Grand operas

Aida (or Aïda, ) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini. Today the work holds a central place in the operatic canon, receiving performances every year around the world. At New York's Metropolitan Opera alone, Aida has been sung more than 1,100 times since 1886. Ghislanzoni's scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariet

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

'''''''' (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes''; WWV 49) is an 1842 opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835). The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi . Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden, on 20 October 1842, and was the composer's first success.

opera genre

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti

dramma lirico in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Hector Berlioz

opera by Daniel Auber

opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Fromental Halévy

1831 opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Louise Bertin

opera by Amilcare Ponchielli

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera by Antonín Dvořák

opera by Antonín Dvořák

opéra comique

opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber

opera by Fromental Halévy

opera by nine French and Italian composers

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy