French-language operas

opera by Gustave Charpentier

1836 opera by Hector Berlioz

opéra comique by Hector Berlioz

Comédie en vaudeville in three acts

Ba-ta-clan is a "chinoiserie musicale" (or operetta) in one act with music by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 29 December 1855. The operetta uses set numbers and spoken dialogue and runs for under an hour.

opera by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Adolphe Adam

opéra comique by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Paul Dukas

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

operetta by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Georges Bizet

opera by Charles Gounod

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Kaija Saariaho

opera by Charles Gounod

tragédie en musique (early French opera) by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opéra by Luigi Cherubini

operetta by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

Dinorah, originally Le pardon de Ploërmel (The Pardon of Ploërmel), is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

surrealist opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc

opéra comique by François-Adrien Boieldieu

opera by Olivier Messiaen

opera by Adolphe Adam

opera by Gabriel Fauré

Esclarmonde () is an opéra () in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont. It was first performed at the Exposition Universelle on 15 May 1889 by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet in Paris.

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pascal Collasse

opera by Antonio Salieri

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Franco Alfano

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Georges Enescu

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opéra-comique by Charles Lecocq

thumb|upright=1.35|A scene from Hérold's Zampa Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre (Zampa, or the Marble Bride) is an opéra comique in three acts by French composer Ferdinand Hérold, with a libretto by Mélesville.

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

Julietta is an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, who also wrote the libretto, in French, based on the play Juliette ou la Clé des songes (Juliette, or The Key of Dreams) by the French author Georges Neveux. A libretto in Czech was later prepared for its premiere which took place at the Prague National Theatre on 16 March 1938. Julietta has become widely considered as Martinů's masterpiece.

opera by Édouard Lalo

tragedy of Marc Antoine Charpentier

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Ernest Chausson

opera by Jules Massenet

tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jules Massenet

Melodrama in three scenes by Igor Stravinsky to a text by André Gide

opera by Ernest Bloch

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

three-act comic opera by Edmond Audran