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This page lists famous operas arranged by composer. Sydney Opera House: one of the worlds most recognizable opera houses and landmarks Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content or primary entertainment is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental, as it is through the... This is a selective list of opera composers who have made the greatest impact on the modern operatic repertory. ...

Standard operatic repertory

This list comprises the standard operatic repertory, arranged alphabetically by composer followed by city and date of first staged performance. All the operas in this list are discussed in standard guidebooks, such as The Penguin Guide to Opera, ed. Amanda Holden, 1994. Many splendid and under-appreciated masterpieces, aside from operatic curiosities, can be found in entries under the names of their individual composers. This is a selective list of opera composers who have made the greatest impact on the modern operatic repertory. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

In many opera houses this international repertory is supplemented by local standards. An American list, for example, might include George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Carlisle Floyd's Susannah, Douglas Moore's Ballad of Baby Doe, or Samuel Barber's Vanessa. Debate over the accepted canon tends to be most intense around the periphery. George Gershwin photograph by Edward Steichen in 1927. ... The cast of Porgy and Bess during the Boston try-out prior to the Broadway opening. ... Carlisle Floyd (born 1926 in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. ... Suannah an opera by American opera composer Carlisle Floyd (b. ... Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10, 1893 - July 25, 1969) was an American composer, educator, and author. ... Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 Samuel Osborne Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of classical music best known for his Adagio for Strings. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and began to compose at the age of seven. ... Vanessa is an opera in three acts (originally four acts) by Samuel Barber with a English libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, based of the story Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen. ...

Details of plot, anecdotes and history of composition and production, etc. are found in the operas' individual entries (linked). These lists are not complete: complete lists of composers' operas are to be found in the composers' individual entries (linked), and in Category:Operas.

• Béla Bartók
  • Bluebeard's Castle (Budapest 1918)

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Fidelio (Vienna 1805)

• Vincenzo Bellini
  • La sonnambula (Milan 1831)
  • I puritani (Paris 1835)
  • Norma (Milan 1831)

• Alban Berg
  • Wozzeck (Berlin 1925)
  • Lulu (Zurich 1937)

• Hector Berlioz
  • Les Troyens (Paris 1863)

• Georges Bizet
  • Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) (Paris 1863)
  • Carmen (Paris 1875)

• Arrigo Boito
  • Mefistofele (Milan 1868)

• Alexander Borodin
  • Prince Igor (Saint Petersburg 1890)

• Benjamin Britten
  • Albert Herring (Glyndebourne 1947)
  • Peter Grimes (London 1945)
  • Billy Budd (London 1951)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Aldeburgh 1960)

• Gustave Charpentier
  • Louise (Paris 1900)

• Francesco Cilea
  • Adriana Lecouvreur (Milan 1902)

• Claude Debussy
  • Pelléas et Mélisande (Paris 1902)

• Léo Delibes
  • Lakmé (Paris 1883)

• Gaetano Donizetti
  • L'elisir d'amore (Milan 1832)
  • Maria Stuarda (Naples 1834)
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (Naples 1835)
  • La fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) (Paris 1840)
  • Don Pasquale (Paris 1843)

• Friedrich von Flotow
  • Martha (Vienna 1847)

• Umberto Giordano
  • Andrea Chénier (Milan 1896)
  • Fedora (Milan 1898)

• Christoph Willibald Gluck
  • Orfeo ed Euridice (Paris 1774)
  • Alceste (Paris 1776)
  • Iphigénie en Tauride (Paris 1779)

• Charles Gounod
  • Faust (Paris 1859)
  • Roméo et Juliette (Paris 1867)

• George Frideric Handel
  • Agrippina (Venice 1710)
  • Alcina (London 1735)
  • Ariodante (London 1735)
  • Giulio Cesare (London 1724)
  • Serse (Xerxes) (London 1738)

• Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Hansel und Gretel (Weimar 1893)

• Leoš Janáček
  • Jenůfa (Brno 1904)
  • The Cunning Little Vixen (Brno 1924)

• Ruggiero Leoncavallo
  • Pagliacci (Milan 1892)

• Pietro Mascagni
  • Cavalleria Rusticana (Rome 1890)

• Jules Massenet
  • Werther (Paris 1892)
  • Manon (Paris 1884)
  • Thaïs (Paris 1894)

• Giacomo Meyerbeer
  • Les Huguenots (Paris 1836)
  • L'Africaine (Paris 1865)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Idomeneo (Munich 1781)
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) (Vienna 1782)
  • Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (Vienna 1786)
  • Don Giovanni (Prague 1787)
  • Così fan tutte (Vienna 1790)
  • La clemenza di Tito (Prague 1791)
  • Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (Vienna 1791)

• Modest Mussorgsky
  • Boris Godunov (Saint Petersburg 1874)
  • Khovanshchina (Saint Petersburg, 1886)

• Carl Otto Nicolai
  • Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) (Berlin 1849)

• Jacques Offenbach
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann (Paris 1881)

• Amilcare Ponchielli
  • La Gioconda (Milan 1876)

• Francis Poulenc
  • Dialogues des Carmelites (Dialogues of the Carmelites) (Milan 1957)

• Sergei Prokofiev
  • The Love for Three Oranges (Chicago 1921)
  • The Fiery Angel (Venice 1955)
  • War and Peace

• Giacomo Puccini
  • La bohème (Turin 1896)
  • Tosca (Rome 1900)
  • Madame Butterfly (Milan 1904)
  • Il trittico(New York City 1918)
    • Il tabarro (New York City 1918)
    • Suor Angelica (New York City 1918)
    • Gianni Schicchi (New York City 1918)
  • Manon Lescaut (Turin 1893)
  • Turandot (Milan 1926)
  • La fanciulla del West (New York City 1910)

• Henry Purcell
  • Dido and Aeneas (Chelsea, London, 1689)

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • The Golden Cockerel (Saint Petersburg 1907)

• Gioacchino Rossini
  • L'Italiana in Algeri (Venice 1813)
  • The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) (Rome 1816)
  • La Cenerentola (Rome 1817)

• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Samson et Dalila (Weimar 1877)

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Leningrad 1934)

• Bedrich Smetana
  • The Bartered Bride (Prague 1866)

• Johann Strauss
  • Die Fledermaus (Vienna 1874)

• Richard Strauss
  • Salome (Dresden 1905)
  • Elektra (Dresden 1909)
  • Der Rosenkavalier (Dresden 1911)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos (Stuttgart 1912; Vienna 1916)
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten (Vienna 1919)

• Igor Stravinsky
  • The Rake's Progress (Venice 1951)

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Eugene Onegin (Moscow 1879)
  • The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame) (Saint Petersburg 1890)

• Ambroise Thomas
  • Mignon (Paris 1866)

• Giuseppe Verdi
  • Nabucco (Milan 1842)
  • Ernani (Venice 1844)
  • Macbeth (Florence 1847)
  • Rigoletto (Venice 1851)
  • Il trovatore (Rome 1853)
  • La traviata (Venice 1853)
  • Un ballo in maschera (Rome 1859)
  • La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) (Saint Petersburg 1862)
  • Don Carlos (Paris 1867)
  • Aida (Cairo 1871)
  • Simon Boccanegra (revised) (Milan 1881)
  • Otello (Milan 1887)
  • Falstaff (Milan 1893)

• Richard Wagner
  • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (Dresden 1843)
  • Tannhäuser (Dresden 1845)
  • Lohengrin (Weimar 1850)
  • Tristan und Isolde (Munich 1865)
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Munich 1868)
  • Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) (complete tetralogy: Bayreuth 1876)
    • Das Rheingold (Munich 1869)
    • Die Walküre (Munich 1870)
    • Siegfried (Bayreuth 1876)
    • Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) (Bayreuth 1876)
  • Parsifal (Bayreuth 1882)

• Carl Maria von Weber
  • Der Freischütz (Berlin 1824)

Béla Bartók in 1927 Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. ... A Kékszakállú herceg vára, (commonly referred to by its English name, Bluebeards Castle) is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. ... Ludwig van Beethoven by Carl Jäger (date unknown). ... Fidelio (Op. ... Vincenzo Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 – September 23, 1835) was an Italian opera composer. ... La Sonnambula is an opera by Vincenzo Bellini. ... I Puritani is an opera in three acts, by Vincenzo Bellini. ... Norma is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani. ... Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. ... Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935). ... Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. ... Portrait of Berlioz by Signol, 1832 Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Grande Messe des morts Requiem of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. ... Cover of the score of La prise de Troi, the first two acts of Les Troyens Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. ... Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. ... Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearlfishers) is a three-act opera by Georges Bizet, to a libretto by Eugène Cormon and Michael Carré. While not nearly as popular as his far more famous Carmen, it contains a wealth of attractive music and has found some popularity despite its... Poster from the 1875 premiere of Carmen Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. ... Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 – June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, successful journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele. ... Mefistofele is the only completed opera by the Italian composer Arrigo Boito. ... Portrait of Borodin Alexander Porfirevich Borodin (Александр Порфирьевич Бородин in Cyrillic, Aleksandr Porfirevič Borodin in transliteration) (31 Oct. ... Prince Igor (Князь Игорь in Russian, Knyaz Igor in transliteration) is an opera in a prologue and four acts by Alexander Borodin to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the East Slavic epic The Tale of Igors Campaign. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, (Baron Britten of Aldeburgh), OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist. ... Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten. ... Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the poem by George Crabbe The Borough. ... Billy Budd is an English language opera by Benjamin Britten, first performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on December 1, 1951. ... Benjamin Brittens A Midsummer Nights Dream is an opera based on the play of the same name by Shakespeare. ... Gustave Charpentier (June 25, 1860 - February 18, 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. ... Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer. ... Francesco Cilea, (Palmi, near Reggio Calabria, July 26, 1866 - Varazze, near Savona, November 20, 1950) was an Italian opera composer, whose early success was not sustained, as taste in music changed. ... Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera by Francesco Cilea. ... Claude Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. ... Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts by Claude Debussy to a French libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck that almost exactly follows his famous symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. ... (Clément Philibert) Léo Delibes (February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891) was a French composer of Romantic music. ... Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, based on the novel Rarahu ou Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. ... Gaetano Donizetti Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was a famous Italian opera composer. ... Lelisir damore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on Eugène Scribes Le Philtre. ... Maria Stuarda is an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, first performed on December 30, 1835, at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. ... Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. ... The Daughter of the Regiment is a comic opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. ... Don Pasquale is a comic opera (opera buffa) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. ... Friedrich von Flotow (27 April 1812 – 24 January 1883) was a German composer. ... Martha is an opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese, based on the ballet Lady Henriette by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. ... Umberto Giordano (August 28, 1867 - November 12, 1948) was a composer, mainly of opera. ... Andrea Chénier is an opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, based on the life of the French poet André Chénier (1762-1794). ... Fedora can mean: Fédora, a play by Victorien Sardou Fedora (hat), a hat named after the play Fedora (Giordano), an opera from 1898 by Umberto Giordano Fedora (movie), a 1978 movie Fedora Core, a Linux distribution spun off from Red Hat Linux and produced by the Fedora Project Fedora... Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Christoph Willibald (von) Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787) was a German composer. ... Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck. ... Alceste can may refer to: Alcestis, the mythical Greek princess Alcestis (play), the play by Euripedes (438 BC) Several operas based on the mythical Greek princess: Alceste (Lully), an opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1674) Alceste (Gluck), an opera by Gluck (1767) Alceste (Schweitzer), an opera by Anton Schweitzer (1772... Iphigénie en Tauride is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck. ... Charles Gounod Charles François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his opera Faust. ... Faust, Charles Gounods operatic retelling of the Faust legend, debuted at the Théatre-Lyrique on 19 March 1859. ... Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on the play by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. ... George Frideric Handel, 1733 George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German/British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. ... Agrippina is an opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Alcina is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel for his first season at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... Ariodante is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Giulio Cesare is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Serse (also known as Xerxes) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. ... Engelbert Humperdinck (September 1, 1854 – September 27, 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). ... Hänsel und Gretel is an opera by Engelbert Humperdinck (Humperdinck himself described it as a fairy opera. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody LiÅ¡ky BystrouÅ¡ky, literally The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears, in Czech) is an opera by LeoÅ¡ Janáček, with a libretto adapted by the composer from a serialized novella (daily comic) by Rudolf TÄ›snohlídek, which was first published in newspaper... Ruggiero Leoncavallo (March 8, 1857 - August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer. ... Pagliacci (Clowns) is an opera in two acts written and composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. ... Pietro Mascagni (Livorno December 7, 1863 – Rome August 2, 1945) is one of the most important Italian opera composers of the turn of the 20th century. ... Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to a libretto by Targioni-Tozzetti and Menasci, adapted from a short story by Giovanni Verga. ... Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer. ... Werther is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, based on the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe. ... Manon is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. ... Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. ... Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. ... Les Huguenots is a French opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer. ... LAfricaine (The African Woman) is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. ... Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (usually referred to simply as Idomeneo) is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... The Abduction from the Seraglio (K. 384; in German Die Entführung aus dem Serail) is a comic opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Le Nozze di Figaro, is a comic opera composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Beaumarchais. ... Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. ... Così fan tutte is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, was an opera seria written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Die Zauberflöte (en: The Magic Flute) is an opera in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. ... Mussorgskys celebrated portrait by Ilya Repin, painted only a few days before the composers death in 1881. ... Boris Godunov (Бори́с Годуно́в in Russian, Boris Godunov in transliteration) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the drama of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin and on Karamzins History of the Russian State. The music is written in a uniquely Russian style... Khovanshchina or The Khovansky Affair (Хованщина in Russian) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky. ... Carl Otto Nicolai (June 9, 1810 - May 11, 1849) was a German composer and conductor. ... Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor) is an opera in three acts by Carl Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal, based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare. ... Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880), composer and cellist, was one of the originators of the operetta form, a precursor of the modern musical comedy. ... Les contes dHoffmann (Tales of Hoffmann) is an opera by Jacques Offenbach. ... Amilcare Ponchielli (August 31, 1834 – January 17, 1886) was an Italian composer, largely of operas. ... La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo by Victor Hugo. ... Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. ... Dialogues of the Carmelites ( in French, Dialogues des Carmélites, Opéra en trois actes et douze tableaux) is an opera by Francis Poulenc. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej Sergejevič Prokofev, 15/April 271, 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Ukrainian-born Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... The Love for Three Oranges (Любовь к трем апельсинам in Russian, Lyubov k Tryom Apelsinam in transliteration) is an opera by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto based on the play Lamore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi. ... The Fiery Angel (Ognennïy angel in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the novel by Valery Bryusov. ... War and Peace (Война и мир in Russian, Voyna i mir in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer and his second common-law wife Mira Mendelson, based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Original poster Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardous drama, La Tosca. ... Madama Butterfly (or sometimes Madame Butterfly in English) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Japan. ... Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title to a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini. ... Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Golds La Houppelande. ... Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. ... Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dantes The Divine Comedy. ... Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica, based on L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. ... Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, based on the play Turandot by Carlo Gozzi. ... La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. ... Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (IPA: [1][2]; September 10, 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of Englands greatest composers — indeed, he has often been called Englands finest native composer. ... The Composer, Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, from a libretto by Nahum Tate. ... Portrait of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov by Valentin Serov (1898) Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian: , Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov), also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, (March 6/18, 1844 – June 8/21, 1908) was a Russian composer and teacher of harmony and orchestration. ... The Golden Cockerel (Золотой Петушок in Russian, Zolotoy Petuschok in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to a Russian libretto by Vladimir Ivanovich Belsky, based on the 1834 poem by Pushkin. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... Litaliana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) is a comic opera in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, based on his earlier libretto set by Luigi Mosca, a composer now forgotten. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... La Cenerentola is a comic opera by Gioacchino Rossini. ... Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (IPA: ) (9 October 1835–16 December 1921) was a French composer and performer, best known for his orchestral work The Carnival of the Animals. ... Samson et Dalila is a grand opera composed by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. ... Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian: , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Å ostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Леди Макбет Мценского уезда in Russian, Ledi Makbet Mtsenskovo Uyezda in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich to a Russian libretto by Alexander Preis and the composer, inspired by and named after the famous story by Nikolai Leskov. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... The Bartered Bride (in Czech, Prodaná nevÄ›sta) is the second opera of eight by BedÅ™ich Smetana. ... Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (or Johann Strauß Sohn - Johann Strauss son - or Johann Strauss the Younger, or Johann Strauss Jr. ... Scene from the 1984 version. ... Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. ... Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapted from his drama of 1903—the first of many such collaborations between composer and librettist. ... Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose) is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. ... Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos) is an opera by Richard Strauss with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. ... Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) is an opera by Richard Strauss with a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: И́горь Фёдорович Страви́нский Igor Fjodorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian-born composer of modern classical music. ... The Rakes Progress is an English opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. ... A young Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский Pëtr Ilič ÄŒajkovskij) (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1840 – 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1893), also transliterated Piotr Ilitsch Tschaikowski or Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky, was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. ... Eugene Onegin (Евгений Онегин in Russian, Yevgeny Onegin in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer, based on the novel of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. ... The Queen of Spades (Пиковая дама in Russian, Pikovaya dama in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composers brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story by the poet Aleksandr Pushkin. ... Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (August 5, 1811 - February 12, 1896) was a French opera composer. ... Mignon is an opera in three acts by Ambroise Thomas to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethes story Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). ... Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the biblical story and the play by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. ... Ernani is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. ... Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave with additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeares play of the same name. ... Rigoletto is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. ... Il trovatore (The Troubadour) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play El Trobador by Antonio García Gutiérrez. ... La traviata, an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. ... Un Ballo in Maschera, or A Masked Ball, is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. ... Cover of first bilingual edition of the libretto of La forza del destino, St. ... Don Carlos is an opera in five acts by Giuseppe Verdi to a French libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller. ... // Introduction This article is about the marketing term, AIDA. For other uses of the term, see Aida (disambiguation). ... Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez. ... Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeares play Othello. ... Falstaff is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeares play The Merry Wives of Windsor. ... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... The Flying Dutchman (German title: Der fliegende Holländer) is an opera, music and libretto by Richard Wagner. ... In the Venusberg by John Collier, 1901: a gilded setting that is distinctly Italian quattrocento. ... In some German Arthurian literature, Lohengrin is the son of Parzival (Percival). ... 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Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ... (help· info) (Twilight of the Gods – see Notes) is the last of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ... Amalie Materna Emil Scaria and Hermann Winkelmann in the 1882 premiere production of Parsifal Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (born November 18 or November 19, 1786, in Eutin near Lübeck, Germany; died June 5, 1826, of tuberculosis, in London, England) was a German composer. ... Der Freischütz (English: The Freeshooter) is an opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber to a libretto by Friedrich Kind. ...

Historically significant operas

Most of the operas in the previous list are historically significant. This is a supplementary list of operas which are historically significant but not performed with any regularity. They are ordered chronologically by first performance.

• Jacopo Peri
  • Euridice (Florence 1600); considered the first opera in European history

• Claudio Monteverdi
  • Orfeo (Mantua 1607); first operatic masterwork

• Francesca Caccini
  • La liberazione di Ruggiero (Warsaw, 1628); first opera by a woman

• Stefano Landi
  • Il Sant'Alessio (Rome, 1632); first opera on a historical rather than mythological subject

• John Blow
  • Venus and Adonis (London or Windsor, 1683); first English opera

• Gian Carlo Menotti
  • The Old Maid and the Thief (NBC, Radio, 1939); first opera composed for radio
  • Amahl and the Night Visitors (New York, 1951); first opera composed for television

• Philip Glass
  • Einstein on the Beach (Avignon, 1976); first opera composed using minimalism

• John Adams
  • Nixon in China (Houston, 1987); first opera based on recent events

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See also

• The Opera Corpus – A list of more than 1,250 operas by more than 360 individual opera composers, arranged by composer, giving a general idea of the present depth and consistency of coverage of opera on Wikipedia.
• List of operas – A list of operas with entries in Wikipedia sorted alphabetically by title.

This is a list of more than 1,250 works by more than 360 individual opera composers. ... The following is a list of operas with entries in Wikipedia. ...

External links

• Opera Guide Synopsis - Libretti - Highlights
• Opera in a nutshell" A collection of favourite opera tunes (MIDI)
• The Standard Operas by George P. Upton (Project Gutenberg); a look at the standard repertory from 1897.