List of opera librettists

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This is an incomplete list of authors who have written libretti for operas. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each opera is also given.

[edit] List of operas by librettist's last name

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Jules Adenis (1823-1900)

with Henri Cain
- for Umberto Giordano: Marcella
with Charles Grandvallet
- for Massenet: La grand'tante
with E. Plouvier
- for Offenbach: Un postillon en gage
with J Rostaing
- for Ernest Guiraud: Sylvie
with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
- for Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth

with A Silvestre and L Bonnemère
- for Henry Charles Litolff: Les templiers

Franco Alfano (1875-1954)

for his own music: Sakùntala

Giuseppe Adami (1878–1946)

for Puccini: La rondine, Il Tabarro, Turandot (with Renato Simoni)
for Riccardo Zandonai: La via della finestra
for Franco Vittadini: Anima allegra, Nazareth

Louis Anseaume (?-1784)

alone
- for Grétry: Le tableau parlant
with Thomas Hales
- for Grétry: Le jugement de Midas
with Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville:
- for Jean Louis Laruette: La fausse aventurière
- for Pierre van Maldere: Le Médecin de l'amour

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

used by Poulenc: Les mamelles de Tirésias

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

alone:
- for Benjamin Britten: Paul Bunyan
with Chester Kallman (1921-1975)
- for Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids, Elegy for Young Lovers
- for Nicolas Nabokov: Love's Labours Lost
- for Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress

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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973)

for Hans Werner Henze: Der junge Lord, Der Prinz von Homburg

Béla Balázs (1884-1949)

for Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Auguste Barbier (1805-1882)

for Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (with Léon Wailly)

Jules Barbier (1825-1901)

alone:
- for Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
- for Camille Saint-Saens: Le timbre d'argent
with Michel Carré:
- for Gounod: La colombe, Faust, Le médecin malgré lui, Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba, Roméo et Juliette
- for Meyerbeer: Le pardon de Ploermel
- for Ambroise Thomas: Mignon, Hamlet

Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

used by Salieri: Tarare

Sem Benelli (1877-1949)

for Italo Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re, L'incantesimo

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

for his own music: Les Troyens, Béatrice et Bénédict

Thomas Betterton (1635-1710)

for Purcell: Dioclesian, The Fairy-Queen (probably)

Robin Blaser (1925- )

for Harrison Birtwistle: The Last Supper

Édouard Blau (1836-1906)

alone:
- for Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
with Georges Hartmann and Paul Milliet
- for Massenet: Werther
with Adolphe d'Hennery and Louis Gallet:
- for Massenet:Le Cid

Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)

for Verdi: Otello, Falstaff
for his own music: Mefistofele, Nerone

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1763-1842)

for Cherubini: Les deux journées
for Grétry: Pierre le Grand

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

for Kurt Weill:
- alone: Der Jasager, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,
- with Elisabeth Hauptmann: Happy End, The Threepenny Opera

Georg Büchner (1813-1837)

used by Berg: Wozzeck

Francis Burnand (1836-1917)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Chieftain, The Contrabandista, Cox and Box
for Edward Solomon: Domestic Economy, Pickwick, The Tiger

Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598–1659)

for Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
for Cavalli: Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne, La Didone, La prosperita di Giulio Cesare dittatore , Statira principessa de Persia

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

for his own music: Arlecchino, Die Brautwahl, Doktor Faust, Turandot

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Louis de Cahusac (1706-1759)

for Rameau: Anacréon (first Rameau opera by that name), Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre

Henri Cain (1859-1937)

alone:
- for Jules Massenet: Cendrillon, La Navarraise, Don Quichotte, Roma, Sapho
- for Franco Alfano: Cirano di Bergerac
with de Croisset - see Francis de Croisset

Italo Calvino (1923-1985)

for Luciano Berio: La vera storia

Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714-1795)

for Gluck: Alceste, Orfeo ed Euridice, Paride ed Elena

Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852)

for Gaetano Donizetti: L'assedio di Calais, Belisario, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria de Rudenz, Maria di Rohan, Pia de' Tolomei, Poliuto, Roberto Devereux
for Verdi: Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller, Il trovatore (with Leone Emanuele Bardare)
for Giuseppe Persiani: Ines de Castro

Michel Carré (1821-1872)

alone:
- for Gounod: Mireille
with Eugène Cormon:
- for Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
with Barbier - see Jules Barbier

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)

for his own music: Le roi Arthus

Helmina von Chézy (1783-1856)

for Weber: Euryanthe

Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808-1872)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Sapphire Necklace
for Vincent Wallace: The Amber Witch

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

for Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
for Poulenc: La voix humaine

Colette (1873-1954)

for Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges

Marco Coltellini (1719-1777)

for Gluck: Telemaco
for Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe
for Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa
for Salieri: Armida
for Traetta: Ifigenia in Aulide, Antigona

William Congreve (1670-1729)

used by John Eccles and Handel: Semele (Eccles) and Semele (Handel)
used by John Eccles, Daniel Purcell, Gottfried Finger and John Weldon: The Judgement of Paris

Thomas Corneille (1625-1709)

for Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée
for Lully: Bellérophon (with Bernard de Fontenelle)

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (1828-1892)

with E About
- for Jacques Offenbach: Le financier et le savetier
with Ernest Blum
- for Jacques Offenbach: Bagatelle, La jolie parfumeuse
with Eugène Cormon
- for Jacques Offenbach: Robinson Crusoé
with Philippe Gille
- for Jacques Offenbach: Les bergers
with Ludovic Halévy
- for Léo Delibes: Les eaux d’Ems
- for Jacques Offenbach: La chanson de Fortunio, Jacqueline, Orphée aux enfers, Le pont des soupirs, Le roman comique
with Ludovic Halévy, M de Saint-Rémy and Ernest Lépine
- for Jacques Offenbach: M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . .
with Louis-Adolphe Jaime
- for Hervé: Le petit Faust
- for Jacques Offenbach: Une demoiselle en loterie
with Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu
- for Jacques Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant
with Albert de Saint-Albin
- for Jacques Offenbach: La foire Saint-Laurent

Francis de Croisset (1877-1937)

alone:
- for Reynaldo Hahn: Ciboulette
with Henri Cain
- for Jules Massenet: Chérubin

Eric Crozier (1914-1994)

for Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Billy Budd (with E.M. Forster), The Little Sweep

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Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938)

for Mascagni: Parisina
for Franchetti: La figlia di Iorio

Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838)

for Mozart: Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro
for Martín y Soler: L'arbore di Diana, Il burbero di buon cuore, Una cosa rara
for Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus

William Davenant (1606-1668)

for Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke and others: The Siege of Rhodes

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

for his own music: Fennimore and Gerda, Irmelin, A Village Romeo and Juliet

Eduard Devrient (1801-1877)

for Heinrich Marschner: Hans Heiling

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

for his own music: Betly, Il campanello di notte, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Don Pasquale (with Giovanni Ruffini)

John Dryden (1631-1700)

for Purcell: The Indian Queen (with Robert Howard), King Arthur
for Louis Grabu: Albion and Albanius

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Jacopo Ferretti (1784-1852)

for Donizetti: L'ajo nell'imbarazzo, Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo, Olivo e Pasquale, Torquato Tasso, Zoraide di Grenata
for Saverio Mercadante: Gli amici di Siracusa, Scipione in Cartagine
for Giovanni Pacini: Cesare in Egitto
for Luigi Ricci: L’orfanella di Ginevra
for Lauro Rossi: La figlia di Figaro
for Rossini: La Cenerentola, Matilde di Shabran
for Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli: Baldovino

E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

for Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd (with Eric Crozier)

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (1712-1786)

for Graun: Montezuma

Christopher Fry (1907-2005)

for Penderecki: Paradise Lost

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Louis Gallet (1835–1898)

for Jules Massenet: Thaïs

John Gay (1685-1732)

for music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch: The Beggar's Opera

Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824-1893)

for Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, La forza del destino
for Amilcare Ponchielli: I Lituani

Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906) and Luigi Illica (1857-1919)

for Puccini: La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut (with others, including Leoncavallo), Tosca

W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia Limited, The Yeomen of the Guard
for Thomas German Reed: Eyes and No Eyes, No Cards, Our Island Home, A Sensation Novel
for Frederic Clay: Ages Ago, Happy Arcadia, Princess Toto, The Gentleman in Black
for Alfred Cellier: The Mountebanks, Topsyturveydom
for George Grossmith: Haste to the Wedding
for Osmond Carr: His Excellency
for Edward German: Fallen Fairies
for Alberto Randegger: Creatures of Impulse

Philippe Gille (1831-1901)

with Edmond Gondinet:
- for Léo Delibes: Lakmé
with Henri Meilhac:
- for Jules Massenet: Manon

Girolamo Giusti (1709-1766)

for Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)

used by Mussorgsky: Zhenitba (The Marriage)

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)

used by Mozart: La finta semplice
used by Piccinni: La buona figliuola
used by Haydn: Il mondo della luna, Lo speziale
used by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il campiello, Le donne curiose, I quattro rusteghi

Edmond Gondinet (1828-1888)

alone
- for Léo Delibes: Le roi l'a dit
with Ernest Blum and Albert de Saint-Albin
- for Hervé: Mam’zelle Gavroche
with Georges Duval:
- for Robert Planquette: Les Voltigeurs de la 32ème
with Philippe Gille:
- for Léo Delibes: Jean de Nivelle , Lakmé

Alice Goodman (1958- )

for John Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China

Vincenzo Grimani (1652/1655-1710)

for Handel: Agrippina

Sydney Grundy (1848-1914)

for Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall
for Edward Solomon: Pocahontas, The Vicar of Bray

Nicolas-François Guillard (1752-1814)

for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
for Antonio Salieri: Les Horaces
for Antonio Sacchini: Oedipe à Colone

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Thomas Hales (c.1740-1780)

for Grétry: L'amant jaloux, Le jugement de Midas

Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)

for Offenbach: Ba-ta-clan
also see Meilhac and Crémieux

David Harsent (1942-)

for Harrison Birtwistle: Gawain

Georges Hartmann (1843-1900)

for Jules Massenet: Hérodiade, Werther
for André Messager: Madame Chrysanthème
for Reynaldo Hahn: L'île du rêve

Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729)

for Handel: Amadigi, Flavio, Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Radamisto, Rodelinda, Siroe, Tamerlano Teseo
for Bononcini: Calfurnia and Astianatte

Philip Hensher (1965-)

for Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

for his own music: Die Harmonie der Welt, Mathis der Maler

Russell Hoban (1925-)

for Harrison Birtwistle: The Second Mrs Kong

Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1925)

for Richard Strauss: Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier

François Benoît Hoffmann (1760-1828)

for Cherubini: Médée
for Méhul: Ariodant, Stratonice

Basil Hood (1864-1917)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Emerald Isle (finished by Edward German after Sullivan's death), The Rose of Persia
for Arthur Bruhns (later reset by Franco Leoni): Ib and Little Christina
for Cecil Cook: The Willow Pattern
for Edward German: Merrie England, A Princess of Kensington

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

for Louise Bertin: Esmeralda

David Henry Hwang (1957-)

for Philip Glass: The Voyage
for Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar

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Luigi Illica (1857-1919)

for Catalani: La Wally
for Giordano: Andrea Chénier, Siberia
for Mascagni: Iris, Isabeau, Le maschere

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Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

for his own music: The Cunning Little Vixen, Destiny (with Fedora Bartošová), From the House of the Dead, Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, The Makropulos Affair

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

for his own music: Treemonisha

Etienne de Jouy (1764-1846)

for Cherubini: Les Abencérages
for Rossini: Guillaume Tell (with Hippolyte-Louis Florent Bis)
for Spontini: Milton (with Armand-Michel Dieulafoy), La vestale, Fernand Cortez

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Georg Kaiser (1878-1945)

for Kurt Weill: Der Protagonist, Der Silbersee, Der Zar lässt sich photographieren

Chester Kallman see Auden

Johann Friedrich Kind (1768-1843)

for Weber: Der Freischütz
for Conradin Kreutzer: Das Nachtlager in Granada

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)

for Ned Rorem: Bertha

Eliška Krásnohorská (1847-1926)

for Smetana: The Devil's Wall, The Kiss, The Secret, Viola

Clemens Krauss (1893-1954)

for Richard Strauss: Capriccio

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Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)

for his own music: La bohème, Pagliacci, Zazà
for Puccini: Manon Lescaut (with others, including Giacosa and Illica)

Doris Lessing (1919-)

for Philip Glass: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai (1760-1797)

used by Cherubini: Lodoïska
used by Simon Mayr: Lodoiska
used by Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska
used by Stephen Storace: Lodoiska

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Amin Maalouf (1949-)

for Kaija Saariaho: L’amour de loin

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

used by Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
used by Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-bleue

Jean François Marmontel (1723-1799)

for Rameau: Acante et Céphise, La guirlande, Les sibarites
for Grétry: Le Huron, Lucile, Zémire et Azor
for Piccinni: Didon

Henri Meilhac (1831-1897)

with Philippe Gille
- for Massenet: Manon
with Ludovic Halévy
- for Bizet: Carmen
- for Offenbach: Barbe-bleue, La belle Hélène, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Périchole, La vie parisienne

Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélésville (1787-1865)

for Herold: Zampa
with Pierre Carmouche
- for Offenbach: La permission de dix heures
with Eugène Scribe
- for Offenbach: La chatte metamorphosée en femme

Guido Menasci (1867-1925)

with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti:
- for Umberto Giordano: Regina Diaz
- for Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, I Rantzau, Zanetto

Catulle Mendès (1841-1909)

for Chabrier: Gwendoline
for Massenet: Ariane, Bacchus

Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)

for his own music: Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Consul, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleeker Street, The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois
for Samuel Barber: A Hand of Bridge, Vanessa

Joseph Méry (1798-1866)

for Verdi: Don Carlos (with Camille du Locle)

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

for his own music: Saint François d'Assise

Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

used by J. C. Bach, Broschi, Hasse, and Pergolesi, among others: Adriano in Siria
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Traetta, among others: Antigono
used by J. C. Bach, Gluck, Hasse, and Vinci, among others: Artaserse
used by Hasse, Vinci, and Vivaldi, among others: Catone in Utica
used by Gluck and Hasse, among others: Demetrio
used by Gluck, Hasse, Jommelli, Traetta, and Vinci, among others: Demofoonte
used by Hasse, Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Didone abbandonata
used by Gluck and Mozart, among others: Il re pastore
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Jommelli, among others: Il trionfo di Clelia
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Porpora, among others: Issipile
used by Gluck, Handel, and Porpora, among others: Ezio
used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Alessandro nell'Indie, also known as Poro, re dell'Indie
used by Gluck and Hasse, among others: Ipermestra
used by Mozart, among others: La clemenza di Tito
used by Hasse, Pergolesi, Traetta, and Vivaldi, among others: L'Olimpiade
used by Hasse, Meyerbeer, Porpora, Salieri, and Vinci, among others: Semiramide riconosciuta
used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Vinci, and Vivaldi, among others: Siroe rè di Persia

Nicolò Minato (ca. 1630 – 1698)

used by Cavalli: Orimonte
used by Cavalli, Scarlatti and Giacomo Antonio Perti: Pompeo Magno
used by Cavalli, Bononcini and Händel: Xerse
used by Antonio Draghi: Leonida in Tegea, La tirannide abbatuta dalla virtù
used by Draghi and Marc’ Antonio Ziani: Chilonida
used by Draghi and Georg Reutter/Antonio Caldara: La patienza di Socrate con due mogli
used by Antonio Sartorio, Draghi and Albinoni: La prosperità di Elio Sejano

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

for his own music: Boris Godunov, The Fair at Sorochintsï, Khovanshchina, Salammbô

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[edit] O

Meredith Oakes (1946-)

for Thomas Adès: The Tempest

Martin Opitz (1597-1639)

for Heinrich Schütz: Dafne (lost)

[edit] P

Francesco Maria Piave (1810-1876)

for Verdi: Aroldo, Il corsaro, I due Foscari, Ernani, La forza del destino, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra (first version), Stiffelio, La traviata

Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Beauty Stone

Myfanwy Piper (1911-1997)

for Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, Owen Wingrave, The Turn of the Screw

James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)

for Weber: Oberon

William Plomer (1903-1973)

for Benjamin Britten: The Burning Fiery Furnace, Curlew River, Gloriana, The Prodigal Son.

David Pountney (1947- )

for Peter Maxwell Davies: Mr Emmet Takes a Walk

Alexander Preis

for Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district, The Nose

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

for his own music:
- alone: The Fiery Angel, The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges
- with Mira Mendelson:Betrothal in a Monastery, The Story of a Real Man, War and Peace
- with Valentin Katayev: Semyon Kotko

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

used by Dargomyzhsky: The Stone Guest

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Philippe Quinault (1635-1688)

for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Acis et Galatée, Amadis, Armide, Atys, Cadmus et Hermione, Isis, Persée, Phaëthon, Proserpine, Roland, Thésée
used by Gluck: Armide
used by Piccinni: Roland

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

for his own music: Christmas Eve, Kashchey the Deathless, The Maid of Pskov, May Night, Sadko, Servilia, The Snow Maiden

Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)

for Caccini: Euridice
for Monteverdi: L'Arianna
for Peri: Dafne, Euridice

Michael Symmons Roberts (1963-)

for James MacMillan: The Sacrifice

Felice Romani (1788-1865)

for Bellini: Adelson e Salvini, Beatrice di Tenda, Bianca e Fernando, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, Il pirata, I puritani, La sonnambula, La straniera, Zaira
for Donizetti: Alina, regina di Golconda, Anna Bolena, L'elisir d'amore, Gianni di Parigi, Lucrezia Borgia, Parisina, Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Ugo, conte di Parigi
for Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Bianca e Falliero, Il turco in Italia
for Verdi: Un giorno di regno

Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX) (1600-1669)

for Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio
for Marco Marazzoli and Virgilio Mazzocchi: Chi soffre, speri

Gaetano Rossi (1774-1855)

for Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio, Tancredi, Semiramide
for Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
for Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna
for Donizetti: Maria Padilla (with Gaetano Donizetti), Linda di Chamounix

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

for his own music: Le Devin du village

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Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (1799-1875)

alone
- for Franz Lachner: Caterina Cornaro
- for Fromental Halévy: La reine de Chypre
with Jules Adenis
- for Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
with Jean-François Bayard:
- for Donizetti: La fille du régiment
with F-A-E de Planard:
- for Fromental Halévy: L'éclair
with Eugène Scribe:
- for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne

Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812)

for Mozart: The Magic Flute

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

for his own music: Die glückliche Hand, Moses und Aron

Eugène Scribe (1791-1861)

alone
- for Auber: Le domino noir, Fra Diavolo, Gustave III, Haydée, Manon Lescaut, La muette de Portici, Le cheval de bronze
- for Boieldieu: La dame blanche
- for Donizetti: Dom Sébastien
- for Halévy: La Juive
- for Meyerbeer: L'Africaine, Les Huguenots, Le prophète, Robert le diable
with Charles Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
- for Rossini: Le comte Ory
with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
- for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne

Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797)

for André Grétry: Guillaume Tell, Richard Coeur-de-lion
for Monsigny: Le déserteur

Peter Sellars (1957- )

for John Adams: Doctor Atomic

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

used by Benjamin Britten, heavily cut by Britten and Peter Pears: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

for Thomas Linley the younger and Thomas Linley the elder: The Duenna

Montagu Slater (1902-1956)

for Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

Antonio Somma (1809-1864)

for Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

for Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All

B. C. Stephenson (1838-1906)

for Arthur Sullivan: The Zoo
for Frederic Clay: The Bold Recruit, Out of Sight, The Pirates Isle
for Alfred Cellier: Charity Begins at Home, Doris, Dorothy, The Masque of Pandora

Cesare Sterbini (1784-1831)

for Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville, Torvaldo e Dorliska

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

for his own music: Guntram, Intermezzo, Salome (adapted from Oscar Wilde)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

for his own music: Le rossignol

Alessandro Striggio (1573-1630)

for Monteverdi: L'Orfeo

John Millington Synge (1871-1909)

used by Ralph Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea

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Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (1863-1934)

for Adriano Biagi: La sposa di Nino
for Umberto Giordano: Regina Diaz
for Pietro Mascagni: Amica, Cavalleria rusticana, Nerone, Pinotta, I Rantzau, Silvano, Zanetto

Nahum Tate (1652-1715)

for Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1850-1916)

for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Iolanta, The Queen of Spades
for Sergei Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini

Emmanuel Théaulon (1787-1841)

with de Rancé
- for Luigi Cherubini: Blanche de Provence
- for Ferdinando Paer: Blanche de Provence
- for Franz Liszt: Don Sanche

Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

for his own music: The Ice Break, King Priam, The Knot Garden, The Midsummer Marriage, New Year

Andrea Leone Tottola (?-1831)

for Vincenzo Bellini: Adelson e Salvini
for Gaetano Donizetti: Alfredo il grande, Il castello di Kenilworth, Gabriella di Vergy, Imelda de' Lambertazzi, La zingara
for Giovanni Pacini: Alessandro nelle Indie
for Gioachino Rossini: La donna del lago, Ermione, Mosè in Egitto, Zelmira

Etienne Tréfeu (1821-1903)

with Louis-Adolphe Jaime and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
- for Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant

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Albert Vanloo (1846-1920)

for Edmond Audran

with William Busnach: L'oeuf rouge

for Emmanuel Chabrier

with Eugène Letterier: L'étoile, Une éducation manquée

for Alexandre Charles Lecocq

with William Busnach: Ali-Baba
with Georges Duval: La belle au bois dormant
with Eugène Letterier: La Camargo, Giroflé-Girofla, La jolie persane, Le jour et la nuit, La marjolaine, La petite mariée

for André Messager

with Georges Duval: Les dragons de l'impératrice, Les p'tites Michu, Véronique

for Jacques Offenbach

with Eugène Letterier: Mam'zelle Moucheron
with Leterrier and A Mortier: Le voyage dans la lune

Giambattista Varesco (1735-1805)

for Mozart: Idomeneo, L'oca del Cairo

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

for his own music: The Pilgrim's Progress, Sir John in Love

Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (1799-1875) - see above under S

Voltaire (1694-1778)

for Rameau: La princesse de Navarre, Le temple de la gloire, Les fêtes de Ramire, Samson (lost)

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

for his own music: Die Feen, The Flying Dutchman, Götterdämmerung, Die Hochzeit, Das Liebesverbot, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Rienzi, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Siegfried, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Die Walküre

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

for Paul Hindemith: The Long Christmas Dinner

Ernst von Wolzogen (1855-1934)

for Richard Strauss: Feuersnot

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Arthur Yorinks (1953-)

for Philip Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Juniper Tree

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Apostolo Zeno (1668-1750)

used by Handel: Faramondo
used by Hasse: Antioco
used by Hasse and Holzbauer: Lucio Papirio
used by Holzbauer: Il Don Chisciotte, Sesostri, re d'Egitto, Vologeso
used by Alessandro Scarlatti and Vivaldi: Griselda

Peter Zinovieff

for Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

Émile Zola (1840-1902)

for Alfred Bruneau: Messidor, L'ouragan

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)

for Richard Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau

[edit] General sources

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
Holden, Amanda; (editor), with Kenyon, Nicholas and Walsh, Stephen [1993]. The Viking Opera Guide. London: Viking. ISBN 0-670-81292-7.

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