1897 operas

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

() is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. It was revised as a three-act opera in 1898, and a prelude was added in 1937.

opera by Jules Massenet

thumb|upright=1.3|Illustration by Carlos Schwabe, for the Paris première Fervaal, Op. 40, is an opera (action musicale or lyric drama) in three acts with a prologue by the French composer Vincent d'Indy. The composer wrote his own libretto, based in part on the lyric poem Axel by the Swedish author Esaias Tegnér. D'Indy worked on the opera during the years 1889 to 1895, and the score was published in 1895.

operetta of Johann Strauss II written to a libretto by A. M. Willner and Bernhard Buchbinder

Croatian opera by Vatroslav Lisinski

opera by Zdeněk Fibich

opera by Alfred Bruneau

zarzuela by Ruperto Chapí (1897)

opéra-comique by André Messager

or (Briséïs, or the Lovers of Corinth) is an operatic by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's .

opera by Władysław Żeleński