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- Rache des verhöbten Liebhabers (Ernst Toller)
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- music by Ernst Krenek
- Raduz and Mahulena (Julius Zeyer)
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- 1898 music by Josef Suk, Op. 13; rev. 1912; in 1900 he reworked the music as an orchestral piece, A Fairy Tale, Op. 16
- Ramuntcho (Pierre Loti, 1897)
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- 1908 music by Gabriel Pierné
- Ravenswood (Herman Merrivale 1890, based on Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel The Bride of Lammermoor)
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- 1890 music by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Op. 45
- Regina von Emmeritz (Zachris Topelius)
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- music by August Söderman (died 1876)
- La Reine Fiammette (Catulle Mendès, 1898)
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- music by Paul Vidal
- Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (André Gide, written 1907 as a novel)
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- 1933 music by Henri Sauguet
- Rhesus (attrib. Euripides)
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- 1922 music by Ernest Walker, Op. 35
- Richard III (William Shakespeare, c. 1591)
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- music by August Söderman (died 1876)
- music by Robert Volkmann (died 1883; overture, Op. 68; interludes, Op. 73)
- The Robbers (Friedrich Schiller, 1781)
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- 1782 music by Franz Danzi
- 1919 music by Yuri Shaporin
- music by Vissarion Shebalin
- Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, c. 1595)
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- 1890 music by Francis Thomé
- 1907 music by Engelbert Humperdinck
- music by Wilhelm Stenhammar (died 1927)
- 1936 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 161 (S. Jollivet, after Jouve, after Shakespeare)
- music by Richard Strauss (died 1949)
- music by Franz Salmhofer (died 1975)
- music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov (died 1982)
- Rosamunde (Helmina von Chézy, 1823)
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- music by Franz Schubert, Op. 26, D. 797
- The Ruins of Athens (August von Kotzebue)
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- 1811 music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 113, including the Turkish March
- 1822 Beethoven wrote an overture Consecration of the House, Op. 124, for the same play
- 1924 Richard Strauss made his own arrangement of Beethoven's music
- Ruy Blas (Victor Hugo)
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- music by Felix Mendelssohn, ca. 1839
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