18 books like Beggar's opera

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Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1800 · ★ 3.9 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Challenging "The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in the Alps. Most of the guides are devoted to a single opera, which is described in detail—with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times. The complete libretto… Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

Richard Wagner über Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner · 1800 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This libretto contains the original German text and an English translation of the opera by Richard Wagner. It tells the story of a princess who is forced into an arranged marriage with a king, but has fallen in love with another man. Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

Der Ritt der Walkuren Richard Wagner · 1800 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A landmark in the history of opera, Die Walküre is the most popular and most frequently performed opera among those that make up the Ring Cycle. It contains some of Wagner's best-known and memorable music and stands alone as a complete work. This present edition reproduces the full orchestral and vocal score in a clear, modern engraving with large, legible notation for easy reading and study. Do… Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

An English translation of Parsifal, the sacred festival drama by Richard Wagner Richard Wagner · 1879 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Challenging "Parsifal," holiday matinee February 22, 1940 for the benefit of Children's Health Service of the New York Diet Kitchen Association (Inc. 1873). Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

Overture to Tannhauser Richard Wagner · 1800 · 39p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The operas of the German composer Richard Wagner had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works. He went on to revolutionise the music form through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with… Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Scores, Operas, Librettos

Manon Lescaut Abbé Prévost · 1734 · ★ 3.3 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon. In Paris, the young lovers enjoy a blissful cohabitation, while Des Grieux struggles to satisfy Manon's… Shares: Vocal scores with piano, Operas, Librettos

Comus John Milton · 1738 · ★ 3.7 · 59p · ≈ 1h · Demanding From what I have found it is about a woman who is kidnapped by a Greek god. Where she is tempted numerous times by him but decides to refrain from temptation. Her brothers who she was traveling with meet another being who tells them how to help their sister, but the question is will they be able to save her before she gives in. Shares: Scores, Librettos

Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw · 1919 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Published in 1919, Heartbreak House is an examination of the failings of the European leisure classes before World War I—failings that author George Bernard Shaw blamed for the war, and that he predicted would quickly lead to another, longer war. The play is set in an English country house, where representatives of every type of English society have gathered at the home of the seemingly-mad… Shares: Facsimiles, British and irish drama, Drama

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Early works to 1800, Drama

Burya William Shakespeare · 1789 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Demanding Adapted from Shakespeare. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

Salomé Oscar Wilde · 1893 · ★ 3.7 · 65p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Salome is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a… Shares: Operas, British and irish drama, Drama

The gentle shepherd Allan Ramsay · 1734 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Demanding The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay, scottish poet, playwright and publisher (1686-1758) This ebook presents «The Gentle Shepherd», from Allan Ramsay. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. TABLE OF CONTENTS -01- ABOUT THIS BOOK -02- PREFACE -03- THE LIFE OF ALLAN RAMSAY -04- REMARKS ON THE WRITINGS OF ALLAN RAMSAY -05- ESSAY ON RAMSAY'S GENTLE SHEPHERD -06-… Shares: Librettos, Drama

Fröken Julie August Strindberg · 1880 · ★ 3.4 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Challenging In a post-Apartheid kitchen, a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm laborer, his master's daughter, and the woman who has raised them both. John and Mies Julie spiral into a deadly battle over power, sexuality and memory. Shares: Operas, Librettos, Drama

She Stoops To Conquer Oliver Goldsmith · 1773 · ★ 3.7 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Demanding She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. Shares: Librettos, British and irish drama, Drama

Candida George Bernard Shaw · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The Reverend James Mavor Morell, a respectable socialist clergyman, spends his days giving lectures and sermons while his wife, Candida, sees to his comfortable London home. That home is disrupted by the arrival of the poet Eugene Marchbanks, who is in love with Candida and determined to rescue her from what he sees as an unromantic life. Shaw wrote Candida as a reaction to Henrik Ibsen’s social… Shares: British and irish drama, Drama

Major Barbara George Bernard Shaw · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a play with the theme of societal salvation and salvation of the human soul brought out in characters representing the rich versus the poor. Shares: Facsimiles, British and irish drama, Drama

Hernani Victor Hugo · 1830 · ★ 3.4 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Challenging L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas… Shares: Brigands and robbers, Drama

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and Regan betray Lear who goes mad. Shares: British and irish drama, Drama

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