Jules Massenet was a composer, not a singer. His best known opera is Thais.
Massenet's "Thais" is sung in French.
Puccini's opera has a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based the opera on the short story 'Madame Butterfly' by John Luther Long - 1898 and also on the novel 'Madame Chrysanthème' by Pierre Loti - 1887. However, the American scholar Arthur Groos claims that the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasaki in the early 1890s.
"Guys and Dolls" was based on stories written by Damon Runyon. It is unlikely that Runyon was attempting to copy Brecht (who based "Threepenny Opera" on John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera", which was first performed in 1728).
Music by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor
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Jules Massenet was a composer, not a singer. His best known opera is Thais.
Jules Massenet
The Phantom Of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
Massenet's "Thais" is sung in French.
The composer was Jules Massenet.
Puccini's opera 'La boheme'
Jules Massenet was a french Opera composer at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuriesa exhaustive list of his pieces are listed on the Wikipedia pagehttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Massenet
Tchaikovsky, based on a Pushkin verse novel of the same name.
The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and it was based on Voltaire's novel Candide.
The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by, and is considered the magnum opus of, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter Op. 112 is an opera based on this novel and was composed by Robin Milford (22nd January 1903 - 29th December 1959) an English composer.
Space Opera - novel - was created in 1965.