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Side-by-Side Opera Libretti with English Translation

DM’s Opera Series prints the complete libretto of one opera per volume, with the original text and a clear English translation side-by-side in two columns on the same page — so you can follow every line while listening to a recording or watching a performance. The series currently covers 36 operas by 13 composers, with originals in Italian, German, French, Czech and Russian.

Available Titles

Gioachino Rossini 1 edition

Il barbiere di Siviglia / Gioachino Rossini / Italian–English
Il barbiere di Siviglia
The Barber of Seville
Gioachino Rossini · Italian–English
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The Story Behind the Series

My interest in opera began in 2009, when I discovered Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. These were my first experiences with opera, and they opened the door to a lifelong passion. I gradually explored more works by Wagner and Verdi, and later came to appreciate Puccini and other composers.

Over the years, I attended numerous performances at opera houses in Moscow, Russia, visited two opera theaters in Prague, Czech Republic, and enjoyed many Metropolitan Opera broadcasts in movie theaters. Opera also became an important part of my life at home, through recordings and video performances.

As my interest grew, so did my curiosity about the exact meaning of the words being sung. I began collecting original libretti and English translations, comparing different versions and arranging the texts side by side to follow the music more closely.

In 2012, I created my first website pages to share the libretti I had collected with other opera enthusiasts. What began as a personal collection gradually developed into LibrettoArchive.

I also started formatting and printing bilingual libretti for my own use. Eventually, this work grew into DM’s Opera Series, a collection of printed, side-by-side opera librettos, with the first editions published on Amazon in 2024.

Languages in the Series

Each edition prints the original language and the English translation side-by-side in two columns on the same page, line by line:

Read the Libretti Online

Many of the libretti included in the series can also be explored on this website. For example:


Dmitrii Murashev