French-language operas

opera by Darius Milhaud

'''''L'Éclair''' (The Lightning Flash'') is an opéra comique in 3 acts by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opéra comique

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by André Campra

opera by Jacques Offenbach

Opéra bouffe by Hervé

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Henri Sauguet

opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber

poème lyrique or opera by composer Gustave Charpentier

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Adolphe Adam

opera by Fromental Halévy

opera by Arthur Honegger

Euphrosine, ou Le tyran corrigé (Euphrosine, or The Tyrant Reformed) is an opera, designated as a 'comédie mise en musique', by the French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul with a libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman. It was the first of Méhul's operas to be performed, and established his reputation as a leading composer of his time. The premiere was given by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 September 1790.

opera by nine French and Italian composers

opera by Luigi Cherubini

French opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera by André Cardinal Destouches

opera by Niccolò Piccinni

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by Charles Gounod

thumb|Jean-Philippe RameauZaïs is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau first performed on 29 February 1748 at the Opéra in Paris. It takes the form of a pastorale héroïque in four acts and a prologue. The librettist was Louis de Cahusac.

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

opera by Henry Février

1754 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

thumb|alt=theatre poster, showing short, fat Chinese man in traditional dress, with tall, thin European woman walking beside him|Poster for original production, 1868 Fleur-de-Thé (, Teaflower) is a three-act opéra bouffe with music by Charles Lecocq and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot. The story centres on a French bar-keeper, who is saved from a bigamous marriage to an aristocratic young local by the intervention of his real wife, with the aid of champagne and French sailors. It is set in China to appeal to the 1860s French fashion for Chinoiserie.

opera by the French composer Marin Marais

operetta by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Antonio Sacchini

opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber

opera by Bohuslav Martinů

unfinished opera by Claude Debussy

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by César Cui