Operas with Arab/Middle Eastern Themes

AIDA

G. Verdi

1871

Dec. 24, Cairo

THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO#

ENTFUEHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL

W. A. Mozart

1782

Oct. 29

ABDUL AND ERINIEH

Curschmann, S. tor Hardt

1828

 

ABU HASAN#

C.M. von Weber, F.K. Heimer

1811

June 4; one-act

ALADDIN

Bishop, G. Soane

1826

London, Apr. 29; Phila., Nov. 12, 1830

 

 

 

 

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA

Samuel Barber

1966

New York

ARMIDE

C. W. Gluck, Philippe Quinault

1777

Vienna

BARBE BLEUE

J. Offenbach

1866

New York, July 13, 1868

BARBER BLUE

 

1868

New York, parody

THE BARBER OF BAGDAD

Peter Cornelius

1858

Breitkopf & Haertel (1905)

DER BARBIER VON BAGDAD

 

 

NY, 1890; London, 1891, Edinburgh, 1956

LE CADI DUPÉ

C. W. Gluck; P.-R. Lemonnier

1761

Vienna, Dec. 8, 1761

CLEOPATRA'S NIGHT

Henry Hadley, Alice Lead Pollock

1920

Boston: Oliver Ditson

DJAMILEH

G. Bizet, A. deMusset

1872

Paris, May 22 [one-act]

DOM SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL

Gaetano Donizetti

1843

Paris Opera, Nov. 13, 1843

HÉRODIADE   [= SALOME]

Jules Massenet

1881

Brussels; New Orleans,Feb. 13,1892

FERISHTAH'S FANCIES

Granville Bantock

1905

 

GLI ARABI NELLE GALLIE

G. Pacini, Romanelli

1827

New York, Nov. 18, 1833

THE GOOSE OF CAIRO

L'OIE DU CAIRE

W. A. Mozart

1783

first performed 1867

GIROFLÉ-GIROFLA

Charles Lecocq, Albert Van Loo, Eugene Letterrier

1874

Brussels, Mar. 21, 1874

IL TURCO IN ITALIA#

G. Rossini

1814

Milan, 8/14/1814

IN THE PASHA'S GARDEN

John Laurence Seymour, H. C. Tracey

1935

New York, Jan 24, 1935; Harms

LEILA

Harry R. Shelley

 

 

L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI#

G. Rossini

1813

Milan

MAHMOUD

Stephen Storace

1796

London, Apr. 30, 1796

MAROUF, SAVETIER DU CAIRE

Henri Rabaud

1914

Paris,  May 15, 1914

OMAR KHAYYAM [cantata]

Granville Bantock

1906

Breitkopf & Haertel

OMAR KHAYYAM [cantata]

Henry Houseley, E. Fitzgerald

1917

H. W. Gray, New York

OMAR UND LEILA

Friederich E. Fesca

1820?

 

PEARL OF IRAN

Granville Bantock

1894

 

PÈLERINS DE LA MECQUE = LA RECONTRE IMPRÉVUE

Gluck, C. W.; L. H. Dancourt

1764

Vienna, Jan. 7, 1764

SAID PASHA

Ric[h]ard Stahl, Scott Marble

1889

Chicago

THE SONG OF MAJNUN#

Bright Sheng, Andrew Porter

1992

Chicago, Apr 9, 1992; Delos DE3211

THAÏS#

Jules Massanet

1894

Paris, March 16, 1894

A TRIP TO AFRICA

F. Von Suppe, Richard Genee, F. West

1884

Boston

DIE AFRIKAREISE

 

1883

Vienna, Mar. 17, 1883

ZAIDE

W. A. Mozart

1780

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