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Composers inspired by Shakespeare H - R
Haack, Friedrich Wilhelm (1760-1827) Die
Geisterinsel,
Singspiel 1798 (Tempest).
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Halévy, Jacques Fromental (1799-1862)
La
Tempesta, opera,
1850 (libretto Eugene Scribe, in Italian),
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Handel, Georg Friedrich. Giulio
Cesare in Egitto,
Julius Caesar in Egypt, opera, libretto by Nicola Haym in
Italian and Spanish. (not really Shakespearean!)
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/7652/julio/julio.htm]
Harbison, John. (b. 1938) Winter's
Tale. libretto
and opera (1984/91) [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/harbison/]
(May 2002)
Hart, James. songs for Dryden/Davenant/Shadwell's
Tempest. (available at
Poor Yorick)
Haydn, Josef (1732-1809) She
never told her love
(Twelfth Night)
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/never.told.love.html]
Henry VIII. musical
compositions:
Pastime with good company (2.0k, 0:28); Consort IV (1.3k,
0:12); Consort XXIV (2.5k, 0:35); Taunder naken (7.7k,
2:53); Gentil prince de renom (6.5k, 1:16); Helas madame
(2.8k, 0:40) (lyrics); Whereto should I express (1.8k, 0:38)
(lyrics); En vray amoure (4.1k, 0:59) Renaissance
Music in midi files.
[http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/renaissa.html]
(Jan. 2002)
Henze, Hans Werner. Venus
und Adonis.
Opera in 1 Act for singers and dancers (1993-95) Text:
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
[http://www.schott-music.com/rep_fr_e.htm]
Henze, Hans Werner. Ariel In: Royal Winter Music
für Gitarre, 1976. (Gloucester, Romeo and Juliet,
Ariel, Ophelia, Touchstone, Oberon, Sir Andrew Aguecheek,
Bottom's Dream, Mad Lady Macbeth)
Hoffmeister, Franz Anton Der
Sturm, opera,
1798 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Hoiby, Lee. The
Tempest. (1986)
Opera in 3 acts, libretto by Mark Shulgasser; text:
[http://www.schirmer.com/tempest/libretto.html]
Honegger, Arthur (1892-1955). Jeanne
d'Arc au bûcher,
szenische Kantate, 1942.
[http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/honegger.html]
with
extracts:
[http://www.langdonjones.com/joan.html]
Honegger, Arthur. La Tempête, opera
Hosokawa,
Toshio. Vision
of Lear
(chamber opera, 1998)
[http://www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2002/Feb02/hosokawa.htm]
(May 2002)
Hurd, Michael.
The
Phoenix and the Turtle
(1974; chorus plus orchestra)
[http://www.chesternovello.com/work/10533/main.html]
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Jones, Cliff (music, libretto) Rockabye
Hamlet Broadway
1976
[http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?stext=Rockabye+Hamlet&query=show]
Joubert, John. The
Phoenix and the Turtle.
op. 100 (1984; chamber cantata for two sopranos, harpsichord
and string trio)
[http://www.chesternovello.com/work/9392/main.html]
(May 2002)
Joubert, John. Crabbed
age and youth op. 82
(1974)
[http://www.chesternovello.com/work/9390/main.html]
(May 2002)
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Kaffka, Johan Christoph (1759-1803) Antonius
und Cleopatra,
opera, 1799
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Kelterborn, Rudolf. Ophelia.
Oper in
fünf Stimmen. (1982/83)
[http://www.musicedition.ch/composers/27d.htm]
Kelterborn, Rudolf. Julia.
Kammeroper in 15 Szenen nach Keller u. Shakespeare (1989/90)
[http://www.musicedition.ch/composers/27d.htm]
Kievman, Carson (1949-) . Hamlet [http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~carson/hamlet.html]
Klebe, Giselher (1925-) Die Ermordung des
Caesar, opera, 1959
Korngold, Erich (1897-1957) Songs:
see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Krejci, Isha (1904) Efesu (Errors), opera,1946 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
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Lampe, Friedrich (1703-1751)
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Le Rey, Frédéric (1858-1942)
La
mégère
apprivoisée,
opera,
(Shrew)[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Leveridge, Richard (1670-1758) Pyramus
and Thisbe,
opera, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Lillo, Giuseppe (1814-1863) La
gioventu' di Shakespeare,
opera, 1851
.[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Hamlet,
symphonic poem (tone poem)
[http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/fenech/LisztSymPoem.html]
Klangbeispiele
[http://www.klassik-tipp.de/8281425.htm]
Locke, Mattew The
Tempest, opera,
1674 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Locke, Mathew. (1622-77) incidental
music to
Dryden/Davenant/Shadwell's Tempest.
[http://www.oup.co.uk/hirecat/Locke/]
Loewe, Johann Karl Gottfried (1796-1869),
Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Lorenz, Karl Adolf (1837-1923) Die
Komödie der Irrungen,
opera, 1890
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
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MacDermot, Galt Two
Gentlemen of Verona,
a multi-racial rock musical. John Guare (libretto). Broadway
1971-73 [http://www.musicals101.com/1970bway1.htm]
and [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?sid=s0294]
MacDermot, Galt. The
Tale of Cymbeline.
Off-Broadway musical, 1971/2
[http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?sid=s2561]
MacFarren, George Alexander (1813-1887)
Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Maclean, Alick (1872-1936) Petruccio
(Taming of the Shrew), opera, 1895
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Marescalchi, Luigi (1745-1806) Giulietta
e Romeo, opera,
1784.[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Marchetti, Filippo (1831-1902) Romeo
e Giulietta,
opera, 1865
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Martin, Frank. Der
Sturm, opera,
1955, transl. Schlegel. Frank
Martin-homepage,
English and German:
[http://www.frankmartin.org/]
Martin, Frank.
5 Ariel-Gesänge
1950; Violinkonzert 1951
[http://www.frankmartin.org/fra_s/fra_s_werken.html]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco. Giulio
Cesare, opera,
1936. [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Massenet, Jules. Cléopatre,, opera
(1914); libretto: Luis Payen; synopsis in
English
[http://opera.stanford.edu/Massenet/Cleopatre/synopsis.html]
synopsis in
French
[http://www.geocities.com/voyerju/libretti.html]
Meiners, Giovanni Battista ( 1826-1897)
Riccardo
III., opera,
1859 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Mendelssohn, Felix. Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
op. 61 (1843)
[http://www.rondomagazin.de/fuehrer/mendelssohn/fm02.htm]
(May 2002)
Mendelssohn, Felix.
Ein
Sommernachtstraum.
op. 61.
[http://www.klassik.com/de/magazine/masterpieces/029/]
(deutsch, May 2002)
Mendelssohn, Felix. A
Midsummer Night's Dream.
ouverture, op. 21; incidental music, 1826. English (Grove
Dictionary)
[http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mendelssohn.html]
(May 2002)
ouverture,
op. 21; incidental music, 1826. MP3
[http://www.formeleins.com/mend_som.htm] (May
2002)
ballet version as a film, dir. George
Balanchine
(1966) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060694]
Mendelssohn, Felix.
A
Midsummer Night's Dream,
ballet. chor. David Nixon. (prem. 2000, Columbus) production
notes etc.
[http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Midsummer.html] (May
2002)
Mercadante,
Saverio (1795-1870), La
gioventù di Enrico V,
opera, 1834; Amleto, opera,
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Mills, Peter. Illyria.
(musical) Book, Music, & Lyrics by Peter Mills.
[http://www.ProspectTheater.org/] (April
2002)
Morales, Melesio (1838-1908) Romeo
y Julieta,
opera, 1863
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Morley, Thomas (1557-1602) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Morricone, Ennio. Hamlet
film music.
[http://www.morricone.de/cdinhalt_hamlet.htm] (May
2002)
Müller, Wenzel (1767-1835) Die
Geisterinsel,
opera, 1798,
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
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Nesvera, Josef (1842-1914) Perdita
(Winter's Tale), opera, 1892-93
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Nicolai, Otto.(1810-1849) Die
lustigen Weiber von Windsor,
opera (1849), libretto by Hermann Salomon Molsenthal
[http://www.theater-wittenberg.de/texte/stuecke/weiber.htm]
Nyman, Michael. Songs:
see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/
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Orff, Carl. Ein Sommernachtstraum.
Bühnenmusik / incidental music (1952)
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Pacini, Giovanni (1796-1867) La
gioventù di Enrico V,
opera, 1820 (libretto Jacopo Ferretti)
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Papavoine (1720-1793), Le
vieux coquet ou Le deux amis
(Merry Wives), opera, 1761
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Parry, Sir Hubert (1848-1918) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Porter, Cole. Kiss
me, Kate,
musical, film
[http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm60.html]
Poulenc, Francois. (1899-1963) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Presgurvic, Gerard (libretto and music).
Roméo
et Juliette.
musical.
[http://id.conseil.free.fr/escaf/romeo.html]
Prokofjev, Sergei 1891-1953). Romeo
and Juliet, op.
64 (1936) ballet and suites.
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/6080/romeo.htm]
(May 2002)
Jacobson, Benrard. Sergei
Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1891/op64.html]
(May 2002)
Monson, Karen. Sergei
Prokofiev and Romeo and Juliet
[http://web.mit.edu/eniale/www/music/prok.html] (May
2002)
Romeo
and Juliet
ballet production notes etc.; stage history
[http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/ROMEOAND.HTM] (May
2002)
ballet productions:
[http://balletarchive.org/ballets/index.cfm]
(7/9/00; dead May 2002)
chor. Leonid Lavrovsky 1940 / chor. Frederick Ashton,
Copenhagen, 1955 / chor. John Cranko, Venice, 1958 / chor.
Kenneth Mac Millan, Covent Garden (Nureyev, Fonteyn) 1965 /
chor. Nureyev, Paris, 1983 / chor. David
Nixon, Ballet
Met Columbus, 1983 / chor. Bertrand
d'At, 1990
Ballet du Rhin / chor. Sean Lavery, New York City Ballet,
1991 / Pas de Deux, New York, chor. Sean Lavery, 1991 /
Ballets Russes, chor. Bronislava Nijinska
Interview
with Presgurvic
[http://www.alessentiel.com/mag/article/romeo_juliette.php3]
Purcell, Henry. The
Fairy Queen;
[http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/hmv4247.htm]
Purcell, Henry Dido
and Aeneas,
libretto in English and Spanish
[http://www.supercable.es/~ealmagro/kareol/obras/dido%20y%20eneas/dido.htm]
Purcell:Henry The
History of King Richard II
[http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/hmv4247.htm]
Purcell, Henry / Th. Shadwell The
Tempest
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9570/purcell/works.html]
Purcell, Henry Timon
of Athens
[http://www.philclas.polygram.nl/class/446/446218.htm]
Quilter, Roger (1877-1953) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
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Reggio, Pietro. Songs for Dryden/Davenant/Shadwell's
Tempest. (available at
Poor Yorick)
Reichardt, Johann Friedrich (1752-1814) Die
Geisterinsel, opera, 1798
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Reimann,
Aribert (1936- ) Lear,
opera, 1978
[http://www.rondomagazin.de/klassik/r/reimann/ar01.htm]
(May 2002)
Reimann,
Aribert
[http://www.schott-online.com/] (May
2002)
Riotte, Philipp Jakob (1776-1856),
Der
Sturm oder Die Geisterinsel,
opera, 1833
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Ritter, Peter (1763-1846), Die
lustigen Weiber von Windsor,
opera, 1794
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Rodgers, Richard. The
Boys from Syracuse
musical. (Comedy of Errors)
[http://liber.ithaca.edu/MARION/ACU-4834] (May
2002)
synopsis,
some songs:
[http://www.stageagent.com/cb/info.pl/ti/boys_from_syracuse]
(May 2002)
Performances
on Broadway
The
Boys from Syracuse.
musical film, (USA 1940) dir. A. Edward Sutherland. Writing
credits George Abbott (play)
[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0032276]
Rolle, Johann Heinrich (1716-1785) Der
Sturm oder Die bezauberte Insel,
opera, 1782.
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Rorem, Ned. (1923 - ) Crabbed
age and youth.
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/r/rorem.html]
Rossi, Lauro (1812-1885) Biorn
(=Macbeth), opera, 1877
[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Rossini, Giacomo Otello,
opera. Libretto in Italian:
[http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/rotello1.html]
Rota, Nino. (1911-1979) incidental music for Franco
Zefirelli's stage production of Romeo & Juliet
(1960) and Much Ado About Nothing (1965).
Romeo
& Juliet film
soundtrack (1968). The
Taming of the Shrew
(film soundtrack, 1967)
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