Operas based on plays

opera by Camille Saint-Saëns

opera by the German composer Louis Spohr

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera buffa by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Carlos Gomes

opera by Joseph Haydn

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donitetti

opera by Mieczysław Weinberg

opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Zanetto is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci. It received its first performance on 2 March 1896 at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro. Only 40 minutes long and with cast of two singers, Zanetto was originally described by its composer as a scena lirica (lyric scene) rather than an opera. It is set in the countryside near Florence during the Renaissance and tells the story of an encounter between a beautiful courtesan, Silvia, and a young wandering minstrel, Zanetto. The libretto was adapted from an Italian translatio

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Vicente Martín y Soler

opéra-comique/opérette by Georges Bizet

opera by Italo Montemezzi

opera farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Darius Milhaud

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Ottorino Respighi

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Ferruccio Busoni

opera by Jacques Offenbach

Grisélidis is an opera (described as a 'conte lyrique') in three acts and a prologue by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand. It is based on the play by the same authors first performed at the Comédie-Française on 15 May 1891, which is drawn from the medieval tale of 'patient Grissil'. The story is set in 14th century Provence, and concerns the shepherdess, Grisélidis, and a number of attempts by the Devil to lure her into infidelity. Grisélidis' loyalty to her husband, The Marquis, is strong, however, and the devil is vanquished.

opera by Carlos Gomes

opera by Saverio Mercadante

opera by Jaromír Weinberger

opera by Jean Gilbert

comic opera by Victor Dolidze

opera by Eugen d'Albert

opera by Alexander Serov

opera by Leo Fall

unfinished opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Saverio Mercadante

music theater piece by Kurt Weill

lyric drama in seven tableaux by Hans Werner Henze

opera by Bohuslav Martinů

1878 opera by Charles Gounod

opera by Simon Mayr

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera

opera by Umberto Giordano

opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by André Messager

opera by Krzysztof Penderecki

Italian opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Bernd Alois Zimmermann

'''''''' (German for King's Children or “Royal Children”) is a stage work by Engelbert Humperdinck that exists in two versions: as a melodrama and as an opera or more precisely a Märchenoper''. The libretto was written by Ernst Rosmer (pen name of Else Bernstein-Porges), adapted from her play of the same name.

opera by Walter Braunfels

Zhenitba (, ''Zhenit'ba, Marriage'') is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy Marriage. This 1842 play is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres on a young woman, Agafya, who is wooed by four bachelors, each with his own idiosyncrasies.

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

opera by Conradin Kreutzer

Chérubin is an opera (comédie chantée) in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Francis de Croisset and Henri Cain after de Croisset's play of the same name. It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 14 February 1905, with Mary Garden in the title role.

opera in five acts by Jules Massenet

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.

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky