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• Abdelazer (Aphra Behn, 1676)

• 1677 music by Henry Purcell

• The Acharnians (Aristophanes, 425 BC)

• 1914 music by Sir Hubert Parry

• Adrienne Lecouvreur (Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé, 1849)

• music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (he later arranged an orchestral suite)

• La adultera penitente (Moreto, adapted by Gregorio Martínez Sierra)

• 1917 music by Joaquín Turina

• Advent (August Strindberg)

• music by Heinz Tiessen (died 1971)

• Agamemnon (Aeschylus): Part I of Oresteia (see below)

• L'Aiglon (Edmond Rostand, 1900)

• music by Richard Addinsell

• Aladdin (Adam Oehlenschläger, 1805, music Carl Nielsen, 1919)

• 1918-19 music by Carl Nielsen, FS. 89

• The Alchemist (Ben Jonson, 1610)

• 1710 music by George Frideric Handel

• Alice in Wonderland (adapted for the stage by Eva Le Gallienne from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; 1933)

• music by Richard Addinsell

• L'Alouette (Jean Anouilh, 1952)

• music by Leonard Bernstein

• Amal, or La Lettre du roi (Rabindranath Tagore, trans. André Gide)

• 1936 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 156

• Andromaque (Jean Racine, 1667)

• 1903 music by Camille Saint-Saëns

• L’annonce faite à Marie (Paul Claudel, 1910)

• 1932 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 117 (also 1942)
• 1942 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 231 (also 1932)

• The Annunciation (La anunciación; Tomás Borrás)

• 1924 music by Joaquín Turina

• Antigone (Sophocles, 442 BC)

• 1841 music by Felix Mendelssohn
• 1893 music by Camille Saint-Saëns
• 1920 music by Willem Pijper (rev. 1922, 1926)
• music by Heinz Tiessen (died 1971)

• Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare, c. 1605)

• 1920 music by Florent Schmitt, Op. 69 (to André Gide's French version Antoine et Cléopâtre)
• 1937 music by Virgil Thomson
• 1944 music by Leevi Madetoja, Op. 80
• music by Quincy Porter (died 1966)

• À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles (Alfred de Musset, 1832)

• 1944 music by Henri Sauguet

• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Maurice Maeterlinck, 1899)

• 1920 music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (he later arranged an orchestral suite)

• L'Arlésienne (Alphonse Daudet, 1872)

• music by Georges Bizet. This is best known in the form of two orchestral suites, one compiled by Bizet himself, the other by Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death.

• The Ascent of F6 (W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 1936)

• 1937 music by Benjamin Britten

• L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise (aka La Mort du duc de Guise; Henri Lavedan, 1908)

• music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Op. 128; this was music for a film, not a staged play as such, and is generally considered one of the world's first film scores

• As You Like It (William Shakespeare, c. 1600)

• 1922 music by Roger Quilter
• 1931 music by Ernst Toch
• music by Johan Halvorsen (Livet i skogen, Op. 33; died 1935)
• 1938 music by Ildebrando Pizzetti

• Athalie (Jean Racine, 1691)

• 1785 music by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
• 1786 music by Georg Joseph "Abbé" Vogler
• music by François Joseph Gossec (died 1829)
• 1845 music by Felix Mendelssohn
• 1946 music by Frank Martin

• Attila (Laurence Binyon)

• 1907 music by Charles Villiers Stanford, Op. 102