Last updated: Jan. 29, 2000

Composer List of Libretti and Other Vocal Texts Available

(Public Domain Only Unless Permission Granted by Copyright Owner)

Includes some items under group, e.g. Latin texts, as well as songs in cycles or as a complete opus

Note: Please do not send me reference questions; I simply do not have the time to search on the web or in printed sources for all the texts, synopses, etc., that I have been asked about over the years. (I do appreciate notices with new and corrected information, however!) Instead, please check the appropriate bibliographic webpage here for some information, look at resources and reference books in your local library, and check online library catalogs. And for printed libretti themselves, don't overlook booklets that come with recordings, old and new, even though they vary greatly in quality. As for opera trivia questions (e.g. "What opera has X as a plot element"?), please ask on the newsgroup rec.music.opera, join the listserv Opera-L (start with its archives page), or use the feedback form at OperaGlass. Thanks!

(In addition, please do not ask about when a libretto that is "in process" will be posted. That is up to the contributor who is voluntarily inputting it. I update the libretto site when new libretti or URLs are sent to me, or when I'm notified of changes. Likewise, if a text is not stored at this site, you must contact the person who holds it if there are any problems.)

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    • Please send new items, URL's, and textual corrections to Lyle Neff, lneff@indiana.edu
    Note: All items cited here that are located on Emily Ezust's Lieder Page are linked from here to that main page rather than to the specific link. It would be more efficient to check her page regularly for newly added song composers and songs rather than to check here. 
    In original language unless otherwise specified.
     
  • Franco Alfano
  • Pasquale Anfossi
  • Anton Arensky
  • D.F.E. Auber
  • J.S. Bach
  • Balfe
  • Adriano Banchieri
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Vincenzo Bellini
  • Berlioz
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Georges Bizet
  • John Blow
  • Boito
  • Aleksandr Borodin
  • Johannes Brahms
  • André Campra
  • Catalani
  • Emilio de Cavalieri
  • Marc Antoine Charpentier
  • Ernest Chausson
  • César Cui
  • Claude Debussy
  • Debussy & Ravel
  • de Falla
  • Delibes
  • Gaetano Donizetti
  • Henri Duparc
  • Duruflé
  • Gabriel Faure
  • Robert Franz
  • Gay and Pepusch
  • Giordano
  • C.W. Gluck
  • Carlos Gomes
  • Gounod
  • Gretry
  • Grieg
  • G. F. Haendel
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Hoiby
  • Heinrich Isaac
  • Paul Kruger
  • Willows by the Western Gate
  • Latin Texts
  • Ruggiero Leoncavallo
  • Franz Liszt
  • Carl Loewe
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Marschner
  • Pietro Mascagni
  • Victor Massé
  • Massenet
  • Étienne Nicolas Méhul
  • Fanny Mendelssohn
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Saverio Mercadante
  • Meyerbeer
  • Minoru Miki
  • The Tale of Genji (at Opera Japonica)
  • Montemezzi
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Modest Musorgsky
  • Lyle Neff
  • Offenbach
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann (at Karen Mercedes' site)
  • George Oldziey
  • Palestrina
  • Giovanni Pergolesi
  • Ponchielli
  • Poulenc
  • Prokofiev
  • Giacomo Puccini
  • Henry Purcell
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Vincenzo Righini
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Gioacchino Rossini
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Russian Libretti

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  • Saint-Saëns
  • Franz Schubert
  • Heinrich Schuetz
  • Clara Schumann
  • Robert Schumann
  • Carlo Soliva
  • Spontini
  • J. Strauss II
  • Richard Strauss
  • Arthur Sullivan
  • Thomas Tallis
  • P. Tchaikovsky
  • Gene Tybern (librettist)
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Collection of Verdi libretti at Fondazione Verdi Festival
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Vogler
  • Richard Wagner
  • Carl Maria von Weber
  • Webern
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Christopher Yavelow
  • Riccardo Zandonai
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