Contains the titles of 31,788 operas, the names of 8,482 composers and 10,050 librettists,
and the year and location of the first performances (1,489 cities in 77 countries). Data for each opera includes title, composer, librettists, and first performance information
(year, location/theater, city, state/province/region, country). All these fields are searchable.
Quickly find the answers to questions such as:
- Which Metastasio texts did Mozart set?
- Il rè pastore and Il sogno di Scipione.
- How many composers set Metastasio's Artaserse?
- 69. The earliest by Leonardo Vinci (Rome, 1730), the latest by Marcos António Portugal (Lisbon, 1806).
- Which Handel opera was premiered in Venice?
- What was the earliest operatic premiere in Sydney Australia?
- Merry Freaks in Troublous Times, by Isaac Nathan, 1844.
- Which Verdi opera received its premiere in the United Kingdom?
- I masnadieri (London, 1847).