Operas set in ancient Rome

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Gaspare Spontini

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

thumb|upright=1.3|Nicolas Poussin's painting of The Continence of Scipio, depicting his return of a captured young woman to her fiancé, having refused to accept her from his troops as a prize of war Scipione (HWV 20), also called Publio Cornelio Scipione, is an opera seria in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed Scipione whilst in the middle of writing Alessandro. It is based on the life of the Roman general Scipio Africanus. Its slow march is the regimental march of the Grenadi

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Errico Petrella

opera by Giovanni Pacini

opera by Saverio Mercadante

opera in five acts by Jules Massenet

opera by Saverio Mercadante

opera by Johann Adolph Hasse

opera by Saverio Mercadante