Operas based on classical mythology

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767

opera by Richard Strauss

opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opéra-bouffe in three acts

pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera-oratorio by Igor Stravinsky

thumb|Jean-Philippe Rameau Platée is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée ou Junon jalouse (Plataea, or Juno Jealous) by Jacques Autreau (1657–1745) and had d'Orville modify it. The ultimate source of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer Pausanias in his Guide to Greece.

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Ermione (1819) is a tragic opera (azione tragica) in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine.

'''''''' (SV 291, Ariadne) is the lost second opera by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. One of the earliest operas in general, it was composed in 1607–1608 and first performed on 28 May 1608, as part of the musical festivities for a royal wedding at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua. All the music is lost apart from the extended recitative known as "''''" ("Ariadne's Lament"). The libretto, which survives complete, was written in eight scenes by Ottavio Rinuccini, who used Ovid's Heroides and other classical sources to relate the story of Ariadne's abandonment by Theseus on the

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

1737 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera melodramma in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Antonio Salieri

opera by Benjamin Britten

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel '''''''''' ("Admetus, King of Thessaly", HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Francesco Haym. The story is partly based on Euripides' Alcestis. The opera's first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel composed to feature specifically these two '''' of

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opera by Richard Strauss

tragédie en musique (early French opera) by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Georges Enescu

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck

opera by John Blow

opera by Antonio Salieri

tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully

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

opera by Jules Massenet

opera in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel

thumb|Cover of Bellérophon Bellérophon is an opera with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 31 January 1679.

opera by Michael Tippett

tragedie lyrique composed by Gabriel Fauré

opera by Hans Werner Henze

opera by Francesco Cavalli

incidental music by Georg Friedrich Händel

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.

Antigonae (Antigone), written by Carl Orff, was first presented on 9 August 1949 under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay in the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria, as part of the Salzburg Festival. Antigonae is in Orff's words a "musical setting" for the Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophocles. However, it functions as an opera.

opera by Robert Cambert

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Josef Mysliveček

opera by George Frideric Handel

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

opera of Francesco Cavalli

opera pasticcio by Georg Friedrich Händel

single act opera

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 Claudio Monteverdi

libretto by Pietro Metastasio

opera by Tommaso Traetta

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 Antonio Cesti

opera by Ernst Krenek

French opera by Darius Milhaud

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opera in three parts with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887-1894

lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau