Operas based on plays

opera by George Frideric Handel

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

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!"

opera by Richard Strauss

Opera seria by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello

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operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé

Maskarade (Masquerade) is an opera in three acts by Carl Nielsen to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg. It was first performed on 11 November 1906 at Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen. Maskarade has enjoyed enduring popularity in Denmark where it is considered to be the country's national opera.

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Paul Dukas

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Belisario (Belisarius) is a tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then (in Italian) in Naples in 1826. The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.

opera by Tchaikovsky

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera in a prologue and two acts by Eugen d'Albert

opera by György Ligeti

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera in four acts by Tchaikovsky

opera by Mykola Lysenko

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Charles Gounod

operetta by Franz Lehár

1874 opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

surrealist opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc

opera in three acts and three scenes by Mascagni

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Bedřich Smetana

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

() is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. It was revised as a three-act opera in 1898, and a prelude was added in 1937.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Ferenc Erkel

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1964 opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Julietta is an opera by Bohuslav Martinů, who also wrote the libretto, in French, based on the play Juliette ou la Clé des songes (Juliette, or The Key of Dreams) by the French author Georges Neveux. A libretto in Czech was later prepared for its premiere which took place at the Prague National Theatre on 16 March 1938. Julietta has become widely considered as Martinů's masterpiece.

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Riccardo Zandonai

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Ferenc Erkel

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Franz Schreker

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht