1) German-language opera 1) Opera by Franco Alfano 2) Opera set in India 
La leggenda di Sakùntala (titled Sakùntala in its revised version) is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto, basing his work on Kalidasa`s 5th-century BC drama Abhijñānaśākuntalam. ==Première, Loss, Reconstruction, Rediscovery== It was first performed at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna on 10 December 1921. The full ....
Romantic drama by the Indian writer Kalidasa, performed c. 400. King Dushyanta falls in love with, but later fails to acknowledge, Sakuntala, the adopted daughter of the hermit Kanva. Dushyanta's...