Böhm , Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuß a . a.
• Franz von Elsholtz (1791–1872)
• Michael Ende (1929–1995)
  • Momo and the time thieves . Music: Mark Lothar . Premiere 1978
  • Flea market of dreams . Scenic miniatures (together with Elisabet Woska ). Music (1979–1984): Wilfried Hiller
  • The Scattered Spectacles Snake (Michael Ende). Recital. Music (1980): Wilfried Hiller. WP 1981
  • Four musical fables : The Lindwurm and the Butterfly - Tranquilla Trampeltreu , the persistent turtle - The ballad by Norbert Nackendick - The fable by Filemon Wrinkles . Music (1980–1982): Wilfried Hiller
  • The Goggolori . A Bavarian fairy tale with music. Music (1982/83): Wilfried Hiller. WP 1985
  • The hunt for the bat . A musical clowning. Music (1987): Wilfried Hiller. WP 1988
  • The dream eater . Singspiel. Music (1989/90): Wilfried Hiller. WP 1991
  • The Pied Piper . Hamelin Dance of Death (opera). Music (1992/93): Wilfried Hiller. WP 1993
  • The story of the bowl and the spoon . Comic opera. Libretto by the composer based on the book of the same name by Michael Ende. Music (1993/94/95/97): Claus Kühnl UA 1998 Bielefeld
• Adolphe d'Ennery (1811-1899)
  • Le Tribut de Zamora . Opera (with Jules Brésil ). Music: Charles Gounod (1878–1881). Premiere 1881
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger (* 1929)
  • El Cimarrón . Recital. Music (1969/70): Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1970
• Petra Ernst
  • Agleia feather white . Little opera. Music (2000/01): Gerd Kühr . WP 2001 Deutschlandsberg
• Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871–1943)
  • The dead eyes . Stage poetry (opera; together with Marc Henry ). Music (1912/13): Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1916

F.

• Robert Faesi (1883–1972)
  • The black spider . Opera (together with Georgette Boner ). Music: Willy Burkhard . Premiere May 28, 1949 Zurich
• Gustav Falke (1853-1916)
  • Bübchen's Christmas dream . Melodramatic nativity scene. Music (1906): Engelbert Humperdinck . WP 1906
• Giovanni Faustini (1615-1651)
• Robert Favre le Bret (1905-1987)
  • L'Appel de la Montagne (ballet). Music (1943): Arthur Honegger
• Gennaro Antonio Federico († 1744)
• Barthold Feind (1678–1721)
• Leo Feld (1869-1924)
  • The dream görge . Opera. Music (1904–1906): Alexander von Zemlinsky . Premiere 1980
  • Clothes make the man . Weird opera. Music (1907–1910): Alexander von Zemlinsky. WP 1910. New version: WP 1922
  • The ring of polycrates . Cheerful opera (together with Julius Korngold ). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Premiere 1916
  • Scirocco . Opera (together with Karl Michael von Levetzow ). Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1921
• Carlos Fernández-Shaw (1865-1911)
  • Margarita la tornera . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Ruperto Chapí y Lorente . Premiere February 1909 Madrid
  • La vida breve . Lyrical drama in 2 acts (4 images). Music: Manuel de Falla . Premiere April 1, 1913 Nice (Casino Municipal)
• Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951)
  • Marilyn . Opera in two acts. Music: Lorenzo Ferrero. Premiere February 23, 1980 Rome ( Teatro dell'Opera di Roma )
  • Night . Opera in one act. Music: Lorenzo Ferrero. Premiere November 8, 1985 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera )
  • La nascita di Orfeo . Azione musicale in one act. Music: Lorenzo Ferrero. Premiere April 1996 Verona ( Teatro Filarmonico )
  • La Conquista . Opera in two acts. Music: Lorenzo Ferrero. WP March 12, 2005 Prague ( National Theater )
• Jacopo Ferretti (1784-1852)
  • La Cenerentola ( Cinderella ). Dramma comico (comic opera) in 2 acts. Music: Gioachino Rossini . WP 25 January 1817 Rome ( Teatro Valle )
• Friedrich Christian Feustking (1678–1739)
  • Almira, Queen of Castile . Singspiel (opera). Music: Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere January 8, 1705 Hamburg ( Theater am Gänsemarkt )
• Bertha Filhés (1819 – after 1887)
  • Sleeping Beauty . Fairy tale opera (together with Elisabeth Ebeling [1828–1905]). Music (1902): Engelbert Humperdinck . WP 1902
• Edmond Fleg (1874–1963)
  • Oedipe . Tragédie lyrique (opera). Music (1910–1931): George Enescu . Premiere 1936
• Rainer Fliege (* 1965)
  • From the world . Opera. Music (2005/06): Uwe Strübing . WP April 19, 2007 Fürth ( City Theater )
• Emmerich Földes (1881–1958)
  • The flower of Hawaii . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda ). Music: Paul Abraham . Premiere 1931
• Jonathan Safran Foer (* 1977)
• Michel Fokine (1880-1942)
  • The Firebird ( L'oiseau de feu ). Ballet. Music (1909/10): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1910
• Ferdinando Fontana (1850-1919)
  • El marchionn di gamb avert . Opera. Music: Enrico Bernardi. Premiere July 14th 1875 Milan
  • Il conte di Montecristo ( The Count of Monte Cristo ; addition to the unfinished libretto by Emilio Praga ). Opera. Music: Raffaele Dell'Aquila. Premiere June 14, 1876 in Milan
  • Maria e Taide . Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. Premiere August 1876
  • The violino del diavolo . Opera. Music: Agostino Mercuri. Premiere September 12, 1878 Cagliari
  • Aldo e Clarenza . Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. WP April 11, 1878
  • La Simona . Opera. Music: Benedetto Junck (1852–1903). Premiere 1878 Milan
  • Odio (1878/79). Opera (for Amilcare Ponchielli ; not set to music)
  • Maria Tudor Opera (attributed to Emilio Praga?). Music: Carlos Gomes . Premiere March 27, 1879 Milan (Scala)
  • Il bandito . Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. Premiere December 5, 1880 Casale Monferrato
  • La leggenda d'un rosajo . Cantata. Music: Enrico Bertini (1883)
  • Anna e Gualberto : Opera. Music: Luigi Mapelli (1855–1913). Premiere May 4, 1884 Milan
  • Le Villi . Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere May 31, 1884 Milan ( Teatro Dal Verme )
  • Il Natale . Racconti messi in musica. Music: Giulio Ricordi (1840–1912; under the pseudonym Jules Burgmein ) (~ 1884)
  • Il Valdese . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Ippolito Franchi-Verney. Premiere December 3, 1885 Turin
  • Flora mirabilis . Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras . Premiere May 16, 1886 Milan (Teatro Carcano)
  • Il bacio . Opera. Music: Enrico Bertini (1886, not listed)
  • Il profeta del Korasan ( Mocanna ). Opera. Music: Guglielmo Zuelli (1859–1941) (1886, not listed)
  • Notte d'aprile . Opera. Music: Emilio Ferrari. Premiere February 4, 1887 Milan
  • Colomba . Opera. Music: Vittorio Radeglia. Premiere June 15, 1887 Milan
  • Annibale . Ballet. Music: Romualdo Marenco (1841–1907) (1888)
  • Asrael . Leggenda (opera). Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere February 11, 1888 Reggio Emilia
  • Edgar . Opera. Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere April 21, 1889 in Milan
  • Zoroastro . Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (~ 1890; fragment)
  • Il tempo ( The Time ). Ballet. Music: Riccardo Bonicioli. Premiere January 3, 1891
  • Lionella . Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras. Premiere April 4, 1891 Milan
  • Theora . Opera. Music: Ettore Edoardo Trucco. WP February 14, 1894
  • Duettin d'amore opera (together with Gaetano Sbodio [(1844–1920)]). Music: Emilio Ferrari (1895)
  • La forza d'amore . Opera. Music: Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1854–1943). Premiere March 6, 1897 Turin
  • Il signor di Pourceaugnac . Weird opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti. Premiere April 10, 1897 in Milan
  • Mal d'amore . Opera. Music: Angelo Mascheroni (1855–1905). Premiere April 30, 1898 in Milan
  • La lampada . Opera. Music: Ubaldo Pacchierotti ((1875–1916)). Premiere December 16, 1899
  • La notte di Natale . Opera. Music: Alberto Gentile. WP December 29, 1900
  • Il calvario . Opera. Music: Edoardo Bellini. Premiere June 25, 1901 in Milan
  • Maria Petrovna . Opera. Music: João Gomes de Araújo (1846–1943) (1903). Premiere January 1929
  • La nereid . Opera. Music: Ulisse Trovati. Premiere November 14, 1911
  • Sandha . Opera. Music: Felice Lattuada (1882–1962). Premiere February 21, 1924 Genoa
  • Elda (undated)
  • La Simona . Poemetto lirico. Music: Benedetto Junck (1852–1903) (undated)
• Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
  • Billy Budd . Opera in 2 acts (together with Eric Crozier ). Music: Benjamin Britten . Premiere December 1, 1951 London ( Royal Opera House )
• Giovacchino Forzano (1884-1970)
  • Notte di leggenda . Tragedia lirica (opera). Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere 1915
  • Lodoletta . Dramma lirico (opera). Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere 1917
  • Suor Angelica ( sister Angelica ). Opera (2nd part of Il Wollenico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1918
  • Gianni Schicchi . Opera (3rd part of Il Wollenico ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1918
  • Il piccolo Marat ( The Little Marat ). Dramma lirico (opera; together with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti [1863–1934]). Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere 1921
  • Glauco . Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti. Premiere 1922
  • Il finto paggio ( The Wrong Page ). Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (1924; not listed)
  • Sly ovvero La leggenda del dormiente risvegliato ( Sly or The legend of the awakened sleeper ). Opera. Music: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Premiere December 29, 1927 Milan ( Scala )
  • Il gonfaloniere ( The Standard Bearer ). Opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (1927; fragment)
  • Il Rè ( The King ). Opera. Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere January 12, 1929 Milan (Scala)
  • Don Napoleone ( Don Bonaparte ). Weird opera. Music: Alberto Franchetti (1941; not listed)
• Salomon Franck (1659-1725)
  • What I like is only the lively hunt . Cantata. Music (1713): Johann Sebastian Bach . WP 1713
  • King of Heaven, be welcome . Cantata. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach. WP 1714 (?) Weimar (?)
  • Weeping, lamenting, worrying, feeling uneasy . Cantata. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach. WP 1714 Weimar
  • Resound, you songs, resound, you strings! . Cantata. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach. WP 1714
  • Further libretti for Johann Sebastian Bach
• Franc-Nohain (= Maurice-Étienne Legrand; 1872–1934)
  • Vive la France! Musical theater spectacle. Music: Claude Terrasse (1867–1923). Premiere 1898
  • L'Heure espagnole ( The Spanish Hour ). Comédie musicale (opera). Music (1907–1909): Maurice Ravel . Premiere 1911
• David Freeman (born 1952)
  • Julia . Chamber opera (together with Rudolf Kelterborn ). Music (1989/90): Rudolf Kelterborn. WP 1991 Zurich
• Fritz Friedmann-Frederich (1883–1934)
  • New York-Berlin. Equipment operetta. Music: Rudolf Nelson (1878–1960).
  • The street singer. Operetta in three parts by Fritz Friedmann-Frederich and August Neidhardt. Music: Leo Fall (1873–1925).
• Max Frisch (1911–1991)
  • The great anger of Philipp Hotz . Grotesque opera. Music (1960): Max Lang (1917–1987)
• Barbara Frischmuth (* 1941)
• Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
  • Paradise Lost . Sacra rappresentatione (opera). Music (1976–1978): Krzysztof Penderecki . Premiere 1978
• Christian Martin Fuchs (1952-2008)
  • Lucifer . Opera. Music: Franz Hummel . WP 1987 Ulm (theater)
  • Miracle theater . Chamber opera. Music: Herbert Lauermann . Premiere November 6th, 1988 Vienna (Chamber Opera). New version: WP June 19, 1990 Klagenfurt (Arbos Theater)
  • Prometheus. The upright walk . Music: Wolfgang Niessner . Premiere 1992 Salzburg (Large Studio of the Mozarteum University )
  • Ezekiel the donkey . Musical theater piece for children. Music: Thomas Daniel Schlee . WP: August 7, 2001 Ossiach (Carinthian Summer)
  • No place. Nowhere . Chamber opera. Music: Anno Schreier . WP September 22, 2006 Oestrich Winkel (Brentano-Scheune)
  • Anger . Opera. Music: Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini . Premiere 2006 Erfurt (theater)
  • A party at Papageno . Musical theater piece for children. Music: Stephan Kühne (* 1956). WP July 30, 2006 Villach (Congress Center)
  • I, Job . Church opera. Music: Thomas Daniel Schlee. WP July 15, 2007 Ossiach (collegiate church)
  • La grande magia ( The great magic ). Opera. Music (2006–2008): Manfred Trojahn . WP 10 May 2008 Dresden ( Semperoper )

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• Louis Gallet (1835–1898)
  • Cinq Mars . Drame lyrique (opera; with Paul Poirson). Music: Charles Gounod (1876/77). WP 1877. - New version: WP 1877
  • Maître Pierre . Opera. Music: Charles Gounod (started 1877; fragment)
• Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz (1821-1891)
  • Rübezahl . Romantic opera in 3 acts. Music: Friedrich von Flotow . WP (private) August 13, 1852 Retzin (Prignitz); (public) November 26, 1853 Frankfurt am Main ( Comoedienhaus am Roßmarkt )
• Herbert Gantschacher (* 1956)
  • Late afternoon in paradise . Chamber opera (libretto together with Walter Müller). Music: Stefan Signer . WP June 14, 1992 Klagenfurt ( ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater )
  • 19182338 - No connection under this number . Musical theater piece. Music: Werner Raditschnig . 1998
  • Feast . Translation of Dževad Karahasan's libretto from Bosnian. Music: Herbert Grassl, Bruno Strobl and Hossam Mahmoud. WP October 28, 2005 Villach (neuebuehnevillach)
• Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
• John Gay (1685-1732)
  • The Beggar's Opera . Ballad opera (opera) in 3 acts. Music: Johann Christoph Pepusch . Premiere 28 January 1728 London (Lincoln's Inn Theater)
• Antonio Gazzoletti (1813–1866)
• Eduard Heinrich Gehe (1793–1850)
  • The guarantee . Opera. Music: August Mayer . Premiere 1822 Breslau
  • Jessonda . Opera. Music: Louis Spohr . Premiere 1823 Kassel
  • The Flibustier . Opera. Music: Johann Christian Lobe 1829 Weimar
• Else Gehrke
  • The courtship . Opera. Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1894 Celle
• Richard Genée (1823–1895)
  • Libretti a. a. for Johann Strauss (son) , Karl Millöcker , Carl Michael Ziehrer and for yourself
• Emil Gerhäuser (1868–1917)
  • Moloch . Musical tragedy (opera). Music: Max von Schillings . WP 1906
• Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
  • Porgy and Bess . Opera (together with DuBose Heyward ). Music: George Gershwin . Premiere 1935
  • further libretti for George Gershwin
  • Libretti for Jerome David Kern , Kurt Weill , Harold Arlen a . a.
• Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824-1893)
  • Le due fidanzate . Opera. Music: Antonio Baur. Premiere 1857
  • Il Conte di Leicester . Opera. Music: Antonio Baur. Premiere 1858
  • Maria Tudor . Opera. Music: Vladimir Nikitič Kašperov (1827 [26?] - 1894). Premiere 1859
  • Marion Delorme . Opera. Music: Giovanni Bottesini . Premiere 1862
  • Cola di Rienzi . Opera. Music: Vladimir Nikitič Kašperov. Premiere 1863
  • La Stella di Toledo . Opera. Music: Tomaso Benvenuti (1838–1906). Premiere 1864
  • I due orsi . Opera. Music: Costantino Dall'Argine (1842–1877). Premiere 1867. - (New version [?] :) L'isola degli orsi . Music: Costantino Dall'Argine. Premiere 1867
  • Gli avventurieri . Opera. Music: Gaetano Braga (1829–1907). Premiere 1867
  • Gli artisti alla fiera . Opera. Music: Lauro Rossi . Premiere 1868
  • Valeria . Opera. Music: Edoardo Vera (1821–1889). Premiere 1869
  • I promessi sposi . Opera. Music: Errico Petrella (1813–1877). Premiere 1869
  • Giovanna di Napoli . Opera. Music: Errico Petrella. Premiere 1869
  • La forza del destino (new version of the opera by Francesco Maria Piave ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere 1869
  • Un capriccio di donna . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni . Premiere 1870 (71?)
  • Papa Martin . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni. Premiere 1871
  • Reginella . Opera. Music: Gaetano Braga. Premiere 1871
  • Aida . Opera (together with Auguste Mariette Bey ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere December 24, 1871 Cairo (Dar Elopera Al Misria)
  • Adelinda . Opera. Music: Agostino Mercuri (1839-1892). Premiere 1872
  • Caligola . Opera. Music: Gaetano Braga. Premiere 1873
  • Fosca . Opera. Music: Carlos Gomes . Premiere 1873
  • Il parlatore eterno . Opera. Music: Amilcare Ponchielli . Premiere 1873
  • I Lituani . Opera. Music: Amilcare Ponchielli. Premiere 1874
  • Salvatore Rosa . Opera. Music: Carlos Gomes. Premiere 1874
  • Il duca di Tapigliano . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni. Premiere 1874
  • Atahualpa . Opera. Music: Carlo Enrico Pasta (1817–1898). Premiere 1875
  • Sara . Opera. Music: Luigi Gibelli. Premiere 1876
  • Francesca da Rimini . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni. Premiere 1878
  • Don Riego . Opera. Music: Alfredo Catalani . Premiere 1879. - Music: Cesare Dall'Olio (1849–1906). Premiere 1879
  • Adelina . Opera. Music: Luigi Sozzi. Premiere 1879
  • Mora . Opera. Music: Luigi Vicini. Premiere 1880
  • Alba Barozzi . Opera. Music: Paolo Giorza (1884; not listed)
  • Edmea . Opera. Music: Alfredo Catalani. Premiere 1886
  • Giovanna la pazza . Opera. Music: Eliodoro Ortiz de Zárate (1865–1957). Premiere 1886
  • I Doria . Opera. Music: Augusto de Oliveira Machado. Premiere 1887
  • Eduardo Stuart . Opera. Music: Cipriano Pontoglio (1831-1892). Premiere 1887
  • Carmosina . Opera. Music: João Gomes de Araújo (1846–1943). Premiere 1888
  • Re Lear . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni (1890; not listed)
  • La Sfinge . Opera (1890, for Giovanni Carpaneto; not set to music)
  • Fiamma . Opera. Music: Nicolò Ravera. Premiere 1890
  • Andrea del Sarto . Opera. Music: Vittorio Baravalle (1855–1942). Premiere 1890
  • Spartaco . Opera. Music: Pietro Platania . Premiere 1891
  • Cleopatra . Opera. Music: Melisio Morales . Premiere 1891
  • Celeste . Opera. Music: Francesco Spetrino (1857–1948). Premiere 1891
  • Gualtiero Swarten . Opera. Music: Andrea Gnaga. Premiere 1892 (93?)
  • Alda . Opera. Music: Luigi Romaniello . Premiere 1896
  • Frine . Opera. Music: Giovanni Carpaneto. Premiere 1893
  • Il maestro smania . Opera. Music: Cesare Clandestini. Premiere 1894
  • I mori di Valenza . Opera. Music: Amilcare Ponchielli (fragment, completed by Arturo Cadore ). Premiere 1914
  • Onesta . Opera. Music: Nicolò Massa. Premiere 1929
  • La strega . Opera. Music: Luigi Vicini (not listed)
  • Il figlio delle selve . Opera. Music: Cesare Dall'Olio (not listed)
  • Evangelina . Opera. Music: Luigi Sozzi (fragment)
• Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906)
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Ruggero Leoncavallo , Marco Praga , Domenico Oliva , Luigi Illica , Giulio Ricordi ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
  • La bohème . Opera (with Luigi Illica ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1896
  • Tosca . Opera (with Luigi Illica ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1900
  • Madama Butterfly . Opera (with Luigi Illica ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. WP 1904
• André Gide (1869–1951)
  • Perséphone . Melodrama (oratorio). Music (1933/34): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1934
• Carl Ludwig Giesecke (1761–1833)
• Robert Gilbert (1899–1978; pseudonym David Weber )
  • One hundred and fifty marks . Opera. Music: Hanns Eisler (1927–1929; fragment)
  • Pace of time . Cantata. Music: Hanns Eisler. Premiere 1929
  • The fireworks (reworking of the musical comedy Der Schwarze Hecht by Georg Schmidt ; together with Erik Charell ). Music: Paul Burkhard. Premiere May 16, 1950 Munich ( Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz )
  • Hopsa (new version of Paul Burkhard's operetta ). Music: Paul Burkhard. Premiere October 12, 1957 Wiesbaden
  • The blue of the sky . Musical comedy (together with Per Schwenzen and Friedrich Hollaender ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1959 Nuremberg
• William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
  • Libretti for Arthur Sullivan
• Philippe Gille (1831-1901)
  • Lakmé . Opera, 1883 with Gondinet. Music: Léo Delibes
  • Manon . Opera, 1884 with Meilhac. Music: Jules Massenet
• Otto Girndt (1835-1911)
• Giambattista Giusti (contemporary of Gioachino Rossini )
• Hans Gmür (1927-2004)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
  • Erwin and Elmire (1773-1775; 1787). Singspiel. Music (1777): Philipp Christoph Kayser. - Music (~ 1791): Johann Friedrich Reichardt. WP 1793
  • Claudine of Villa Bella (1776). Singspiel. - Music (~ 1789): Johann Friedrich Reichardt . Premiere 1789. - Music (1815): Franz Schubert . - Music (1868–1872): Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Purple . Singspiel with dances (1777). Music (1791; lost): Johann Friedrich Reichardt. - Music: Friedrich Ludwig Seidel. Premiere 1818 Berlin. - Music (1878; 1895/96): Richard Strauss
  • Jery ​​and Bateli . Singspiel (1780). Music (1779): Philipp Christoph Kayser . - Music (1789): Johann Friedrich Reichardt. Premiere 1801
  • Joke, cunning and revenge . Singspiel. Music (1787): Philipp Christoph Kayser. WP 1993 Weimar. - Music (1927): Egon Wellesz . Premiere 1928 Stuttgart
• Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)
  • Il filosofo di campagna . Opera. Music (1754): Baldassare Galuppi . WP 1754
  • La buona figliola . Opera. Music (1759): Niccolò Piccinni . WP 1760
  • Lo special . Opera. Music (1768): Joseph Haydn . WP 1768
  • La finta semplice . Opera. Music (April – July 1768): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . WP 1769
  • Le pescatrici . Opera. Music (1770): Joseph Haydn . WP 1770
  • Il mondo della luna . Opera. Music (1777): Joseph Haydn . Premiere 1777
  • Le donne curiose . Opera. Music (1902): Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . WP 1903
  • I quatro rusteghi . Opera. Music (1906): Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . WP 1906
  • Gli amanti sposi . Opera. Music (1925): Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Premiere 1925
  • La vedova scaltra . Opera. Music (1930–1931): Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Premiere 1931
  • Il campiello . Opera. Music (1936): Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Premiere 1936
• Edmond Gondinet (1828-1888)
• Alice Goodman (born 1958)
  • Nixon in China . Opera. Music: John Adams . Premiere October 22, 1987 Houston ( Grand Opera )
  • The Death of Klinghoffer . Opera. Music: John Adams. WP March 19, 1991 Brussels ( La Monnaie )
• Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter (1746–1797)
• Karl Dietrich Graewe (1937–2019)
  • Lou Salomé . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Sinopoli . Premiere May 10, 1981 Munich ( National Theater )
• Colin Graham (1931-2007)
• Charles Granvallet
  • La grand'tante . Opéra-comique in one act (together with Jules Adenis ). Music: Jules Massenet . Premiere April 3, 1867 Paris ( Opéra-Comique )
• Günter Grass (1927-2015)
  • Remnants of fabric (1958). Ballet in one act. Music: Aribert Reimann . Premiere 1959 Essen (Municipal Theaters)
  • The scarecrows . Ballet in 3 acts (together with Marcel Luipart ). Music: Aribert Reimann. Premiere October 7, 1970 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper )
• Robert Gratzer (1948-2004)
• Joseph Gregor (1888–1960)
  • Peace day . Opera (together with Stefan Zweig ). Music (1934–1936): Richard Strauss . Premiere 1938 Munich
  • Daphne . Bucolic tragedy (opera). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1938 Dresden
  • The Love of Danae (1940). Opera. Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1952 Salzburg
  • Capriccio . Conversation piece for music (opera; together with Stefan Zweig , Richard Strauss , Clemens Krauss and Hans Swarowsky ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1942 Munich
  • To the Daphne tree . Motet. Music (1943): Richard Strauss
• George Gribble
  • Bluff . Operetta (together with Karl Michael von Levetzow ). Music (1924/25; not listed): Ernst Krenek
• Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
  • Melusina . Romantic opera (1822/23). Music: Conradin Kreutzer . Premiere 1833
• Vincenzo Grimani (1655-1710)
  • Agrippina . Opera in 3 acts. Music (1708/09): Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere December 26th 1709 Venice (Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo)
• Jörg W. Gronius (* 1952)
  • Ganna or the mad world . Opera in 4 acts. Music: Hans Kraus-Hübner. Premiere October 18, 2007 Fürth ( City Theater )
• Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941)
  • The king's neighbor . Singspiel from the German Rococo (together with Wilhelm Sterk ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1923 Berlin
  • My daughter Otto . Operetta (together with Wilhelm Sterk ). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1924 Berlin
• Durs Grünbein (* 1962)
  • Berenice . Opera. Music: Johannes Maria Staud . WP 2004
• Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963)
  • Liselott . Singspiel (together with Richard Keßler ). Music: Eduard Künneke . Premiere February 17, 1932 Berlin ( Admiralspalast )
• Alfred Grünwald (1884–1951)
  • The rose of Stambul . Operetta (together with Julius Brammer ). Music: Leo Fall . Premiere 1916
  • The last waltz . Operetta (together with Julius Brammer). Music: Oscar Straus . WP 1920
  • Countess Mariza . Operetta (together with Julius Brammer). Music: Emmerich Kálmán . Premiere 1924
  • The circus princess . Operetta (together with Julius Brammer). Music: Emmerich Kálmán. Premiere 1926
  • The golden master . Operetta (together with Julius Brammer). Music: Edmund Eysler . Premiere 1927
  • Victoria and her hussar . Operetta (together with Fritz Löhner-Beda ). Music: Paul Abraham . Premiere 1930
  • The flower of Hawaii . Operetta (together with Emmerich Földes and Fritz Löhner-Beda). Music: Paul Abraham. Premiere 1931
  • Ball in the Savoy . Operetta (together with Fritz Löhner-Beda). Music: Paul Abraham. Premiere 1932
  • Libretti for Franz Lehár and Robert Stolz
• James Grun (1868-1928)
  • Poor Heinrich . Musical drama. Music (1891-1893): Hans Pfitzner . Premiere 1895
  • Mermaids . Concert scene. Music (1897): Eugen d'Albert
  • The rose from the love garden . Romantic opera. Music (1897–1900): Hans Pfitzner. WP 1901
• Claudio Guastalla (1880-1948)
  • Belfagor . Commedia lirica (opera). Music (1920–1922): Ottorino Respighi . Premiere 1923
  • La campana sommersa ( The Sunken Bell ). Opera (after Gerhart Hauptmann ). Music (1924–1927): Ottorino Respighi. Premiere (in German text version by Werner Wolff) 1927, (with original text) 1929
  • Maria egiziaca ( The Egyptian Maria ). Mysterium (opera; can also be performed as an oratorio). Music (1929–1931): Ottorino Respighi. Premiere 1932
  • Belkis, Regina di Saba ( Belkis, Queen of Saba ). Ballet oratorio. Music (1931): Ottorino Respighi. Premiere 1932
  • La fiamma ( The Flame ). Melodramma (opera). Music (1931–1933): Ottorino Respighi. Premiere 1934
  • Lucrezia . Istoria (opera). Music: Ottorino Respighi (1935/36; fragment, supplemented by Elsa Respighi and Ennio Porrino [1910–1959]). Premiere 1937
• Olindo Guerrini (1845-1916)
  • Marcella . Idillio moderno (opera) in 3 acts (together with Édouard Adenis and Henri Cain ). Premiere November 9, 1907 Milan (Teatro Lirico)
• Bernhard Gugler (1812-1880)
• Edmond Guiraud (1879–1961)
  • Marie Victoire . Opera. Music (1912-1914): Ottorino Respighi . WP 2004
• Ferdinand Gumbert (1818-1896)

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• Roland Haas
  • Hunger and thirst . Opera. Music (1985): Violeta Dinescu . WP 1986 Freiburg
• Ursula Haas (* 1943)
  • Medea monologue . Music: Rolf Liebermann . Premiere 1990. - Extension: Medea's acquittal . Opera. Music: Rolf Liebermann. Premiere 1995. - New version: Medea . Opera. Music: Rolf Liebermann. WP 2001. Revised new version: WP 2002
  • Flutes of light . Concert piece. Music: Adriana Hölszky . WP 1990
  • Boehlendorff . Chamber opera. Music: Paul Engel (* 1949). WP 1998
  • In between . Song cycle. Music: Karola Obermüller . WP 2004
  • The albatross was wrong . Song cycle. Music: Paul Engel. WP 2005
• Peter Hacks (1928-2003)
  • Another spoonful of poison, darling? Funny crime opera. Music: Siegfried Matthus . Premiere 1972
  • Omphale . Opera. Music: Siegfried Matthus. Premiere 1976
• Klaus Händl (* 1969)
  • Prisoner of Mab (Opera). Music: Eduard Demetz . WP 2002 Innsbruck ( Tyrolean State Theater )
  • From the moon (opera). Music: Klaus Lang . Premiere 2006 Innsbruck (Tyrolean State Theater)
• Karl Haffner (1804–1876)
  • The bat . Operetta (with Richard Genée ). Music: Johann Strauss (son) . Premiere April 5, 1874 Vienna ( Theater an der Wien )
• Vítězslav Hálek (1835–1874)
  • The heirs of the White Mountain . Hymn. Music (1872): Antonín Dvořák
• Léon Halévy (1802-1883)
• Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908)
  • Les Brigands ( The Bandits ; The Robbers ). Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts (together with Henri Meilhac ). Music: Jacques Offenbach . Premiere December 10, 1869 Paris ( Théâtre des Variétés )
  • Libretti for Jacques Offenbach , Georges Bizet a . a.
• Newburgh Hamilton
  • Alexander's Feast . Oratorio. Music (1735/36): Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere 1736 London
  • Samson . Oratorio. Music (1741/42): Georg Friedrich Handel. Premiere 1743 London
• Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
  • Libretti for Jerome David Kern , Sigmund Romberg and Richard Rodgers
• Kornél Hamvai (* 1969)
  • Love and Other Demons . Music (2007/08): Péter Eötvös . Premiere August 10th, 2008 Glyndebourne Festival Opera
• Cesare Hanau
  • The grillo del focolare . Commedia musicale (opera) in 3 acts. Music (1905–1907): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere 1908 Turin
• Bruno Hardt-Warden (1883–1954)
  • Fredigundis . Opera in 3 acts (5 scenes) (together with Ignaz Michael Welleminsky ). Music: Franz Schmidt . Premiere December 19, 1922 Berlin ( State Opera Unter den Linden )
  • When the little violets bloom . Singspiel (operetta) in 2 parts (6 pictures). Music: Robert Stolz . Premiere April 1, 1932 The Hague (Princess Theater)
  • Court ball in Schönbrunn . Operetta in a prelude and 3 acts (together with Josef Wenter ). Music: August Pepöck . Premiere September 3, 1937 Vienna.
  • Balkan love . Operetta in 4 pictures (together with Erik Kahr). Music: Rudolf Kattnigg . Premiere December 22, 1937 Leipzig (Central Theater).
• Sheldon Harnick (* 1924)
  • Libretti for Richard Rodgers , Jack Beeson , Jerry Bock , David Baker , Michel Legrand , Joe Raposo and for yourself
• Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658)
  • The spiritual forest poem or game of joy, called Seelewig . Music: Sigmund Theophil Staden . Premiere Nuremberg 1644
• David Harsent (* 1942)
  • Gawain . Opera. Music (1990/91): Harrison Birtwistle . WP 1991. - New version: WP 1994
  • Serenade the Silkie . Music: Julian Grant (* 1960). WP 1994
  • The Woman and the Hare . Song cycle. Music: Harrison Birtwistle. WP 1999
  • When She Died. Events following the death of Diana . Television opera. Music: Jonathan Dove (* 1959). WP 2002. - Stage version: WP 2007
  • The Ring Dance of the Nazarene . Music: Harrison Birtwistle. WP 2003
  • The Minotaur . Opera. Music: Harrison Birtwistle. WP 2008.
  • Crime fiction . Chamber opera. Music (2008): Huw Watkins (* 1976). WP 2009
  • The Hoop of the World . Opera. Music: Alan Lawrence (* 1949)
• Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)
• Gwen Harwood (1920-1995)
  • Libretti for James Penberthy , Larry Sitsky , Don Kay (composer) , Ian Cugley
• Hans Hauenstein (1912–1989)
• Elisabeth Hauptmann (1897–1973)
  • The Threepenny Opera (together with Bertolt Brecht ). Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere 1928
  • Happy ending . Musical (together with Bertolt Brecht). Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1929
• Nicola Francesco Haym (1678–1729)
• Frans Hedberg (1828–1908)
• Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
  • Doctor Faust. A dance poem (1846/47). - Music: Bertold Hummel ( Faust scenes ). WP (concert version) 1979
• Jarl Hemmer (1893-1944)
  • Jordens sång ( The Song of the Earth ; 1919). Cantata. Music: Jean Sibelius
• Carla Henius (1919-2002)
  • A Dream Game (1964). Opera. Music: Aribert Reimann . Premiere June 20, 1965 Kiel
• Claus H. Henneberg (1936–1998)
  • Melusine . Opera. Music: Aribert Reimann . Premiere 1971
  • Kinkakuji ( The Golden Pavilion ). Opera. Music: Toshirō Mayuzumi . Premiere 1976
  • Fat dumplings . Opera. Music: Karl Heinz Wahren . Premiere 1976
  • Lear . Opera. Music: Aribert Reimann. Premiere 1978
  • Enrico . Opera. Music: Manfred Trojahn . WP 1991
  • Three sisters . Opera. Music: Péter Eötvös . WP 1998
  • What you want . Opera. Music: Manfred Trojahn. WP 1998
  • Thomas Chatterton . Opera. Music: Matthias Pintscher . WP 1998
  • The flood . Music theater piece (together with Michael Hampe ). Music: Wilfried Maria Danner . WP 2002
• Christian Friedrich Henrici (pseudonym Picander ; 1700–1764)
  • St. Matthew Passion . Music: Johann Sebastian Bach . WP 1727 (1729?)
  • Mark Passion . Music (lost): Johann Sebastian Bach. WP 1731
  • Keeps silent, doesn't chat ( Coffee Cantata ; 1732). Music (1734): Johann Sebastian Bach. - (Also set to music by other composers)
  • numerous other cantata texts for Johann Sebastian Bach
• Marc Henry (1873-1943)
  • The dead eyes . Stage poetry (opera; together with Hanns Heinz Ewers ). Music (1912/13): Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1916
• Heinz Hentschke (1895–1970)
  • Mask in blue . Operetta in two parts (six pictures) (together with Günther Schwenn ). Music: Fred Raymond . Premiere September 27, 1937 Berlin ( Metropol Theater ).
  • That or none . Operetta in two parts (ten pictures) (together with Günther Schwenn ). Music: Ludwig Schmidseder . Premiere March 20, 1939 Berlin ( Metropol Theater ).
  • Women in the Metropol . Operetta in ten pictures (together with Günther Schwenn ). Music: Ludwig Schmidseder . Premiere September 27, 1940 Berlin ( Metropol Theater ).
• Rudolf Herfurtner (* 1947)
  • Gloria von Jaxtberg . Chamber opera. Music: HK Gruber . WP 1994
  • The forest children . Chamber opera. Music: Wilfried Hiller . WP 1998
  • Eduard on the rope . Opera. Music: Wilfried Hiller. WP 1999
  • Pinocchio . Opera. Music: Wilfried Hiller. WP 2002
• Hermann Hermecke (1892–1961)
  • Love in Lerchengasse . Operetta. Music: Arno Vetterling . Premiere 1936
  • Monika . Operetta. Music: Nico Dostal . Premiere 1937
  • The Hungarian wedding . Operetta. Music: Nico Dostal. Premiere 1939
  • Doctor Eisenbart . Operetta. Music: Nico Dostal. Premiere 1952
• Rafael Hertzberg (1845-1896)
  • Jungfrun i tornet ( The Virgin in the Tower ). Music: Jean Sibelius . Premiere 1896
• Peter Herz (1895–1987)
  • Libretti for Bruno Granichstaedten , Albert Szirmai , Leo Ascher , Fred Raymond a . a.
• Ludwig Herzer (1872–1939)
• DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
  • Porgy and Bess . Opera (with Ira Gershwin ). Music: George Gershwin . Premiere 1935
• Franz Carl Hiemer (1768–1822)
  • Apollo's singing competition . Music: Wilhelm Sutor (1774–1828). Premiere 1808
  • Silvana , the forest girl . Music: Carl Maria von Weber . Premiere September 16, 1810 Frankfurt am Main ( Comoedienhaus am Roßmarkt )
  • Abu Hassan . Singspiel in one act. Music (1810/11): Carl Maria von Weber. Premiere June 4, 1811 Munich ( Residenztheater )
  • L'Abbé de l'Attaignant or The Theater Rehearsal . Music: Franz Danzi . Premiere 1820
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
  • Mathis the painter . Opera in 7 pictures. Music: Paul Hindemith. Premiere May 28, 1938 Zurich ( Opera House )
• Moriz Hoernes (1852-1917)
  • Manuel Venegas . Opera (1897). Music (1897; fragment): Hugo Wolf
• Nicholas von Hoffman (1929-2018)
  • Nicholas and Alexandra . Opera. Music: Deborah Drattell . Premiere 2003 Los Angeles (Opera)
• Rudolf Stephan Hoffmann (1878–1939)
  • The blasphemy school . Opera. Music: Paul von Klenau . Premiere 1926
  • Maximilien . Historical opera (together with Franz Werfel and Armand Lunel ). Music (1930/31): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1932
• Adolf Hoffmeister (1902–1973)
  • Brundibár . Children's opera in 2 acts. Music (1938): Hans Krása . Premiere 1941 Prague (Jewish children's home)
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929)
  • The triumph of time . Ballet (1900). Music (fragment): Alexander von Zemlinsky . UA (excerpts) 1903, (complete fragment) 1992
  • Elektra (1908). Tragedy (opera). Music: Richard Strauss . WP 1909
  • The Rosenkavalier (1909/10). Comedy for music (opera). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1911
  • Ariadne on Naxos
    • Version 1 (1911): Opera in one act (combined with Hofmannsthal's adaptation of Molière's comedy Der Bürger als Edelmann ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere October 25, 1912 Stuttgart (Small House of the Court Theater)
    • 2nd version (1913): Opera in a prelude and an act. Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere October 4, 1916 Vienna ( Court Opera )
  • Joseph's Legend (1912). Pantomime (ballet; together with Harry Graf Kessler ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1914 Paris
  • Cantata (1914). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1914 (?)
  • The woman without a shadow (1913–1915). Opera. Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1919
  • The bee (ballet pantomime; 1914). Music: Clemens von Franckenstein . Premiere 1916 Darmstadt
  • Achilles on Skyros (1914-1925). Ballet. Music: Egon Wellesz . Premiere March 1926 Stuttgart
  • The Egyptian Helena (1923–1926). Opera in 2 acts. Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere June 6, 1928 Dresden (State Opera)
  • Arabella (1927-1929). Lyric comedy (opera) in 3 acts. Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere July 1, 1933 Dresden (State Opera)
• Felix Hollaender (1867–1931)
  • The pious Helene . Operetta (with Arthur Kahane ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1923 Berlin
• Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976)
  • Bumbo mumbo . Operetta. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1912 Berlin
  • I thought so . Cabaret revue (together with Martinsberg-Reimer). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1924 Munich
  • Magic lantern . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1926 Berlin
  • You are that! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1927 Berlin
  • With us around the Memorial Church . Cabaret revue (together with Moriz Seeler ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1927 Berlin
  • It's everyone's turn! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1928 Berlin
  • Please get in! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1928 Berlin
  • That speaks volumes . Cabaret revue. Music: Rudolf Nelson . Premiere 1929 Berlin
  • The common thread . Cabaret revue (together with Marcellus Schiffer ). Music: Rudolf Nelson. Premiere 1930 Berlin
  • Quick . Cabaret revue (together with Marcellus Schiffer). Music: Rudolf Nelson. Premiere 1930 Berlin
  • Tingel-Tangel . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1931 Berlin
  • The second program . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1931 Berlin
  • Haunted Villa Stern . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1931 Berlin
  • Allez-Hopp! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1931 Berlin
  • Highest railway . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1932 Berlin
  • Allez-Oop! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1934 Hollywood
  • All Aboard . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1934 Hollywood
  • Scherzo . Playing with music. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1956 Hamburg
  • Oops, on the sofa! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1957 Munich
  • The big twist . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1958 Munich
  • Dinner is served! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1958 Munich
  • Up and down . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1959 Munich
  • Futschikato! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere in Munich in 1961
  • The blue of the sky . Musical comedy (together with Robert Gilbert and Per Schwenzen ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1959 Nuremberg
  • Adam and Eve . Musical. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. WP 1981 Würzburg
• Lukas Holliger (* 1971)
• Karl von Holtei (1798–1880)
  • The eagle's Horst . Romantic-comic opera. Music: Franz glasses . Premiere December 29, 1832 Berlin ( Königsstädtisches Theater )
• Henri Hoppenot (1891–1977)
  • L'Enlèvement d'Europe ( The Abduction of Europa ). Opéra-minute. Music (1927): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1927
  • L'Abandon d'Ariane ( The Forsaken Ariadne ). Opéra-minute. Music (1927): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1928
  • La Délivrance de Thésée ( The Liberated Theseus ). Opéra-minute. Music (1927): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1928
• Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672–1731)
• Robert Howard (1626–1698)
  • The Indian Queen . Semi-opera (with John Dryden ). Music: Henry Purcell and Daniel Purcell . Premiere June (?) And / or November / December 1695 London (Dorset Garden)
• Dánial Hoydal (* 1976)
  • Í Óðamansgarði ( In the madman's garden ). Opera. Music: Sunleif Rasmussen . WP October 12, 2006 Tórshavn ( House of the North )
• Franz Xaver Huber (1755-1814)
  • The interrupted festival of sacrifice . Heroic-comic opera in two acts. Vienna 1796. Music: Peter von Winter .
  • The tomboy. Comic opera in two acts. After August von Kotzebue . Vienna 1797.
  • The noble vengeance. Comic opera in two acts. Music: Franz Xaver Süßmayr. 1799.
  • The beggar student. Comic opera in two acts. Music: Wenzel Müller . Vienna 1800.
  • The Cairo Caravan. Heroic-comic opera in 3 acts. Music: André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry . 1801.
  • Samori. Great heroic opera in two acts. Music: Georg Joseph Vogler. Vienna 1803.
  • Christ on the Mount of Olives . Oratorio. Music: Ludwig van Beethoven . Vienna 1803.
  • The scattered one. Comic opera in three acts. Music: Franz Teyber . 1805.
  • The exam. Singspiel in two acts. Music: Adalbert Gyrowetz . 1813
• Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  • Street scene . Opera (together with Elmer Rice ). Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere 1947
  • Troubled Island . Opera (together with Verna Arvey [1910–1987]). Music: William Grant Still . Premiere 1949
  • The Barrier ( The Barrier or The Mulatto , Il Mulatto ). Opera. Music: Jan Meyerowitz . Premiere 1950
  • Esther . Opera. Music: Jan Meyerowitz. Premiere 1960
• Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
  • La Esmeralda . Opera. Music (1836): Louise Bertin . Premiere 1836
• Hedwig Humperdinck (1862-1916)
  • The unwilling marriage . Weird opera. Music (1902–1905): Engelbert Humperdinck . WP 1905
• Christian Friedrich Hunold (1680–1721; pseudonym Menantes )
• Ludwig Husnik
  • The blue miracle . Operetta in 3 acts. Music Igo Hofstetter . Premiere 1958
  • Roulette of Hearts . Operetta in 3 acts (5 pictures). Music Igo Hofstetter . Premiere 1964 Linz State Theater
• David Henry Hwang (* 1957)
  • Alice in Wonderland . Opera. Music: Unsuk Chin . Premiere June 30, 2007 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera )

I.

• Johann Jakob Ihlée (1762–1827)
  • Zemirs and Azor . Romantic opera in 2 acts. Music (1818/19): Louis Spohr . Premiere April 4, 1819 Frankfurt am Main ( Comoedienhaus am Roßmarkt )
• Luigi Illica (1857-1919)
  • Il vassalo di Szegith . Opera (together with Francesco Pozza [? –1921]). Music: Antonio Smareglia . Premiere 1884
  • La Wally . Dramma lirico (opera). Music: Alfredo Catalani . Premiere 1889
  • Cristoforo Colombo . Dramma lirico (opera). Music: Alberto Franchetti . Premiere 1892/1923
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Ruggero Leoncavallo , Marco Praga , Domenico Oliva , Giuseppe Giacosa , Giulio Ricordi ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
  • Cornelius Schuett . Opera. Music: Antonio Smareglia. Premiere 1893
  • Le martire . Opera. Music: Spyros Samaras . Premiere 1894
  • Nozze istriane . Opera. Music: Antonio Smareglia. Premiere 1895
  • La bohème . Opera (together with Giuseppe Giacosa ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1896
  • Andrea Chénier . Opera in 4 acts. Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere March 28, 1896 Milan ( Scala )
  • Iris . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere 1898
  • Tosca . Opera (together with Giuseppe Giacosa ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. Premiere 1900
  • Anton . Opera. Music: Cesare Galleotti. Premiere 1900
  • Medioevo Latino . Opera. Music: Ettore Panizza (1875–1967). Premiere 1900
  • Le maschere . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. WP 1901
  • Il cuore della fanciulla . Opera. Music: Crescenzo Buongiorno (1864–1903). WP 1901
  • Lorenza . Opera. Music: Edoardo Mascheroni (1852–1941). WP 1901
  • Germania . Dramma lirico (opera). Music: Alberto Franchetti. WP 1902
  • Nadeya . Opera. Music: Cesare Rossi. WP 1903
  • Siberia . Opera. Music: Umberto Giordano. WP 1903
  • Madama Butterfly . Opera (together with Giuseppe Giacosa ). Music: Giacomo Puccini. WP 1904
  • Cassandra . Opera. Music: Vittorio Gnecchi (1876–1954). WP 1905
  • Tess . Opera. Music: Camille Erlanger (1863-1919). WP 1906
  • Aurora . Opera. Music: Ettore Panizza. WP 1908
  • Il principe Zilah . Opera. Music: Franco Alfano . WP 1909
  • Héllera . Melodramma (opera). Music: Italo Montemezzi . WP 1909
  • La Perugina . Opera. Music: Edoardo Mascheroni. WP 1909
  • Isabeau . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere 1911
  • Giove a Pompei . Commedia musicale (opera; together with Ettore Romagnoli [1871–1938]). Music: Alberto Franchetti , Umberto Giordano . Premiere 1921
• Lotte Ingrisch (* 1930)
• Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894–1980)
  • Król Roger ( King Roger ). Opera. Music (1918–1925): Karol Szymanowski . Premiere 1936

J

• Wilhelm Jacoby (1855-1925)
  • The two hussars . Operetta (together with Rudolf Schanzer ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere February 6, 1913 Berlin ( Theater des Westens )
• Francis Jammes (1868-1938)
  • La Brebis égarée . Roman musical (opera). Music (1910–1914): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1923
• Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
  • Z mrtvého domu ( From a house of the dead ; 1927/28). Opera in 3 acts. Music: Leoš Janáček. WP April 12, 1930 Brno (National Theater)
• Edmond Jeanneret
  • Le Théâtre du monde . Opera. Music (1956): Heinrich Sutermeister . Premiere 1957 Neuchâtel
• Elfriede Jelinek (* 1946)
  • Bählamm's festival . Musical theater piece. Music (1997/98): Olga Neuwirth . WP 1999
  • Lost Highway . Musical theater piece. Music: Olga Neuwirth. WP 2003
• Charles Jennens (~ 1700 / 01–1773)
  • Saul . Oratorio. Music (1738): Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere 1739 London
  • L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato . Oratorio. Music (1740): Georg Friedrich Handel. Premiere 1740 London
  • Messiah . Oratorio. Music (1741/42): Georg Friedrich Handel. WP 1742 Dublin
  • Belshazzar . Oratorio. Music (1744): Georg Friedrich Handel. Premiere 1745 London
• Walter Jens (1923-2013)
  • The outbreak . A parable (opera). Music: Argyris Kounadis . Premiere August 25, 1975 Bayreuth
• Viktor Wladimirowitsch Erofejew (* 1947)
  • Living with an idiot . Opera in 2 acts (4 scenes). Music (1991): Alfred Schnittke . WP 1992 Amsterdam
• Georgy Jonin
  • The nose . Opera (together with Evgeni Zamyatin, Aleksandr Prejs and Dmitri Shostakovich ). Music (1927/28): Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Premiere of Leningrad in 1930
• Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (1764–1846)
  • Les Abencérages . Opera. Music (1813): Luigi Cherubini . Premiere 1813
  • Moïse et Pharaon ( Moses and Pharaoh ). Opera (together with Luigi Balocchi). Music (1827): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1827
  • Guillaume Tell ( Wilhelm Tell ). Opera (together with Hippolyte Bis). Music (1828): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1829
  • Milton . Opéra-comique (together with Armand-Michel Dieulafoy). Music (1804): Gaspare Spontini . Premiere 1804
  • La vestale ( The Vestal Virgin ). Opera. Music (1805-07): Gaspare Spontini . Premiere 1807
  • Fernand Cortez . Opera (together with Joseph-Alphonse Esménard). Music (1809): Gaspare Spontini . Premiere 1809
• Werner Juker (1893–1977)
  • The Laupen Festival . Music (1942): Heinrich Sutermeister . Premiere 1942 Bern

K

• Mauricio Kagel (1931–2008; for himself)
• Arthur Kahane (1872-1932)
  • The pious Helene . Operetta (together with Felix Hollaender ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1923 Berlin
• Georg Kaiser (1878–1945)
  • The protagonist . Opera. Music (1924/25): Kurt Weill . Premiere 1926
  • The Tsar lets himself be photographed . Weird opera. Music (1927/28): Kurt Weill. Premiere 1928
  • The silver lake . Piece with music (musical). Music (1932/33): Kurt Weill. Premiere 1933
• Chester Kallman (1921-1975)
  • The Rake's Progress . Opera (with Wystan Hugh Auden ). Music (1948–1951): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1951
  • Delia, or A masque of Night (1953). Opera (with Wystan Hugh Auden; not set to music)
  • Elegy for Young Lovers ( Elegy for Young Lovers ). Opera (with Wystan Hugh Auden). Music: Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1961
  • The Bassarids ( The Bassarids ). Opera in one act with intermezzo (together with Wystan Hugh Auden). Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere August 6, 1966 Salzburg ( Large Festival Hall )
  • Love's Labor's Lost . Opera (with Wystan Hugh Auden). Music: Nicolas Nabokov . Premiere 1973
  • Panfilo and Lauretta . Opera. Music: Carlos Chávez Ramírez . Premiere 1957. - New version: Love Propitiated . Music: Carlos Chávez Ramírez. Premiere 1961
• Leo Kastner (= Christian Eckelmann)
  • The little student . Operetta (together with Alfred Möller ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1926 Szczecin
  • Girls you love . A game of youth and lust for life (operetta; together with Alfred Möller). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1927 Hamburg
• Gustav Kastropp (1844–1925)
  • The improviser . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert . WP 1902
• Johan Henrik Kellgren (1751–1795)
• Rudolf Kelterborn (* 1931)
  • The salvation of Thebes . Opera. Music (1960–1962): Rudolf Kelterborn. Premiere 1963 Zurich
  • The cherry orchard (after Anton Chekhov ). Opera. Music (1979–1981): Rudolf Kelterborn. WP December 4, 1984 in Zurich
  • Julia . Chamber opera (with David Freeman ). Music (1989/90): Rudolf Kelterborn. WP 1991 Zurich
• Alfred Kerr (1867-1948)
  • Krämerspiegel (song cycle). Music (1918): Richard Strauss
  • Chronoplan . Opera. Music: Julia Kerr
• Harry Graf Kessler (1868–1937)
  • Joseph legend (1912). Pantomime (ballet; together with Hugo von Hofmannsthal ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1914 Paris
• Richard Keßler (1875–1960)
  • The blonde Liselott . Operetta. Music: Eduard Künneke . Premiere December 25, 1927 Altenburg. - New version: Liselott . Singspiel together with Gustaf Gründgens . Music: Eduard Künneke. Premiere February 17, 1932 Berlin ( Admiralspalast )
• Peter Kien (1919–1944)
  • The Emperor of Atlantis or The Denial of Death . Game (chamber opera). Music (1943/44): Viktor Ullmann . Premiere 1975 Amsterdam
• Johann Friedrich Kind (1768–1843)
  • The Freischütz . Romantic opera in 3 acts. Music: Carl Maria von Weber. Premiere June 18, 1821 Berlin ( Royal Theater )
• Georg C. Klaren (1900–1962)
  • The dwarf . Tragic fairy tale for music (opera). Music (1919–1921): Alexander von Zemlinsky . Premiere 1922
• Lore Klebe (née Schiller) (1924 [?] - 2001)
  • The robbers . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe ). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere June 3, 1957 Düsseldorf. New version 1962
  • The deadly wishes ( the shagreen leather ). Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere June 14, 1959 Düsseldorf
  • The assassination of Caesar . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere September 20, 1959 Essen
  • Alcmene . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere September 25, 1961 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper ). New version: WP 1962 Detmold
  • Figaro is getting a divorce . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere June 28, 1963 Hamburg ( State Opera ). New version 1984
  • Jacobowsky and the Colonel . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere November 2, 1965 Hamburg (State Opera)
  • The fairy tale of the beautiful lily . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere May 15, 1969 Schwetzingen ( Festival )
  • A real hero . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere January 18, 1975 in Zurich
  • The girl from Domrémy . Opera (together with Giselher Klebe). Music: Giselher Klebe. WP June 19, 1976 Stuttgart (State Opera)
  • The rendezvous . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere 1977 Hanover
  • Judgment Day . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere 1980 Mannheim
  • The carnival confession . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere December 20, 1983 Darmstadt
  • Gervaise Macquart . Opera. Music: Giselher Klebe. Premiere 1995 Düsseldorf
• Karl Klingemann (1798–1862)
• Paul Knepler (1879-1967)
  • Giuditta . Musical comedy (operetta; together with Fritz Löhner-Beda ). Music: Franz Lehár . Premiere 1934
• Reinhard Knodt (* 1951)
  • Legends . Oratorio. Music: Hans Kraus-Hübner. Premiere September 13, 2002 Heidenheim
• Poul Knudsen (1889–1974)
  • Scaramouche . Mime (ballet). Music (1913): Jean Sibelius . Premiere 1922
• G. von Koch
  • The Minneburg . Opera. Music (1904–1907): Arnold Mendelssohn . WP 1909
• Boris Kochno (1904–1990)
  • Mavra . Opera buffa. Music (1921/22): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1922
  • Le sacre du printemps . Ballet (with Nicholas Roerich ). Music (1910–1913): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1913
  • The seven deadly sins . Ballet with singing (together with Bertolt Brecht ). Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere 1933
• Michael Köhlmeier (* 1949)
• Johann Ulrich von König (1688–1744)
  • Libretti for Reinhard Keizer , Georg Philipp Telemann a . a.
• Thomas Körner (* 1942)
  • R.Hot or The Heat . Opera fantasy. Music: Friedrich Goldmann . Premiere 1977
  • Leonce and Lena . Opera. Music: Paul Dessau . Premiere 1979
  • Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen . Fairy tale opera (together with Karin Körner). Music: Kurt Schwertsik . Premiere 1983
  • Bremen freedom . Singwerk on a woman's life (music theater piece). Music: Adriana Hölszky . Premiere June 4th, 1988 Munich (1st Munich Biennale)
  • The walls . Musical theater piece. Music: Adriana Hölszky. WP 1995
  • The fairy tale after forever and three days . Opera silhouette. Music: Wilfried Maria Danner . WP 2000
• Leonhard Kohl von Kohlenegg (1834–1875; pseudonym Henrion Poly )
  • The beautiful Galathée . Funny-mythological operetta in one act. Music: Franz von Suppè . Premiere June 30, 1865 Berlin ( Meysels Theater )
• Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980)
  • Orpheus and Eurydice . Opera. Music (1923): Ernst Krenek . Premiere November 27, 1926 Kassel ( State Theater )
• Julius Korngold (1860–1945)
  • The ring of polycrates . Cheerful opera (together with Leo Feld ). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Premiere 1916
  • The dead city . Opera (together with Erich Wolfgang Korngold). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. WP 1920
• Eliška Krásnohorská (1847–1926)
  • Lejla . Great romantic opera. Music (1867): Karel Bendl . Premiere 1868
  • Břetislav . Historical opera. Music (1869): Karel Bendl. Premiere 1870
  • Hubička ( The Kiss ). Folk opera. Music (1875/76): Bedřich Smetana . Premiere 1876 Prague
  • Blaník . Opera. Music (1874–1877): Zdeněk Fibich . Premiere 1881
  • Tajemství ( The Secret ). Weird opera. Music (1877/78): Bedřich Smetana. Premiere 1878 Prague
  • Čertova stĕna ( The Devil's Wall ). Funny-romantic opera. Music (1879–1882): Bedřich Smetana. Premiere 1882
  • Karel Škreta . Weird opera. Music: Karel Bendl. Premiere 1883
  • Viola . Romantic opera. Music (1874/75, 1883/84; fragment): Bedřich Smetana. WP (concert performance) 1899, (stage performance) 1924
  • Dítě Tábora ( Tabor's Child ). Tragic opera. Music (1886–1888): Karel Bendl. Premiere 1892
• Clemens Krauss
  • Capriccio . Conversation piece for music (opera; together with Stefan Zweig , Joseph Gregor , Richard Strauss and Hans Swarowsky ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1942 Munich
• Helmut Krausser
  • Bright nights . Opera based on Knut Hamsun and motifs from Arabian Nights . Music: Moritz Eggert UA 1996 Munich
• Jean Kren
  • The foolish love . Singspiel. Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1919 Berlin
• Ernst Krenek (1900–1991)
  • The jump over the shadow . Weird opera. Music (1923): Ernst Krenek. Premiere June 9, 1924 Frankfurt ( Opera House )
  • Jonny plays . Opera. Music (1926): Ernst Krenek. Premiere February 10, 1927 Leipzig (Opera House)
  • The dictator . Tragic opera. Music (1926): Ernst Krenek. Premiere May 6, 1928 Wiesbaden (State Theater)
  • The secret kingdom . Fairy tale opera. Music (1926/27): Ernst Krenek. Premiere May 6, 1928 Wiesbaden (State Theater)
  • Heavyweight or The Nation's Honor . Operetta. Music (1927): Ernst Krenek. Premiere November 5, 1927 Cologne (Opera House)
  • Life of Orestes . Great opera. Music (1928/29): Ernst Krenek. Premiere January 19, 1930 Leipzig (Neues Theater)
  • Sweeping around St. Stephan . Satire with music. Music (1930): Ernst Krenek. WP 1988 Vienna ( Ronacher )
  • Karl V. stage work with music (opera). Music (1932/33): Ernst Krenek. Premiere June 22, 1938 Prague (New German Theater). - New version: Premiere May 11, 1958 Düsseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
  • What Price Confidence? Chamber opera. Music (1945): Ernst Krenek. Premiere May 22, 1962 Saarbrücken (City Theater)
  • Dark Waters . Opera. Music (1950/51): Ernst Krenek. Premiere May 2, 1951 Los Angeles (Bovard Auditorium)
  • Pallas Athene weeps . Opera. Music (1952/53): Ernst Krenek. Premiere October 17, 1955 Hamburg (State Opera)
  • The Belltower . Opera. Music (1955/56): Ernst Krenek. Premiere March 17, 1957 Urbana / Illinois (Lincoln Hall Theater)
  • Of all things and playful . "Game" opera. Music (1960–1962): Ernst Krenek. Premiere July 25, 1962 Vienna (ORF)
  • The golden goat . Opera. Music (1962/63): Ernst Krenek. Premiere June 16, 1964 Hamburg (State Opera)
  • The magic mirror . Television opera. Music (1963–1966): Ernst Krenek. Premiere September 6, 1967 Munich (Bavarian Broadcasting)
  • Sardakai or that comes from it . Opera. Music (1968/69): Ernst Krenek. Premiere June 27, 1970 Hamburg (State Opera)
  • Message in a bottle from paradise or the English excursion . TV piece with music. Music (1972/73): Ernst Krenek. Premiere March 8, 1974 Vienna (ORF)
• Franz Xaver Kroetz (* 1946)
  • Stallerhof . Opera. Music (1986/87): Gerd Kühr . Premiere June 3, 1988 Munich (1st  Munich Biennale )
• Hellmuth Krüger (1890–1955)
  • Of the! The! The! Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1925 Munich
• Rinaldo Küfferle (1903–1955)
  • Cefalo e Procri . Fable (opera). Music (1934): Ernst Krenek . Premiere September 15, 1934 Venice ( Teatro Goldoni )
• Gabriele Küffner (* 1957)
  • Vitus . Musical. Music: Heinrich Hartl . WP July 19, 2007 Nuremberg (Tafelhalle)
• David Kunhardt (also: Kuhnhardt)
  • Aglaya . Opera. Music: Leo Blech. Premiere 1893 Aachen
  • Cherubina . Opera. Music: Leo Blech. Premiere 1894 Aachen
• Harald Kunz
  • The widow of the butterfly . Opera. Music (1968): Isang Yun . Premiere February 23, 1969 Nuremberg ( Opera House )
  • Spirit love . Opera. Music (1969/70): Isang Yun. Premiere June 20, 1971 Kiel ( Opera House )
  • Sim Tjong . Korean legend. Music (1971/72): Isang Yun. Premiere August 1, 1972 Munich ( National Theater )
• Michael Kunze (* 1943)
  • Libretti for Gershon Kingsley , Karel Svoboda , Sylvester Levay , Jim Steinman and others a.
• Harry Kupfer (1935-2019)
  • The black mask . Opera (together with Krzysztof Penderecki ). Music: Krzysztof Penderecki. WP August 15, 1986 Salzburg ( Kleines Festspielhaus )
• Jaroslav Kvapil (1868–1950)
  • Rusalka . Lyric fairy tale (opera). Music (1900): Antonín Dvořák . WP 1901

L.

• Christine Dorothea Lachs (1672 – after 1716)
  • The laughing Democritus , Leipzig 1704, (G.Ph. Telemann)
  • Cajus Caligula , Leipzig 1704 (G.Ph. Telemann)
  • Germanicus , Leipzig 1704/1710 (G.Ph. Telemann)
• Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957–1995)
  • Quixote (1989). Opera. Music: Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook
• Domenico Lalli (1679–1741)
• Tanja Langer (* 1962)
  • Kleist . Opera. Music: Rainer Rubbert . WP 2008
• Emmet Lavery
  • Tarquin . Chamber opera. Music (1940): Ernst Krenek . Premiere July 16, 1950 Cologne (Städtische Bühnen)
• Andreas Lechner (* 1959)
  • Sünde.Fall.Beil . Royal Opera in 5 acts. Music: Gerhard Stäbler . Premiere May 16, 1992 Munich (3rd  Munich Biennale )
• Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère (1714–1754)
• Dora Leen (? –1942 [?]; Also Dora Pollock)
  • Flames . Opera. Music (1901/02): Franz Schreker . WP 2001
• Christian Lehnert (* 1969)
  • Phaedra . Concert opera. Music: Hans Werner Henze . WP 2007
• Michael Leinert (* 1942)
  • Status quo . Chamber opera. Music (1970): Friedrich Leinert . Premiere June 30, 1971 Hanover (University of Music and Theater)
  • One note at a time . Musical farce (chamber opera). Music (1973): Friedrich Leinert. Premiere November 12, 1973 Hanover (University of Music and Theater)
  • AH - pictures from a leader's life . Chamber opera. Music (1973): Friedrich Leinert. Premiere February 27, 1974 Gelsenkirchen (Musiktheater im Revier)
  • Vending machines . Chamber opera. Music: Niels Viggo Bentzon . Premiere 1974 Kiel
  • The steppe wolf . Opera. Music (1999): Bent Lorentzen (* 1935)
  • The novel with the double bass . Lyrical scenes (chamber opera). Music (2005): Jürg Baur . Premiere November 25, 2005 Düsseldorf
• Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (1762–1826)
• Tania León (* 1943)
  • Scourge of Hyacinths . Opera in 2 acts. Music: Tania León. Premiere May 1, 1994 (4th  Munich Biennale )
• Victor Léon (1858-1940)
  • Libretti for Johann Strauss (son) , Richard Heuberger , Franz Lehár , Leo Fall , Emmerich Kálmán a . a.
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Marco Praga , Domenico Oliva , Luigi Illica , Giuseppe Giacosa , Giulio Ricordi ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
• François Hippolyte Leroy
  • Ivan le terrible ( Ivan the Terrible ). Music: Charles Gounod (begun 1856; fragment). - New version: Ivan IV . Opera. Music (1862–1865): Georges Bizet . WP (concert version) 1975
• Walter Lesch (1898–1958)
  • The small Niederndorf opera . Musical comedy. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1951 Zurich
• Karl Michael von Levetzow (1871–1945)
  • The black orchid . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert. Premiere 1918
  • Scirocco . Opera (together with Leo Feld ). Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1921
  • Bluff . Operetta (with George Gribble). Music (1924/25; not listed): Ernst Krenek
  • The widow of Ephesus . Opera. Music (1930; not listed): Eugen d'Albert
  • Mister Wu . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert (fragment, completed by Leo Blech ). Premiere 1932
• Jorge Liderman (1957-2008)
  • Antigona Furiosa . Opera in one act. Music: Jorge Liderman. Premiere April 29, 1992 Munich (3rd  Munich Biennale )
• Ferdinand Lion (1883–1968)
  • Revolution wedding . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere 1919
  • The golem . Musical drama (opera). Music: Eugen d'Albert. Premiere 1926
  • Cardillac . Opera. Music (1925/26): Paul Hindemith . Premiere 1926
• Siegfried Lipiner (1856-1911)
  • Merlin . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Karl Goldmark . Premiere November 19, 1886 Vienna ( Court Opera )
• Arthur Lipschitz
  • Who laughs last . Posse (together with Albert Bernstein-Sawersky ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1913 Berlin
• Alexander Lix (1899–?)
  • Manina . Operetta (together with Hans Adler ). Music: Nico Dostal . Premiere 1942
• Bernard J. Lobeský (= Bernard Guldener)
  • Král a uhlíř ( King and Coal Burner ). Weird opera. Music (1871): Antonín Dvořák . WP 1929. - New version (1874): WP 1874. - New version (together with Václav Juda Novotný ). Music (1887): Antonín Dvořák. Premiere 1887
• Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883–1942)
  • Friederike . Singspiel (operetta; together with Ludwig Herzer ). Music: Franz Lehár . Premiere 1928
  • The land of smiles . Romantic operetta (together with Ludwig Herzer). Music: Franz Lehár. Premiere 1929
  • Victoria and her hussar . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald ). Music: Paul Abraham . Premiere 1930
  • The flower of Hawaii . Operetta (together with Emmerich Földes and Alfred Grünwald). Music: Paul Abraham. Premiere 1931
  • Ball in the Savoy . Operetta (together with Alfred Grünwald). Music: Paul Abraham. Premiere 1932
  • Giuditta . Musical comedy (operetta; together with Paul Knepler ). Music: Franz Lehár. Premiere 1934
  • Libretto for Fred Raymond
• Dea Loher (born 1964)
  • Light . Opera. Music: Wolfgang Böhmer. Premiere August 19, 2004 Berlin ( Neuköllner Oper )
• Albert Lortzing (1801-1851)
  • Ali Pasha by Janina (1823/24). Singspiel in one act. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere February 1, 1828 Münster
  • The Pole and his Child or The Sergeant of the IV Regiment (1832). Song game. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1832
  • Christmas Eve. Moody Scenes from Family Life (1832). Vaudeville. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1832
  • Andreas Hofer (1833). Singspiel. Music: Albert Lortzing
  • Scenes from Mozart's Life (1833). Singspiel. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1834 (?)
  • The American (~ 1833/34; not set to music)
  • The two shooters (1835). Comic opera in three acts. Music: Albert Lortzing. WP February 20, 1837 Leipzig (theater)
  • Tsar and Carpenter (1837). Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1837
  • Caramo or Das Fischerstechen (1838/39). Great comic opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1839
  • Hans Sachs (1839/40). Festival opera with dance. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1840
  • Casanova (1840/41). Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1841
  • The Wildschütz or The Voice of Nature (1842). Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1842
  • Undine (1843-1845). Romantic magic opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1845
  • The armourer (1845/46). Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1846
  • To the Grand Admiral (1846/47). Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. Premiere 1847
  • Regina (1848). Opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. WP 1998
  • Roland's Knappen or The Desired Luck (1848/49). Funny-romantic magic opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. WP (censored) 1849, (uncensored) 2005
  • Caliostro (1850). Comic opera (not set to music)
  • The distinguished amateurs or the opera rehearsal . Weird opera. Music: Albert Lortzing. WP January 20, 1851 Frankfurt am Main ( Comoedienhaus am Roßmarkt )
• Rudolf Lothar (1865–1943 [?])
  • Lowlands . Musical drama (opera). Music: Eugen d'Albert . WP 1903
  • Tragaldabas, the borrowed husband . Weird opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert. WP 1907
  • Izëyl . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert. WP 1909
  • The woman given away . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert. Premiere 1912
  • Love chains . Opera. Music: Eugen d'Albert. WP 1912. New version: WP 1918
  • The free corporal . Cheerful opera. Music: Georg Vollerthun . Premiere 1931
  • Friedemann Bach . Opera. Music: Paul Graener . Premiere 1931
  • The silent serenade . Musical comedy (operetta; together with Raoul Auernheimer , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , William Okie, Bert Reisfeld [1906–1991]). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. WP (concert) 1951, (scenic) 1954
• Antonio Maria Lucchini (~ 1690 [?] - after 1730)
• Armand Lunel (1892–1977)
  • Les Malheurs d'Orphée ( The Sorrows of Orpheus ). Opera. Music: Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1926
  • Esther de Carpentras . Opéra bouffe. Music (1925–1927): Darius Milhaud. WP (concert version) 1937, (scenic) 1938
  • Maximilien . Historical opera (together with Franz Werfel and Rudolf Stephan Hoffmann ). Music (1930/31): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1932
  • David . Opera. Music (1952/53): Darius Milhaud. WP (concert) 1954, (scenic) 1955

M.

• Amin Maalouf (* 1949)
  • L'amour de loin . Opera. Music (1999/2000): Kaija Saariaho . WP 2000 Salzburg
  • Adriana Mater . Opera. Music: Kaija Saariaho. Premiere 2006 Paris
• Andrea Maffei (1798-1885)
  • I masnadieri ( The Robbers ). Opera in 4 acts. Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere July 22, 1847 London (Her Majesty's Theater)
• David Malouf (* 1934)
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
  • Pelléas and Mélisande . Drame lyrique (opera; together with Claude Debussy ). Music (1893–1902): Claude Debussy. WP 1902
  • Ariane et Barbe-Bleue ( Bluebeard ). Conte (opera) in 3 acts (together with Paul Dukas ). Music (1899–1906): Paul Dukas. Premiere May 10, 1907 Paris ( Opéra-Comique )
• Hans Mahner-Mons (1883–1956)
  • The heart . Drama for music. Music (1930/31): Hans Pfitzner . Premiere 1931
• Nikita Malayev
  • Jeu de cartes . Ballet (with Igor Stravinsky ). Music (1936): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1937
• Antonio Marchi (~ 1670 [?] - after 1725)
  • Alcina . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Georg Friedrich Handel . WP April 16, 1735 London ( Theater Royal )
• Franco Marcoaldi
  • Teneke . Opera. Music: Fabio Vacchi . Premiere September 22, 2007 Milan ( Scala )
• Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724–1780)
• Ercole Marigliani (1580-1630)
  • Andromeda . Favola in musica. Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1619/20 (?)
• Hubert Marischka (1882-1959)
  • Waltz Queen . Operetta. Music: Ludwig Schmidseder . Premiere 1946 Vienna ( Citizens' Theater )
  • Farewell waltz . Operetta (together with Rudolf Österreicher ). Music: Ludwig Schmidseder . Premiere 1949 Vienna ( Citizens' Theater )
• Martinsberg-Reimer
  • I thought so . Cabaret revue (together with Friedrich Hollaender ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1924 Munich
• Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938)
  • The corregidor . Opera. Music (1895/96): Hugo Wolf . Premiere 1896. - New version (1896/97). Premiere 1898
• Johann Mayrhofer (1787–1836)
  • Lyrics and libretti for Franz Schubert
• Friederike Mayröcker (* 1924)
• JD McClatchy (1945-2018)
  • 1984 . Opera (together with Thomas Meehan ). Music: Lorin Maazel . Premiere 2005 London
  • Libretti for William Schuman , Ned Rorem , Bruce Saylor, Elliot Goldenthal and Lowell Liebermann
• Thomas Meehan
  • 1984 . Opera (with JD McClatchy ). Music: Lorin Maazel . Premiere 2005 London
• Walter Mehring (1896–1981)
  • Simply classic! Puppet show. Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1919 Berlin
• Herbert Meier (1928-2018)
  • Emperor Jovian . Opera. Music (1964–1966): Rudolf Kelterborn . Premiere March 4, 1967 Karlsruhe (State Theater)
  • Ophelia . Opera. Music (1982/83): Rudolf Kelterborn. Premiere 1985 Berlin (Deutsche Oper)
• Henri Meilhac (1831-1897)
  • Les Brigands ( The Bandits ; The Robbers ). Opéra-bouffe in 3 acts (together with Ludovic Halévy ). Music: Jacques Offenbach . Premiere December 10, 1869 Paris ( Théâtre des Variétés )
  • Libretti for Jacques Offenbach , Georges Bizet a . a.
• Guido Menasci (1867-1925)
  • Cavalleria rusticana . Opera (with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti). Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere May 17, 1890 Rome (Teatro dell'Opera)
  • I Rantzau . Opera (with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti). Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere November 10th 1892 Florence (Teatro La Pergola)
  • Zanetto . Opera (with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti). Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere March 2, 1896 Pesaro (Liceo musicale Rossini)
  • Regina Diaz . Opera (with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti). Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere March 5, 1894 Naples (Teatro Mercadante)
• Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
  • Amelia al ballo ( Amelia goes to the ball ; Amelia goes to the ball ). Opera buffa in one act. Music: Gian Carlo Menotti. Premiere April 1, 1937 Philadelphia (Academy of Music)
  • The Old Maid and the Thief ( The Old Maid and the Thief ). Opera in 14 scenes. Music: Gian Carlo Menotti. Premiere April 22, 1939 in New York
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors ( Amahl and the Night Visitors ). Opera in one act. Music: Gian Carlo Menotti. Premiere December 24, 1951 New York ( NBC Studios)
• Paul Méral
  • Le dit des jeux du monde . Ballet. Music (1918): Arthur Honegger
• Michael Meschke (* 1931)
  • Le Grand Macabre . Opera in 2 acts (together with György Ligeti ). Music: György Ligeti. Premiere April 12, 1978 Stockholm ( Royal Opera )
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
  • Saint François d'Assise (Scènes Franciscaines) . Opera (1975-1983). Music: Olivier Messiaen. Premiere November 28, 1983 Paris
• Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782)
  • Many librettos for 27 operas, an intermezzo, 36 serenatas, eight oratorios and 37 cantatas (→ list of works by Pietro Metastasio )
• Andreas KW Meyer (* 1958)
  • The mold rider . 22 scenes and an interlude after Theodor Storm. Music: Wilfried Hiller . WP 1998 Kiel
• Karl Mickel (1935-2000)
  • Bettina . Opera. Music (1982): Friedrich Schenker . Premiere 1987 Berlin
  • Dangerous liaisons . Opera seria. Music (1993): Friedrich Schenker. Premiere 1997 Ulm
• Madeleine Milhaud (1902-2008)
  • Médée ( Medea ). Opera. Music (1938): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1939
  • Bolívar . Opera (together with Jules Supervielle ). Music (1943): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1950
  • La Mère coupable ( The guilty mother ). Opera. Music (1964/65): Darius Milhaud. Premiere 1966
• Nicolò Minato (~ 1630–1698)
• Angelo Miotto (* 1969?)
  • Non guardate al domani . Opera. Music (2001-2008): Filippo Del Corno (* 1970). Premiere April 28, 2008 Milan (Teatro dell'Elfo)
• Robert Misch (1860-1929)
  • The sutler . Singspiel. Music (1913): Engelbert Humperdinck . Premiere 1914
  • Gaudeamus . Play opera. Music (1915–1919): Engelbert Humperdinck. Premiere 1919
• Stepan Stepanowitsch Mitusow
  • The nightingale ( Le Rossignol ). Conte-lyrique (opera; together with Igor Stravinsky ). Music (1908–1914): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1914
• Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
• Alfred Möller (1876–1952)
  • The little student . Operetta (together with Leo Kastner ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1926 Szczecin
  • Girls you love . A game of youth and lust for life (operetta; together with Leo Kastner). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1927 Hamburg
• Jonathan Moore
  • Greek . Opera (with Mark-Anthony Turnage ). Music: Mark-Anthony Turnage. Premiere June 17th, 1988 Munich (1st  Munich Biennale )
• Bernardo Morando
  • Vittoria d'Amore . Balletto. Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1641
• René Morax (1873-1963)
  • Le Roi David ( King David ). Oratorio. Music: Arthur Honegger . WP 1921. - New version: WP 1923
  • Judith . Opéra sérieux. Music (1925): Arthur Honegger. Premiere 1926
  • La Belle de Moudon . Operetta. Music (1931). Arthur Honegger. Premiere 1931
• Martin Mosebach (* 1951)
• Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (1821–1877)
  • The merry women of Windsor . Funny and fantastic opera in 3 acts. Music: Otto Nicolai . Premiere March 9, 1849 Berlin ( Royal Opera House )
  • The Queen of Sheba . Opera in 4 acts. Music: Karl Goldmark . Premiere March 10, 1875 Vienna ( Court Opera )
  • The golden cross . Opera in 2 acts. Music: Ignaz Brüll . Premiere December 22, 1875 Berlin (Royal Opera House)
• Gustav von Moser (1825–1903)
• Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller (1738–1815)
  • Bastien and Bastienne . Singspiel in one act (together with Johann Andreas Schachtner and Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern ). Music (1767/68): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere December 7th 1768 (?) Schwechat (?)
• Hans Müller-Einigen (1882–1950)
  • Violanta . Opera. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Premiere 1916
  • The miracle of the helians . Opera. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Premiere 1927
• Peter Mussbach (* 1949)
  • Celan . Musical theater piece. Music (1999): Peter Ruzicka . WP 2001
  • Holderlin. An expedition . Musical theater piece. Music: Peter Ruzicka. WP 2008
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
  • Boris Godunov . Opera. Music (1868–1870): Modest Mussorgski. UA (adapted by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow ) 1896; Premiere (original version) 1928. - New version (1871/72; fragment). UA 1874; UA (adaptation by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow) 1908; Premiere (adaptation by Dmitri Schostakowitsch ) 1959
  • Sorochintsy fair . Weird opera. Music (1874–1880; fragment): Modest Mussorgski. WP (adaptation by Anatoly Lyadow , Vjaceslav Karatygin and others) 1913; WP (adaptation by César Cui ) 1917; WP (adaptation by Nikolai Tscherepnin ) 1923; WP (adaptation by Wissarion Schebalin ) 1931; WP (adaptation by Pavel Lamm and Wissarion Schebalin [1932]) 1932

N

• Karl Nachmann
  • Woe to him who loves . Musical comedy. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1948 Zurich
• Takvor Nalyan (1843– ~ 1877)
• Ernst Nebhut (1898–1974)
  • Queen of a night . Operetta. Music: Will Meisel , WP 1943
  • The man with the top hat . Musical comedy. Music: Just Scheu , WP 1950
  • Beloved Manuela . Operetta. Music: Fred Raymond , Premiere 1951
  • An angel named Schmitt . Musical comedy. Music: Just Scheu, Premiere 1953
• Caspar Neher (1897–1962)
  • The guarantee . Opera. Music: Kurt Weill . Premiere March 10, 1932 Berlin ( Städtische Oper )
  • The favorite or The Last Days of the great Mr. Fabiano . Opera. Music: Rudolf Wagner-Régeny . Premiere February 20, 1935 Dresden ( Semperoper )
  • The citizens of Calais . Music: Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. Premiere January 28, 1939 Berlin ( State Opera )
  • Johanna Balk . Music: Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. Premiere April 4, 1941 Vienna ( State Opera )
  • Persian episode . Music: Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. Premiere March 27, 1963 Rostock ( Volkstheater )
• August Neidhardt (1867–1934)
  • Black Forest girl . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 25 August 1917 Berlin ( Komische Oper )
  • A modern girl . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1918 Munich
  • No pleasure without men . Dance operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1918 Berlin
  • The straw widow . Operetta. Music: Leo Blech . WP 1920
  • The postmaster . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere February 3, 1921 Berlin ( Central Theater )
  • The detective girl . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1921 Berlin
  • Princess Hush . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1925 Hamburg
  • The luxury cabin . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1929 Leipzig
  • Young wine . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1933 Berlin
• Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858–1943)
  • Aleko . Opera. Music (1892): Sergei Rachmaninow . WP April 27th ^July / May 9, 1893 ^greg. Moscow ( Bolshoi Theater )
• Erdmann Neumeister (1671–1756)
• August Hermann Niemeyer (1754–1828)
  • Lazarus . Religious drama (cantata, oratorio) in 3 acts. Music (1778): Johann Heinrich Rolle . - Music (1820): Franz Schubert (fragment, supplemented by Edisson Denissow )
• Václav Juda Novotný (1849–1922)
  • Král a uhlíř ( King and Coal Burner ). Comic opera (new version, together with Bernard J. Lobeský). Music (1887): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1887
  • Svatá Ludmila ( The Holy Ludmilla ). Sacred opera (together with Jaroslav Vrchlický ). Music (1901): Antonín Dvořák. WP 1901

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• Lehel Odry (1837-1920)
  • Brankovics György ( Georg Brancovic ). Opera (together with Ferenc Ormai). Music (1868–1872): Ferenc Erkel . Premiere 1874
• Aras Ören (* 1939)
  • Leyla and Medjnun . Fairy tales for music (opera; together with Peter Schneider ). Music: Detlev Glanert . Premiere May 29, 1988 Munich (1st  Munich Biennale )
• Rudolf Austrian (1881–1966)
• Domenico Oliva (1860-1917)
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Ruggero Leoncavallo , Marco Praga , Luigi Illica , Giuseppe Giacosa , Giulio Ricordi ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
• Fritz Oliven (1874–1956, pseudonym Rideamus )
  • Libretti for Oscar Straus , Walter Kollo and Eduard Künneke
• Martin Opitz (1597–1639)
  • Dafne . Tragicomoedia (opera). Music (lost): Heinrich Schütz . WP 1627 Torgau
• Carl Orff (1895–1982)
  • The moon . Opera in one act. Music: Carl Orff. Premiere February 5, 1939 Munich ( National Theater )
  • The smart one . Opera in one act. Music: Carl Orff. Premiere February 20, 1943 Frankfurt am Main ( Opera )
  • The Bernauerin . A Bavarian piece (opera for actors and choir) in 2 parts. Music: Carl Orff. Premiere June 8, 1947 Stuttgart ( Württemberg State Theater )
  • The Christmas story . Music: Gunild Keetman . Premiere December 24, 1948 Munich ( Bayerischer Rundfunk )
  • Astutuli . A Bavarian comedy. Music: Carl Orff. Premiere October 20, 1953 Munich ( Kammerspiele )
  • Comoedia de Christi Resurrectione . An Easter game. World premiere (in concert) March 31, 1956 in Munich ( Bayerischer Rundfunk ). WP (scenic) April 21, 1957 Stuttgart ( Württembergisches Staatstheater )
  • Ludus de nato Infante mirificus . A Christmas game. Premiere December 11, 1960 Stuttgart ( Württemberg State Theater )
  • De temporum fine comoedia ( The game of the end of times ). Premiere August 20, 1973 Salzburg ( Großes Festspielhaus )
• Ferenc Ormai (1835–1876)
  • Brankovics György ( Georg Brancovic ). Opera (together with Lehel Odry ). Music: Ferenc Erkel (1868–1872). Premiere 1874
• Albert Ostermaier (* 1967)
  • An Chung-Gun - fingertips . Opera. Music: Heinz Reber . WP 2001 Berlin ( Hebbel Theater )
  • Crushrooms . Musical theater piece. Music: Wolfgang Mitterer . WP 2005 Basel
  • The devil's tragedy . Funny utopian opera in 12 pictures. Music: Péter Eötvös . WP February 22, 2010 Munich ( National Theater )
• Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740)

P

• Marie Pappenheim (1882–1966)
  • Expectation . Monodrama (opera). Music (1909): Arnold Schönberg . Premiere 1924
• Pietro Pariati (1665-1733)
• Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799)
  • Ascanio in Alba . Serenata teatrale (opera) in 2 acts. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere October 17, 1771 Milan (Teatro Ducale)
• Paul Peitl (pseudonym Paul Mannsberg )
  • King Alboin . Romantic opera. Music (1876/77; fragment): Hugo Wolf
• Carlo Pepoli (1796-1881)
  • I puritani ( The Puritans ). Opera in 3 acts. Music: Vincenzo Bellini . Premiere January 24, 1835 Paris (Théâtre Italy)
• Edda Petri (* 1966)
  • The secret of the Mona Lisa . Musical (together with Jutta Schubert ). Music: Wolfgang Heinzel . WP 2001 Merzig
• Giuseppe Petrosellini (1727– ~ 1799)
  • Il barone di Rocca Antica ( The Baron of Rocca Antica ). Dramma giocoso (opera) in 2 parts. Music: Antonio Salieri . Premiere May 12, 1772 Vienna ( Burgtheater )
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville ). Opera buffa in 4 acts. Music: Giovanni Paisiello . Premiere September 15, 1782 Saint Petersburg ( Hermitage Theater)
• Eberhard Petschinka (* 1953)
• Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
  • Palestrina (1909-1915). Musical legend (opera). Music: Hans Pfitzner. Premiere 1917
• Francesco Maria Piave (1810–1876)
  • Il duca d'Alba . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini . Premiere 1842
  • Ernani . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere 1844
  • I due Foscari . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1844
  • Lorenzino de Medici . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1845
  • Estella di Murcia . Opera. Music: Federico Ricci . Premiere 1846
  • Attila . Opera in a prologue and 3 acts (addition to the fragment by Temistocle Solera ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere March 17, 1846 Venice ( Teatro La Fenice )
  • Tutti amanti . Opera. Music: Carlo Romani (1824–1875). Premiere 1847
  • Griselda . Opera. Music: Federico Ricci. Premiere 1847
  • Macbeth . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1847
  • Allan Cameron . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1848
  • Il corsaro . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1848
  • Giovanna di Fiandre . Opera. Music: Carlo Boniforti (1818–1879). Premiere 1848
  • La Schiava Saracena . Opera. Music: Saverio Mercadante . Premiere 1848
  • Stiffelio . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1850. - New version: Aroldo . Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1857
  • Crispino e la comare . Opera buffa. Music: Luigi Ricci , Federico Ricci. Premiere 1850
  • Elisabetta di Valois . Opera. Music: Antonio Buzzolla . Premiere 1850
  • Rigoletto . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1851
  • La Sposa di Murcia . Melodramma (opera). Music: Andrea Casalini. Premiere 1851
  • La bashina . Opera. Music: F. De Liguoro. Premiere 1853
  • La traviata . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1853
  • La Prigioniera . Opera. Music: C. Bonsoni. Premiere 1853
  • Pittore e Duca . Opera. Music: Michael William Balfe . Premiere 1854
  • Margherita di Borgogna . Opera. Music: Francesco Petrocini. Premiere 1854
  • I fidanzati . Opera. Music: Achille Peri (1812–1880). Premiere 1856
  • Simon Boccanegra (first version). Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1857
  • Vittore Pisani . Opera. Music: Achille Peri. Premiere 1857
  • Margherita la Mendicante . Opera. Music: Gaetano Braga (1829–1907). Premiere 1859
  • La Biscaglina . Opera. Music: Samuele Levi (1813–1883). Premiere 1860
  • Guglielmo Shakspeare . Melodramma (opera). Music: Tomaso Benvenuti (1838–1906). Premiere 1861
  • Mormile . Opera. Music: Gaetano Braga. Premiere 1862
  • La forza del destino . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1862
  • Rienzi . Opera. Music: Achille Peri. Premiere 1862
  • La Duchessa di Guisa . Melodramma (opera). Music: Paolo Serrao (1830–1907). Premiere 1865
  • Rebecca . Opera. Music: Bartolomeo Pisani (1811–1876). Premiere 1865
  • Berta di Varnol . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1867
  • Don Diego de Mendoza . Opera. Music: Giovanni Pacini. Premiere 1867
  • La trombola . Opera. Music: Antonio Cagnoni . Premiere 1868
  • Olema . Opera. Music: Carlo Pedrotti (1817-1893). Premiere 1872
• Agostino Piovene (1671-1733)
  • Tamerlano . Opera. Music: Francesco Gasparini . Premiere 1711. Many other settings
  • seven more libretti
• Myfanwy Piper (1911-1997)
  • The turn of the screw . Opera. Music: Benjamin Britten . Premiere 1954
  • Owen Wingrave . Television opera. Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere 1971. - Stage version: Premiere 1973
  • Death in Venice ( Death in Venice ). Opera. Music: Benjamin Britten. Premiere 1973
  • Easter . Chamber opera. Music: Malcolm Williamson (fragment)
  • What the Old Man Does Is Always Right . Children's opera. Music: Alun Hoddinott (1929–2008). Premiere 1977
  • The Rajah's Diamond . Television opera. Music: Alun Hoddinott. Premiere 1979
  • The Trumpet Major . Opera. Music: Alun Hoddinott. WP 1981
• James Planché (1796-1880)
  • Oberon, or The Elf King's Oath ( Oberon, or the Elf King's Oath ). Romantic opera in 3 acts. Music (1825/26): Carl Maria von Weber . Premiere April 12, 1826 London ( Royal Opera House )
• Edouard Plouvier (1821–1876)
  • Un postillon en gage . Operetta in one act (together with Jules Adenis ). Music: Jacques Offenbach . Premiere February 9, 1856 Paris ( Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens , Salle Choiseul)
  • Libretti for Jacques Offenbach , Henry Litolff , Ferdinand Poise a . a,
• Paul Poirson
  • Cinq Mars . Drame lyrique (opera; together with Louis Gallet [1835–1898]). Music: Charles Gounod (1876/77). WP 1877. - New version: WP 1877

• Alexander Siegmund Pordes (1878–1931)
  • Sealed . Opera (with Richard Batka ). Music: Leo Blech . WP 1908
  • Women in love . Vaudeville. Music: Leon Jessel . WP 1920 Koenigsberg
  • Swallow wedding . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere January 28, 1921 Berlin ( Theater des Westens )
  • Adrienne . Operetta in 3 acts (together with Günther Bibo ). Music: Walter Wilhelm Goetze . Premiere April 24, 1926 Hamburg
• Christian Heinrich Postel (1658–1705)
  • Libretti for Johann Georg Conradi , Johann Philipp Förtsch , Johann Sigismund Kusser , Reinhard Keizer , Georg Philipp Telemann a . a.
• Francesco Pozza (? –1921)
  • Il vassalo di Szegith . Opera (with Luigi Illica ). Music: Antonio Smareglia . Premiere 1884
• Marco Praga (1862-1929)
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Ruggero Leoncavallo , Domenico Oliva , Luigi Illica , Giuseppe Giacosa , Giulio Ricordi ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
• Aleksandr Prejs
  • The nose . Opera (together with Evgeni Samjatin , Georgij Jonin and Dmitri Shostakovich ). Music (1927/28): Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Premiere of Leningrad in 1930
  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . Opera. Music: Dmitri Shostakovich. Premiere 1934 Leningrad

Q

• Philippe Quinault (1635–1688)

R.

• William Radice (born 1951)
  • Snatched by the Gods . Chamber opera. Music: Param Vir. Premiere May 22, 1992 Amsterdam (Nederlandse Opera)
• Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947)
  • L'Histoire du soldat ( The story of the soldier ). Musical theater piece. Music (1918): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1918
• Giorgio Maria Rapparini (~ 1700)
• Arthur Rebner (1890-1949)
• Max Reichardt
  • Kruschke at the North Pole . Operetta. Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1896 Kiel
• Theobald Rehbaum (1835-1918)
• Heinz Reichert (1877-1940)
• Robert Reinick (1805-1852)
  • Konradin . Opera. Music: Ferdinand Hiller . Premiere 1847
  • Genoveva . Opera (1847/48; together with Robert Schumann ). Music: Robert Schumann. Premiere 1850
• Bert Reisfeld (1906–1991)
  • The silent serenade . Musical comedy (operetta; together with Raoul Auernheimer , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Rudolf Lothar , William Okie). Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold. WP (concert) 1951, (scenic) 1954
• Ludwig Rellstab (1799–1860)
  • A field camp in Silesia . Singspiel (together with Eugène Scribe ). Music (1843/44): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1844
• Otto Reuther (1890–1973)
• Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884–1974)
  • Les larmes de couteau ( The knife tears ). Opera in one act. Music (1928): Bohuslav Martinů . Premiere 1969 Brno
  • Les trois souhaits ( Troji Prání ; The Three Wishes ). Film opera in 3 acts. Music (1928/29): Bohuslav Martinů. Premiere June 16, 1971 Brno
  • Le jour de bonté (The Day of Charity) . Opera in 3 acts. Music (1930/31; fragment): Bohuslav Martinů. WP (as amended by Milan Kaňák) 2003 České Budějovice
• Tim Rice (born 1944)
  • The Likes of Us (1965). Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber . WP 2005
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Premiere 1968
  • Jesus Christ superstar . Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Premiere 1970
  • Evita . Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Premiere 1976
  • Blondel . Musical. Music: Stephen Oliver (1950–1992). Premiere 1983
  • Chess . Musical. Music: Benny Andersson , Björn Ulvaeus . WP 1984
  • Cricket . Musical. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber. WP 1986
  • Heathcliff . Musical. Music: John Farrar (* 1946). WP 1995
  • King David . Musical / song cycle. Music: Alan Menken . Premiere 1997
  • Aida . Musical. Music: Elton John . WP 1998
• Giulio Ricordi (1840-1912)
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera (together with Ruggero Leoncavallo , Marco Praga , Domenico Oliva , Luigi Illica , Giuseppe Giacosa ). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1893
• Tito Ricordi the Younger (1865–1933)
  • Francesca da Rimini . Tragedia (opera) in 4 acts. Music (1912/13): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere February 19, 1914 Turin (Teatro Regio)
  • La Nave . Tragedia (opera). Music: Italo Montemezzi . Premiere 1918
• Friedrich Wilhelm Riese (~ 1805–1879)
  • Alessandro Stradella . Romantic opera in 3 acts. Music: Friedrich von Flotow . Premiere December 30, 1844 Hamburg ( City Theater )
• Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)
  • Ballo delle ingrate in genere rappresentativo . Madrigal. Music: Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1608
  • L'Arianna . Tragedia in musica. Music (lost except for the Lamento d'Arianna ): Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1608
  • Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero (Introduzione) / Movete al mio bel suon . Ballo (madrigal). Music: Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1636
  • Libretti for Giulio Caccini , Jacopo Peri a . a.
• Angelo Maria Ripellino (1923–1978)
  • Intolleranza 1960 . Azione scenica (together with Luigi Nono ). Music: Luigi Nono. Premiere April 13, 1961 Venice ( Teatro La Fenice )
• Julius Rodenberg (1831-1914)
• Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947)
  • Le sacre du printemps . Ballet (together with Boris Kochno ). Music (1910–1913): Igor Stravinsky . Premiere 1913
• Albert Roesler
  • The black spider . Opera. Music (1935/36): Heinrich Sutermeister . WP (concert version) 1936 Radio Bern; (scenic) February 16, 1949 St. Gallen
  • The village under the glacier . Dance company from the Valais Alps. Music (1936): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere 1937 Karlsruhe
• Eduard Rogati
  • The Women of Coraya ( Women's Paradise ). Operetta. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1938 Szczecin
• Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687–1765)
  • Alessandro . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere May 5, 1726 London ( King's Theater )
• Ettore Romagnoli (1871-1938)
  • Giove a Pompei . Commedia musicale (opera; together with Luigi Illica ). Music: Alberto Franchetti , Umberto Giordano . Premiere 1921
• Felice Romani (1788-1865)
  • Il turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) . Opera buffa in 2 acts. Music (1814): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere August 14, 1814 Milan ( Teatro alla Scala )
  • Margherita d'Anjou ( Margaret of Anjou ). Melodramma semiserio (opera). Music (1820): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1820
  • L'esule di Granata . Melodramma serio (opera). Music (1821/22): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1822
  • Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn) . Tragedia lirica (opera) in 2 acts. Music (1830): Gaetano Donizetti . Premiere December 26, 1830 Milan (Teatro Carcano)
  • Norma . Opera lirica in 2 acts. Music (1831): Vincenzo Bellini . Premiere December 26, 1831 Milan (Teatro alla Scala)
  • La sonnambula (The Night Walker) . Melodrama in 2 acts. Music (1831): Vincenzo Bellini. Premiere March 6, 1831 Milan (Teatro Carcano)
  • L'elisir d'amore (The Love Potion) . Opera buffa in 2 acts. Music (1832): Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere May 12, 1832 Milan (Teatro della Canobbiana)
  • Beatrice di Tenda . Melodramma (opera) in 2 acts. Music: Vincenzo Bellini. Premiere March 16, 1833 Venice ( Teatro La Fenice )
  • Lucrezia Borgia . Opera in a prologue and 2 acts (5 pictures). Music: Gaetano Donizetti. Premiere December 26, 1833 Milan (Teatro alla Scala)
  • Un giorno di regno (King for a day) . Melodramma giocoso (opera) in 2 acts. Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere September 5, 1840 Milan (Teatro alla Scala)
• Gaetano Rossi (1774–1855)
  • Les Huguenots ( The Huguenots ). Opera (with Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps ). Music (1832–1836): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1836 Paris
  • Romilda e Costanza . Melodramma semiserio (opera). Music (1817): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1817
  • Semiramide riconosciuta . Dramma per musica (opera) based on a model by Pietro Metastasio. Music (1819): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1819
  • Emma di Resburgo ( Emma von Roxburg ). Melodramma eroico (opera). Music (1819): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1819
  • Il crociato in Egitto ( The Crusaders in Egypt ). Melodramma eroico (opera). Music (1823/24): Giacomo Meyerbeer. WP 1824. - New version: WP 1825
• Jules Rostaing
  • Sylvie . Opéra-comique in one act (together with Jules Adenis ). Music: Ernest Guiraud . Premiere May 11, 1864 Paris ( Opéra-Comique )
• Monika Rothmaier
  • Who's afraid in the Zirbelnuss circus? Musical children's game (children's opera). Music: Volker Plangg . WP 1987 Augsburg
  • Eréndira . Opera in 6 scenes. Music (1991): Violeta Dinescu . Premiere May 7, 1992 Stuttgart ( State Opera )
• Denis de Rougemont (1906–1985)
  • Nicolas de Flue . Légende dramatique (dramatic oratorio). Music (1938/39): Arthur Honegger
• Pierre-Charles Roy (1683–1764)
• David Rudkin (* 1936)
  • The Grace of Todd . Opera in one act. Music: Gordon Crosse. Premiere 1969
  • Broken Strings . Opera in one act. Music: Param Vir. Premiere May 22, 1992 Amsterdam (Nederlandse Opera)
• Eduard Rüffer (1835–1878)

S.

• Karel Sabina (1813–1877)
  • Braniboři v Čechách ( The Brandenburgers in Bohemia ). Opera. Music (1862/63): Bedřich Smetana . Premiere 1866
  • Prodaná nevěsta ( The Bartered Bride ). Weird opera. Music (1863–1866): Bedřich Smetana. Premiere 1866
  • V studni ( In the well ). Weird opera. Music: Vilém Blodek (1834–1874). Premiere 1867
  • Starý ženich ( The Old Groom ). Music (1871–1874): Karel Bendl . Premiere 1882
  • Zítek . Weird opera. Music: Vilém Blodek (fragment, completed by FX Vána). Premiere 1934
• Felix Salten (1869–1945; pseudonym Ferdinand Stollberg )
  • Rich girls . Operetta in 3 acts (1909; based on The Goddess of Reason by Alfred Maria Willner and Bernhard Buchbinder). Music: after Johann Strauss (son)
  • My young master . Operetta in 3 acts (1910). Music: Oscar Straus . Premiere December 23, 1910 Vienna ( Raimund Theater )
• Antonio Salvi (1664-1724)
  • Arminio . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Alessandro Scarlatti . UA 1703 Pratolino ( Villa Medici ). - Music: Georg Friedrich Handel . Premiere January 12th 1737 London ( Royal Opera House ). - (Also settings by Caldara, Pollarolo, Hasse and Galuppi)
  • Berenice . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Giacomo Antonio Perti . WP 1709 Florence. - Music (1736/37): Georg Friedrich Handel. Premiere May 18, 1737 London ( Royal Opera House )
• Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937)
  • The nose . Opera (together with Georgij Jonin, Aleksandr Prejs and Dmitri Schostakowitsch ). Music (1927/28): Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Premiere of Leningrad in 1930
• Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010)
  • Libretti for Luciano Berio , Fausto Razzi , Luca Lombardi , Fernando Mencherini
• Dietrich Eberhard Sattler
  • Patmos . Music: Wolfgang von Schweinitz . Premiere April 28, 1990 Munich (2nd  Munich Biennale )
• Alberto Savinio (1891-1952)
• NO Scarpi (1888–1980)
  • The Parisian . Musical comedy (together with Fridolin Tschudi ). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1957 Zurich
• Johann Andreas Schachtner (1731–1795)
  • Bastien and Bastienne . Singspiel in one act (together with Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern ). Music (1767/68): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere December 7th 1768 (?) Schwechat (?)
• Rudolf Schanzer
  • Great raisins . Big farce with song and dance (together with Rudolf Bernauer ). Music: Leon Jessel u. a. Premiere 1911 Berlin
  • The two hussars . Operetta (together with Wilhelm Jacoby ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere February 6, 1913 Berlin ( Theater des Westens )
• Georg Schaumberg (1855–1931)
• Just Scheu (1903-1956)
  • Queen of a night . Operetta. Music: Will Meisel , WP 1943
  • Flowers for Gloria . Operetta. Music: Ralph Maria Siegel , WP 1949
  • The man with the top hat . Musical comedy. Music: Just Scheu, WP 1950
  • Beloved Manuela . Operetta. Music: Fred Raymond , Premiere 1951
  • An angel named Schmitt . Musical comedy. Music: Just Scheu, Premiere 1953
• Daniel Schiebeler (1741–1771)
• Marcellus Schiffer (1892-1932)
  • Hetaeric talks . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender . Premiere 1926 Berlin
  • What you want . Cabaret revue. Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1927 Berlin
  • There and back . Sketch with music (short opera). Music: Paul Hindemith . Premiere 1927
  • News of the day . Funny opera. Music: Paul Hindemith. Premiere 1929
  • The common thread . Cabaret revue (together with Friedrich Hollaender). Music: Rudolf Nelson . Premiere 1930 Berlin
  • Quick . Cabaret revue (together with Friedrich Hollaender). Music: Rudolf Nelson. Premiere 1930
• Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812)
  • The Lyrants or The Funny Misery . Funny operetta. Music: Emanuel Schikaneder. WP 1776
  • The Urian Castle . Singspiel. Music: Emanuel Schikaneder. WP 1786
  • The magic flute . Opera. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . WP 1791
  • The magic flute, second part. The labyrinth . Heroic-comic opera. Music: Peter von Winter . WP 1798
  • Alexander . Opera. Music: Franz Teyber (1758–1810). Premiere 1801
• Roland Schimmelpfennig (* 1967)
  • The face in the mirror . Musical theater piece. Music: Jörg Widmann . WP 2003 Munich
• Michael Schindhelm (* 1960)
  • Black Earth (2001). Stage work (opera) in 9 sequences (together with Klaus Huber ). Music: Klaus Huber. Premiere November 3, 2001 Basel
• Hans Schlesinger (1896–1945)
  • The black spider . German Singspiel (opera). Music (1932): Josef Matthias Hauer . Premiere 1966 Vienna
• Eberhard Schmidt
  • The Schuhu and the flying princess . Opera (together with Udo Zimmermann ). Music (1976): Udo Zimmermann. Premiere 1977
  • The wondrous shoemaker's wife . Opera (together with Udo Zimmermann). Music (1981): Udo Zimmermann. WP 1982
  • It rained the night before . Chamber opera. Music: Eberhard Eyser (* 1932). WP 1986
• Franz Schmidt (1874–1939)
  • Notre Dame . Opera (together with Leopold Wilk). Music: Franz Schmidt. Premiere April 1, 1914 Vienna ( Court Opera )
• Georg Schmidt (1916–1988; pseudonyms Jürg Amstein , Jürg Ambach , Jürg Hecht )
  • The black pike . Musical comedy. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere April 1, 1939 Zurich
• Hansjörg Schneider (* 1938)
  • The black spider . Musical-dramatic narrative (opera). Music (1982): Rudolf Kelterborn . Premiere (as television opera) 1984 Zurich
• Peter Schneider (* 1940)
  • Leyla and Medjnun . Fairy tales for music (opera; together with Aras Ören ). Music: Detlev Glanert . Premiere May 29, 1988 Munich (1st  Munich Biennale )
• Ignaz Schnitzer (1839–1921)
  • The gypsy baron . Operetta in 3 acts. Music: Johann Strauss (son) . Premiere October 24, 1885 Vienna ( Theater an der Wien )
• Franz von Schober (1796–1882)
  • Alfonso and Estrella . Great heroic-romantic opera in 3 acts. Music (1821/22): Franz Schubert . Premiere 1854 Weimar (court theater)
• Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
  • Sarema . Opera (together with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Adolf von Zemlinszky ). Music (1893–1895): Alexander von Zemlinsky. Premiere 1897
  • The lucky hand . Drama with music (opera). Music (1910–1913): Arnold Schönberg. Premiere 1924
  • Jacob's ladder . Oratorio (~ 1915-17). Music: Arnold Schönberg (~ 1917–22; fragment, partially supplemented by Winfried Zillig ). Premiere (concert) 1961, (staged) 1968
  • Moses and Aron . Opera. Music: Arnold Schönberg (fragment; 1926–1932). WP (concert) 1954, (scenic) 1957
• Gertrud Schönberg (née Kolisch; pseudonym Max Blonda ; 1898–1967)
  • Overnight . Opera (1928/29). Music: Arnold Schönberg . Premiere 1930
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
  • The nose . Opera (together with Evgeni Zamyatin, Georgij Jonin and Aleksandr Prejs). Music (1927/28): Dmitri Schostakowitsch. Premiere of Leningrad in 1930
• Godehard Schramm (* 1943)
  • Lina and Strano . Fairy tale opera. Music: Heinrich Hartl
• Alois Wilhelm Schreiber (1761–1841)
  • Jephtha's vow . Opera. Music (1811/12): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1812
• Franz Schreker (1878–1934)
  • The distant sound (~ 1903-10). Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1912
  • The Spielwerk and the Princess (1908–1912). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1913. - New version: Das Spielwerk (1915). WP 1920
  • The red death . Opera (not set to music)
  • The Drawn (1911–1915). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1918
  • The Treasure Digger (1915–1918). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. WP 1920
  • Irrelohe (1919-1922). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1924
  • Christophorus or The Vision of an Opera (1925–1929). Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1978
  • The Singing Devil (1927/28). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1928
  • The blacksmith of Ghent (1929–1932). Opera. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1932
  • The woman of the intaphernes (1932/33). Melodrama. Music: Franz Schreker. Premiere 1934
  • Memnon (1933/34). Opera. Music (fragment): Franz Schreker
• Richard Schweizer (1900–1965)
  • Casanova in Switzerland . Opera. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1943 Zurich
• Jutta Schubert
  • The secret of the Mona Lisa . Musical (together with Edda Petri ). Music: Wolfgang Heinzel . WP 2001 Merzig
  • The sunken city - a story from the sea . Mobile children's opera. Music: Violeta Dinescu . Premiere 2008 Mainz
• Julius Schubring (1806–1889)
  • Paul . Oratorio. Music: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Premiere 1836
  • Elias . Oratorio. Music: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Premiere 1846
• Fritz Schulz (1896–1972)
  • Tic-tac . Operetta (together with Fridolin Tschudi ). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1944 Zurich
• Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
  • Genoveva . Opera (1847/48; together with Robert Reinick ). Music: Robert Schumann. Premiere 1850
• Per Schwenzen (1899–1984)
  • The blue of the sky . Musical comedy (together with Robert Gilbert and Friedrich Hollaender ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1959 Nuremberg
• Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)
  • Le comte Ory ( The Count Ory ). Comic opera (with Charles Gaspard Delestre-Poirson ). Music (1828): Gioachino Rossini . Premiere 1828
  • Robert le diable ( Robert the Devil ). Opera (with Germain Delavigne ). Music (1826–1831): Giacomo Meyerbeer . Premiere 1831
  • Gustave III. ou Le bal masqué . Opera. Music (1833): Daniel-François-Esprit Auber . Premiere 1833
  • Les Huguenots ( The Huguenots ). Opera (together with Émile Deschamps and Gaetano Rossi ). Music (1832–1836): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1836 Paris
  • Cathedral Sébastien . Opera. Music (1843): Gaetano Donizetti . Premiere 1843
  • Le prophète ( The Prophet ). Opera (together with Émile Deschamps ). Music (1835–1849): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1849
  • L'Africaine ( The African Woman ; Vasco da Gama ). Opera. Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1837–1864; revised by François-Joseph Fétis ). Premiere April 28, 1865 Paris ( Opera )
  • A field camp in Silesia . Singspiel (together with Ludwig Rellstab ). Music (1843/44): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1844
  • L'étoile du nord ( The North Star ). Opéra-comique. Music (1849–1854): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1854. - New version: Stella del nord . Premiere 1854
  • La nunne sanglante ( The Bloody Nun ). Opera. Music (1852-1854): Charles Gounod . Premiere 1854
  • Les vêpres siciliennes ( The Sicilian Vespers ). Opera (with Charles Duveyrier ). Music (1852–1855): Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere 1855
  • Manon Lescaut . Opera. Music (1856): Daniel-François-Esprit Auber . Premiere 1856
  • Libretti for François-Adrien Boieldieu , Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , Jacques Fromental Halévy , Jacques Offenbach
• Moriz Seeler (1896–1942 [?])
  • With us around the Memorial Church . Cabaret revue (together with Friedrich Hollaender ). Music: Friedrich Hollaender. Premiere 1927 Berlin
• Franco Serpa (* 1931)
  • Elogium musicum amatissimi amici nunc remoti (cantata). Music (2008): Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 2008 Leipzig
• Rudolf Sieczyński (1879–1952)
• Francesco Silvani (~ 1660– ~ 1728/44)
• Paul-Armand Silvestre (1837-1901)
  • Les templiers . Grand opéra in 5 acts (together with Jules Adenis and Lionel Bonnemère). Music: Henry Litolff . Premiere January 25, 1886 Brussels ( La Monnaie )
• Renato Simoni (1875-1952)
  • Turandot Opera (together with Giuseppe Adami ) [1878–1946]; Music: Giacomo Puccini [fragment, completed by Franco Alfano ; WP 1926]
• Maximilian Singer
  • Once upon a time ... . Fairy tale opera. Music (1897–1899): Alexander von Zemlinsky . Premiere 1900
• Michail Slonov (1869–1930)
  • Monna Vanna . Opera. Music (1907; fragment): Sergei Rachmaninow
• Temistocle Solera (1815-1878)
  • Oberto conte di San Bonifacio . Opera (together with Antonio Piazza ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere 1839
  • Ildegonda . Opera. Music: Temistocle Solera. Premiere 1840. - Music: Emilio Arrieta . Premiere 1845
  • Gildippe ed Odoardo . Opera. Music: Otto Nicolai . Premiere 1840
  • Il contadino d'Agleiate . Opera. Music: Temistocle Solera. Premiere 1841. - New version: La fanciulla di Castelguelfo . Music: Temistocle Solera. Premiere 1842
  • Galeotto Manfredi . Opera. Music: Hermann. Premiere 1842
  • Nabucodonosor (Nabucco) . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1842
  • I Bonifazi ed i Salinguerra . Opera. Music: Achille Graffigna (1816-1896). Premiere 1842
  • Genio e sventura . Opera. Music: Temistocle Solera. Premiere 1843
  • I Lombardi alla prima crociata ( The Lombards on the First Crusade ). Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1843
  • Giovanna d'Arco . Opera. Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere 1845
  • La hermana de palayo . Opera. Music: Temistocle Solera. Premiere 1845
  • Attila . Opera in a prologue and 3 acts (fragment, completed by Francesco Maria Piave ). Music: Giuseppe Verdi. Premiere March 17, 1846 Venice ( Teatro La Fenice )
  • La conquista di Granata . Opera. Music: Emilio Arrieta. Premiere 1850
  • La fanciulla delle Asturie . Opera. Music: Benedetto Secchi . Premiere 1856
  • Sordello . Opera. Music: Antonio Buzzi. Premiere 1856
  • Pergolese . Opera. Music: Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti (1814–1882). Premiere 1857
  • Vasconcello . Opera. Music: Angelo Villanis (1821–1865). Premiere 1858
  • Una notte di festa . Opera. Music: Angelo Villanis. Premiere 1859
  • L'espiazione . Opera. Music: Achille Peri (1812–1880). Premiere 1861
  • Zilia . Opera. Music: Gaspar Villate (1851-1891). Premiere 1877
• Antonio Somma (1809–1864)
  • Re Lear . Opera (not set to music)
  • Un ballo in maschera ( a masked ball ). Opera in 3 acts. Music: Giuseppe Verdi . Premiere February 17, 1859 Rome (Teatro Apollo)
• Stephen Sondheim (* 1930)
  • Libretti for Richard Rodgers , Jule Styne , Leonard Bernstein and for yourself
• Joseph Sonnleithner (1766-1835)
  • Libretto to Fidelio by Lv Beethoven 1805
• Enoch Mankayi Sontonga (~ 1872 / 73–1905)
• Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
  • Rasputin's End . Opera (1958). Music: Nicolas Nabokov
• Ervín Špindler
  • Dalibor . Tragic opera (together with Josef Wenzig ). Music (1865–1867): Bedřich Smetana . WP 1868. - New version (1870): WP 1870
  • Libuše ( Libusa ). Festoper (together with Josef Wenzig). Music (1869–1872): Bedřich Smetana. Premiere 1881
• Massimo Spiritini (1879–1963)
  • Melenis . Dramma lirico (opera) in 3 acts (together with Carlo Zangarini ). Music (1908–1911): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere 1912 Milan
• Ferdinand von Sporck (1848–1928)
  • Ingwelde . Opera. Music: Max von Schillings . Premiere 1894
  • The departure . Musical comedy (opera). Music: Eugen d'Albert . Premiere October 20, 1898 Frankfurt am Main ( Opera )
  • The Whistler Day . Cheerful opera. Music: Max von Schillings. Premiere 1899
• Ilse von Stach (1879–1941)
  • The Christ Elflein . Christmas fairy tale. Music (1906): Hans Pfitzner . Premiere 1906. - New version: play opera. Music (1917): Hans Pfitzner. Premiere 1917
• Silvio Stampiglia (1664-1725)
• Vladimir Stasov (1824–1906)
  • Khovanshchina . Musical folk drama (opera). Music (1873–1880; fragment): Modest Mussorgski . - Adaptation by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1883). Premiere 1886. New version by Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel . Premiere 1913. - New arrangement by Dmitri Shostakovich (1959). Premiere 1960
• Ralph Steadman (born 1936)
• Gerta Stecher (* 1950)
  • The quake . Opera (together with Avet Terterjan ). Music: Avet Terterjan. WP 2003
• Leo Stein (1861–1921)
  • Libretti for Johann Strauss (son) , Franz Lehár , Oskar Nedbal , Emmerich Kálmán a . a.
• Max Steiner-Kaiser
  • Chaste Benjamin . Schwank operetta (together with Hans Bodenstedt ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1923 Hamburg
• Johann Gottlieb Stephanie (1741–1800)
  • Libretti for Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a . a.
• Cesare Sterbini (1783–1831)
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia ( The Barber of Seville ). Dramma comico (comic opera) in 2 acts. Music: Gioachino Rossini . Premiere February 20, 1816 Rome ( Teatro Argentina )
• Wilhelm Sterk
  • The king's neighbor . Singspiel from the German Rococo (together with Fritz Grünbaum ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1923 Berlin
  • My daughter Otto . Operetta (together with Fritz Grünbaum ). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1924 Berlin
  • The golden mill . Musical folk piece (together with Hugo Wiener ). Music: Leon Jessel. Premiere 1936 Olten
• Josef Štolba (1846–1930)
  • Tvrdé palice ( The Thick Skulls ). Weird opera. Music (1874): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1881
• Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
  • Guntram . Plot (opera). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1894
  • Intermezzo . Bourgeois comedy (opera). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1924
  • Capriccio . Conversation piece for music (opera; together with Stefan Zweig , Joseph Gregor , Clemens Krauss and Hans Swarowsky ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1942 Munich
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
  • The nightingale ( Le Rossignol ). Conte-lyrique (opera; together with Stepan Stepanowitsch Mitusow). Music (1908–1914): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1914
  • Renard ( Reineke ). Histoire burlesque (chamber opera). Music (1915/16): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1922
  • Les Noces ( The Wedding ). Russian choreographic scenes (ballet cantata). Music (1914–1923): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1923
  • Apollon musagète . Ballet. Music (1927/28): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1928 Washington
  • Le baiser de la fée ( The Fairy's Kiss ). Allegorical ballet. Music (1928): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1928 Paris
  • Jeu de cartes . Ballet (together with Nikita Malajew). Music (1936): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1937
  • Orpheus . Ballet. Music (1946/47): Igor Stravinsky. Premiere 1948
  • Agon . Ballet. Music (1953–1957): Igor Stravinsky. WP (concert) 1957, (scenic) 1957
• Ludwig Strecker the Younger (1883–1978; pseudonym Ludwig Andersen )
  • The magic violin . Cheerful opera (together with Werner Egk ). Music (1934/35): Werner Egk. WP 1935. - New version: WP 1954
  • Doctor Johannes Faust . Opera. Music: Hermann Reutter . WP 1936. - New version: WP 1955
  • Tobias Wunderlich . Opera. Music: Joseph Haas . Premiere 1937
  • The wedding of the job . Weird opera. Music: Joseph Haas. Premiere 1944
  • The hedgehog as a groom . Opera for big and small people (together with Cesar Bresgen ). Music (1948): Cesar Bresgen. Premiere 1948. - New version (1950): Premiere 1951
  • Don Juan and Faust . Opera. Music: Hermann Reutter. Premiere 1950
  • Little brother dog . Children's opera. Music (1953): Cesar Bresgen. Premiere 1953
  • The widow of Ephesus . Opera. Music: Hermann Reutter. Premiere 1954
  • The man in the moon . Children's opera (together with Cesar Bresgen). Music (1960): Cesar Bresgen. Premiere 1960
• Alessandro Striggio the Younger (1573–1630)
  • L'Orfeo . Favola in musica (opera). Music: Claudio Monteverdi . WP 1607
  • Tirsi e Clori . Ballo (madrigal). Music: Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1616
  • Apollo . Ballo (madrigal). Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1620
• Heinrich Strobel (1898–1970)
  • Leonore 40/45 . Opera semiseria. Music: Rolf Liebermann . Premiere 1952
  • Penelope . Opera semiseria. Music: Rolf Liebermann. Premiere 1954
  • The School for Wives . Rondo buffo (together with Elisabeth Montagu). Premiere 1955. - New version: The women's school . Opera buffa. Premiere 1957
• Giulio Strozzi (1583-1652)
  • La finta pazza Licori . Music (1627; lost): Claudio Monteverdi
  • Proserpina rapita . Anatopismo (opera?). Music (lost): Claudio Monteverdi. WP 1630
• Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)
  • Bolívar . Opera (together with Madeleine Milhaud ). Music (1943): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1950
• Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995)
  • Romeo and Juliet . Opera (after William Shakespeare ). Music: Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere April 13, 1940 Dresden ( State Opera )
  • The red boot . Picture book for music (opera; after Wilhelm Hauff ). Music (1949–1951): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere November 23, 1951 Stockholm (Royal Opera)
  • Titus fire fox or love, trickery and wig . Opera (after Johann Nestroy ). Music (1956–1958): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere April 15, 1958 Basel
  • Seraphine or The Dumb Pharmacist . Opera buffa (after François Rabelais ). Music (1961): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere in Munich in 1961
  • The Canterville Ghost . Playing with music for television (opera; based on Oscar Wilde ). Music (1964): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere 1964 Mainz
  • Madame Bovary . Opera (after Gustave Flaubert ). Music (1967): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere May 26, 1967 in Zurich
• Peter Sutermeister (1916-2003)
  • Niobe . Monodrama (opera). Music (1943–1945): Heinrich Sutermeister . Premiere July 22, 1946 Zurich
  • Raskolnikoff . Opera. Music (1946–1948): Heinrich Sutermeister. Premiere October 14, 1948 Stockholm (Royal Opera)
• Hans Swarowsky (1899–1975)
  • Capriccio . Conversation piece for music (opera; together with Stefan Zweig , Joseph Gregor , Clemens Krauss and Richard Strauss ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1942 Munich
• Gottfried van Swieten (1733–1803)
  • Creation . Oratorio. Music: Joseph Haydn . WP 1798
  • The seasons . Oratorio. Music: Joseph Haydn. Premiere 1801
• Ede Szigligeti (1814–1878)
  • Dózsa György . Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1864–1866). Premiere 1867

T

• Elmar Tannert (* 1964)
  • The world is flat . Chamber opera. Music: Heinrich Hartl . WP 23 October 2005 Nuremberg (cooperative building)
• Francisco Tanzer (1921-2003)
  • Libretti for Edisson Denissow , Herbert Lauermann a. a.
• Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1863–1934)
  • Cavalleria rusticana . Opera (together with Guido Menasci). Music: Pietro Mascagni . Premiere May 17, 1890 Rome (Teatro dell'Opera)
  • I Rantzau . Opera (together with Guido Menasci). Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere November 10th 1892 Florence (Teatro La Pergola)
  • Regina Diaz . Opera (together with Guido Menasci). Music: Umberto Giordano . Premiere March 5, 1894 Naples (Teatro Mercadante)
  • Silvano . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere March 25, 1895 Milan ( Scala )
  • Zanetto (together with Guido Menasci). Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere March 2, 1896 Pesaro (Liceo musicale Rossini)
  • Pinotta . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere March 23, 1932 Sanremo (Casinò)
  • Nerone . Opera. Music: Pietro Mascagni. Premiere January 16, 1935 Milan (Scala)
• Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
  • Dido and Aeneas . Opera. Music: Henry Purcell . Premiere before 1689 (?) London (?)
• Otto Taussig (1879–1925)
• Paul Thymich (1656-1694)
• Germaine Tillion (1907-2008)
• Kristine Tornquist (* 1965)
• Ede Tóth (1844–1876)
  • Névtelen hősök ( Anonymous Heroes ). Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1875–1879). Premiere 1880
• Hans-Ulrich Treichel (* 1952)
  • The court master . Music: Michèle Reverdy (* 1943). Premiere May 14, 1990 Munich (2nd  Munich Biennale )
  • The betrayed sea . Musical drama. Music: Hans Werner Henze . Premiere 1990. - New version (2003): Gogo no Eiko . WP 2003. Revised new version (2005): WP 2006
  • Venus and Adonis . Opera. Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 1997
  • Symphony N. 9 . Music: Hans Werner Henze. Premiere 1997
  • Caligula . Opera. Music: Detlev Glanert . WP 2006
• Georg Friedrich Treitschke (1776–1842)
  • The Negroes 1802/1804 Music by Salieri
  • Libretto to Fidelio by Lv Beethoven 1814
  • Libretto for the cantata This Federal Rock and Founder 1820, music by Salieri
  • Libretto for the continuation of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro by Conradin Kreutzer in 1838
  • Adrian von Ostade , music by Joseph Weigel 1805
  • The orphanage , music by Joseph Weigel, 1808
  • The Days of Peril , music by Luigi Cherubini, 1802
  • The Hermit on the Alps , music by Joseph Weigel 1810
  • The good news music by Mozart, Beethoven, Adalbert Gyrowetz, Hummel, Weigl, circulation 1814
  • Die Ehrenpforten- It is done , music after Carl Maria von Weber, G.-F. Handel, Lv Beethoven, Gyrowetz, Seyfried, 1815
  • Medea , music Luigi Cherubini, 1802
  • The pewter , music by Adalbert Gyrowetz, 1808
  • Elisa or the journey to the Bernhardsberge , music by Luigi Cherubini 1813
  • The nightingale and the raven , music by Joseph Weigel, 1818
  • The Singspiel on the Windows , music by Isuard Nicolo, 1806
  • Little Red Riding Hood , music by Francois Adrien Boieldieu, 1802
  • The Compassion , music by Paul Wranitzky, 1804
  • Kalaf , music by Nicolas-Marie Delayrac, 1808
  • The Milkmaid from Bercy , music by Anton Friedrich Fischer, 1808
  • Count Armand , music based on Luigi Cherubini
  • The Portuguese inn , music by Luigi Carlo Cherubini, 1803
  • Aline, Queen of Golconda , music by Henri Montas Berton, 1804
  • Julie or the Flower Pot , music by GLP Spontini, 1806
  • The uniform , music by Joseph Weigel, 1805
  • The uncle in livery , music by Dominique Della Maria 1803
  • The Singspiel , music by Pierre Della Maria, 1803
  • The Singspiel on the roof , music by Anton Fr. Fischer, 1807
  • The Admiral Ship , Music by Berton, Henri-Montan 1806
  • The second chapter , music by Jean Pierre Solle, 1803
  • Milton , music by Etiene Spontini, 1806
• Henri Trianon
  • Ivan le terrible ( Ivan the Terrible ). Music: Charles Gounod (begun 1856; fragment). - New version: Ivan IV . Opera. Music (1862–1865): Georges Bizet . WP (concert version) 1975
• Modest Tchaikovsky
  • Dubrovsky . Opera. Music (1894): Eduard Nápravník . Premiere 1895
  • Queen of Spades . Opera. Music (1890): Pyotr Tchaikovsky . Premiere 1890
  • Jolanthe . Opera. Music (1891): Pyotr Tchaikovsky . Premiere 1892
  • Frančesca da Rimini . Opera. Music (1900–1905): Sergei Rachmaninow . WP 1906
• Fridolin Tschudi (1912–1966)
  • Tic-tac . Operetta (together with Fritz Schulz ). Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1944 Zurich
  • The Parisian . Musical comedy (together with NO Scarpi ). Music: Paul Burkhard. Premiere 1957 Zurich
• Peter Turrini (* 1944)
  • Death and the devil . Opera. Music (1997): Gerd Kühr (* 1952). WP 1999 Graz
  • The giant from the stone field . Opera. Music (1997–1999): Friedrich Cerha . WP 2002 Vienna
• Antti Tuuri (* 1944)
  • Ameriikka (1992). Opera. Music: Atso Almila (* 1953)
  • Isontaloon Antti (2000). Opera. Music: Atso Almila
  • Sinapinsiemen (2000). Opera. Music: Kimmo Hakola (* 1958). WP 2001

U

• Heinz Rudolf Unger (1938-2018)
• Gerd Uecker (* 1946)
  • Marat . Opera. Music (1984): Walter Haupt . WP 1984
  • Pier Paolo . Musical theater. Music (1987): Walter Haupt . WP 1987
  • Lavinia A. Opera after William Shakespeare. Music (2006): André Werner

V

• Paul Valéry (1871-1945)
  • Amphion . Mélodrame (ballet oratorio). Music (1929): Arthur Honegger . Premiere 1931
  • Sémiramis . Mélodrame (ballet oratorio). Music (1933/34): Arthur Honegger
• Robert Vambery (1907-1998)
  • The horse trading . Operetta. Music (1934; fragment, supplemented in 1978 by Lys Symonette [1914–2005]): Kurt Weill . WP 1994 Bautzen. - New version: A Kingdom For A Cow . Musical. Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1935 London
• Antal Váradi
  • István király ( King Stephen ). Opera. Music: Ferenc Erkel (1874–1884). Premiere 1885
• Giambattista Varesco (1735-1805)
  • Idomeneo . Opera. Music (1780–1781): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . WP 1781
  • L'oca del Cairo . Weird opera. Music (1783): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Maurice Vaucaire (1863 [?] - 1918)
  • Conchita . Opera in 4 acts (together with Carlo Zangarini ). Music: (1909/10): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere October 14, 1911 Milan (Teatro Dal Verme)
• Carlos Veerhoff (1926-2011)
• Johann Emanuel Veith (1787–1876)
  • The Brandenburg Gate . Singspiel. Music (1814): Giacomo Meyerbeer . WP 1991
• José Vera Morales (* 1948)
  • Be still . Music: András Hamary . Premiere April 26, 1990 Munich (2nd  Munich Biennale )
• Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (1799–1875)
  • La jolie fille de Perth (The beautiful girl from Perth) . Opera in 4 acts (together with Jules Adenis ). Music: Georges Bizet . Premiere December 26, 1867 Paris ( Théâtre-Lyrique )
• Josef Otakar Veselý (1853–1879)
  • Šelma sedlák ( The rogue peasant ; The cunning peasant ). Weird opera. Music (1877): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1878
• Boris Vian (1920-1959)
  • Fiesta . Opera. Music (1958): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1958
• Hélène Vida (* 1938)
  • La Forêt ( The Forest ). Music: Rolf Liebermann . WP 1987
• Bartolomeo Vitturi (~ 1710? - after 1753)
• Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853–1912)
  • Svatá Ludmila ( The Holy Ludmilla ). Sacred opera (together with Václav Juda Novotný ). Music (1901): Antonín Dvořák . WP 1901
  • Armida . Opera. Music (1902/03): Antonín Dvořák. WP 1904

W.

• Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
  • The wedding (1832/33). Opera. Music: Richard Wagner (fragment; only septet preserved)
  • The Fairies (1834). Great romantic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1888
  • The Ban on Love or The Novice of Palermo (1834–1836). Great comic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1836
  • Men's cunning larger than women's cunning or The Happy Bear Family (1838; opera). Music (partly lost): Richard Wagner
  • Rienzi , the last of the tribunes (1837–1840). Great tragic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1842
  • The Flying Dutchman (1840–1841; revised 1852/64). Romantic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1843
  • The Love Supper of the Apostles (1843; cantata). Premiere 1843
  • Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg (1842–1845; revised 1847/60/75). Great romantic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1845
  • Lohengrin (1845-1848). Romantic opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1850
  • Wieland the blacksmith (1849/50). Hero Opera (not set to music)
  • Tristan and Isolde (1854-1859). Plot (musical drama, opera). Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1865
  • The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (1845–1867). Opera. Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1868
  • The Ring of the Nibelung (1848–1874). Stage festival (opera tetralogy). Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1876
    • The Rheingold (1851-1854). Premiere 1869
    • The Valkyrie (1851–1856). Premiere 1870
    • Siegfried (1851-1871). Premiere 1876
    • Götterdämmerung (1848–1874). Premiere 1876
  • The winners (opera scenario; not carried out)
  • Parsifal (1865-1882). Stage dedication festival (opera). Music: Richard Wagner. Premiere 1882
• Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930)
  • The Bearskin (1898). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1899
  • Duke Wildfang (1900). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. WP 1901
  • The Leprechaun (1903). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. WP 1904
  • Brother Lustig (1905). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. WP 1905
  • Star Law (1906). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. WP 1908
  • Banadietrich (1909). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1910
  • Black Swan Empire (1910). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1918
  • Sun flames (1912). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1918
  • The Pagan King (1913). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1933
  • The Angel of Peace (1914). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1926
  • It's all about the little hat! (1915). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1917
  • The Love Sacrifice (1917). Opera (not set to music). - New version: Wernhart (~ 1929; not set to music)
  • The blacksmith of Marienburg (1920). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere 1923
  • Rainulf and Adelasia (1922). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. WP 1923 (?) (Or in concert 2003?)
  • The holy linden tree (1927). Opera. Music: Siegfried Wagner. Premiere (prelude) 1924, (complete) 2001
  • Delusional Victims (1928). Opera. Music (fragment): Siegfried Wagner. WP 1994
  • Walamund (1929). Opera. Music (fragment): Siegfried Wagner.
  • The Little Curse Everyone Heard (1929). A game from our fairytale world (opera). Music (fragment; supplemented by Hans Peter Mohr): Siegfried Wagner. WP 1984
• Léon de Wailly (1804–1863)
  • Benvenuto Cellini . Opera in 3 acts (together with Henri-Auguste Barbier ). Music (1834–1838): Hector Berlioz . Premiere September 10, 1838 Paris ( Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique )
• Max Wallner (1891–1951)
  • Season in Salzburg . Operetta in 5 pictures (together with Kurt Feltz ). Music: Fred Raymond . Premiere December 31, 1938 Kiel
  • The pearl of Tokay . Operetta (together with Kurt Feltz ). Music: Fred Raymond . Premiere 1941
  • Lilac from Vienna . Operetta (together with Hannes Reinhardt and Rudi Schmitthenner). Music: Fred Raymond . Premiere 1948
  • The Queen's Courier . Operetta (together with Kurt Feltz ). Music: Nico Dostal . Premiere 1950
• Camillo Walzel (1829–1895)
  • Libretti for Franz von Suppè , Richard Genée , Johann Strauss (son) , Karl Millöcker a . a.
• Bruno Warden (1883–1954): see under Bruno Hardt-Warden
• Keith Warner
  • Scoring A Century . An entertainment (musical theater piece). Music (1999): David Blake (* 1936)
  • The Fourth World (opera?). Music: David Blake
• Hans Watzlik (1879–1948)
• Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934)
  • The princess Girnara . Opera. Music (1918/19): Egon Wellesz . Premiere May 14, 1921 Frankfurt and Hanover. New version (1926): Premiere September 2, 1928 Mannheim
• Erwin Weill (1885–1942 [?])
• Hans Richard Weinhöppel (1867–1928)
  • Youth. Music: Ignatz Waghalter (1917)
• Ignatz Anton von Weiser (1701–1785)
  • The Duty of the First Commandment . Singspiel
    • Part 1. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . WP March 12, 1767 Salzburg (Knight's Hall of the Residenz )
    • Part 2. Music (lost): Michael Haydn . Premiere March 19, 1767 Salzburg
    • Part 3. Music (lost): Anton Cajetan Adlgasser . Premiere March 26, 1767 Salzburg
• Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern (1711–1768)
  • Bastien and Bastienne . Singspiel in one act (together with Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner ). Music (1767/68): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere December 7th 1768 (?) Schwechat (?)
• Christian Felix Weisse (1726–1804)
• Ignaz Michael Welleminsky
  • Fredigundis . Opera in 3 acts (5 scenes) (together with Bruno Hardt-Warden). Music: Franz Schmidt . Premiere December 19, 1922 Berlin ( State Opera Unter den Linden )
• Ulrike Wendt
  • The 35th of May or Konrad rides in the South Seas . Opera piccola (children's opera; together with Florian Zwipf). Music: Violeta Dinescu . WP 1986 Mannheim
  • The wrong prince . Children's opera based on a fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff . Music: Jens-Peter Ostendorf . WP 1989 Mannheim
• Adolf Wenig (1874–1940)
  • Čert a Káča ( The Devil's Kathe ; The Devil and Käthe : Katinka and the Devil ). Opera. Music (1898/99): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1899
• Josef Wenzig (1807–1876)
  • Dalibor . Tragic Opera (together with Ervín Špindler ). Music (1865–1867): Bedřich Smetana . WP 1868. - New version (1870): WP 1870
  • Libuše ( Libusa ). Festival Opera (together with Josef Wenzig / Ervín Špindler). Music (1869–1872): Bedřich Smetana. Premiere 1881
• Franz Werfel (1890–1945)
  • The fortress . Scenic cantata (together with Fritz Demuth ). Music (1922): Ernst Krenek . Premiere 1924 Berlin
  • Maximilien . Historical opera (together with Rudolf Stephan Hoffmann and Armand Lunel ). Music (1930/31): Darius Milhaud . Premiere 1932
  • The way of promise . Bible drama with music. Music: Kurt Weill (1934/35; fragment). - New version (1935/36): The Eternal Road . Music: Kurt Weill. Premiere 1937
• Adelheid Wette (1858-1916)
  • Snow white . Song game. Music (1888): Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Hansel and Gretel . Liederspiel (together with Hermann Wette ). Music (1890): Engelbert Humperdinck. - New version (1893): fairy tale opera. Premiere 1893
  • The seven hostages . Singspiel. Music (1895): Engelbert Humperdinck. Premiere 1895
• Hermann Wette (1857-1919)
  • Hansel and Gretel . Liederspiel (together with Adelheid Wette ). Music (1890): Engelbert Humperdinck. - New version (1893): fairy tale opera. Premiere 1893
  • Elsi, the strange maid . Opera. Music: Arnold Mendelssohn . Premiere 1896
  • The bearskin . Opera. Music: Arnold Mendelssohn. Premiere 1900
• Ernst Wichert (1831–1902)
• Rufinus Widl (1731–1798)
  • Apollo et Hyacinthus . Intermedium (opera) in 3 acts. Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Premiere May 13, 1767 Salzburg (University Hall)
• Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)
  • Alceste . Opera in 5 acts. Music: Anton Schweitzer . First performance May 28, 1773 Weimar (Court Theater)
• Hugo Wiener (1904–1993)
  • The golden mill . Musical folk piece (together with Wilhelm Sterk ). Music: Leon Jessel . Premiere 1936 Olten
• Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
  • The Alcestiad ( The Alcestiad ). Opera. Music (1955–1958): Louise Talma (1906–1996). Premiere 1962
  • The Long Christmas Dinner ( The Long Christmas Dinner ). Opera. Music (1960/61): Paul Hindemith . Premiere March 13, 1963 New York ( Juilliard School )
• Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (1709–1758)
  • Argenore . Tragedia , Opera seria , 3 acts. Italian version Andrea Galletti, from whose preface it can be seen that the (presumably French) original version, which has now disappeared, goes back to Wilhelmine; anonymous contemporary German version. Music: Wilhelmine von Bayreuth. The performance in 1740 for the inauguration of a new opera house (interior not preserved) on Margrave Friedrich's birthday is not guaranteed.
  • Deucalion et Pyrrha , Festa teatrale , 1 act. French libretto, setting unknown. Performed in 1751 in Erlangen and in 1752 in Bayreuth.
  • Semiramide , (after Voltaire ), Dramma per musica , 3 acts. Setting of unknown Italians to music. Performed in 1753.
  • L'Huomo , Festa teatrale , 1 act. French libretto, translated into Italian by Luigi Stampiglia, setting Andrea Bernasconi a . a., two cavatins in it by Wilhelmine. Performance on June 19, 1754 in the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth on the occasion of Frederick the Great's visit.
  • Amaltea , Dramma per musica, 3 acts. Translated into Italian by Luigi Stampiglia, setting di vari autori . Performed in 1756.
• Leopold Wilk (1876–1944)
  • Notre Dame . Opera (together with Franz Schmidt ). Music: Franz Schmidt. Premiere April 1, 1914 Vienna ( Court Opera )
• Wolfgang Willaschek (* 1958)
  • White Rose (new version of the opera by Ingo Zimmermann ). Music: Udo Zimmermann . WP 1986
  • Zanzibar . Opera. Music: Eckehard Mayer (* 1946). WP 1994
  • The physicists . Opera. Music: Andreas Pflüger (* 1941). WP 2000
  • The meeting in Telgte . Opera. Music: Eckehard Mayer. WP 2005
  • Limes from Sicily . Three Italian stories (short operas). Music (2002/03): Manfred Trojahn . WP 2003. New version (2004): WP 2005
• Albert Willemetz (1887–1964)
  • Phi-Phi . Music: Henri Christiné . Premiere November 12, 1918 Paris ( Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens )
  • Coups de roulis . Music: André Messager . Premiere September 29, 1928 Paris (Théâtre Marigny)
  • Les aventures du Roi Pausole ( The Adventures of King Pausole ). Operetta. Music (1929/30): Arthur Honegger . Premiere December 12, 1930 Paris ( Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens )
  • Ta bouche . Music: Maurice Yvain
  • Là skin . Music: Maurice Yvain
  • Yes! Music: Maurice Yvain
• Alfred Maria Willner (1859–1929)
  • The goddess of reason . Operetta in 3 acts (together with Bernhard Buchbinder). Music: Johann Strauss (son) . Premiere March 13, 1897 Vienna ( Theater an der Wien ). - New version: The Count of Luxembourg . Operetta in 3 acts (together with Robert Bodanzky). Music: Franz Lehár . Premiere November 12, 1909 Vienna (Theater an der Wien)
• Pawel Alexandrowitsch Wiskowatow (1842–1905)
• Johann Gottfried Wohlbrück (1770–1822)
  • Wirth and guest or from joke Ernst . Comedy (Singspiel). Music (1812): Giacomo Meyerbeer . WP 1813. - New version: The two caliphs . Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1814. - New version: Alimelek . Music: Giacomo Meyerbeer. Premiere 1815
• Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (1795–1848)
  • The vampire . Romantic opera in 2 acts (4 pictures). Music: Heinrich Marschner . Premiere March 29, 1828 Leipzig (City Theater)
  • The Templar and the Jewess . Great romantic opera in 3 acts. Music: Heinrich Marschner. Premiere December 22, 1829 Leipzig (City Theater)
  • The falconer's bride (La sposa promessa del falconiére) . Comic opera in 3 acts. Music: Heinrich Marschner. Premiere March 10, 1832 Leipzig (City Theater)
  • The Bäbu . Comic opera in 3 acts. Premiere February 19, 1838 Hanover (Court Theater)
• René Wohlhauser (* 1954)
  • Gantenbein . Opera (after Max Frisch ). Music: René Wohlhauser. WP November 4, 2004 Lucerne (theater)
• Christa Wolf (1929–2011)
  • Medea in Corinth . Oratorio scenes (together with Gerhard Wolf ). Music: Georg Katzer . WP 2002
• Gerhard Wolf (* 1928)
  • Lithuanian pianos . Opera for actors. Music: Rainer Kunad . Premiere 1976
  • Medea in Corinth . Oratorical scenes (together with Christa Wolf ). Music: Georg Katzer . WP 2002
• Ernst von Wolzog (1855–1934)
  • Fedelma . Opera. Music: Engelbert Humperdinck (1883; fragment)
  • Distress . Singing poem (opera). Music: Richard Strauss . WP 1901
  • Daniel in the lions' den . Burlesque opera. Music (1914): Amélie Nikisch
• Hans von Wolzüge (1848–1938)
  • Saint Foix . Cheerful stage play (opera). Music: Hans Sommer . Premiere 1894
  • The merman . Nordic legend (opera). Music: Hans Sommer. Premiere 1896
  • Munchausen . Schelmenstück (opera; together with Ferdinand von Sporck [1848–1928] and Hans Sommer). Music (1897): Hans Sommer
  • Augustine . Carnival game. Music (1899): Hans Sommer
  • Flauto solo . Musical comedy (opera). Music: Eugen d'Albert . WP 1905

Y

• Arthur Yorinks (* 1953)
  • The Juniper Tree . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Philip Glass . Premiere 1984 Cambridge (Massachusetts) (American Repertory Theater)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher . Opera in 2 acts. Music: Philip Glass. Premiere 1988 Cambridge (Massachusetts) (American Repertory Theater)

Z

• František Zákrejs (1839–1907)
  • Vanda ( Wanda ). Tragic opera (with Václav Beneš-Šumavský ). Music (1875): Antonín Dvořák . Premiere 1876
• Carlo Zangarini (1874–1943)
  • La fanciulla del West . Opera (together with Guelfo Civinini [1873–1954]). Music: Giacomo Puccini . Premiere 1910
  • Conchita . Opera in 4 acts (together with Maurice Vaucaire ). Music (1909/10): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere October 14, 1911 Milan (Teatro Dal Verme)
  • Melenis . Dramma lirico (opera) in 3 acts (together with Massimo Spiritini ). Music (1908–1911): Riccardo Zandonai . Premiere 1912 Milan
• Antonio Zaniboni (~ 1690–1767)
• Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942)
  • Sarema . Opera (together with Adolf von Zemlinszky and Arnold Schönberg ). Music (1893–1895): Alexander von Zemlinsky. Premiere 1897
  • A Florentine tragedy . Opera (after Oscar Wilde  / Max Meyerfeld ). Music (1915/16): Alexander von Zemlinsky. Premiere 1917
  • The chalk circle . Opera (after Klabund ). Music (1930–1932): Alexander von Zemlinsky. Premiere 1933
  • The King Kandaules . Opera. Music: Alexander von Zemlinsky (1935/36; instrumentation supplemented by Antony Beaumont 1992–1996). WP 1996
• Adolf von Zemlinszky (1845–1900)
  • Sarema . Opera (together with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schönberg ). Music (1893–1895): Alexander von Zemlinsky. Premiere 1897
• Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750)
  • Faramondo . Music: Georg Friedrich Handel
  • Antioco . Music: Johann Adolph Hasse
  • Lucio Papirio . Music: Johann Adolph Hasse. - Music: Ignaz Holzbauer
  • Il Don Chisciotte . Music: Ignaz Holzbauer
  • Sesostri, re d'Egitto . Music: Ignaz Holzbauer
  • Lucio Vero (alsoset to musicas Lucius Verus , Berenice or Vologeso ). Music: more than 50 settings
  • Griselda . Music: Alessandro Scarlatti . - Music: Antonio Vivaldi
• Ingo Zimmermann (* 1940)
  • White rose . Opera. Music: Udo Zimmermann . Premiere 1967
  • The second decision . Opera. Music: Udo Zimmermann. Premiere 1970
  • Levin's Mill . Opera. Music (1972): Udo Zimmermann. Premiere 1973
  • Amphitryon . Musical comedy. Music: Rainer Kunad . WP 1984
  • The golden pot . Opera. Music: Eckehard Mayer (* 1946). WP 1989
• Peter Zinovieff (* 1933)
  • The Mask of Orpheus . Opera in 3 acts. Music: Harrison Birtwistle . Premiere May 21, 1986 in London
• Heinrich Zöllner (1854–1941)
• Émile Zola (1840–1902)
  • Messidor . Drame lyrique (opera) in 4 acts. Music (1894–1896): Alfred Bruneau . Premiere February 19, 1897 Paris ( Grand Opéra )
  • L'Ouragan . Drame lyrique (opera) in 4 acts. Music (1897–1900): Alfred Bruneau. Premiere April 29, 1901 Paris (Théâtre Favart)
  • L'Enfant roi . Comédie lyrique (opera) in 5 acts. Music (1902): Alfred Bruneau. Premiere March 3, 1905 Paris (Théâtre Favart)
• Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977)
  • Homecoming (1962). Mainz cantata (not set to music)
  • Mainz move (1962). Popular pleasure (cantata). Music: Paul Hindemith . Premiere 1962
• Emanuel Züngel
  • Dvĕ vdovy ( Two Widows ). Weird opera. Music: (1873/74) Bedřich Smetana . WP 1874. New version (1877): WP 1878
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)
  • The silent woman . Weird opera. Music (1932–1934): Richard Strauss . Premiere June 24, 1935 Dresden ( State Opera )
  • Peace day . Opera (together with Joseph Gregor ). Music (1934–1936): Richard Strauss. Premiere 1938
  • Capriccio . Conversation piece for music (opera; together with Joseph Gregor , Clemens Krauss , Richard Strauss and Hans Swarowsky ). Music: Richard Strauss. Premiere 1942 Munich
• Florian Zwipf
  • The 35th of May or Konrad rides in the South Seas . Opera piccola (children's opera; together with Ulrike Wendt). Music: Violeta Dinescu . WP 1986 Mannheim

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