French-language operas

opera/operetta by Albert Roussel

opera by Robert Cambert

opera by Charles Gounod

dramatic work by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Voltaire

opera by Jules Massenet

thumb|Title page of the original libretto Idoménée (English: Idomeneus) is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts. Idoménée was first performed on 12 January 1712 by the Académie royale de musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. The libretto, by Antoine Danchet, is based on a stage play by Crébillon père. It later formed the basis of Giambattista Varesco's libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Idomeneo.

opéra comique

fairy-tale opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera; tragédie lyrique in four acts by Niccolò Piccinni

opéra comique by Charles Gounod

opera by Jules Massenet

opera/ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Kaija Saariaho

opera by Henri Rabaud

1888 opera by Benjamin Godard

opera by Adolphe Adam

1878 opera by Charles Gounod

opéra comique by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Kaija Saariaho

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

thumb|alt=brightly coloured illustration of an archway of a Moorish with an external staircase and Moorish landscape beyond; a woman stands on the stairs, as an armed man waits at the foot of them, both dressed in exotic robes|1874 illustration for vocal score of Giroflé-Girofla Giroflé-Girofla is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Charles Lecocq. The French libretto was by Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier. The story, set in 13th century Spain, concerns twin brides, one of whom is abducted by pirates. The other twin poses as both brides until the first is rescued. The composer chos

opera by Alfred Bruneau

opera by Charles Gounod

opera by Ambroise Thomas

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Naïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 22 April 1749 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in three acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac, in the fourth collaboration between him and Rameau. The work bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, which refers to the fact that Rameau composed the opera on the occasion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, at the conclusion of the War of the Austrian Succession. Its original title was Le triomphe de la paix, but criticism of the terms of the treaty led to a change

opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud, with libretto by Paul Claudel based on his own play about the life of Christopher Columbus

opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera

unfinished opera by Hector Berlioz

opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Camille Erlanger

Opéra-comique by Pierre Gaveaux

opera by André Messager

opera by Étienne Méhul

opera buffa in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera (tragédie musicale) in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles

thumb|Luigi Cherubini Démophoon (sometimes spelt Démophon) is an opera by the composer Luigi Cherubini, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 2 December 1788. It takes the form of a tragédie lyrique in three acts. The libretto, by Jean-François Marmontel, is based on Demofoonte by Metastasio.

opera by Lous-Aimé Maillart

opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber

opéra-comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

thumb|Poster by Célestin Nanteuil for the premiere of Lalla-Roukh Lalla-Roukh is an opéra comique in two acts composed by Félicien David. The libretto by Michel Carré and Hippolyte Lucas was based on Thomas Moore's 1817 narrative poem Lalla Rookh. It was first performed on 12 May 1862 by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris. Set in Kashmir and Samarkand, the opera recounts the love story between Nourreddin, the King of Samarkand, and the Mughal princess Lalla-Roukh. Her name means "Tulip-cheeked", a frequent term of endearment in Persian poetry.

operetta by Jacques Offenbach

opéra comique by Egidio Duni

opera by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

Fiesque (The Genoese Conspiracy) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Édouard Lalo. The libretto, by Charles Beauquier, is based on Schiller's 1784 play, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, an account of the conspiracy in 1547 led by Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against the ruling Doria family. Although completed in 1868, it was not staged until 16 June 2007 when it premiered at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim.

thumb|André CampraTancrède is a 1702 tragédie en musique (a French opera in the lyric tragedy tradition) in a prologue and five acts by composer André Campra and librettist Antoine Danchet, based on Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso.

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Déjanire is the title of two related French works by Camille Saint-Saëns: Musique de scène pour ‘Déjanire’ de Gallet (1898) and the four-act opera, or drame lyrique, Déjanire (1910, premiered 1911) for which Saint-Saëns himself fashioned the dramatic scheme and libretto using Gallet's tragedy as a basis. The vocal writing in the musique de scène is exclusively choral in the manner of Ancient Greek narration and commentary, while in the drame lyrique it focuses on solo parts as in most operas. The musique de scène was written to inaugurate an arena in Béziers; the drame lyrique, last of Saint-S

opera by Franz Liszt

thumb|upright=1.22|Frontispiece for the vocal score by Paul Steck, 1895