(1782), Der Schauspieldirektor (1786), and Don Giovanni (1788), as well as later works, such as Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816), Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury (1875), Verdi's Falstaff (1893), Ravel's L'heure espagnole (1911) and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951). References Sources Barnes, Clifford, "Vaudeville" in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001. "Vaudeville" in The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 1992. . M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet, "Vaudeville final" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992. . Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required). Theatrical genres Opera genres