French-language operas

opera by Louise Bertin

opera by André Grétry

opera by Dmytro Bortniansky

Opera by Ernest Chausson

opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

pastiche opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra comique by Charles Gounod

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Ernest Bloch

opera by Jules Massenet

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

opera by Ernest Reyer

opera by Georges Bizet

opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Charles Gounod

opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jules Massenet (1907)

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.

opera by Gaspare Spontini

opéra-comique/opérette by Georges Bizet

Guercœur is an opera in three acts by the French composer Albéric Magnard to his own libretto. It was first performed posthumously at the Paris Opéra on 24 April 1931, though it had mostly been written between 1897 and 1901. The music shows the influence of Wagner.

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

tragedie lyrique composed by Gabriel Fauré

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

1886 opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

operetta in one act by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

Ivanhoé is an 1826 pastiche opera in three acts with music by Gioachino Rossini to a French-language libretto by Émile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly, after Walter Scott's 1819 novel of the same name. The music was adapted, with the composer's permission, by the music-publisher Antonio Pacini from Rossini's operas, namely Semiramide, La Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, and Tancredi in order to introduce his music to Paris. An examination of the score shows that Pacini also used music from Bianca e Faliero, Armida, Maometto II, Aureliano in Palmira, Sigismondo, Torvaldo e Dorliska, Mosè in

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Darius Milhaud

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

1697 opéra-ballet by André Campra

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by André Grétry

Grisélidis is an opera (described as a 'conte lyrique') in three acts and a prologue by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand. It is based on the play by the same authors first performed at the Comédie-Française on 15 May 1891, which is drawn from the medieval tale of 'patient Grissil'. The story is set in 14th century Provence, and concerns the shepherdess, Grisélidis, and a number of attempts by the Devil to lure her into infidelity. Grisélidis' loyalty to her husband, The Marquis, is strong, however, and the devil is vanquished.

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

1762 influential dramatic work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

opera by Jean-Marie Leclair

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Zoroastre (Zoroaster) is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, first performed on 5 December 1749 by the Opéra in the first Salle du Palais-Royal in Paris. The libretto is by Louis de Cahusac. Zoroastre was the fourth of Rameau's tragédies en musique to be staged and the last to appear during the composer's own lifetime. Audiences gave the original version a lukewarm reception, so Rameau and his librettist thoroughly reworked the opera for a revival which took place at the Opéra on 19 January 1756. This time the work was a great success and this is the version generally

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

Chérubin is an opera (comédie chantée) in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Francis de Croisset and Henri Cain after de Croisset's play of the same name. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 14 February 1905, with Mary Garden in the title role.

opera by Georges Bizet

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Henri Desmarets and André Campra

Olimpie (also spelled Olympie) is an opera in three acts by Gaspare Spontini. The French libretto, by Armand-Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, is based on the by Voltaire (1761). Olimpie was first performed on 22 December 1819 by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Montansier. When sung in Italian or German, it is usually given the title Olimpia.

opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Léo Delibes

opera in five acts by Jules Massenet

opera by Jacques Offenbach

drame en prose mêlé de musique in three acts

opera by André Compra

opera

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

opera by André Messager