Giacomo Meyerbeer

Giacomo Meyerbeer

male, deceased (1864)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 - May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera.
Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan

male, deceased (1900)
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (May 13 1842 - November 22 1900) was an English composer best known for his operatic collaborations with librettist W....
Vincent La Selva

Vincent La Selva

male
Vincent La Selva is an American conductor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began performing at the age of 8, and by the age of 12, he was conducting...
Ferenc Erkel

Ferenc Erkel

male, deceased (1893)
Ferenc Erkel (November 7, 1810, Gyula - June 25, 1893, Budapest) was a Hungarian composer. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written...
William Henry Fry

William Henry Fry

male, deceased (1864)
William Henry Fry was an American composer, critic, and journalist, and was the first American to compose a publicly performed grand opera. He was...

Dudley Buck

male, deceased (1909)
Dudley Buck (March 10, 1839 - October 6, 1909) was an American composer of music. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of a merchant who...

Robert Cambert

male, deceased (1677)
Robert Cambert, was a French composer principally of opera. Born in Paris in 1628, he studied music under Chambonnières, His first position was as o...
B. C. Stephenson

B. C. Stephenson

male, deceased (1906)
Benjamin Charles Stephenson, or B. C. Stephenson, (1838 - January 22 1906) was a dramatist, lyricist, and librettist in Victorian England. The...

César Vezzani

male, deceased (1951)
César Vezzani was a French/Corsican operatic tenor who became a leading exponent of French "grand opera" through several decades.
Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Sa

female, deceased (1938)
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa (Lakota: pronounced "zitkala-ŠA" (sha), and translates to "Red Bird"), was a N...