This is a list of the operettas and operas of the Austrian composer Carl Millöcker (1842–1899).
Millöcker wrote 20 light operas, of which 16 are described as operettas, one as a Singspiel, one as a 'Volksoper' ('people's opera'). (The other two were left undesignated.) His music is closely associated with the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, where 14 of his works received their first performances.
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Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Der tote Gast | operette | 1 act | Ludwig Harisch, after the novel by Heinrich Zschokke | 11 February 1865 | Graz, Thalia-Theater |
Die beiden Binder | operette | 1 act | G Stoltze | 21 December 1865 | Graz, Thalia-Theater |
Diana | operette | 1 act | Josef Braun | 2 January 1867 | Vienna, Harmonie-Theater |
Der Sackpfeifer | operette | 1 act | Ludwig Anzengruber | 19 September 2015 | Strasshof, KUMST |
Der Dieb | operette | 1 act | Alois Berla | 1868/1869 | Budapest |
Die Fraueninsel | operette | 3 acts | after Le royaume des femmes by Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard | 1868/1869 | Budapest, Deutsches Theater |
Der Regimentstambour | operette | 2 acts | Heinrich Börnstein | 23 October 1869 | Vienna, Theater in der Josefstadt |
Abenteuer in Wien | Singspiel | 3 acts | Alois Berla | 20 January 1873 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Das verwunschene Schloss | operette | 5 acts | Alois Berla | 30 March 1878 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Gräfin Dubarry (revised as Die Dubarry, Berlin 1931) | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 31 October 1879 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Apajune, der Wassermann | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 18 December 1880 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Die Jungfrau von Belleville | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell, after La pucelle de Belleville by Paul de Kock | 29 October 1881 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Der Bettelstudent | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell, after Fernande by Victorien Sardou, and Le Guitarréro by Halévy / Eugène Scribe | 6 December 1882 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Gasparone | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 26 January 1884 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Der Feldprediger | 3 acts | Hugo Wittmann and Alois Wohlmuth, after Das seltsame Brautgemach by Gustav Schilling | 31 October 1884 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien | |
Der Vice-Admiral | operette | prologue and 3 acts |
Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 9 October 1886 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Die sieben Schwaben | Volksoper | 3 acts | Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer | 29 October 1887 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Der arme Jonathan | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 4 January 1890 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Das Sonntagskind | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 16 January 1892 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Der Probekuss | operette | 3 acts | Richard Genée and Friedrich Zell | 22 December 1894 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
Das Nordlicht | 3 acts | Hugo Wittmann | 2 December 1896 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
References edit
- Lamb, Andrew (1992), "Millöcker, Carl" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7