"really Menes' daughter Tharsis, for whom the high priestess Mirza is plotting marriage to Pheron, a treacherous general. When Menes reveals his true identity, Pheron is struck by lightning and Mirza kills herself. Menes cedes his crown to Thamos and Tharsis as all ends happily. ""Act 1"" ""Act 2"" ""Act 3"" ""Act 4"" ""Act 5"" Thamos, King of Egypt Thamos, King of Egypt (or ""King Thamos""; in German, ""Thamos, König in Ägypten"") is a play by Tobias Philipp, baron von Gebler, for which, between 1773 and 1780, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote incidental music, K. 345/336a, of an operatic character. It"
"Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto (""Mithridates, King of Pontus""), K. 87 (74a), is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play ""Mithridate"". Mozart wrote ""Mitridate"" while touring Italy in 1770. The musicologist Daniel E. Freeman has recently demonstrated that it was composed with close reference to the opera ""La Nitteti"" by Josef Mysliveček. The latter was the opera being prepared for production in Bologna when Mozart met Mysliveček for the first time with his father in March 1770. Mysliveček visited"
"Ponto"", written at age 14. It was performed that year in Paris by Camille Fourrier. List of operas by Mozart Notes Sources Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto (""Mithridates, King of Pontus""), K. 87 (74a), is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play ""Mithridate"". Mozart wrote ""Mitridate"" while touring Italy in 1770. The musicologist Daniel E. Freeman has recently demonstrated that it was composed with close reference to the opera ""La Nitteti"" by Josef Mysliveček. The latter was the opera"
"in March 2015 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, introduced a new co-production with Opera Australia, conducted by Antonio Pappano, in May 2015. The first performance in Australia was shown by Opera Australia in 2017 in Sydney and Melbourne, conducted by Andrea Molino, with Saimir Pirgu as Shepherd. The story concerns the enlightenment of the Christian King Roger II by a young shepherd who represents pagan ideals. ""Often known as the ""Byzantine"" act"" The Shepherd is introduced to King Roger and his court during mass at the Palermo Cathedral. Despite calls by"
"Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus ( IPA: [oidípuːs týranːos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Greeks, the title was simply ""Oedipus"" (""Οἰδίπους""), as it is referred to by Aristotle in the ""Poetics"". It is thought to have been renamed ""Oedipus Tyrannus"" to distinguish it from another of Sophocles' plays, ""Oedipus at Colonus"". In antiquity, the term “tyrant” referred to a ruler, but it did not necessarily have a negative connotation. Of his three Theban plays that have survived,"
"and then production of the opera, and the plot of the story arcs in a way that parallels the legend of King Arthur, and in particular the triangle of King Arthur, his queen, Guenevere, and Lancelot. Geraint Powell, an actor who serves on the Board of the Cornish Foundation, by deception fathers a child by Maria Cornish, forcing Arthur Cornish to choose between a generous or vindictive response. ""The Lyre of Orpheus"" explores not only the world of early eighteenth century opera, but also follows Darcourt's research into the life of the benefactor and artist, Francis Cornish, leading to a"
"Iolanthe Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Strephon hugging a"
"best written after Vivaldi's setting. Pharnaces II also appears in Mitridate by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pharnaces II of Pontus Pharnaces II of Pontus, also known as Pharnaces II (; about 97–47 BC) was the king of the Bosporan Kingdom until his death. He was a monarch of Persian and Greek Macedonian ancestry. He was the youngest child born to King Mithridates VI of Pontus from his first wife, his sister Queen Laodice. He was born and raised in the Kingdom of Pontus and was the namesake of his late double great grandfather Pharnaces I of Pontus. Although ancient historians referred"
"""Over Here"". As a theatre director he has staged several productions at the Shakespeare's Globe, including his lively 'Prologue Production' of ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"" starring Mark Rylance as Proteus, which opened the Globe to the theatregoing public in August 1996, a year before the formal opening Gala. In 1998 at the Globe he played a sad Antonio in Richard Olivier's production of ""The Merchant of Venice"". Shepherd's epic drama about the Chartist movement, ""Holding Fire!"" was commissioned by the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as part of its Renaissance and Revolution season, and was first staged there by Mark Rosenblatt"
"and Aricie. ""The temple of Diane in Troezen"" The story concerns the Greek hero Theseus, King of Athens (Thésée in the opera), his wife Phèdre (Phaedra) and Thésée's son by another woman, Hippolyte (Hippolytus). Hippolyte is in love with a young woman, Aricie, but she is the daughter of Thesée's enemy, Pallas, and he has compelled her to take a vow of chastity to Diane. Before she does so, Hippolyte reveals his love for her and the goddess promises to protect the couple. This enrages Phèdre, who has been nursing an illicit desire for her stepson herself. News arrives that"
"Poro (opera) Poro, re dell'Indie (""Porus, King of India"", HWV 28) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from ""Alessandro nell'Indie"" by Metastasio, and based on Alexander the Great's encounter with King Porus in 326 BC. The libretto had already been set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1729 and by Antonio Vivaldi among others and was used as the text for more than sixty operas throughout the 18th century. Graham Cummings has examined in detail the composition history of ""Poro"" in the context of Handel's work on his London operas"
"for many years, but with the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s,""Arianna in Creta"", like all Handel operas, receives performances at festivals and opera houses today. Among other performances, ""Arianna in Creta"" was staged by the London Handel Festival in 2014 and performed in concert by the Handel Festival, Halle in 2018 Long before the action of the opera, King Minos of Crete fought a war with King Aegeus of Athens, who had killed Minos' baby son and carried away his baby daughter. The girl, however, had been brought up by an"
"as ""Gavrilushka"" (Cephalus). The other actors were ""pevchie"" (the singers) of Count Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky: Stefan Evstafiev (Aurora), Stefan Rzhevsky (Erechtheus, the King of Athens), Nikolay Ktitarev (Minos, the King of Crete), Ivan Tatishchev (Tester, the nobleman of Minos and magician). This opera had a great success, and the composer received a luxurious sable coat valued at 500 rubles as a gift from Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. This opera was re-staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on June 14, 2001. The story of Cephalus and Prokris, who were ready to destroy their matrimonial vows and later happily forgive each"
"musically dramatizes the last five days of the men’s lives. The protagonist is Father Jean Cheverus, a French immigrant priest who travels from Boston to Northampton to comfort the meneven though he believes them guilty. Cheverus’ journey of transformation is the heart of the opera. The world premieres of the fully staged opera occurred on September 20 and September 22 of 2013 in Northampton, Massachusetts. The venue was the Academy of Music Theatre, an 800-seat opera house built in 1892. Both performances were sold-out. The performances featured the Springfield Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kevin Rhodes. Principal performers included William Hite"
"Crete, Telemachus married Nausicaa, King Alcinous' daughter, and fathered a son named Perseptolis or Ptoliporthus. Telemachus is the subject of François Fénelon's ""The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses"" (1699), a scathing attack on the monarchy of France. Telemachus was the subject of numerous operas throughout the eighteenth century, most based on Fénelon's version. Among the most famous of these operas were André Cardinal Destouches's ""Télémaque"" (1714), Alessandro Scarlatti's ""Telemaco"" (1718), Gluck's ""Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe"" (1765), Giuseppe Gazzaniga's ""Gli errori di Telemaco"" (1776), Jean-François Le Sueur's ""Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso ou Le triomphe de la sagesse"" (1796),"
"Theater in New York. For more than two decades, Șerban has been associated with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the A.R.T., he has directed ""Lysistrata"", ""The Merchant of Venice"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The King Stag"", """", ""Three Sisters"", ""The Juniper Tree"", ""The Miser"", ""Twelfth Night"", ""Sweet Table at the Richelieu"", and ""Pericles"". As a director, Șerban has also worked at the Circle in the Square Theatre, the Yale Repertory Theater, the American Conservatory Theatre, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City, Seattle and Los Angeles Operas, at the Paris, Geneva, Vienna, and Bologna Opera Houses,"
"Novelty"" was an anthology of five short plays in different genres, comedy, tragedy, pastoral, masque, and farce. Motteux worked in the English stage genre then called ""opera,"" which were semi-operas somewhat comparable to modern musicals; works like ""The Rape of Europa by Jupiter"" (1694), ""Acis and Galatea"" (1701), and ""Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus"" (1705), the first two with music by John Eccles, and the third with music by Thomas Clayton. His final works are translations and adaptations of opera libretti from the Italian. As was typical of Restoration drama, Motteux's plays often adapted earlier works; and his plays in turn"
"Mitridate Eupatore Il Mitridate Eupatore (""Mithridates Eupator"") is an opera seria in five acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti with a libretto by Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti. It was first performed at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice on 5 January, 1707. A failure at its premiere, ""Mitridate Eupatore"" is now considered one of the finest of Scarlatti's operas. In the ancient kingdom of Pontus, Farnace has seized the throne, killing the king and marrying his wife, Stratonica. The murdered king's daughter, Laodice, has been married to the ruined nobleman, Nicomede, now reduced to working as a cowherd, while her"
"King Arthur (opera) King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. It was first performed at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the legends of Camelot (although Merlin does make an appearance). It is a Restoration spectacular, including such supernatural characters as Cupid and Venus plus references to the Germanic gods of the Saxons, Woden, Thor, and Freya. The tale"
"can be regarded as precursors to French grand opera. These include Spontini's ""La vestale"" (1807) and ""Fernand Cortez"" (1809, revised 1817), Cherubini's ""Les Abencérages"" (1813), and Rossini's ""Le siège de Corinthe"" (1827) and ""Moïse et Pharaon"" (1828). All of these have some of the characteristics of size and spectacle that are normally associated with French grand opera. Another important forerunner was ""Il crociato in Egitto"" by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre. Amongst the most important opera composers on historical topics are Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner. Russian composers also wrote operas based on"
"Oedipus Oedipus (, ; ""Oidípous"" meaning 'swollen foot') was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy ""Oedipus Rex"", which was followed by ""Oedipus at Colonus"" and then ""Antigone"". Together, these plays make up Sophocles' three Theban plays. Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's role in the course of"
"""Fernand Cortez"" (1809, revised 1817), Cherubini's ""Les Abencérages"" (1813), and Rossini's ""Le siège de Corinthe"" (1827) and ""Moïse et Pharaon"" (1828). All of these have some of the characteristics of size and spectacle that are normally associated with French grand opera. Another important forerunner was ""Il crociato in Egitto"" by Meyerbeer, who eventually became the acknowledged king of the grand opera genre. In ""Il crociato"", which was produced by Rossini in Paris in 1825 after success in Venice, Florence and London, Meyerbeer succeeded in blending Italian singing-style with an orchestral style derived from his German training, introducing a far wider"
"Proteus of Egypt In Greek mythology, Proteus (; Ancient Greek: Πρωτεύς - ""protos"", ""first"") was an ancient Egyptian king who was associated with the island of Pharos, his residence in Homer's ""Odyssey"". Virgil, however, instead of Pharos, mentions the island of Carpathos, between Crete and Rhodes. This Greek island is the closest to Pharos geographically. The name of Pharos may be a Greek adaptation of the title Pharaoh. Also, 'Proteus' may be based on one of the titles of Egyptian king, ""Prouti"", signifying the ""high doors"" (cf ""Sublime Porte"") of the temple. Proteus also seems to have been associated with"
"Chancellor's Nightmare Song"" (""When you're lying awake...""). Iolanthe Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry"
"Shepherd's followers commence another dance, while the Shepherd is transformed into Dionysus. As the dance ends and the participants leave the stage, Roger is left transformed by the experience, and sings a joyous hymn at the arrival of the morning sun. Notes Sources King Roger King Roger (, Op. 46) is an opera in three acts by Karol Szymanowski to a Polish libretto by the composer himself and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the composer's cousin. The score was finished in 1924. The opera received its world premiere on 19 June 1926 at the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, with the cast including the composer's"
"from the sides of the stage; on the top is a wheel that whirls always about, and throws out a shower of gold-colour, silver, and blue fiery rain. Loosely based on the mythological story of Atalanta, the opera is set in legendary times of ancient Greece. King Meleagro of Aetolia has disguised himself as a shepherd, taking the pseudonym Tirsi, and is enjoying his life in the countryside away from the cares of state. He is very much in love with the huntress ""Amarilli"", whom he does not realise is the Princess Atalanta. He meets up with Aminta, a real"
"way with the story of Phaedra, whose love for her stepson Hippolytus triggers catastrophe. The first part of the opera tells this legend much as previously retold by Euripides, Racine and Sarah Kane. The second part, however, follows a mythological tradition alluded to by Ovid. Hippolytus, fatally wounded, is brought back to life by the goddess Artemis, and is given a new life under the name of Virbius. In this new existence, however, he is only able to experience his own consciousness in a fragmentary, kaleidoscopic way. The first act is rooted in Greece, and Greek myth. The second, composed"
"in the 1690s, which was generally unfavourable to new operas. Parisian audiences looked to King Louis XIV as their arbiter of taste and the king had lost interest in opera, probably under the influence of his religiously conservative wife Madame de Maintenon. At the time, Catholic religious authorities were attacking opera as a ""sensuous"" form of entertainment. French national morale was also low as the result of a series of military defeats. The opera begins with a prologue celebrating the glory of King Louis XIV. The main opera (Acts I to V) is set in Athens. Céphale, a warrior, and"
"Nephté Nephté is an opera by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opéra) on 15 December 1789. It takes the form of a ""tragédie lyrique"" in three acts. The libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is set in Ancient Egypt but is based on the story of Camma, Queen of Galatia taken from the ancient historian Plutarch. The plot concerns Nephté, Queen of Egypt, whose husband King Séthos has been murdered by his brother Pharès. The widowed queen seeks revenge with the help of the high priest Amédès. However, Pharès has the support"
"he wishes to be treated. He replies: as a king. Alexander allows Porus to keep his lands and Axiane. Porus is moved and offers Alexander his loyalty and friendship. Alexandre aux Indes Alexandre aux Indes (""Alexander in India"") is an opera by the French composer Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 26 August 1783. It takes the form of a ""tragédie lyrique"" in three acts. The libretto, by Étienne Morel de Chédeville, concerns Alexander the Great and the Indian king Porus. The plot has similarities with Racine's tragedy ""Alexandre le"
"the Black Knight. Robert Schumann quotes an air from this opera in the finale of his Études symphoniques for piano. The opera is set in England at the end of the 12th century and the main characters include The Black Knight, King Richard 'the Lionheart', Saxons, Normans, Templars and Robin Hood (here called Lokslei, i.e., Locksley) and his band of outlaws. Der Templer und die Jüdin Der Templer und die Jüdin (""The Templar and the Jewess"") is an opera (designated as a ""grosse romantische Oper"") in three acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück was based"
"Signor Brocolini John Clark, better known as Signor Brocolini (September 26, 1841 – June 7, 1906), was an Irish-born American operatic singer and actor remembered for creating the role of the Pirate King in the original New York City production of ""The Pirates of Penzance"" by Gilbert and Sullivan, in 1879–80. After moving to Brooklyn, New York, as a child, Brocolini became interested in baseball and music. He began his career in the early 1870s as a journalist, then a baseball player, while also beginning a part-time singing career. After brief study in Italy in 1875, he was engaged to"
"brother, Mitridate Eupatore, has taken refuge in Egypt. Mitridate and his wife, Issicratea, arrive at the court of Pontus disguised as Egyptian ambassadors. They promise Mitridate's head to the usurping king and queen in return for peace between Egypt and Pontus. Mitridate's mother assents to the death of her own son. Mitridate meets his sister Laodice and reveals his true identity. Mitridate and Issicratea assassinate Farnace and Stratonica, and Nicomede announces to the people the return of their rightful king. The opera was performed in July 2017 at the Festival international d’opéra baroque de Beaune, by Thibault Noally and his"