Operas based on novels

Carmen () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Hab

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.

opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin

Manon () is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel ''L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4).

opera by Dmity Shostakovich

Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which itself was based on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer (1792) and Pucitta (1802).

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Mignon () is an 1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas. The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. The Italian version was translated by Giuseppe Zaffira. The opera is mentioned in James Joyce's "The Dead" (in Dubliners) and Willa Cather's ''The Professor's House''. Thomas's goddaughter Mignon Nevada was named after the main character. The aria “I am Titania” was used repeatedly in the British feature film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

opera by Alfredo Catalani (1892), libretto by Luigi Illica

Hérodiade is an opera in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Paul Milliet and Henri Grémont, based on the novella Hérodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 19 December 1881.

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Krzysztof Penderecki

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Carlos Gomes

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Georges Bizet

opéra by Luigi Cherubini

opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev

opéra comique by François-Adrien Boieldieu

opera by Bedřich Smetana

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Antônio Carlos Gomes

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Hugo Wolf

opera by Alexander Zemlinsky

opera by Niccolò Piccinni

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Oscar Straus

opera by Riccardo Zandonai

opera by Pietro Mascagni

thumb|Poster Lodoletta is a dramma lirico or lyric opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni. The libretto is by Giovacchino Forzano, and is based on the novel Two Little Wooden Shoes by Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramée).

Manru is an opera (lyrical drama) in three acts, music by Ignacy Jan Paderewski composed to the libretto by Alfred Nossig based on the novel A Hut Behind the Village (1854) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Bohuslav Martinů

Risurrezione (Resurrection), is an opera or dramma in four acts by Franco Alfano. The libretto was written by Camillo Antona Traversi and Cesare Hanau (only Hanau signed it), based on the 1899 novel Resurrection () by Leo Tolstoy. The first performance was given on 30 November 1904 in the , Turin, Italy.

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Armen Tigranian

opera by Frederick Delius

opera by the American conductor and composer Lorin Maazel on a libretto by J. D. McClatchy and Thomas Meehan after George Orwell (2005)

opera by Saverio Mercadante