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This page lists public-domain libretti of operas, operettas, oratorios, et cetera.

Opera

By title

A

• Aida
• L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

B

• The Bartered Bride
• Belshazzar

C

• Cox and Box

D

• Dido and Aeneas

G

• The Gondoliers
• The Grand Duke

H

• HMS Pinafore

I

• The Indian Queen
• Iolanthe
• Israel in Egypt

M

• The Masque at Kenilworth
• Messiah
• The Mikado (individual selections)

O

• Orphée aux Enfers

P

• Patience (operetta)
• Pelléas and Melisande
• The Pirates of Penzance
• Princess Ida

R

• Ruddigore

S

• Saul
• La Serva Padrona
• The Sorcerer

T

• Thespis
• Trial by Jury

U

• Utopia, Limited

Y

• The Yeomen of the Guard

By composer

D

• Debussy, Claude
  • Pelléas and Melisande

H

• Handel, George Frideric
  • Oratorios
    • L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
    • Belshazzar
    • Israel in Egypt
    • Messiah
    • Saul
  • Operas and masques
    • Acis and Galatea (masque)

O

• Offenbach, Jacques
  • Orphée aux Enfers

P

• Purcell, Henry
  • Dido and Aeneas
  • The Indian Queen

S

• Smetana, Bedřich
  • The Bartered Bride
• Sullivan, Arthur
  • (with W. S. Gilbert)
    • Thespis
    • Trial by Jury
    • The Sorcerer
    • HMS Pinafore
    • The Pirates of Penzance
    • Patience (operetta)
    • Iolanthe
    • Princess Ida
    • The Mikado (individual selections)
    • Ruddigore
    • The Yeomen of the Guard
    • The Gondoliers
    • Utopia, Limited
    • The Grand Duke
  • (with Henry F. Chorley)
    • The Masque at Kenilworth
  • (with F. C. Burnand)
    • Cox and Box

V

• Verdi, Giuseppe
  • (with Antonio Ghislanzoni)
    • Aida
  • (with Francesco Maria Piave)
    • Ernani
    • Macbeth
    • Rigoletto
    • La traviata

By individual performers / singers

C

• Francesca Cuzzoni (married: Sandoni)

D

• Margherita Durastanti, soprano
  • Farewell songs Durastanti performed on stage

F

• Farinelli, birth name Carlo Broschi, soprano castrato
  • Anecdotes on Farinelli (from ''The Westminster Magazine'' 1777)

S

• Sandoni, Francesca => see Francesca Cuzzoni
• Senesino, birth name Francesco Bernardi, contralto soprano
  • Anecdotes and character of Senesino (from ''The Westminster Magazine'' 1777)

External Links

• Wikipedia article on "Libretto"
• Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
• 400 Librettos of the most famous Operas