English-language operas

opera by Henry Purcell

opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin

ballad opera by John Gay (1728)

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

1885 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

opera by Igor Stravinsky

opera by John Adams

semi-opera by Henry Purcell

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

1879 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

1976 opera by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass

masque by Handel (1718)

oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

one-act comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel

semi-opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell

Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Gloriana was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene. It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I.

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by John Adams

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera in three acts by Michael William Balfe

opéra comique

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by John Adams

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by John Blow

opera by Benjamin Britten

semi-opera by Henry Purcell

1958 children's opera by Benjmin Britten

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

1964 opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Frederick Delius

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams

chamber opera by Thomas Adès

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opera buffa by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Bohuslav Martinů

opera by Hans Werner Henze

opera by Isaac Albéniz

Dioclesian (The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian) is an English tragicomic semi-opera in five acts by Henry Purcell to a libretto by Thomas Betterton based on the play The Prophetess, by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, which in turn was based very loosely on the life of the Emperor Diocletian. It was premiered in late May 1690 at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden. The play was first produced in 1622. Choreography for the various dances was provided by Josias Priest, who worked with Purcell on several other semi-operas.

opera by Samuel Barber

opera by Thomas Arne

Opera by George Benjamin

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Michael Tippett

opera by Michael Tippett

music theater piece by Kurt Weill

opera by Philip Glass

opera by Frederick Delius