Operas based on plays

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Giacomo Puccini

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play ''Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.

thumb|Libretto, 1926 Turandot ( ; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini died in 1924, and his opera was left unfinished. The music was completed by Franco Alfano and premiered on 25 April 1926, almost a year and a half after Puccini's death. The opera is set in China and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold-hearted Princess Turandot. In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in his execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turando

1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

comic operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

operetta composed by Franz Lehár, libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera semiseria by Gioacchino Rossini

opera by Giacomo Puccini

1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Wozzeck () is the first opera by Austrian composer Alban Berg, created between 1914 and 1922 and premiered on 14 December 1925 at the Berlin State Opera. Based on Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck (1836), it depicts a soldier's tragic slide into madness and murder amid militarism and oppression.

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

dramma lirico in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli

Opera seria by Mozart

Semiramide () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823.

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Tancredi is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or heroic opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to write Semiramide ten years later), based on Voltaire's play Tancrède (1760). The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 February 1813, less than a month after the premiere of his previous opera Il signor Bruschino. The overture, borrowed from La pietra del paragone, is a popular example of Rossini's characteristic style and is regularly performed in concert and recorded.

opera by Francesco Cilea

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

unfinished opera by Alban Berg

Její pastorkyňa (Her Stepdaughter; commonly known as Jenůfa ) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. It was first performed at the National Theatre, Brno on 21 January 1904. Composed between 1896 and 1902, it is among the first operas written in prose.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gioachino Rossini

Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel Le pasteur d’hommes, by Émile Souvestre, which was published in 1838. This was adapted into the French play ''Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Souvestre together with Eugène Bourgeois. (Its premiere was on 10 February 1849 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.) That play was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as Stifellius''; this formed the basis of Piave's libretto.

opéra comique by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play '' (King René's Daughter'') by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 i

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Domenico Cimarosa

opera by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov

opera by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Gioachino Rossini

tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

opera by Leoš Janáček

Zelmira () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas. Stendhal called its music Teutonic, comparing it with La clemenza di Tito but remarking: "...while Mozart would probably, had he lived, have grown completely Italian, Rossini may well, by the end of his career, have become more German than Beethoven himself!"