Nigel Levings is an Australian stage lighting designer.
 He has designed lights for over 400 productions.
 He works extensively on operas, and has designed a large portion of Opera Australia's repertoire.
 Some of his most significant works include operas such as "The Demon" at the Bregenz Festival and for Zurich Opera; "Billy Budd" for the Welsh National Opera, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera Company, and for the English National Opera; "Nabucco" for Opera Australia; "Wozzeck" for Opera Australia; "L'Orfeo" for Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and the Berlin State Opera; "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the 1994 Edinburgh Festival; "La Belle Vivette" for the English National Opera; "Simon Boccanegra" for the Royal Opera House, Washington National Opera, and Dallas Opera; "Falstaff" for Théâtre du Châtelet; "Idomeneo", "Turandot", and "The Barber of Seville" for the Houston Grand Opera; and "Queen of Spades" for the Dallas Opera.
Tamerlano ("Tamerlane", HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music theatre company, with music by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostin Piovene's "Tamerlano" together with another libretto entitled "Bajazet" after Nicolas Pradon's "Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet".
Sara Mingardo (born 2 March 1961) is an Italian classical contralto who has had an active international career in concerts and operas since the 1980s.
 Her complete recording of Anna in Hector Berlioz's "Les Troyens" won a Gramophone Award and both the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 2002.
 Some of the other roles she has performed on stage or on disc include Andronico in "Tamerlano", Mistress Quickly in "Falstaff", Rosina in "The Barber of Seville", and the title roles in "Carmen", "Giulio Cesare", "Riccardo Primo", and "Rinaldo".
 She has also recorded several Vivaldi cantatas, Bach cantatas, and such concert works as Mozart's "Requiem", Rossini's "Stabat Mater", and Vivaldi's "Gloria" among others.
Nicola Francesco Haym (6 July 1678 – 31 July 1729) was an Italian opera librettist, composer, theatre manager and performer, and numismatist.
 He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini.
 Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for "Giulio Cesare", "Ottone", "Flavio", "Tamerlano", "Rodelinda", and several others; for Bononcini, he produced two, "Calfurnia" and "Astianatte".
Der Wildschütz oder Die Stimme der Natur ("The Poacher, or The Voice of Nature") is a German "Komische Oper", or comic opera, in three acts by Albert Lortzing from a libretto by the composer adapted from the comedy "Der Rehbock, oder Die schuldlosen Schuldbewussten" by August von Kotzebue.
 It had its premiere at the Stadttheater in Leipzig on 31 December 1842.
Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen ("Murderer, Hope of Women") is an opera in one act by Paul Hindemith, written in 1919 on a German libretto by Oskar Kokoschka which he based on his play of 1907.
 The opera was the first in a triptych of expressionist one-act operas, the others being "Das Nusch-Nuschi", and "Sancta Susanna".
 They were the first operas written by Hindemith.
 The first two were premiered together in Stuttgart on 4 June 1921, all three were performed at the Frankfurt Opera in 1922.
Carmen Reppel is a German soprano active in both opera and concert.
 A member of the Staatstheater Hannover , she had a major international career, appearing in leading roles in over 60 operas.
 She also explored lesser-known repertoire such as Siegfried Wagner's "Schwarzschwanenreich " and appeared in contemporary operas, singing in world premieres of operas by Aribert Reimann and Flavio Testi.
 She is known for her parts in the "Jahrhundertring ", the centenary production of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Bayreuth Festival, including the filmed version of 1980.
Der Bärenhäuter is an 1899 German-language opera by Siegfried Wagner based on the German folk tale Der Bärenhäuter, or the Bearskin man.
 As with most of Siegfried Wagner's operas it is more influenced by his teacher Humperdinck than his father Richard Wagner's operas.
Il gran Tamerlano ("The Great Tamerlane") is an opera in three acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček.
 Its libretto was written by Agostino Piovene.
 All of Mysliveček's operas are of the serious type in Italian referred to as opera seria.
 Generally this style favored high vocal ranges, both for male and female singers, but for the character of Bajazette, emperor of the Turks, the composer created the only substantial role for a bass singer that appears in any of his operas.
The Poacher (German: Der Wildschütz or Die große Schuld) is a 1953 Austrian-German drama film directed by Alfred Lehner and starring Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Heintel and Karl Fischer.

Question: Are both Der Wildschütz and Tamerlano operas?
Answer: yes