1881 operas

opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.

opera by Bedřich Smetana

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

operetta composed by Johann Strauss II

Vālmīki-Pratibhā (, Balmiki Protibha, lit. The Genius of Vālmīki) is an opera by Rabindranath Tagore. The Bengali libretto was written by Tagore himself based on the legend of Ratnakara the Thug who later became Sage Valmiki and composed Ramayana, a Hindu epic.