Operas based on plays

opera by Paul Hindemith

opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Antonín Dvořák

opera by César Cui

opera by Paul Hindemith

Fiesque (The Genoese Conspiracy) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Édouard Lalo. The libretto, by Charles Beauquier, is based on Schiller's 1784 play, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, an account of the conspiracy in 1547 led by Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against the ruling Doria family. Although completed in 1868, it was not staged until 16 June 2007 when it premiered at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim.

opera by John Corigliano

opéra comique

opera by Gottfried von Einem

opera by Paul Dessau

opera

opera by Camille Erlanger

opera by Nino Rota

1998 opera by André Previn

opera by Emil von Reznicek

1873 operetta by Johann Strauss

'''' (Blood Wedding'') is an opera () in two acts by Wolfgang Fortner. The libretto, also by Fortner, is based on German translation of García Lorca's 1933 play Bodas de sangre. It premiered at the Cologne Opera on 8 June 1957.

opera by Peter Arnold Heise

opera in three acts composed by Enrique Granados to a Spanish libretto by José Feliú i Codina based on his 1896 play of the same name

opera by Franz Schubert

opera by Richard Heuberger

opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud, with libretto by Paul Claudel based on his own play about the life of Christopher Columbus

opera by Alberto Franchetti

thumb|Sheet music cover to Maritana Maritana is a three-act opera including both spoken dialogue and some recitatives, composed by William Vincent Wallace, with a libretto by Edward Fitzball (1792–1873). The opera is based on the 1844 French play Don César de Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe François Pinel (Dumanoir), which was also the source material for Jules Massenet's opéra comique Don César de Bazan (the character of Don César de Bazan first appeared in Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas). The opera premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 15 November 1845.

opera by George Alexander Macfarren

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

thumb|Luigi Cherubini Faniska is an opera eroica in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on the melodrama Les mines de Pologne (1803) by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.

opera by Anton Arensky

Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play Benvenuto Cellini by French playwright Paul Meurice which was in turn based on the 1843 historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The name was changed to Ascanio to avoid confusion with the Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini. The opera premiered on March 21, 1890, at the Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris, in costumes designed by Charles Bianchini and sets by Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (acts I; II, scene 2; and III),

zarzuela by Amadeo Vives

zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

opera by Zdeněk Fibich

opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

opera by Gastaldon

opera by William Walton

Opera by Saverio Mercadante

opera by Giuseppe Sarti

opera by Philippe Boesmans

opera by Kurt Weill

opera in three acts composed by Giovanni Pacini

opera by Saverio Mercadante

La leggenda di Sakùntala is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto based on Kālidāsa's 5th-century-CE drama Shakuntala. It was completed in 1920. When the score was believed lost in wartime bombing, Alfano reconstructed it, in 1945, now titling it simply Sakùntala, but in 2006 a copy of the original was found.

opera by Saverio Mercadante

opera by Rachmaninoff

opera by Hans Werner Henze

opera by César Cui

opera by Ottorino Respighi

(Twilight Crane), is a Japanese opera in one act composed by Ikuma Dan after the play of the same name by Junji Kinoshita.

opera by Johann Simon Mayr

opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti

opera in a prologue and three acts by Italo Montemezzi

or (Briséïs, or the Lovers of Corinth) is an operatic by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's .

opera by César Cui

opera by Othmar Schoeck

opera by Francesco Cilea

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera in three acts by Gottfried von Einem

opera by Fikret Amirov

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Henry Février