French-language operas

Carmen () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Hab

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

opéra-comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.

opéra bouffon by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

1863 opera by Georges Bizet

Manon () is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel ''L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4).

1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti

satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which itself was based on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer (1792) and Pucitta (1802).

1902 opera by Claude Debussy

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opéra comique by Luigi Cherubini

opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opéra-bouffe in three acts

opera by Gioachino Rossini

French-language opera by Francis Poulenc

opera by Hector Berlioz

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Hector Berlioz

Mignon () is an 1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The Italian version was translated by Giuseppe Zaffira. The opera is mentioned in James Joyce's "The Dead" (in Dubliners) and Willa Cather's ''The Professor's House''. Thomas's goddaughter Mignon Nevada was named after the main character. The aria “I am Titania” was used repeatedly in the British feature film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

opera by Daniel Auber

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Gaspare Spontini

opera by Maurice Ravel

opera by Maurice Ravel

1831 opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Fromental Halévy

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Platée is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece.

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958, based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau

opera by Adolphe Adam

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra bouffe composed by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

opera by Jules Massenet

'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.

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 in four acts by Jules Massenet based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Djamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset.

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra comique

1737 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Ambroise Thomas

opera by Jules Massenet