Last updated:  Oct. 26, 2002

Composer List of Libretti and Other Vocal Texts

(Public Domain Only Unless Permission Granted by Copyright Owner)

• Sakuntala

• Nascita del Redentore

• Raphael
• Transliterated
• Cyrillic (KOI-8)

• Fra Diavolo (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• The Cantatas (in process)
• Christmas Oratorio
• St. John Passion
• St. Matthew Passion
• The Vocal Works, BWV 1-249 (Nos. 15, 53, 141, 142, 160, 189, 217-224, 231, 239-241, 246-247 omitted as spurious)
• Links listed in numerical order
• Links listed in alphabetical order by text incipit (initial articles included)

• The Bohemian Girl (At Mark D. Lew's site)

• Vestiva i colli (madrigal; with other versions)

• An die ferne Geliebte
• Choral Fantasy (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)
• Symphony No. 9, 4th movement
• German
• Russian
• Transliterated
• KOI-8

• Norma
• I Puritani
• Sonnambula (At OperaGlass)

• La damnation de Faust
• Lélio
• Les nuits d'ete

• Chichester Psalms

• Carmen
• French (At OperaGlass)
• Excerpts (Habañera and Seguidilla) (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)
• Djamileh (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)
• Les pecheurs de perles

• Venus & Adonis

• Mefistofele

Prologue | Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV | Epilogue

• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Alto Rhapsody
• Ein deutsches Requiem
• Ein deutsches Requiem (German & English, at Joanne Bogart's site)
• Vier ernste Gesaenge (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Schicksalslied
• Songs - Misc.
• Zigeunerlieder

• L'Europe galante (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• La Wally

• Lamentatio (Latin)

• Acteon

• Trois lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Serres Chaudes (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Feast in Time of Plague
• Le Flibustier

Preliminaries | Act I | Act II | Act III
• Mateo Falcone
• Transliterated Russian
• KOI-8 Cyrillic
• Songs
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs

• Ariettes Oubliees (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Chansons de Bilitis (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Trois Chansons de France (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• L'enfant prodigue (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Fetes Galantes (I, II) (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Cinq Poemes de Baudelaire (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Proses Lyriques (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• El Amor Brujo (four songs from the ballet)
• Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Lakmé (At Robert Frone's site)

• Adelia (At OperaGlass)
• Don Pasquale (At OperaGlass)
• L'elisir d'amore (At OperaGlass)
• La Favorita
• Linda di Chamounix (At OperaGlass)
• Lucia di Lammermoor (At OperaGlass)
• Lucrezia Borgia

Main page | Prologo | Atto I | Atto II
• Maria Stuarda
• Poliuto

• L'invitation au Voyage (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Requiem (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)

• La bonne chanson (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• L'Horizon chimerique (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Le jardin clos (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Cinq melodies ``De Venise'' (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• The Beggar's Opera
• HTML version (Univ. of Oregon)

• Andrea Chenier

• Armida
• Italian text (on La Scala Web)
• Orfeo
• French
• Italian

• Quem Sabe? (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Romeo et Juliette
• Here
• R. Frone's Significant French Operas

• Zémire et Azor (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• Haugtussa (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Seks Sange op. 48 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Acis and Galatea
• Admeto
• Alexander Balus
• Alexander's Feast
• L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato
• Athalia
• Belshazzar's Feast
• The Choice of Hercules
• Deborah
• Esther
• Esther (2nd version)
• Giulio Cesare
• Hercules
• Israel in Egypt
• In paragraphs, with biblical references
• In short lines
• Jephtha
• Joseph
• Joshua
• Judas Maccabaeus
• Messiah
• Standard Text
• In paragraphs, with biblical references
• In short lines
• "Alternative" Text (viewer discretion advised)
• Occasional Oratorio
• Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
• Rinaldo
• Samson
• Saul
• Semele
• Solomon
• Susanna
• Theodora
• Triumph of Time and Truth

• Die Jahreszeiten
• Scena di Berenice
• Die Schoepfung
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Te Deum (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)

• The Tempest (At Schirmer Homepage)

Innsbruck, Ich muss dich lassen

Willows by the Western Gate

• Ave Maria
• Gaudeamus
• Locus Iste
• Magnificat
• The Mass
• Os Justi
• Requiem
• Stabat Mater
• Te Deum

• I Pagliacci (At Mark D. Lew's site)

• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Kindertotenlieder
• Das Lied von der Erde
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
• Rueckert-Lieder
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Symphony No. 2, 4th-5th movements
• Symphony No.4, 4th mvt. (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)

• Der Templer und die Jüdin (At http://www.jmucci.com)
• Der Vampyr (in English only)

• A Giacomo Leopardi(At Eric Bruchez's site)
• Amica (At Eric Bruchez's site)
• L'Amico Fritz (excerpts, at Erik Bruchez's site)
• Cavalleria Rusticana (At OperaGlass)
• Guglielmo Ratcliff (At David Langenberg's site)
• Iris (At Eric Bruchez's site)
• Isabeau (excerpts, at Erik Bruchez's site)
• Lodoletta (At Eric Bruchez's site)
• La Maschere (excerpts, at Erik Bruchez's site)
• Nerone (excerpts, at Erik Bruchez's site)
• Parisina(At Eric Bruchez's site)
• I Rantzau (excerpts, at Erik Bruchez's site)
• Zanetto
• At OperaGlass
• At Eric Bruchez's site

• Les Noces de Jeannette (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• Espada (ballet libretto; at Robert Frone's site)
• La Grand' Tante (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Grisélidis (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Hérodiade (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Le Mage (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Manon (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• La Navarraise (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Panurge (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Le Portrait de Manon (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Le Roi de Lahore (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Roma (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Sapho (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Thaïs (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Thérèse (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)
• Werther (libretto, performance history; at Robert Frone's site)

• Stratonice(R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• Sechs Lieder op. 1 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Lieder op. 7 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Lieder op. 9 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Lieder op. 10 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Elias
• Paulus
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• La Testa di Bronzo (At OperaGlass)

• Gott und die Natur

The Tale of Genji (at Opera Japonica)

• Giovanni Gallurese (At Mark D. Lew's site)

• Un ballo delle ingrate
• Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
• Coronazione di Poppea (.txt file)

• Ave Verum Corpus
• Bastien und Bastienne
• German (without dialogue)
• German (with dialogue; at I.U.)
• Spanish
• La Clemenza di Tito

Characters and Synopsis | Libretto
• Concert Arias
• Cosi fan tutte
• Don Giovanni
• At Don Juan site
• In Portuguese (at www.terravista.pt)
• Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail
• La Finta Giardinera
• Idomeneo
• Lucio Silla
• Marriage of Figaro
• L'oca del Cairo
• Requiem
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Lo sposo deluso
• Der Schauspieldirektor (without dialogue)
• Zaide
• Die Zauberfloete
• At E. Ezust's Lieder Page
• Here (same text, with a few added MIDI links)
• The Magic Flute Project (Not the libretto alone, but the entire score in PDF files, with MIDI and Karaoke files as well)

• Boris Godunov
• Russian transliteration (Rimsky-Korsakov version)
• KOI-8 Cyrillic (Rimsky-Korsakov version; E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sunless (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• The Nursery (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Songs and Dances of Death (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Starbottle for the Plaintiff

Les contes d'Hoffmann (at Karen Mercedes' site)

• Honoria in Ciberspazio

• Vestiva i colli (madrigal; with other versions)

• La Serva Padrona
• Stabat Mater

• La Gioconda (on La Scala Web)

• Stabat Mater (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)

• The Gambler (Cyrillic 1251)
• Characters | Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV

• La Boheme (At OperaGlass)
• Gianni Schicchi (At OperaGlass)
• Madama Butterfly (At Mark D. Lew's site)
• Suor Angelica
• Il Tabarro (At Mark D. Lew's site)
• Tosca (At OperaGlass)
• Le Villi (At OperaGlass)

• Dido and Aeneas

• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Les indes galantes
• Pygmalion

• Epigrammes de Clement Marot (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Histoires Naturelles (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sheherazade (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Alcide al Bivio

• May Night
• Transliterated
• Cyrillic (KOI-8)
• Mozart & Salieri
• Transliterated
• Cyrillic (KOI-8)
• The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga
• Russian
• Transliterated
• Cyrillic (KOI-8)
• English
• Pan Wojewoda (English)
• Servilia (English)
• Snowmaiden (in process by Lyle Neff)

• The Barber of Seville
• La Cenerentola
• Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra
• Otello

Act I | Act II | Act III
• Il turco in Italia (at D.A. Beauregard's website)
• William Tell
• French
• Italian

• Le Devin du village (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)

• Phryné (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)
• La Princesse jaune (R. Frone's Significant French Operas)
• Samson et Dalila
• Here
• R. Frone's Significant French Operas
• Excerpts ("Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse!" & "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix") (at J. Michael Allsen's website, with parallel English)

• Der vierjaehrige Posten
• German (.txt file)
• English (.txt file)
• Die schoene Muellerin
• Schwanengesang
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Die Winterreise
• Die Zwillingsbrueder
• German(.txt file)
• English(.txt file)

• Musikalische Exequien
• St. Luke Passion
• Christmas Story (Weihnachtshistoria)

• Lieder (complete) (David K. Smith's site, with English)
• Sechs Lieder, op. 13 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sechs Lieder, Op. 13 (David K. Smith's site, with English)
• Sechs Lieder, op. 23 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sechs Lieder aus "Jucunde" von Hermann Rollett Op. 23 (David K. Smith's site, with English)
• Gedichte aus Rueckert's Liebesfruehling, Op. 12 (David K. Smith's site, with English)
• 12 Lieder (WoO) (David K. Smith's site, with English)

• Frauen-Liebe und -Leben (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sechs Gedichte aus dem Liederbuch eines Malers (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Zwoelf Lieder op. 39 (German) (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Zwoelf Lieder op. 39
• Zwoelf Lieder, op. 35
• Zwoelf Lieder op. 35 (German) (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Liederkreis op. 24 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• La Testa di Bronzo (At OperaGlass)

• Agnese di Hohenstaufen

• Die Fledermaus (without spoken dialogue)

• Schlichte Weisen (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Elektra (in process by Rick Bogart)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)

• Gilbert & Sullivan Works (at GaS Archive)
• Utopia, Limited (vocal score, at GaS Archive)

• Spem in alium

• Cherevichki (Windows 1251 Cyrillic)

(originally composed as "Vakula the Smith"; also known in the west as "The [Golden] Slippers" and "Oksana's Caprices")
Preliminaries | Act I | Act II| Act III | Act IV
• Eugene Onegin (KOI-8 Cyrillic)

Preliminaries | Act I | Act II | Act III
• Iolanta

• Antony and Cleopatra (excerpts)
• Iago (excerpts)

Collection of Verdi libretti at Fondazione Verdi Festival

• Aida
• Attila

Prologo | Act I | Act II | Act III
• Un Ballo in Maschera

Characters | Act I | Act II | Act III
• La Battaglia di Legnano (at Daniel Beauregard's site)
• Il Corsaro

Act I | Act II | Act III
• Il due Foscari

Act I | Act II | Act III
• Ernani (At OperaGlass)
• Falstaff (At OperaGlass)
• La Forza del Destino

Characters, etc. | Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV
• Un Giorno di Regno

Act I | Act II
• Inno delle Nazioni (Hymn of the Nations)
• Luisa Miller

Characters | Act I | Act II | Act III
• Macbeth
• I Masnadieri
• Nabucco (on La Scala Web)

Synopsis | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• Oberto (without stage directions)

Act I | Act II
• Otello

Characters | Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV
• Rigoletto (At OperaGlass)
• Stiffelio

Characters | Act I | Act II | Act III
• La Traviata
• Il Trovatore (At OperaGlass)

• Teuzzone

Character list, synopsis | Act I | Act II | Act III

• Trichordium

• Die Feen (At OperaGlass)
• Der fliegende Hollaender

Act I | Act II | Act III
• Liebesverbot (at Opera Glass)
• Lohengrin (at Gutenberg)
• Die Meistersinger

Act I | Act II | Act III
• Parsifal
• Rienzi (at Dirk Meyer's site)
• Der Ring der Nibelungen (See also PDF files, at Mark D. Lew's site)
• Das Rheingold
• Here
• At Dirk Meyer's site
• Die Walkuere
• Here
• At Dirk Meyer's site
• Siegfried
• Here
• At Dirk Meyer's site
• Goetterdaemmerung
• Here
• At Dirk Meyer's site
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Tannhaeuser
• Dresden Version (?) Act I | Act II | Act III
• Paris version
• At "Richard Wagner on the Web"
• Act I only; at C.R. Ramos' website
• Tristan und Isolde (at Joseph Rosenzweig's web site)
• Wesendonk-Lieder

• Der Freischuetz (At OperaGlass)

• Opus 17 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Opus 18 (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Eichendorff-Lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Sechs Gedichte von Scheffel, Moerike, Goethe and Kerner (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Goethe-Lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• 7 Heine-Lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Italienisches Liederbuch
• 4 Lenau-Lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• 9 Reinick-Lieder (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder page)
• Spanisches Liederbuch: Spiritual Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)
• Spanisches Liederbuch: Secular Songs (E. Ezust's Lieder Page)

• Countdown

• Francesca da Rimini

Act I | Act II | Act III | Act IV

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