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Composers inspired by Shakespeare S - Z
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. The
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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V
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) Die
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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Y
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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