1876 operas

cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner

''''' (; Twilight of the Gods'''''), WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It received its premiere at the on 17 August 1876, as part of the first complete performance of the whole work.

opera by Richard Wagner

dramma lirico in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli

Croatian opera by Ivan Zajc

opera by Bedřich Smetana

Fatinitza was the first full-length, three-act operetta by Franz von Suppé. The libretto by F. Zell (a pseudonym for Camillo Walzel) and Richard Genée was based on the libretto to La circassienne by Eugène Scribe (which had been set to music by Daniel Auber in 1861), but with the lead role of Wladimir, a young Russian lieutenant who has to disguise himself as a woman, changed to a trousers role; in other words, a woman played the part of the man who pretended to be a woman.

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

opera by Antonín Dvořák

Opera by César Cui