English language/Catalogs/Artworks known in English by a foreign title

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The following is an alphabetical list of works of art, mainly musical, that are often called by a non-English name in an English context. (Of course, many such titles are simply the names of people: Don Quixote, Irma la Douce, Madame Bovary, Tosca, Pelléas et Mélisande. These have been omitted, as have examples where the English may easily be inferred: Symphonie Fantastique, Les Liaisons dangereuses.)

Aberystwyth Mon Amour, novel by Malcolm Pryce, after Hiroshima Mon Amour, below.

À la recherche du temps perdu (French, "In Search of Lost Time"), novel by Marcel Proust.

Barcarolle: Une Nuit à Lisbonne (French, "Barcarolle: A Night in Lisbon"), symphonic poem by Camille Saint-Saens.

Così Fan Tutte (Italian, "That’s What They [feminine] All Do"), opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Das Boot (German, "The Boat"), a 1982 movie about submariners trapped in a German U-boat (submarine). Directed by Wolfgang Petersen.

Das Kapital (German, "Capital"), treatise by Karl Marx.

Das Klagende Lied (German, "The Lamentation"), cantata by Gustav Mahler.

Das Lied von der Erde (German, "The Song of the Earth", Symphony for One Tenor and One Alto, or Baritone, Voice and Orchestra (after Hans Bethge's 'The Chinese Flute'), by Gustav Mahler.

Déjeuner sur l'herbe (French, "Lunch on the Grass"), painting by Edouard Manet.

Der Freischütz (German, "The Freeshooter/The Marksman"), opera by Carl Maria von Weber.

Desafinado (Portuguese, "Out of Tune"), song by Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Die Fledermaus (German, "The Bat"), operetta by Johann Strauss II.

Die Glückliche Hand (German, "The Lucky Hand"), for chorus and orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg.

Die Schöne Müllerin (German, "The Fair Maid of the Mill"), song cycle by Franz Schubert.

Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (French, "Don Quixote to Dulcinea"), song cycle by Maurice Ravel.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (German, "A Little Night-Music"), serenade by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

El Amor Brujo (Spanish, "Love, the Magician"), ballet by Manuel de Falla.

El Cóndor Pasa (Spanish, "The Condor Passes"), song by Daniel Alomía Robles and Julio Baudouin.

Erwartung (German, "Expectation"), opera by Arnold Schoenberg.

Götterdämmerung (German, "Twilight of the Gods"), opera by Richard Wagner.

Gurrelieder (German, "Songs of Gurre"), oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg.

Hiroshima Mon Amour (French, "Hiroshima My Love"), film directed by Alain Resnais.

Huis Clos (French, "In Camera"), play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

Il Trovatore (Italian, "The Troubadour"), opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Jeux d'enfants (French, "Children's Games"), symphonic suite by Georges Bizet.

Kalevala (Finnish, "Lands of Kaleva"), epic poem by Elias Lönnrot.

Kindertotenlieder (German, "Songs of Dead Children"), song cycle by Gustav Mahler.

La Bohème (French, "The [female] Bohemian"), opera by Giacomo Puccini.

La Création du monde (French, "The Creation of the World"), ballet by Darius Milhaud.

La Cucaracha (Spanish, "The Cockroach"), traditional song.

La Dame aux Camélias (French, "The Lady of the Camellias"), novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

La Demoiselle élue (French, "The Chosen Girl"), cantata by Claude Debussy.

La Dolce Vita (Italian, "The Sweet Life"), film directed by Federico Fellini.

La Giaconda (Italian, "Mrs. Giacondo", more prominently known as the Mona Lisa), painting by Leonardo da Vinci.

La Mer (French, "The Sea"), symphonic poem by Claude Debussy.

La traviata (Italian, "The Fallen Woman"), opera by Giuseppe Verdi, after La Dame aux Camélias.

La Vie en rose (French, "Rose-Tinted Life"), song by Louis Gugliemi and Édith Piaf.

Le Bœuf sur le toit (French, "The Ox on the Roof"), ballet by Darius Milhaud.

Le Chasseur maudit (French, "The Cursed Huntsman"), symphonic poem by César Franck.

L'Enfant et les sortilèges (French, "The Child and the Spells"), opera by Maurice Ravel.

Le Grand Meaulnes (French, "The Great Meaulnes"), novel by Alain-Fournier.

L'Étranger (French, "The Outsider"), novel by Albert Camus.

L'Heure espagnole (French, "The Spanish Hour/The Time in Spain"), opera by Maurice Ravel.

Liebestod (German, "Love's Death"), duet from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.

L'Isle joyeuse (French, "The Joyful Isle"), piano piece by Claude Debussy.

Má vlast (Czech, "My Fatherland"), cycle of symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana.

Mein Kampf (German, "My Struggle"), autobiography by Adolf Hitler.

Nessun Dorma (Italian, "No-one Shall Sleep"), aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot.

Pavane pour une infante défunte (French, "Pavane for a Dead Infanta"), piano/orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel.

Perfidia (Spanish, "Disloyalty"), extensively recorded Mexican pop song that was an international hit for Xavier Cougat.

Petite Fleur (French, "Little Flower"), jazz tune by Sidney Bechet.

Pierrot Lunaire (French, "Moonlit [or Moonstruck] Pierrot"), song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg.

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (French, "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"), symphonic poem by Claude Debussy.

Tristan und Isolde (German, "Tristan and Iseult"), opera by Richard Wagner.

Turandot (Persian, "Turan's Daughter"), opera by Giacomo Puccini.

Vers la flamme (French, "Towards the Flame"), piano piece by Alexander Scriabin.

Verklärte Nacht (German, "Transfigured Night"), string sextet by Arnold Schoenberg.

Winterreise (German, "Winter Journey"), song cycle by Franz Schubert.

Yojimbo (Japanese, "The Bodyguard"), a film by Akira Kurosawa, copied by Hollywood as the Western A Fistful of Dollars