1865 operas

opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Stanisław Moniuszko

'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.

opera by Franz von Suppé

Amleto () is an Italian opera in four acts by Franco Faccio set to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet. It premiered on 30 May 1865 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and was revised for a La Scala production given on 12 February 1871.

opera by Georges Bizet

opera by Alexander Serov