What has more acts: Riders to the Sea or Madama Butterfly?
Riders to the Sea (opera) Riders to the Sea is a short one-act opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams, based on the play of the same name by John Millington Synge. The composer completed the score in 1927, but it was not premiered until 1 December 1937, at the Royal College of Music, London. The opera remained largely the province of students and amateurs until it entered the repertoire of Sadler's Wells in 1953.
Nightride and Sunrise Nightride and Sunrise, also Night Ride and Sunrise (Finnish: "Öinen ratsastus ja auringonnousu" ) is a tone poem composed by Jean Sibelius in 1908. Sibelius gave different accounts of the inspiration for this music. One, told to Karl Ekman, was his first visit to the Colosseum in Rome in 1901. Another account, given in his later years to his secretary Santeri Levas, was a sledge ride from Helsinki to Kerava "at some time around the turn of the century", during which he saw a striking sunrise.