This category contains operas which are specified in their libretto as having only one act. However, the number of acts is not necessarily an indication of the length of the opera. While most one-act operas have a relatively short running time (under 90 minutes), this is not always the case. For example, the one-act opera Das Rheingold has an approximate running time of 2 hours, 35 minutes, while Puccini's four-act opera La bohème and Monteverdi's five-act opera L'Orfeo both have running times of approximately 2 hours. Leoncavallo's two-act opera Pagliacci has a running time of just over an hour, while Richard Strauss' one-act opera Salome has a running time of nearly two hours.
References
[edit]All running times are taken from: The Earl of Harwood and Antony Peattie (editors), The New Kobbé's Opera Book, 11th Edition, 1997, New York: G.P. Putnam's and Sons.
Pages in category "One-act operas"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 359 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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A
- L'abandon d'Ariane
- Die Abreise
- Abu Hassan
- Actéon (opera)
- Adelina (opera)
- Adina (opera)
- L'alcôve
- Aleko (Rachmaninoff)
- Alexandre bis
- Ali Pascha von Janina
- Alice's Adventures Under Ground (opera)
- Amahl and the Night Visitors
- L'amant statue
- Amelia Goes to the Ball
- L'amor coniugale
- Anacréon (Rameau, 1754)
- Angel's Bone
- Anna Kraus (opera)
- Anyuta
- Apothicaire et perruquier
- L'arbre enchanté
- Ariane (Martinů)
- Arlecchino (opera)
- Armida (Weir)
- At the Boar's Head
B
- Ba-ta-clan
- The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
- Bagatelle (opera)
- The Bassarids
- Bastien und Bastienne
- Bay Önder
- The Bear (opera)
- Becoming Santa Claus
- The Bell Tower
- Bertha (opera)
- Bianca (opera)
- Bion (opera)
- Blaise le savetier
- Blennerhassett (opera)
- Blind Injustice (opera)
- Blond Eckbert
- Bluebeard's Castle
- The Boatswain's Mate
- La bonne d'enfant
- The Boor
- Boulevard Solitude
- The Boy Who Grew Too Fast
C
- Les cadeaux de Noël
- Le cadi dupé
- La cambiale di matrimonio
- Il campanello
- The Canterville Ghost (Getty opera)
- The Capitoline Venus (opera)
- Capriccio (opera)
- The Carriage (opera)
- La casa disabitata
- Cavalleria rusticana
- Cefalo e Procri
- Le chalet
- La chanson de Fortunio
- Charlie Parker's Yardbird
- La chatte métamorphosée en femme
- Che originali!
- Christopher Columbus (Zador)
- Christopher Sly (opera)
- La chute de la maison Usher (opera)
- The Classical Style (opera)
- The Coachmen at the Relay Station
- Comedy on the Bridge
- La corona (Gluck)
- Cox and Box
- Le crescendo
- Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins
- Curlew River
D
- Daphne (opera)
- Daphnis et Chloé (Offenbach)
- Daphnis et Eglé
- La Délivrance de Thésée
- Une demoiselle en loterie
- Les deux aveugles de Tolède
- Les deux aveugles
- Les deux petits savoyards
- The Devil Take Her
- Le devin du village
- Le diable dans le beffroi
- The Diary of a Madman (opera)
- Der Diktator
- Djamileh
- Le docteur Miracle
- Don Giovanni Tenorio
- Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho
- Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança
- Don Sanche
- Dora's Dream
- Die Dorfschule
- Down in the Valley (opera)
- I due timidi
E
F
- A Feast in Time of Plague (Cui opera)
- Les femmes vengées
- Fête Galante (Smyth)
- Les fêtes de Ramire
- Feuersnot
- Le financier et le savetier
- Flammen (Schreker)
- Flis (opera)
- Eine florentinische Tragödie
- Flower and Hawk
- Una follia
- Fomka the Fool
- Fool's Paradise (opera)
- Found and Lost (opera)
- Francesca di Foix
- The Francis Bacon Opera
- Friedenstag
- From the Towers of the Moon
G
H
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L
M
- M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . .
- Maddalena (opera)
- Madeleine (opera)
- Madeline Lee (opera)
- Mademoiselle Fifi (opera)
- Il maestro di cappella
- The Maiden in the Tower
- La maison du docteur
- The Man and Men
- Man on the Moon (opera)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)
- Un mari à la porte
- Maria egiziaca
- Le mariage aux lanternes
- Markheim (opera)