Are Bluebeard's Castle and The Beggar's Opera both one-act operas?
Bluebeard's Castle Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára ; literally: "The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle") is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer, and is written in Hungarian, based on the French literary tale "La Barbe bleue" by Charles Perrault. The opera lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard ("Kékszakállú "), and his new wife Judith ("Judit " ); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's castle for the first time.
Pygmalion (opera) Pygmalion is a monodrama in one act by composer Georg Benda with a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter. The opera's first performance was at the , the court theatre in Gotha, on September 20, 1779. "Pygmalion" was the fourth of the five theatrical collaborations of Benda and Gotter. Gotter based his text on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 play "Pygmalion". Benda's melodrama is unusual as it has three characters but only one spoken role. Two of the parts are silently acted on stage.