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Anton Coppola, "Sacco and Vanzetti", opera.

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Léo Ferré, "L’Opéra du pauvre"

Written in 1983, it was created in June 26, 2001, in Italy by AnnaMaria Castelli with the Camerata Strumentale Femminile italiana, directed by (...)

Léo Ferré, "La vie d’artiste"

Written in 1950

Richard Wagner, "The Niblung’s Ring"

Bernard Shaw has suggested that the anarchist Bakunin was an inspiration of Wagner’s Siegfried. See The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the (...)

"Red Emma". An Opera by Gary Kulesha

Composer: Gary Kulesha Libretto: Carol Bolt Description: Two acts Premiered: November 28, 1995, Canadian Opera Company, du Maurier Theatre, (...)

"Belladonna". An Opera. Music by Bernard Rand; Libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer

Description: Two acts Premiere: Aspen Opera Theater Center Publisher: European American Music Distributors Musical Forces: Flute, oboe, (...)

Marc Blitzstein, "Sacco and Vanzetti" three-act opera.

Blitzstein (1905-1964), "the father of American opera" started writing it for the Metropolitan Opera in 1959 and Leonard Lehrman began work on it (...)