List of opera librettists

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.

A

Giuseppe Adami

for Giacomo Puccini: La rondine, Il tabarro, Turandot
for Riccardo Zandonai: La via della finestra
for Franco Vittadini: Anima allegra, Nazareth

Jules Adenis

with Henri Caïn
* for Umberto Giordano: Marcella
with Charles Grandvallet
* for Jules Massenet: La grand'tante
with
* for Jacques Offenbach: Un postillon en gage
with J Rostaing
* for Ernest Guiraud: Sylvie
with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
* for Georges Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
with A Silvestre and L Bonnemère
* for Henry Charles Litolff: Les templiers

Franco Alfano

for his own music: Sakùntala

Louis Anseaume

alone
*for Egidio Duni: L'école de la jeunesse, Le peintre amoureux de son modèle
*for Christoph Willibald Gluck: L'île de Merlin, ou Le monde renversé, L'ivrogne corrigé
*for André Grétry: Le tableau parlant
with Thomas Hales
*for André Grétry: Le jugement de Midas
with Pierre-Augustin Lefèvre de Marcouville:
*for Christoph Willibald Gluck: La fausse esclave
*for Jean Louis Laruette: La fausse aventurière
*for Pieter van Maldere: Le Médecin de l'amour

George Antheil

for his own music: Transatlantic

Guillaume Apollinaire

used by Francis Poulenc: Les mamelles de Tirésias

W. H. Auden

alone:
*for Benjamin Britten: Paul Bunyan
with Chester Kallman
*for Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids, Elegy for Young Lovers
*for Nicolas Nabokov: Love's Labour's Lost
*for Igor Stravinsky: ''The Rake's Progress''

B

Ingeborg Bachmann

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

Béla Balázs

for Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Luigi Balocchi

for Gioachino Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims, Le siège de Corinthe, Moïse et Pharaon

Henri Auguste Barbier

for Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

Jules Barbier

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

used by Antonio Salieri: Tarare

Vladimir Belsky

for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, The Golden Cockerel

Sem Benelli

for Umberto Giordano: La cena delle beffe
for Italo Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re, L'incantesimo

Hector Berlioz

for his own music: Les Troyens, Béatrice et Bénédict

Giovanni Bertati

for Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto
for Giuseppe Gazzaniga: Don Giovanni Tenorio

Thomas Betterton

for Henry Purcell: Dioclesian, The Fairy-Queen

Robin Blaser

for Harrison Birtwistle: The Last Supper

Édouard Blau

alone:
*for Édouard Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
with Georges Hartmann and Paul Milliet:
*for Jules Massenet: Werther
with Adolphe d'Ennery and Louis Gallet:
*for Jules Massenet:Le Cid

Arrigo Boito

for Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Falstaff
for Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda
for his own music: Mefistofele, Nerone
for Franco Faccio: Amleto

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly

for Luigi Cherubini: Les deux journées
for André Grétry: Pierre le Grand
for Étienne Méhul: Le jeune Henri, Une folie, Héléna, Valentine de Milan,

Bertolt Brecht

for Paul Dessau: Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
for Kurt Weill:
*alone: Der Jasager, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny,
*with Elisabeth Hauptmann: Happy End, The Threepenny Opera

Georg Büchner

used by Alban Berg: Wozzeck

Francis Burnand

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

Giovanni Francesco Busenello

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

Ferruccio Busoni

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

C

Massimo Cacciari

for Luigi Nono: Prometeo

Louis de Cahusac

for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Anacréon, Les Boréades, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Zaïs, Zoroastre

Henri Caïn

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

Italo Calvino

for Luciano Berio: La vera storia, Un re in ascolto

Ranieri de' Calzabigi

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

Salvadore Cammarano

for Gaetano Donizetti: L'assedio di Calais, Belisario, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria de Rudenz, Maria di Rohan, Pia de' Tolomei, Poliuto, Roberto Devereux
for Giuseppe Verdi: Alzira, La battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller, Il trovatore
for Giuseppe Persiani: Ines de Castro
for Saverio Mercadante: Elena da Feltre, La vestale, Orazi e Curiazi, Virginia, Il reggente
for Giovanni Pacini: Saffo

Mark Campbell

for Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
for Iain Bell: Stonewall
for William Bolcom: Lucrezia, Dinner At Eight
for Julian Grant: The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
for Laura Kaminsky: As One, Some Light Emerges, Today It Rains
for Paul Moravec: The Shining
for John Musto: Volpone, Later the Same Evening, Bastianello, The Inspector
for Rene Orth: Empty the House
for Roberto Scarcella Perino: A Sweet Silence in Cremona
for Paola Prestini: Edward Tulane
for Kevin Puts: Silent Night, The Manchurian Candidate, Elizabeth Cree
for Stewart Wallace: Supermax

Michel Carré

alone:
*for Charles Gounod: Mireille
*for Jacques Offenbach: La rose de Saint-Flour
with Eugène Cormon:
*for Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
with Barbier – see Jules Barbier

Nick Cave

for Nicholas Lens: Shell Shock

Ernest Chausson

for his own music: Le roi Arthus

Helmina von Chézy

for Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe

Henry Fothergill Chorley

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

Guelfo Civinini

for Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West

Jean Cocteau

J. M. Coetzee

for Nicholas Lens: Slow Man

Colette

for Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges

Marco Coltellini

for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Telemaco
for Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe
for Joseph Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa
for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice
for Antonio Salieri: Armida
for Tommaso Traetta: Ifigenia in Aulide, Antigona

Jeremy Commons

with Ivan Bootham: The Death of Venus

William Congreve

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

Eugène Cormon

with Michel Carré
*for Georges Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
with Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
*for Jacques Offenbach: Robinson Crusoé
with Lockroy
*for Aimé Maillart: Les dragons de Villars

Thomas Corneille

for Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée
for Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux

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 Adolphe Jaime
*for Hervé: Le petit Faust
*for Jacques Offenbach: Une demoiselle en loterie
with Adolphe Jaime and Etienne Tréfeu
*for Jacques Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant
with Albert de Saint-Albin
*for Jacques Offenbach: La foire Saint-Laurent

Michael Cristofer

for Terence Blanchard: Champion

Francis de Croisset

Eric Crozier

for Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Billy Budd, The Little Sweep

César Cui

for his own music: The Captain's Daughter, A Feast in Time of Plague, Mademoiselle Fifi, ''The Saracen''

D

Gabriele D'Annunzio

for Pietro Mascagni: Parisina
for Alberto Franchetti: La figlia di Iorio

Lorenzo Da Ponte

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

William Davenant

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

Giovanni de Gamerra

for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla ; Italian adaptation of The Magic Flute
for Giuseppe Sarti: Medonte, re di Epiro
for Josef Mysliveček: Il Medonte
for Antonio Salieri: Palmira, regina di Persia

Constance DeJong

for Philip Glass: Satyagraha

Casimir Delavigne
Germain Delavigne
Frederick Delius

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

Philippe Néricault Destouches

for Jean-Joseph Mouret: Les amours de Ragonde

Eduard Devrient

for Heinrich Marschner: Hans Heiling

Gaetano Donizetti

for his own music: Betly, Il campanello di notte, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Don Pasquale

John Dryden

for Henry Purcell: The Indian Queen, King Arthur
for Louis Grabu: ''Albion and Albanius''

E

Gottfried von Einem

for his own music: Dantons Tod

Adolphe d'Ennery

alone:
*for Charles Gounod: Le tribut de Zamora
with Édouard Blau and Louis Gallet:
*for Jules Massenet: Le Cid
with Jules Brésil
*for Adolphe Adam: Si j'étais roi
with Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir and Jules Chantepie:
*for Jules Massenet: Don César de Bazan

Victor Erofeyev

for Alfred Schnittke: Life with an Idiot

Hanns Heinz Ewers

for Eugen d'Albert: ''Die toten Augen''

F

Mohammed Fairouz

for himself: Sumeida's Song

Duncan Fallowell

for Irmin Schmidt composer Gormenghast (opera)

Charles-Simon Favart

for Egidio Duni: La fée Urgèle, ou Ce qui plaît aux dames

Lorenzo Ferrero

for himself: Marilyn, Night, La nascita di Orfeo, La Conquista

Jacopo Ferretti

for Gaetano 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 Gioachino Rossini: La Cenerentola, Matilde di Shabran
for Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli: Baldovino

Ferdinando Fontana

for Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi, Edgar

E. M. Forster

for Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd

Giovacchino Forzano

for Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi

Frederick the Great

for Carl Heinrich Graun: Montezuma

Christopher Fry

for Krzysztof Penderecki: ''Paradise Lost''

G

Kate Gale

for Don Davis: Río de Sangre

Louis Gallet

for Georges Bizet: Djamileh
for Alfred Bruneau: L'attaque du moulin
for Charles Gounod: Cinq-Mars, Maître Pierre
for Jules Massenet: Thaïs, Le Cid, Le roi de Lahore
for Camille Saint-Saëns: Ascanio, La princesse jaune, Déjanire

John Gay

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

Richard Genée

with Camillo Walzel
*for Carl Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent
*for Johann Strauss II: Cagliostro in Wien, Der lustige Krieg, Eine Nacht in Venedig

Ira Gershwin

with DuBose Heyward:
*for George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Antonio Ghislanzoni

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

Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

for Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Tosca

W. S. Gilbert

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 Frank Osmond Carr: His Excellency
for Edward German: Fallen Fairies
for Alberto Randegger: Creatures of Impulse

Philippe Gille

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

Alvise Giusti

for Antonio Vivaldi: Motezuma

Nikolai Gogol

used by Modest Mussorgsky: Zhenitba

Carlo Goldoni

used by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La finta semplice
used by Niccolò Piccinni: La buona figliuola
used by Joseph Haydn: Il mondo della luna, Lo speziale, Le pescatrici
used by Baldassare Galuppi: Il filosofo di campagna
used by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Il campiello, Le donne curiose, I quatro rusteghi, Gli amanti sposi, La vedova scaltra

Edmond Gondinet

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

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

Vincenzo Grimani

for George Frideric Handel: Agrippina

Sydney Grundy

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

Nicolas-François Guillard

for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
for Antonio Salieri: Les Horaces
for Antonio Sacchini: Chimène, Œdipe à Colone, ''Arvire et Évélina''

H

Daron Hagen

for his own music:
*alone: Cradle Song, from New York Stories, Orson Rehearsed
*with Barbara Grecki: A Woman in Morocco

Thomas Hales

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

Ludovic Halévy

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

Christopher Hampton

for Philip Glass: Appomattox, Waiting for the Barbarians

David Harsent

for Harrison Birtwistle: Gawain

Georges Hartmann

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

Nicola Francesco Haym

for Giovanni Bononcini: Calfurnia and Astianatte
for George Frideric Handel: Admeto, Amadigi di Gaula, Flavio, Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Radamisto, Rodelinda, Siroe, Tamerlano ''Teseo

Philip Hensher

for Thomas Adès: Powder Her Face

DuBose Heyward

with Ira Gershwin:

*for George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Ernest Hilbert

for Stella Sung: The Red Silk Thread, an Epic Tale of Marco Polo, The Book Collector
for Daniel Felsenfeld: Summer and All it Brings, The Last of Manhattan

Paul Hindemith

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

Russell Hoban

for Harrison Birtwistle: The Second Mrs Kong

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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

François-Benoît Hoffman

for Luigi Cherubini: Médée
for Nicolas Isouard: Les rendez-vous bourgeois
for Rodolphe Kreutzer: La mort d'Abel
for Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne: Nephté, Phèdre
for Étienne Méhul: Adrien, Ariodant, Euphrosine, Le jeune sage et le vieux fou, Stratonice

Basil Hood

for Arthur Sullivan: The Emerald Isle, The Rose of Persia
for Arthur Bruhns : Ib and Little Christina
for Cecil Cook: The Willow Pattern
for Edward German: Merrie England, A Princess of Kensington

Victor Hugo

for Louise Bertin: La Esmeralda

David Henry Hwang

for Philip Glass: The Voyage, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
for Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar
for Howard Shore: The Fly''

I

Luigi Illica

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

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

for Karol Szymanowski: ''King Roger''

J

Leoš Janáček

for his own music: The Cunning Little Vixen, From the House of the Dead, Jenůfa, The Makropulos Affair, Destiny

Scott Joplin

for his own music: Treemonisha

Étienne de Jouy

for Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages
for Étienne Méhul: Les amazones
for Gioachino Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon, Guillaume Tell
for Gaspare Spontini: Milton, La vestale, ''Fernand Cortez''

K

Georg Kaiser

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

Chester Kallman see Auden
Johann Friedrich Kind

for Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
for Conradin Kreutzer: Das Nachtlager in Granada

Kenneth Koch

for Ned Rorem: Bertha

Eliška Krásnohorská

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

Clemens Krauss

for Richard Strauss: ''Capriccio''

L

Antoine Houdar de la Motte

Ferdinand Lemaire

for Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Kasi Lemmons

for Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Ruggero Leoncavallo

for his own music: Chatterton, I Medici, La bohème, Pagliacci, Zazà
for Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut

Doris Lessing

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

M

Amin Maalouf

for Kaija Saariaho: L'amour de loin

Daniel MacIvor

for Rufus Wainwright: Hadrian

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Andrea Maffei

for Verdi: I masnadieri

Albéric Magnard

for his own music: Bérénice, Guercœur

Jean-François Marmontel

for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Acante et Céphise, La guirlande, Les sibarites
for André Grétry: Le Huron, Lucile, Zémire et Azor
for Niccolò Piccinni: Atys, Didon, Pénélope, Roland

Henri Meilhac

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

Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier de Mélesville

for Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa
with Pierre Carmouche
*for Jacques Offenbach: La permission de dix heures
with Eugène Scribe
*for Jacques Offenbach: La chatte métamorphosée en femme

Guido Menasci

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

Catulle Mendès

for Emmanuel Chabrier: Gwendoline
for Claude Debussy: Rodrigue et Chimène
with Ephraïm Mikaël:
*for Emmanuel Chabrier: Briséïs
for Jules Massenet: Ariane, Bacchus
for André Messager: Isoline

Gian Carlo Menotti

for his own music: Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Boy Who Grew Too Fast, The Consul, The Island God, The Last Savage, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleecker Street, The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois
for Samuel Barber: A Hand of Bridge, Vanessa

Joseph Méry

for Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos

Olivier Messiaen

for his own music: Saint François d'Assise

Pietro Metastasio

used by J. C. Bach, Riccardo Broschi, Johann Adolph Hasse, Josef Mysliveček, and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, among others: Adriano in Siria
used by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hasse, Mysliveček, and Tommaso Traetta, among others: Antigono
used by J. C. Bach, Gluck, Hasse, Mysliveček, and Leonardo Vinci, among others: Artaserse
used by Hasse, Vinci, J. C. Bach, and Antonio Vivaldi, among others: Catone in Utica
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Mysliveček, among others: Demetrio
used by Gluck, Hasse, Niccolò Jommelli, Mysliveček, Traetta, and Vinci, among others: Demofoonte
used by Hasse, Nicola Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Didone abbandonata
used by Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others: Il re pastore
used by Gluck, Hasse, Jommelli, and Mysliveček, among others: Il trionfo di Clelia
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Porpora, among others: '
used by Gluck, George Frideric Handel, Mysliveček, and Porpora, among others: Ezio
used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, and Vinci, among others: Alessandro nelle Indie, also known as Poro, re dell'Indie
used by Gluck, Hasse, and Mysliveček, among others: Ipermestra
used by Mozart and Mysliveček, among others: La clemenza di Tito
used by Hasse, Mysliveček, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Traetta, and Vivaldi, among others: L'Olimpiade
used by Hasse, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Mysliveček, Porpora, Antonio Salieri, and Vinci, among others: Semiramide riconosciuta
used by Handel, Hasse, Porpora, Vinci, and Vivaldi, among others: Siroe rè di Persia

Madeleine Milhaud
for Darius Milhaud: Médée, Bolivar, La mère coupable
Suzie Miller
used by Lindy Hume: Snow White
Nicolò Minato
used by Francesco Cavalli: Orimonte
used by Francesco Cavalli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Giacomo Antonio Perti: Pompeo Magno
used by Francesco Cavalli, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Xerse
used by Antonio Draghi: Leonida in Tegea, La tirannide abbatuta dalla virtù
used by Antonio Draghi and Marc'Antonio Ziani: Chilonida
used by Antonio Draghi and Georg Reutter/Antonio Caldara: La patienza di Socrate con due mogli
used by Antonio Sartorio, Antonio Draghi and Tomaso Albinoni: La prosperità di Elio Sejano
Paul Muldoon
for Daron Hagen: Shining Brow, Vera of Las Vegas, Bandanna, The Antient Concert
Modest Mussorgsky'

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

N

Émile de Najac

with Paul Burani
*for Emmanuel Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui
with Paul Ferrier
*for Lecocq: La vie mondaine

Charles Nuitter

for Jacques Offenbach: Les bavards, ''Les fées du Rhin''

O

Meredith Oakes

for Thomas Adès: The Tempest

Marc Okrand

for Eef van Breen: ʼuʼ

Martin Opitz

for Heinrich Schütz: Dafne

John Oxenford

for George Alexander Macfarren: Robin Hood, ''Helvellyn''

P

Francesco Maria Piave

for Luigi Ricci and Federico Ricci: Crispino e la comare
for Verdi: Aroldo, Il corsaro, I due Foscari, Ernani, La forza del destino, Macbeth, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, La traviata

Arthur Wing Pinero

for Arthur Sullivan: The Beauty Stone

Myfanwy Piper

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

James Robinson Planché

for Weber: Oberon

William Plomer

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

David Pountney

for Peter Maxwell Davies: The Doctor of Myddfai, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk

Alexander Preis

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

Sergei Prokofiev

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

Alexander Pushkin

used by Alexander Dargomyzhsky: ''The Stone Guest''

Q

Philippe Quinault

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

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Jean Richepin

for César Cui: Le flibustier
for Jules Massenet: Le mage

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

Ottavio Rinuccini

Michael Symmons Roberts

for James MacMillan: The Sacrifice

Felice Romani

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 (Donizetti), Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Ugo, conte di Parigi
for Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'esule di Granata, Margherita d'Anjou
for Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Bianca e Falliero, Il turco in Italia
for Verdi: Un giorno di regno

Giulio Rospigliosi

for Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio
for Marco Marazzoli and Virgilio Mazzocchi: Chi soffre, speri
for Luigi Rossi: Il palazzo incantato
for Michelangelo Rossi: Erminia sul Giordano
with Giacomo Rospigliosi
*for Antonio Maria Abbatini and Marco Marazzoli: Dal male il bene

Gaetano Rossi

for Rossini: La cambiale di matrimonio, Tancredi, Semiramide
for Simon Mayr: L'amor coniugale
for Saverio Mercadante: Il giuramento
for Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
for Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna
for Donizetti: Maria Padilla, Linda di Chamounix

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

for his own music: Le devin du village

Pierre-Charles Roy

for André Cardinal Destouches: Callirhoé
for André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande: Les élémens

Alphonse Royer

with Gustave Vaëz
* for Donizetti: La favorite, L'Ange de Nisida
* for Rossini and Niedermeyer: Robert Bruce
* for Verdi: ''Jérusalem''

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Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges

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 François-Antoine de Planard:
*for Fromental Halévy: L'éclair
with Eugène Scribe:
*for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne

Emanuel Schikaneder

for Mozart: The Magic Flute
for Franz Xaver Süssmayr: Der Spiegel von Arkadien
for Peter Winter: The Magic Flute's Second Part

Arnold Schoenberg

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

Eugène Scribe

alone
*for Auber: Le cheval de bronze, Le domino noir, L'enfant prodigue, Fra Diavolo, Gustave III, Haydée, Manon Lescaut, La muette de Portici, La part du diable
*for Boieldieu: La dame blanche
*for Donizetti: Dom Sébastien
*for Halévy: Guido et Ginevra, La Juive
*for Meyerbeer: L'Africaine, Les Huguenots, Le prophète, Robert le diable, L'étoile du nord
with Germain Delavigne
*for Gounod: La nonne sanglante
with Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
*for Rossini: Le comte Ory
with Charles Duveyrier
*for Donizetti: Le duc d'Albe
*for Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
*for Auber: Les diamants de la couronne

Sandra Seaton

for William Bolcom's From The Diary of Sally Hemings

Michel-Jean Sedaine

for Christoph Willibald Gluck: Le diable à quatre
for André Grétry: Aucassin et Nicolette, Guillaume Tell, Richard Coeur-de-lion
for Monsigny: Le déserteur

Peter Sellars

for John Adams: Doctor Atomic

Elkanah Settle

for The World in the Moon and The Virgin Prophetess, or The Fate of Troy

Thomas Shadwell

for Matthew Locke: Psyche

William Shakespeare

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Renato Simoni

for Puccini: Turandot
for Francesco Cilea: Il ritorno dell'amore

Montagu Slater

for Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes

Temistocle Solera

for Verdi: Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Nabucco, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Giovanna d'Arco, Attila

Antonio Somma

for Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Gertrude Stein

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

B. C. Stephenson

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