1909 operas

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Franz Lehár

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

'''''''' (Expectation''), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by . Composed in 1909, it was not premiered until 6 June 1924 in Prague conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as the soprano. The opera takes the unusual form of a monologue for solo soprano accompanied by a large orchestra. In performance, it lasts for about half an hour. It is sometimes paired with Béla Bartók's opera ''Bluebeard's Castle (1911), as the two works were roughly contemporary and share similar psychological themes. Schoenberg described Erwartung'', say

operetta by Emmerich Kálmán, 1908

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Uzeyir Hajibeyov