Operas based on works by Euripides

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Richard Strauss

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel '''''''''' ("Admetus, King of Thessaly", HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Francesco Haym. The story is partly based on Euripides' Alcestis. The opera's first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel composed to feature specifically these two '''' of

opera by André Grétry

opera by Hans Werner Henze

incidental music by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Alessandro Scarlatti

opera by Henze