French-language operas

opéra comique in one act by François-Adrien Boieldieu

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera

single act opera

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Luigi Cherubini

operette by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Ferdinand Hérold

Haydée, ou Le secret is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Théâtre Royal de l'Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris on 28 December 1847. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regular collaborator, Eugène Scribe and is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, La Partie de trictrac (1830).

thumb|Hahn in 1906 Ciboulette () is a French opérette in three acts, music by Reynaldo Hahn, libretto by Robert de Flers and Francis de Croisset, first performed at the Théâtre des Variétés, in Paris, on 7 April 1923. One of the most elegant and refined compositions of Hahn, it is considered one of the last masterpieces of French operetta.

opera by Ernest Reyer

opéra comique

comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

opera by Ethel Smyth

opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

French opera by Darius Milhaud

opera by Ambroise Thomas

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Michele Carafa

opera by Jacques Offenbach

Cléopâtre is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Payen. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 23 February 1914, nearly two years after Massenet's death.

comic opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

opera by Antonio Sacchini

'''''L'ancêtre''''' ("The Ancestor") is a 1905 in 3 acts by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto by Lucien Augé de Lassus (1841-1914).

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Antoine Mariotte

opera by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul

or (Briséïs, or the Lovers of Corinth) is an operatic by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's .

lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Jacques Offenbach

Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play Benvenuto Cellini by French playwright Paul Meurice which was in turn based on the 1843 historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The name was changed to Ascanio to avoid confusion with the Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini. The opera premiered on March 21, 1890, at the Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris, in costumes designed by Charles Bianchini and sets by Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (acts I; II, scene 2; and III),

opera by Luigi Cherubini

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Georges Bizet

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Victor Massé

opéra comique by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

thumb|upright|Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s

thumb|upright|Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera in four acts by Alfred Bruneau

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera

Opera by Bohuslav Martinů

opera by Edmond Audran

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opéra-comique by André Messager