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Saint-Saëns, Camille. Henry VIII. Opera in 4 acts and 6 scenes. Libretto by Léonice Détroyat & Paul Silvestre
Libretto in French.
[http://www.karadar.com/Librettos/saint-saens_henry.html]
or here [http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/libretti/henry8.htm] (May 2002)
Synopsis in English [http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/sfo/operas-h/Henry_VIII.htm] (May 2002)
Salieri, Antonio
Falstaff, osia Le tre burle (3.1.1799 Vienna), opera, Klangbeispiel/audio sample: [http://www.jpc-klassik.de/5211425.htm]
Sallinen, Aulis (1935-).
King Lear. (libretto Matti Rossi) 2000 [http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/sallinen.html] composer's biography in French [http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00001858/index.html] and here [http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/CDMO/Opera/Sallinen.html]
Salvayre, Gaston (1847-1916)
Richard III, 1883, opera, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Samaras, Spiro (1863-1917) 1895
La furia domata, opera, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Schmidt, Harvey.
The Fantasticks. musical. lyrics Tom Jones. synopsys. [http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/musicals?sn=210&show=The+Fantasticks&type=Synopsis]
Schostakovic, Dmitri. see: Shostakovic
Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828) Ständchen von Shakespeare "Horch, Horch, die Lerch" Cymbeline, II.3 D889, transcr. Liszt, audio [http://ftp.sunet.se/cma/cgi-bin/n.cgi/yes/2/syslshak.mid]
Schubert, Franz
An Sylvia, op. 106.4; D 891 [http://ftp.sunet.se/cma/cgi-bin/n.cgi/yes/2/syslshak.mid] Text Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802-1890) [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/v/various/d891.html]
Schubert, Franz
Bachus! feister Fürst des Weins (Antonius und Cleopatra) http://www.cdsheetmusic.com/schuberttoc.html#songs, Text [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]#
Schubert, Franz.
Alfonso und Estrella (Romantic opera, 1821 / pr. 1854. Libretto by Franz von Schober [Tempest]) [http://www.hnh.com/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Alfonso_und_Estrella.htm]
Schuman, William (1910-1992)
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Schwanenberger, Johann Gottfried (1737-1804),
Romeo e Giulia, opera, 1776 (libretto J.R. Sanseverino) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Seymour, John Laurence.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. (operetta) 1937. [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/seymour/] (May 2002)
Shostakovic, Dmitri (1906-1975).
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, opera, 1934 [http://www.operaed.org/learningcenter/lady/index.htm] see also discussion group
[http://www.shaksper.net/archives/2002/0369.html]
Shostakovich, Dmitri.
Incidental Music to King Lear; King Lear Film Music (for Kosintzev, 1970) Review by Steve Schwartz. [http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/c/cap10397a.html] (Jan. 2002)
Shostakovic, Dmitri. Hamlet (1964)

Shostakovich, Dmitri.
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Sibelius, Jean. Stormen - The Tempest op. 109 (1925; Danish trans. E. Lembcke)(
list of works at : http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/pdebode/sibopus.htm)
Sibelius, Jean. Trettondagsafton - Twelfth Night, op. 60 (1909) canto+guitar/piano (transl. Hagberg) (
list of works at : http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/pdebode/sibopus.htm)
Sibelius, Jean.
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Smith, John Cristopher (1712-1795),
The Fairies (Tempest), opera, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Steibert, Daniel Gottlieb (1765-1823),
Roméo et Juliette 1793. [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Storace, Stephen (1762-1796)
Gli equivoci (Errors) opera, 1786, (text: Lorenzo Da Ponte) [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949).
Macbeth, op.23, described by Leon Botstein [http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/93_94season/1st_concert/strauss.cfm]
Strauss, Richard,
Lied der Ophelia op. 67 no. 3 (1918). [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/v/various/strauss67.3.html]
Stravinsky, Igor.
Three Songs from William Shakespeare, 1953 (solo vocal) [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Sullivan, Arthur.
The Tempest (1861), opera.
Sullivan, Arthur.
The Merchant of Venice, incidental music (1871) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#merchant_of_venice]
Sullivan, Arthur. T
he Merry Wives of Windsor, incidental music (1874) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#merry_wives]
Sullivan, Arthur.
Henry VIII, incidental music (1878) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#henry_viii]
Sullivan, Arhtur (Gilbert and Sullivan) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1874), opera, synopsis and playscript: [http://diamond.idbsu.edu/GaS/other_gilbert/html/rosen.html]
Sullivan, Arthur. Macbeth, incidental music (1888) [http://www.concentric.net/~oakapple/gasdisc/sullinci.htm#macbeth]
Sutermeister, Heinrich.
Romeo und Julia (Oper, 1940 ) [http://www.zb.unizh.ch/SONDERSA/musik/sutermeister/sutermeister.htm]
Sutermeister, Heinrich.
Die Zauberinsel (Oper, 1942) [http://www.zb.unizh.ch/SONDERSA/musik/sutermeister/sutermeister.htm]

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Taubert, Wilhelm (1811-1891)
Macbeth, opera, 1853; Cesario (Twelfth Night), opera, 1874 [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Taylor, Philipp: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Musical 1987.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illich
The Tempest, symphonic phantasy, op. 18 (1873) [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/pitch/over.htm#temp]
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illich Romeo and Juliet, fantasy ouverture, (1869,. 1879, 1880)
Tchaikowsky, Pyotr Illich
Romeo and Juliet, [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/pitch/over.htm#rom]
Tchaikowsky, P. Romeo and Juliet, ballet. chor. Serge Lifar, Paris Opera.[http://balletarchive.org/ballets/ballet.cfm?ballet_ID=215] (7/9/00; link dead: May 2002)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illich. Hamlet, ouverture and incidental music, op. 67 (1888). [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/pitch/over.htm#ham]
Thomas, Ambroise. Le songe d'une nuit d'été, opera,
Thomas, Ambroise. Hamlet, libretto by Jules Barbier & Michel Carré, 1868 French libretto [http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/libretti/hamlet.htm]
Thomas, Ambroise. La Tempête. ballet 1889. biography in Italian [http://www.sistemamusica.it/2001/gennaio/26.htm]
Tippett, Michael / John Neumeier,
Hamlet (ballet, 1997) [http://www.michael-tippett.com/hamlet.htm]
Tippett, Michael.
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

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Vaccai,
Romeo e Giulietta 1825
Vaughan Williams, Ralph. Serenade to Music (Merchant of Venice)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph.
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Veracini, Francesco Maria (1690-1768)
Rosalinda (As you Like It), opera, 1744, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Verdi, Giuseppe. (1813-1901) Best page on
Verdi in Italian (biography, bibliography, discography; description, synopsis, libretti of all the operas, pictures etc.) [http://www.giuseppeverdi.net/index-f.htm]
Verdi, Giuseppe.
Falstaff (opera) Libretto by Arrigo Boito: [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Verdi/Falstaff/libretto.html]; , Synopsis Los Angeles Opera [http://laopera.org/98-99/falstaffsynopsis.htm]
Verdi, Guiseppe.
Otello:, opera, [http://www.classical.net:80/music/comp.lst/works/verdi/otello/index.html] (last visit: 02/09/99) Libretto by Arrigo Boito: [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Verdi/Falstaff/libretto.html] performance history [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Verdi/Otello/history.html]
Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanna d'Arco, opera, libretto: Temistocle Solera (15.2.1845)
Verdi,
Macbeth, libretto in Italian [http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/macbeth.html]
Villiers Stanford, Sir Charles (1852-1924)

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Wagner, Richard
Das Liebesverbot, opera, (libretto) [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Wagner/Liebesverbot/libretto.html]; performance history [http://opera.stanford.edu/opera/Wagner/Liebesverbot/history.html]
Wagner page [http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/phy11733/wagner/index.html]
Walthew, Richard Henry (1872-1951)
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Walton, William (1902-1983),
Hamlet, As You Like it. Klangbeispiele [http://www.klassik-angebote.de/8861586.htm]
Walton, William Filmmusik zu
Henry V [http://www.klassik-neuheiten.de/8450441.htm]
Walton, William.
Troilus and Cressida (opera, 1954) [http://www.musicweb.uk.net/troil1.htm]
Warlock, Peter (Philip Arnold Heseltine) (1894-1930)
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Waughan-Williams, Ralph.
Sir John in Love (Merry Wives), opera, 1929. [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Waughan-Williams, Ralph.
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Weber,
Carl Maria v. Oberon, or the Elf King's Oath opera in 3 acts; libretto by J. R. Planché; in English [http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/libretti/oberon.htm] (May 2002)
Oberon (in Dutch) [http://www.gopera.com/cherubino/operas/weber/oberon-s.html]
on
Weber's Oberon [http://www.operaworld.com/special/ober1.shtml] (May 2002)
White, Maude Valérie. (1855-1937) Crabbed age and youth, song. [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/age.html] (May 2002)
Wolf, Ernst Wilhelm (1735-1792) D
ie Zauberirrungen, 1785 (Midsummer Night's Dream), opera, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno (1876-1948),
Sly, opera, 1927; Synopsis [http://www.metopera.org/synopses/sly.html] Klangbeispiel [http://www.jpc-klassik.de/1696600.htm]

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Zafred, Mario (1922-1987)
Amleto (Hamlet) Libretto: Lilyan und Mario Zafred, 1961 [http://www.delteatro.it/hdoc/result_opera.asp?idopera=2193]; or here [http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/Z.html]
Zandonai
, Riccardo (1883-1922)
Giulietta e Romeo, opera, 1922, (libretto A. Rossario)[http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Zillig, Winfried (1905-1963),
Troilus and Cressida, 1951 [http://www.operone.de/komponist/zillig.html]
Zingarelli, Nicola Antonio (1752-1837)
Giulietta e Romeo, opera, 1796 [http://www.operone.de/komponist/zingarelli.html]
Zukofsky, Celia and Louis. Pericles (opera, 1963) in Bottom: on Shakespeare, vol. II (Music to Pericles) see: Scroggins, Mark. A Biographical Essay on Zukofsky [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/bio.htm] (May 2002)
Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolf (1760-1802)
Die Geisterinsel, opera, 1798, [http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]
Zumsteeg, Johann Rudolf, Othello,
Songs: see [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]

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